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"So, Lily Potter, where is James taking you on your honeymoon?"

"Hawaii." Lily smiled.

Taryn smiled back at Lily's face in the fire as she heard James calling to her in the background. "Sweetheart, how long does it take you to change out of your wedding dress? Don't make me come in there! Are you decent?" She heard James shout.

"No!" Lily said, though Taryn knew that she was already dressed.

"Well I don't care, I'm coming in!" James said.

Taryn snickered. "Bye Lily."

"Bye Taryn." Lily said with a blush before disappearing from the fire.

Taryn sighed, standing up and walking over to her bed. She lay down on her side to face the closest wall.

She wondered why all her feelings for him had came back so suddenly, when she had usually been so fine with being just friends? Sighing, she stood up and walked over to the phone. She had to call somebody, and she had to talk to them. She strained her memory, trying to remember a phone number… Not Sirius's. He didn't have a phone. Not Lily's. She hadn't had a phone since she lived with her muggle parents…

Taryn picked up the phone and started to dial Remus's phone number, but in the middle of dialing, she slammed the phone down, realizing that Remus would tell everything she said to Sirius.

Right after she put the phone down, it started to ring. "Hello?" She asked after picking it up.

"Hey, Taryn?"

She recognized Sirius's number and smiled. She couldn't get mad at him. "Hey. How'd you get my number? Who's phone are you using?"

"Remus's. And he knows your number."

"Oh… So what's up?"

"Well I was thinking about what you had said and… I'll give us another chance."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah."

"Er… One minute." She hung up the phone and ran over to the door. She put her shoes on and ran out the door, running down the street, turning right, then running down a much longer street, then turning left and running down a short street, then turning left again and crossing a big road, then turning right and running down another long road until she reached a white house.

When she knocked on the door, she saw Remus. "Hey. Sirius there?"

"No… Just kidding. Yeah, he is. He's in the bathroom, changing out of his best man clothes. Come in."

"No thanks. I want to talk to him out here."

"But Taryn, you're wearing a dress."

Taryn looked down at her green dress. "Oh well. It's warm out."

"Okay then. He'll be right out."

Taryn nodded and Remus closed the door. She sat down on the steps to the door and patiently looked at the street in front of the house. No cars were passing by, because it was a warm summer day, and most everybody was walking to where they wanted to go.

After about a minute of waiting, the door opened and Sirius came out, wearing a lime green tee shirt and a pair of old, dark blue jeans. "Hey babe." He sat down next to her and leaned over to kiss her, but Taryn held her hand up and he ended up kissing that instead.

"Sirius, don't think that everything you had said after the wedding today didn't get to me, because it did…"

"And what you said got to me to. You know what that means, right?"

"Yup. We're both very persuasive and stubborn." She sighed. "Sirius, you were right, the magic is gone. And now I think…. Was it ever really there, or was it just an immature 'pretty, popular teen girl dates a hot, popular teen guy, and they say they're in love, but really aren't' relationship?" She paused, then continued. "I'm sorry, Sirius, but I can't start dating you again as if nothing ever happened, because it did. A lot happened."

"But…"

"I think I'd like it if…" Taryn interrupted. "If we were just friends, okay?" She kissed his cheek lightly, then hugged him tightly.

"Friends?" Sirius asked.

Taryn nodded. "Friends."

….

Sirius sighed, opening the door to his house. He had just left Remus and walked all the way home, and was tired.

He walked into his room and lay down under his bed, pulling a mirror out from under his pillow. "James." He said, and almost instantly a different view appeared on the mirror. It was of the ceiling, so he supposed the mirror was facing up.

"James!" He called, hoping James would hear him, and apparently he did and reached over to grab the mirror.

"Padfoot?" James said sleepily. "What's wrong? I'm on my honeymoon with Lily…"

"I think I just got… dumped by Taryn."

"Taryn? I thought you didn't like her anymore."

"I didn't. But she liked me, and told me she wanted to get back together, and I didn't want to. But then the things she told me made me like her again, but the things I told her made her not like me again…."

"I see…" James sighed. "Did she say she still wanted to be friends?"

Sirius nodded slowly.

"That means she never wants to talk to you again." James said.

"Oh Merlin. I have to go find her!" Sirius stood up.

"Woah, Padfoot, calm down! It's almost midnight. She's probably sleeping."

"I don't care, Prongs. I have to change her mind before she wakes up in the morning and forgets everything she ever felt for me."

"Listen Padfoot, you gotta just listen to your heart, and if it says to go to her and wake her up and make her terribly angry, go, but just try to get to sleep before two, so you won't be sleeping all day, because you've got the Order mission at noon, remember?"

"Yeah, yeah. I know." Sirius sighed.

"And also, you gotta remember that she lives with her niece, so if you wake her up, Taryn's going to hurt you."

"Yeah, she probably would. That girl may be a bloody klutz, may not be the prettiest girl on the street, and may not be as smart as Remus, but she is strong."

"Yup. Remember the time at the end of our sixth year when you came up behind her and hugged her, and she thought you were some Slytherin creep, and kicked you? And you started to tell her who you were but then she slapped you? There was a red hand mark on your face!" James laughed.

"Yeah, yeah. It was hilarious." Sirius muttered sarcastically.

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Taryn sighed, rolling over onto her stomach and looking down at the black pillow dotted with yellow, white and purple stars, at the Cheshire Cat, grinning, at the words 'Curiouser and curioser….' She couldn't sleep. It was rather hard to stop thinking about what she had said to Sirius earlier that day. Just friends….

How hard would it have been to just say 'Sirius, I love you'? She could have just looked him into the eyes and said 'I love you!'

A scream coming from one room over suddenly interrupted her thoughts and Taryn reluctantly walked over to her niece's room.

Lina was standing by the window, watching with both fright and interest. "T-T-T-Tar-TARYN!"

As soon as Taryn saw what was outside the window, she slammed her fist down on the windowsill. "Couldn't the arsehole wait 'til morning to come and bother me?" She said, glaring at the parking flying motorcycle.

Lina's eyes widened. "You said a bad word!"

"Oops." Taryn said quietly. "Well, er… No I didn't. I said 'sauce bowl'!"

"No you didn't!" Lina said.

"Yes I did!" Taryn said before kneeling down to be as low as the seven year old. "Listen, Lina. I have to go talk to my friend, okay? Go back to sleep, please?"

"Is he going to hurt you?"

"No, why would you think that?" Taryn glanced out the window at Sirius, wearing a leather jacket, and taking off his helmet and laying it on the motorcycle. "Oh." She laughed slightly. "No, Lina. I'll be okay. Sirius can't really hurt me that much… Well, at least not physically." Taryn hugged her niece before leaving her to go back to sleep.

Standing by the door and taking one last look at Lina, Taryn said to herself, "He can't break my bones, and he can't make me bleed, but Merlin, that guy sure can hurt me emotionally…"

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Sirius took off his helmet and lay it on the motorcycle seat, then walked up to the door and knocked with the old knocker hanging on the door. As soon as a sound was made, a furious Taryn opened the door. "Sirius, you arse! Couldn't wait 'til morning? I was sleeping!"

Sirius knew that this was a lie, though, because Taryn was still wearing her green bridesmaid dress, and he knew from Lily that Taryn was never too lazy or too tired to change into pajamas. "Wow, somebody's cranky!"

"How many times will I have you fuckin' tell you that I just want to be friends?"

"Twice?"

"Okay, Sirius. This is it! Be right back!" Taryn walked inside, and came out a few moments later, holding an old piece of paper up to his face. "This is the note I wrote to you in our sixth year, telling you that I loved that kiss you gave me." She ripped it in half. "This is the note that made me stop hating your guts." She tore it into quarters. "Our bloody relationship, our friendship is OVER!" She screamed.

Sirius blinked. "Answer one question."

Taryn, breathing deeply now to calm herself down, replied, "What?"

"What did I do?"

Taryn closed her eyes, apparently trying to remember what exactly Sirius had done that was so bad. When she opened her eyes, she said, "Sirius, I think I just ripped up our friendship because you woke me up at midnight…."

Sirius laughed. "Nice."

Taryn sighed, sitting down on the ground and looking up at Sirius. After a long moment of silence, she said, "You know Sirius, I don't think it would work out at all if we were friends…."

Sirius stared at her. He felt like his heart had just been ripped open. "What? W-why?"

"Because…" She stood up and whispered into his ear. "I want to be more."

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Aww, how nice. Just in case you haven't noticed, I do not own Harry Potter and all that stuff, so… I hope you liked it, because I enjoyed writing it… Oh Merlin, I sound like my English teacher. It's a sign! I'm going to die… But have no fear, I'll live long enough to finish the fanfiction.