Who: Padma Patil, Blaise Zabini When: 13 October; Lunch Where: Bell Book & Candle Rating: Low Summary: Blaise invites Padma to lunch with intentions to relieve stress.
Dinner in a few weeks? Lunch today? Padma wasn’t sure what she should expect next. When she had questioned what she could do to relieve stress for Blaise, she figured he’d have her check in on the book shoppe or help with filing paperwork of some kind, sitting down to lunch came as a great surprise. Still, Padma was inclined not to turn him down, intrigued by the sudden interest he had begun to display. She liked where their friendship was going and would do whatever she could to encourage this same course.
Only about five minutes past when she had told Blaise her lunch would begin, Padma found herself arriving at Bell Book & Candle upon Blaise’s decision. She briefly wondered if the public encounter would make their conversation easier or more strained. They’d barely gotten much face to face interaction for a few weeks now, maybe a passing by here and there and a bit of conversation over the journals but largely she felt they had continued on as if the other barely existed.