div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"Regulus was walking down Diagon Alley barely paying attention to where he was going when he bumped into someone./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"I'm sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going," he said looking up to meet the eyes of the person he'd just run into./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"Regulus," the woman said stiffly./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"It's nice to see you, Iris," Regulus replied softly./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"Nice to see me?" she snorted. "You left me, and then I had to marry that pig Parkinson." The woman's tone was full of disdain./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"I'm sorry. I loved you, but wasn't ready to give you what you wanted. I regret not making it official now – I should have."/div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /Iris sighed./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /She had eventually forgiven Regulus for not asking her to marry him, but seeing him again reminded her of the hurt she had felt./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"If you had done that then you would have ended up resenting me. There is a perfect woman for you, but it was never me," Iris said gently./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"We had fun though, didn't we?" Regulus asked smiling./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"Definitely, do you remember when we stole your father's bottle of Firewhiskey from his study, and your brother got in trouble for it instead?" she replied laughing./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"Yes, he kept denying it but father was adamant that it couldn't be me as he was the troublemaker." Regulus joined in in Iris' laughter./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /This was the first time they had met since Regulus had informed her that he wouldn't ask for her hand. It was bittersweet. They both knew that things had changed; that they had changed. Yet, they couldn't help but remember the way things had been. Regulus had wished frequently over the years that things had worked out between them, and that he had asked her to marry him. He knew that neither of their parents would have objected as they seemed to want to form an alliance./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"Shall we start again?" Iris asked./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"What do you mean?" Regulus asked puzzled./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"I mean, why don't we move on? We both made mistakes, and regret things, but that happened five years ago. We need to let it go. We can try and start our friendship over, unless you think you will find it difficult," Iris explained./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"strongA/N: This was beta'd by DIG and was inspired by Someone Like You by Adele./strong/div
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div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"I'd like that. It would be nice to get to know you again,"/div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"I will see you soon. I better get home as I was expected to arrive ten minutes ago." Iris said checking her watch./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"See you soon," Regulus said as he saw her rush to the Apparition point./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /He watched her disappear. He knew that she was right. Their love wasn't strong enough to have lasted through a marriage. He may have regretted breaking her heart all those years ago, but, he was glad that they didn't get married when he wasn't ready for it and that he was smart enough to have made that decision./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"I'm sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going," he said looking up to meet the eyes of the person he'd just run into./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"Regulus," the woman said stiffly./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"It's nice to see you, Iris," Regulus replied softly./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"Nice to see me?" she snorted. "You left me, and then I had to marry that pig Parkinson." The woman's tone was full of disdain./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"I'm sorry. I loved you, but wasn't ready to give you what you wanted. I regret not making it official now – I should have."/div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /Iris sighed./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /She had eventually forgiven Regulus for not asking her to marry him, but seeing him again reminded her of the hurt she had felt./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"If you had done that then you would have ended up resenting me. There is a perfect woman for you, but it was never me," Iris said gently./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"We had fun though, didn't we?" Regulus asked smiling./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"Definitely, do you remember when we stole your father's bottle of Firewhiskey from his study, and your brother got in trouble for it instead?" she replied laughing./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"Yes, he kept denying it but father was adamant that it couldn't be me as he was the troublemaker." Regulus joined in in Iris' laughter./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /This was the first time they had met since Regulus had informed her that he wouldn't ask for her hand. It was bittersweet. They both knew that things had changed; that they had changed. Yet, they couldn't help but remember the way things had been. Regulus had wished frequently over the years that things had worked out between them, and that he had asked her to marry him. He knew that neither of their parents would have objected as they seemed to want to form an alliance./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"Shall we start again?" Iris asked./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"What do you mean?" Regulus asked puzzled./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"I mean, why don't we move on? We both made mistakes, and regret things, but that happened five years ago. We need to let it go. We can try and start our friendship over, unless you think you will find it difficult," Iris explained./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"strongA/N: This was beta'd by DIG and was inspired by Someone Like You by Adele./strong/div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;" /div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"I'd like that. It would be nice to get to know you again,"/div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"I will see you soon. I better get home as I was expected to arrive ten minutes ago." Iris said checking her watch./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /"See you soon," Regulus said as he saw her rush to the Apparition point./div
div style="color: #242f33; font-family: ProximaNova, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"br /He watched her disappear. He knew that she was right. Their love wasn't strong enough to have lasted through a marriage. He may have regretted breaking her heart all those years ago, but, he was glad that they didn't get married when he wasn't ready for it and that he was smart enough to have made that decision./div