Chapter 2- The Plan Made

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Time ticked slowly away for Malfoy in Herbology class. He never had a good time in here. His Father had called it "slave work." He used to think so too but now he was not so sure. He was after all a "new Draco" with his revelation and all. Right now though, he had to come up with a plan. He needed to escape. Not physically, but mentally and emotionally. He went over with the rest of the class to Greenhouse 6. The older they got, the more they were supposed to handle.

Right! Do sixteen year olds really know what life is really like? Draco thought to himself. All they do is think about them selves. They don't know that you really have to work to make a living out there. Adults are older and have to handle more. Teenagers and kids, they get a lot of freedom that parents and adults don't have, and they don't realize it.

Before he could embellish on this though...

All right class it's time to water there Venomous Sprout Plants! Make sure your dragon hide gloves are on and grab a watering pot! Stay quiet you don't want to wake these plants or they might bite you. Now the way to water is a sort of trick. You have to sneak up behind them, this way they don't know that you are really there! This way you won't be bit. The poor dears they think they have to bite everything that comes close to them.

Sprout explained. All of the class was paying attention, even Malfoy.

The moment I saw those things I knew I didn't want to be bit. God would THAT hurt. Being scratched by a hippogriff wouldn't be as bad as being poisoned by a plant.

When he thought back, about the hippogriff incident, he knew it was his fault, but he would never admit to anyone. Draco grabbed a watering pot, went behind one of the many Venomous Sprout Plants, and started to water it.

This isn't so bad... He thought.

After a couple more rounds of watering different pots, he got into the swing of things. Careful and quiet he watered until...

"HI DRACO!!"

Draco jumped and a branch from the Sprout Plant hit him in the head and swung him back and he landed on his rear. He looked up. It was Pansy Parkinson.

"Oh hi. You're supposed to be quiet! Look! Look what you did you made my plant hit me in the head!" he whispered to her.

"Since when do you listen to rules?" She answered back in her same loud voice.

"Well...I...I don't have to tell you why I do the things I do. Now get the hell away from me." He told her.

"Oh yes sir!" she turned around and headed across the greenhouse as she got there she giggled.

That Draco! He is so cute! Oh, I love it when he bosses me around. She thought secretly.

"Stupid prick." Draco muttered.

Okay class! The bell is going to ring soon! Please put the stuff away!

Draco stared at her. He wasted an entire class period and he still didn't know what he was going to do. He started to walk to put his stuff away.

I can't believe it! What am I going to do?

It stuck him!

I'll slip her a note in her hand when I bump into her. I'll bump into her after Care of Magical Creatures, a class we have with each other. I'll tell her to meet me in the Prefects bathroom. I don't think she will believe me when I tell her, but she will have to when I come clean and be the REAL me. After a month or two, I'll give her another note. Asking her to meet me somewhere so we can talk. I just hope Father doesn't find out!

Draco shivered at that thought. He had his plan for Hogwarts and he will figure out what he was going to do about his living situation when the time came.

RING! RING! RING!

Draco grabbed his stuff and sprinted across the grounds to Care of Magical Creatures. He needed to be the first one there so he could write his note without anyone knowing what it said. He ran faster as his messenger bag flapped against his thigh. He got there with a slight stitch in his side. Breathing heavily, he got out a spare piece of parchment and quickly wrote the note.

Listen, I have to talk to you right away! Meet me in the Prefects bathroom
at nine o'clock tonight. I need to tell you something!

He didn't sign his name. He thought it was irrelevant. After folding the note he stood up and did something, he had never done before.

"Hi Hagrid! How are you today?"

If I am being the new me tonight why not start now. He thought.

Hagrid stared at him, but recovered quickly,

"Good Malfoy. Should be a fine class. We are going to cover Grimms today. They are creatures that live in the forest."

"Alright cool!"

Just then the Gryffindors where seen walking, together in a group, across the grounds. The Slytherins after them snickering and laughing as they go. He saw her as she walked down the grounds. He smiled unconsciously. He knew this girl had to be his.