FLUSTERED
◜ Joy's First Suitor ◝

"You got asked on a date?"

A gloriously beautiful and breathtaking smile was etched on Joy's lips while she nodded eagerly at the question asked by Charlotte. As they all sat at the Hufflepuff table in the Great Hall. The group of girls squealed excitedly for her.

       "This will be your first date, ever." Ana expressed thinking of all the ways to dress Joy up for her date. The girls watched as she took out her sketchbook and began drawing up an outfit, they shook their heads laughing.

"It will be my first date ever and the nerves haven't even settled in. Right now I'm just in the giggly phase." Joy replied looking around at her friends all giddily.

       "So, how did he ask you?" Natalie asked Joy, putting all her attention on waiting for an answer.

            "It was after the match, I was walking back inside with the team and he approached me. Obviously I got a flustered and became a blubbering mess, but I accepted." Joy answered recalling the wonderful memory.

          "I can't believe Arthur Kinsley asked you out. He's like the hottest Gryffindor on the choir." Charlotte said all dreamily.

        "Who asked Joy out?" The teasing voice of James Potter asked as he arrived at the table, giving the girls a scare as they were all in a dream like state due to Arthur Kinsley.

          Arthur Kinsley, a 7th year Gryffindor. He had light green eyes, dark brown hair and caramel skin. He was probably one of the best Gryffindor's in the academic aspect, he also was very talented with a trumpet. He had a scholarship to the Muggle music school "The Juilliard School" and he was attending, hoping to become famous in the not just the wizard world but the muggle one as well.

          He had many people lining up to date him, yet he had seemed to had managed to catch a crush on the awkward and kind Hufflepuff called Joy Colleen Eiffel. Many people had heard of his infatuation but they had just discarded it as rumors, apparently they weren't. He had finally managed to be courageous enough to ask her out.

                      "He's nice, we were partners last year together in Potions with Slughorn. I approve." Charlotte smiled approvingly, Joy turned to Natalie who nodded happily and then looked at Ana who just gave a thumbs up still planning the outfit.

       "I don't think he's th–" Sirius began but was cut off by James.

           "My cousin is finally getting herself a boyfriend, maybe now mum will stop pestering me about setting you up." James said annoyed at the memory. He didn't really care that his cousin was going on a date with someone, he did in fact care if the person she was going on the date with did something out of line. James was surprised at Sirius' answer, not having expected it. He repeatedly looked between his cousin and best friend, he didn't like the way they interacted anymore.

  "Why don't you think he's good for Joy?" Remus asked confused, James impatiently waited for an answer.

       "I thought James was going to say he wasn't going to approve, that's all." Sirius replied shrugging, in truth he had no idea why he had said that. He liked Arthur, he was okay. Remus tried to hide the blooming smile that was trying to make its way onto his face.

James was satisfied with the answer, he couldn't believe he had doubted his best friends intentions for a moment. Sirius and Joy wouldn't betray him like that, right? Surely not. He shook his head making all those thoughts disappear.

"So where's he taking you?" Natalie asked Joy, Ana looked up at this. The outfit she was making would depend on the location so she needed to know the answer.

Joy raked around in her brain looking for an answer, trying to figure out if he had told her or not. She was quite forgetful. Ana was getting impatient and shot up from her seat, she grabbed Joy's shoulders and began to shake her comically making Joy blush and stare at Ana with wide eyes.

      "Answer the question woman! I'm trying to creat a masterpiece for you." James and Natalie snickered at the interaction, Charlotte paid no attention looking at the Arithmancy book in front of her.

           "I don't think he told me, but we won't be leaving Hogwarts. It'll probably be a dinner date." Joy replied slightly scared, when it came to fashion Ana wasn't one to be nice. The designer gave her a sweetly sick smile and went back to her sketchbook, Joy let out a breath she didn't even know she was holding in.

         "Quite the friends you've gotten yourself, Bumblebee." Sirius told her offering her a smile, she looked at him and shrugged.

                      "You included." Joy sweetly said to him, he struggled to hide the fact that his smile grew at her words.

         "Of course, I'm the most important one, right?" James asked Joy boosting his giant ego, completely oblivious to his best friend's status too focused on hyping himself up, a potato hit him in the forehead. The culprit, Natalie, was sporting an icy glare directed at him.

"Keep dreaming Potter, she's mine."

         "I think Sirius wold beg to differ." Remus spoke quietly, only loud enough for the mentioned man to hear. He looked at his friend confused, but decided to shrug it off it was just Remus being himself.

"How dare you throw that potato at me Monzon!"

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Remus knows what's up, we have our first shipper.