Chapter Two

"New Attitudes"

Draco woke up to a sharp pain on the side of his face.

"Get your sorry ass up now before I have to do it again." Lucius whispered in his ear.

With that he swept out of the room and slammed the door. Draco got out of bed and walked into his bathroom to take a shower. After washing himself, he leaned onto the glass and then slid to the shower floor. He wept openly as thoughts of his mother came back to him.

::FlAsHbAcK::

Draco heard his mother's screams and ran to his father's study. He opened the door and found Lucius standing over his mother who was weeping.

"Father what are you doing?!" Draco screamed. His mother was the only one who really cared for him.

Lucius turned to Draco. "How dare you interrupt! Now you'll have to pay. You're going to be here when I kill her. RESTRAINCOS!"

Draco was suddenly bound to the wall with chains, facing the scene.

"Father no! Don't hurt her. PLEASE!" Draco yelled. His father could not hear him for his wife was screaming in pain on the floor.

"Shut up. SHUT UP!" He yelled at her. She wouldn't stop. "Crucio!"

Draco watched as his mother jerked on the floor helplessly, her face screwed up in pain.

"I think I've had enough fun for now 'Cissa. Avada Kedavra!"

"NO!" Draco yelled.

Lucius walked out of the room and closed the door and Draco immediately fell to the floor and crawled over to his lifeless mother. He clutched onto her body for a long time.

"I'll never forgive him for this mother. I'll never talk again, I promise. I love you." He whispered

::eNd FlAsHbAcK::

Draco remembered his promise to his mother. He would never talk to anyone ever again. In fact he hadn't talk for two months, ever since it happened.

He wiped his face and got out of the shower. He packed all of his clothes into his Hogwarts trunk and put on a black button up shirt and black baggy pants. He turned out his lights and closed the door behind him.

Suddenly a thought came to him. If he was going to travel to the train station he would have to yell his destination when he flooed there. That would be breaking his promise never to speak again.

He tried to think of a way to get out of this. The he thought of his friend Blaise and of how his family had something called a car. He quickly grabbed a piece of partridge and began to right.

Dear Blaise,

I know this is sudden but I need a ride to the train. I made a promise to someone that I have to keep.

Please pick me up at the manner at 10 and please don't ask questions. I'm not speaking much so don't think that it's rude when I don't talk back

Owl back with your reply.

Draco

'I hope this owl gets to Blaise in time.' He thought while he tied the scroll to the owl's leg and sending it out the window.

He sat down to read for an hour so that it would pass the time. He put his book down when he heard a scratching at the window. He silently thanked Merlin to see his own owl there. He opened the window and untied the letter. It read:

Dear Draco,

We will be picking you up at 10. I promise I won't ask questions.

But there is only one thing I want to know. Why can't you talk?

Never mind it; I'll see you at 10.

Blaise

Draco slowly got up and threw the letter into the fireplace. He walked out of the library and into the hall. He picked up his trunk and walked towards the steps where he sat down.

He peered at his watch. '9:45. Good, I won't have to wait that much longer. I'll finally get out of this hell. To my real home.' He thought.

He waited for fifteen minutes and got up when he heard the sound of a horn. He quickly walked out the door. He put his trunk in the back of the car and sat down next to Blaise in the backseat.

"Hello mate!" Blaise said happily.

Draco nodded his head and quickly turned to look out the window. They didn't talk the remainder of the journey.

They quickly walked through the barrier to platform 9 ¾ and walked onto the train. Blaise was ahead and went into the compartment.

Draco stopped in the doorway when he heard the sounds of crying.

"You coming mate?" Blaise said.

Draco held up his index finger to tell Blaise "in a moment" and walked towards the compartment with the crying. He opened the door and saw the red hair of Ginny Weasley.

Sorry the first 2 chapters were short. They were kind of default chapters. R&R