In The Garden OF Eden Part 4 Disclaimer: I don't own any one except Eden Eden tried to concentrate on the conversation around her, but it wasn't really working. She was to preoccupied worrying about the fact that as soon as she had walked into the common room Ron and Hermione had gotten up and moved to the other side of the room, as far away from her as possible. They had been doing little things like that to avoid her all week, and no one would tell her why. Eden was sure all the other 5th year girls knew. They kept laughing every time Hermione and Ron left a room just because Eden was there, or did something similar to avoid her.

If it weren't for the fact that she was sitting between the Weasley twins she would have gotten up that minute and confronted Hermione, but she wasn't going to waste valuable time with him sitting close enough for her to touch. As Eden walked into her dormitory that night the other girls stopped talking abruptly. It was obvious that they had been talking about her.

"Can I talk to you, Hermione?" Eden asked cautiously.

As a reply Hermione stood up and walked over to where Eden was standing in the doorway.

"Why are you avoiding me?" Eden asked bluntly.

" I would think that was obvious. I read what you wrote that first night you were here. About Ron."

"What are you talking about? I never wrote anything about..." Suddenly it dawned on Eden what Hermione was talking about. She started laughing her head off. " You thought (hahaha) I liked (hahahahahahah) Ron!? (hahahahahahahahaha)"

"I don't see how that's funny." Hermione was starting to get mad at how Eden was acting like this was no big deal.

Eden calmed down enough to talk normally. She put her hands on Hermione's shoulders and said calmly " I don't like Ron-"

" But I read-"

" Don't interrupt me. Haven't you realized that I didn't actually write Ron's name down?" Eden walked over to her bed and reached under the mattress. She pulled out her diary and flipped open to a page in the middle. She brought it back to where Hermione was standing frozen in the doorway and handed her the small notebook. " Here. This is where I finished that entry the next morning."

Hermione quickly skimmed the page and burst out laughing. Her laughter was contagious and pretty soon Eden was laughing too. The other girls in the room had no idea what to make of the pair, so they ignored them and kept on gossiping about that days events.

Meanwhile in a dreary cave halfway around the world two people were watching this scene in their picturepot. Both figures seemed very disturbed by it.

" I think it is time to bring her back." Said the first figure in his raspy voice.

The second figure nodded. "If she becomes to close to that mudblood we'll be having problems with her."

Neither spoke for awhile, contemplating how to best to bring her to them.