"A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

-George Eliot

"Padfoot? What's wrong?" asked James Potter as he watched a somber Sirius sulk into the Gryffindor common room with Peter following close behind.

Sirius walked over towards James and sat down on the couch beside him, huffing loudly. He crossed his arms over his chest and muttered something unintelligible.

"What?" questioned James.

Padfoot just sighed and shook his head.

Shrugging his shoulders, Prongs turned to Peter and asked, "What's his issue?"

A grin spread across the small boy's face but it quickly disappeared when Sirius looked over at him. "Padfoot just got turned down by two girls at the same time," he squeaked, trying to keep his amusement out of his voice.

"That's not even the worse part," grumbled Sirius. "They both slapped me really hard." He brought a hand to his face and tenderly pressed it against his cheek.

Sure enough, upon further inspection, Potter saw that his best friend was sporting two very red cheeks. He started to chuckled but hastily turned it into coughing when the upset boy shot him a death look. "Well, what did you do to them?"

"Nothing!" said Sirius, annoyed. "I was just talking to Camryn Abbott and Maeve Dobbs and they slapped me out of the blue!"

James raised his eyebrows and looked at Padfoot skeptically.

"Okay, okay. I might have possibly been hitting on them… It really matters on how you interpret what I said…"

"Urghh," groaned Potter, shaking his head. "Which awful chat-up line did you use this time?"

Sirius shot him an innocent look and shrugged his shoulders. "I wouldn't really call it a chat-up line… I mean, they were talking about how they wished that Hogwarts would bring back the Tri-Wizard Tournament. All I said was, 'Want to be in a Tri-Wizard Tournament? Well, not really 'Tri-Wizard.' I was thinking more like one wizard and two witches' …"

"Sirius, are you serious?"

"Obviously," he replied with a wide grin.

This was done for TheRealRavenclaw's Chat-up Line Challenge in HPFC.

This was also done for mew's challenge in HPFC.

Thank you mew for betaing! Poor Sirius, I think that he could use some huggling after being turned down like that!

:D