WHO: Dean Thomas and Padma Patil. WHAT: Welcoming Padma properly to the building! WHERE: Padma's new flat. WHEN: Wednesday, June 25th, afternoonish. RATING: PG? STATUS: Incomplete.
Despite the fact that Dean had spent plenty of time with Parvati - mostly due to Lavender and Seamus, given the fact that he had never quite been brave enough to initiate outings on his own - it had been far too long since he crossed paths with her twin. It was unsurprising, given the fact that she hadn't been spending much time in England lately at all; not to mention that, considering their different houses, they had never seen quite as much of each other as he and Vati had in school. Of course, they had been in the same year, so their classes had been similar for several years - thus their friendship, limited as it may have been.
However, as reserved as he may have been at times, Dean was never the type to enjoy being lonely. As he had suggested, he and Padma had gotten ahold of their mutual friends and invited them to her new flat for moving help and awful takeout, but as the afternoon wore on, the others had other obligations to take care of and had - one by one - vacated the premises. Luckily, Dean's schedule had left him without work today, so he was free to stay and assist in the cleaning up process as well as moving in the last few objects.
Even now, he was pulling apart the flaps to one of the few boxes they hadn't finished unpacking, ripping the tape off without a second thought, as most men tend to do. Without a second thought - and not actually sure where in the apartment the Indian girl was at the time - he called out to nowhere in particular, "Any idea where you want these?"