FLUSTERED
◜ Nice Hufflepuffs ◝

"Paris. Joy. Joy! Earth to Joy!"

Joy startled, jumped in her seat hurting her neck in the process due to all the motion. With a now sore neck she turned to look at Natalie. Her troublemaker best friend and one of her dorm mates. Natalie stared at her with a raised eyebrow, quizzically.

       "You really need to break the habit of dozing off." Charlotte scoffed amused, from the seat next to Joy.

Joy stared at her confused wondering when the girl had gotten there. Surely she wasn't there when Joy had sat down. Right? They were all siting down in the Great Hall at the Hufflepuff table. Their little clique missing one member.

       "Sorry, I was just thinking about the Muggle Studies exam coming up."

            "Yeah well next time don't do it with your hair in my soup." Charlotte told her, Joy widened her eyes and looked down at her hair. It was indeed in Charlotte's broccoli and cheese soup.

          "I'm so sorry! I promise I don't have anything." Joy told her blushing, while she wiped the soup out of her hair with a napkin. Charlotte laughed at this

        "It's okay, just try to pay more attention next time." Joy nodded giving her an appreciative smile. The blush that reigned on her cheeks slowly disappearing.

          "If it isn't the spawn of satan herself." Natalie said, Joy and Charlotte turned to look to who she was talking to and when they did they found Ana, their last dorm mate and friend. Ana glared at Natalie as she sat next to Charlotte.

"Bite me."

"Gladly."

          "I definitely want to be present when that happens." A voice piped up from behind the three girls who sat on the same side of the table. The familiar and recognizable voice of James Potter, Joy groaned lowly but James heard her. He hugged her from the back and set his head on her shoulder. "C'mon little cousin you could at least smile, after all I am blessing you with my presence."

                      "The word 'blessing' and you combined is something so erroneously wrong." Natalie sassily remarked, noticing for the first time the presence of Sirius, Remus and Peter seeing as she was too engrossed in staring at James.

       "That really wounded me Natalie." James replied straightening up as he grabbed his chest in mock pain.

           "I thought Hufflepuff's were supposed to be nice." Sirius said stepping from behind James to sit next to Joy. He sat with his back against the table, shooting a wink to Joy. Who blushed profusely making Sirius laugh at her reaction. "Joy certainly is, aren't you darling?"

"Stop teasing my cousin Sirius."

       "Stop teasing the poor girl Sirius." James and Remus told him at the same time. He raised his hands innocently.

Joy wanted the world to swallow her whole. To say she was embarrassed would be an understatement. She looked helplessly at her friends but they were all staring at her amused. Traitors.

The topic of Joy Eiffel and Sirius Black was one Joy was constantly teased about, including the teasing received from the latter. Since she was James' cousin, she usually hanged around them and since James had befriended Sirius he was always present.

      Sirius had noticed her shy and ignorantly innocent personality and wondered how she could be related to James. To add to all of that he had also noticed how flustered and awkward she got when he would compliment or teasingly flirt with her. And so he had made it his job to tease her.

           "Well, I was just passing through to remind my dear cousin that I wish her the best of luck during the Quidditch match tomorrow." James comfortingly patted Joy's shoulder before giving the girl group a smile and started making his way outside of the Great Hall. Remus and Peter following behind him, Sirius stayed behind.

         "Goodluck Bumblebee, kick some Slytherin ass for me." He told Joy, shooting her a mischevious smirk before kissing her cheek softly. Quickly he followed in his friends footsteps. Joy's face turned beet red, her eyes almost popping out of her head.

"Oh Merlin, kill me now."

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Just a wholesome story about Sirius and Joy. Honestly I just haven't found a complete fluff story about Sirius and decided that he needed a sweetheart like Joy in his love life. If you hate sappy love stories then I'm sorry this story isn't for you.