Draco meanwhile was rather busy thinking. Due to the manical efforts his mother was making recently to "uphold their status" as she continually described it, it was becoming increasingly difficult for him to get out of the house unnoticed. Before there had been a large oak tree adjacent to his bedroom window and it had been very easy to simply climb out, slide down and slip through the gates without any difficulty. But last week his mother had ordered the branches of the tree to be cut in order to give the impression of neatness. With the branches also went Draco's only chance of - quite literally - escaping the manor. But he wouldn't give up so easily... his only problem was that he was at a loss for what to do... He had tried virtually every other exit and had always been caught red handed, making his parents increasingly uneasy as to why their son was being so secretive, so they watched him more closely making him most uneasy.
With a sigh he heaved himself off the bed and went to lean out of the open window and looked out over the little pinpricks of light indicating the Muggle town further away. Tonight was his best chance in a long time to slip out of the manor, even though part of him despised himself for it. It was not the fact that he kept secrets from his parents that bothered him. It were the secrets themselves that kept bothering him... Even though at first it had been easy for him to justify his actions for himself, he had to admit that "a phaze" was beginning to stretch into "quite a prolongued phaze" and the fact that he had been socializing with Muggles so often lately didn't do much to uphold his spirits.
But the Muggles were a key part of the idea. He knew perfectly well that coming into the open in the wizarding world was no different for most but to be a Death Eater did complicate matters. Lord Voldemort did not tolerate anormalities and sadly falling for boys when you're a boy came under that heading...
He could hold no more, and quiet as a ghost he tiptoed downstairs and dissapeared into the freedom of the night...