(A.N. So everyone, I NEED HELP! I am trying to get things posted on twilighted. This story and Coffee Makes the Heart Grow Fonder. Anyways, I want a banner for it. Anyone know how to do that? Well if you do, and you send it to me that would be amazing. It would be a huge help! Thanks everyone! Alright, also, sometime tomorrow I am going to post a preview of the next chapter in the thread I told you about a few chapters back on . There is a link on my profile for those who are interested. Go there, tell me what you think, and hype my story! It will be neat!!! Thanks to Mdots for the idea! Also, have no fear my readers, I can tell you that you will have your E/B fix very soon. SORRY PEOPLE! I FORGOT TO ADD SONGS TO THE PLAYLIST BEFORE, BUT THERE ARE SOME THERE NOW, AND THEY ARE PRETTY FREAKING AWESOME. My boyfriend did a great job helping me out this time. Check it out! REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW!)
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Edward's POV-
"Edward, did you have work today?" Rose called from Isadora's bedroom. I was stationed in front of the oven, cooking breakfast.
"Yeah, why? Did you need something?"
"No, it's fine." She said rounding the corner into the kitchen with a fully dressed Isadora on her hip. "I got a call back from one of the real-estate offices I applied to for today, so I was going to see if you were free to watch Isadora, but if you have work don't worry about it."
"I can just take her to work with me." I shoveled some scrambled eggs into a bowl and turned, setting them in front of Isadora at the table.
"You can do that?"
"It's one of the benefits of owning the place." I said with a smile, cracking another two eggs into the frying pan. "Isadora, make sure you blow on those first. They're hot."
Isadora nodded and took to blowing into the bowl, trying to accomplish a mass cooling of all her eggs. Rose went and grabbed a plastic spoon from a drawer and handed it to Isadora, when she felt she had sufficiently cooled her eggs, but still told her to blow on each bite just in case.
"What time is your interview?" I asked as Rose sat next to Isadora at the table, with a cup of coffee.
"Around noon. How long would you mind keeping her at work with you?"
"I would keep her all day if you needed me to Rose. I certainly wouldn't mind spending some more quality time with my favorite, little daughter." I stared pointedly at Isadora, who smiled happily at me through a spoonful of eggs. "How long do you need?"
"Well, I was going to go bug a few people I haven't heard back from yet, so I'm not completely sure. A few hours, definitely."
"Done." I said, cutting her off as she started explaining herself. "I will just take Isadora with me when I head into work in an hour, then you will have free time to get ready and do whatever else you need to do." I set a plate of eggs down in front of her and threw the frying pan in the sink. "You officially have the whole day off if you want it. Any day you want, Rose, you can ask me to watch her. She is my daughter."
"I know, but I'm not even working, and staying here. It only seems fair that I watch her while you go to work."
"That seems to be making it rather difficult for you to find a new job though. I've noticed you have been getting a little stressed about it."
"Very perceptive." Rose said, taking a bite of her eggs. "Thanks."
The hour flew by before we headed into work. Having Isadora at work with me all day would probably be a lot of fun. Tyler had been wanting to meet Isadora anyways, so if need be, he can always help watch her. I couldn't have planned it better. Today was one of the best days to have Isadora along. I had finished most of my paperwork, and orders over the last couple of days. I was only going in today to help Tyler out, since our other employees couldn't make it in.
"You ready princess?" I asked, looking back at her in her car seat through my rearview mirror. She nodded excitedly, clutching Princess Cootie tightly to her chest. "Alright, let's go in then."
I hopped out of the car, and opened the back door to my Volvo. Isadora was already fiddling with the buckles, having gotten one unhooked already, and hopped out of the car quickly when I freed her the rest of the way. She waited right beside me holding on tightly to the leg of my pants while I grabbed a few things from the back seat.
I lifted her up onto my hip before making my way inside. Tyler was sitting behind the counter flipping through a magazine, looking up and giving me a quick head nod as a greeting before doing a double take when he noticed the little girl held in my arms.
"Dude!" Tyler exclaimed, jumping up and making his way over to us. Isadora hugged me tighter while she stared at Tyler in question. "I didn't know you were bringing your daughter."
"I just found out this morning." I scooted Isadora higher up and she grabbed on even more fiercely. "Isadora, this is Tyler. He's a friend of daddy's. Tyler, meet Isadora."
"Hey cutie." Tyler said, softening his tone and leaning over a little to be face to face with her. "Your daddy has told me a lot about you. And your uncle Emmett talks about you all the time."
"Uncle Emmett?" Isadora looked at me, then back to Tyler. "You know Uncle Emmett?"
"I sure do. He's a good friend of mine." Isadora smiled widely at the news and loosened her grip on my neck. Tyler smiled at her and then straightened to talk to me. "Your mom came by and dropped something off for you. Well, more for Isadora, but I think you will like it too."
"What? Really?" Tyler nodded and pointed to the back of the store, towards the stage that the local bands played on every other Thursday.
"It's really cool actually, and I think Isadora here will really like it." Isadora stared at me confused. "Go take a look."
I walked to the back of the store, straight to the stage. I set Isadora down when I made it up the three stairs and onto the stage. When I looked up from Isadora, after making sure she was balanced, I saw it. Next to the baby grand piano I kept here for my own use sat a miniature, child version of the exact same baby grand piano. I stared in wonder as Isadora ran over to the little piano, taking a seat on the bench. I smiled warmly at the picture in front of me while I pulled out my phone and snapped a quick photo, then called Esme.
"Do you like it?" Esme asked before any other greeting. "I know you told Emmett to quit buying her things, but this was for at the store, and when I saw it I couldn't resist. Please tell me you like it."
"It's great, Esme, where in the world did you find it."
"Oh just this little shop. I just thought how wonderful it would be if you taught her to play the piano." Esme gushed over the phone. Isadora sat transfixed with the piano, just staring at it, until she lowered her fingers onto one of the keys. The high pitched ting that filled the room caused Isadora to smile excitedly at me, then turn back around and start pressing the rest of the keys. "Is Isadora there?"
"Yes. Rose had an interview today, so she gets to hang out with me at work all day." I exclaimed loudly as I spoke over the noise. "She seems to really like it. Hey Isadora, would you like to come thank grandma for your present?"
Isadora smiled at me and ran over, after almost toppling over the bench. She reached her hand up for the phone, squeezing her fist open and shut.
"Gwama!" She exclaimed excitedly to Esme. "Thank you gwama! I wove it!"
I could only hear the buzzing sounds of Esme speaking to Isadora.
"It's pretty cool, huh?" Tyler walked up behind me, staring at Isadora talking on the phone with a smile. I nodded my head in agreement and turned back towards the tiny piano. "She's a good lookin' kid Edward. She seems smart."
"She is." I said, smiling proudly back at Tyler. He patted my back and went back to man the front desk with a chuckle.
I have about talked Tyler's ear off over the last few weeks about Isadora, but he never seemed to get bored with it. He said that he was happy to see me so thrilled about something. I was completely thrilled about Isadora. I bragged to everyone about her, even people I just met. If someone came into the store with a kid I would always start a conversation with them about Isadora. I'm sure by now I was getting pretty annoying to all my employees, but no one said anything about it. The female employees I had all wanted to meet Isadora, while the male employees just nodded and smiled as I spoke on and on about my beautiful, smart, little girl. I felt a little tug on my leg and looked down to see Isadora staring up at me with wide, sad eyes while holding the opened phone up to me.
"I think I pwessed a button and hunged up on gwama." She said sadly. I knelt down beside her just in time for the phone to start ringing again. I turned the phone that she still held out to me, to look at the screen and sure enough, the name displayed across it was Esme.
"Look at that." I said happily. "That's her. Press that button and say hello."
She did as instructed and put the phone to her ear. "Gwama?" She smiled widely as Esme started speaking to her again. "Wove you too. Bye, bye." She handed the phone back to me with her happy smile returning full force. "Gwama wants to talk to you, daddy."
"Thanks sweetie." I said, taking the phone and putting it to my ear. Isadora ran back over the piano and started pounding away at the keys. "Hey mom."
"Honey, I just wanted to say goodbye. I have a client on the other line." I said my goodbyes and went over to my own piano.
"Isadora, come up here and sit with me." She looked up at me from her own piano, and then very carefully made her way over to me. I helped her onto the bench next to me, and she placed Princess Cootie next to her, then sat with her hands in her lap, staring up at me. "Would you like me to play you a song?"
She nodded and smiled. I moved my fingers over the keys. They flowed over them naturally, feeling almost second nature and started playing Turkish Rondo for her. She laughed as she watched intently while my fingers glided quickly over the keys. Towards the middle of the song, as I hit the lower more defined notes, she giggled with excitement and clapped her hands when my fingers started moving quickly over the keys again. She sat through the whole song, smiling the whole time.
We sat at the piano for awhile longer. I sat her in my lap and guided her fingers, having her play Mary Had a Little Lamb and a few of the other easier nursery rhymes I knew. She picked them up nicely, though still needed my help in guiding her fingers some. I was glad to see that she seemed to enjoy playing. It reminded me of when I was younger and first sat in front of a piano. I hoped she would find as much joy from playing as I did. Playing had always been the one thing that has helped keep me centered and bring me up when I am having a bad day. The day after I found out about her, when I was so confused and overwhelmed, I came into the store in the middle of the night and played for hours. Only after that was my mind truly made up.
When I turned, lifting Isadora off my lap and setting her on the ground, I noticed for the first time the small crowd that had formed, watching us play. I let out a little laugh and knelt down towards Isadora who stood staring wide eyed at the small crowd.
"They were watching you play. Why don't you give them a little bow." She looked at me nervously, then smiled proudly at the thought of the people there enjoying her playing. I held my hand out above Isadora and the crowd gave her a small applause that she instantly giggled at as she curtsied for them. "Alright, c'mon rock star. Daddy has work to do." I gathered her up as she waved goodbye to all her fans and made my way back to my office.
The morning wore on as I finished my work, while Isadora played with the toys we brought for her from home. When she started getting restless Tyler came in, and took her out into the actual store. He had her help put CD's away, and even let her pick some music to listen to.
Emmett's POV-
I walked into New Sounds, Edward's music store, only to see my favorite little munchkin helping Tyler stock CD's while she swayed back and forth to the overhead music, which sounded nothing like what was normally played here. Instead of the cool underground music this store is known for, high pitched noise rang through the speakers. If I wasn't mistaken, I would have to say it was chipmunks. I was guessing they let short stuff pick the tunes today. She had yet to notice my arrival. She was paying close attention to helping Tyler, by straightening the CD's he just got done stocking. It looked like he was intentionally putting them away crooked to give her something to do.
I walked up beside the two and grabbed a CD from right in front of them. Isadora looked up with a jump, staring at me with wide eyes at first. When she realized it was me she practically lunged out of Tyler's arms towards me. I caught her, thank the lord, otherwise Edward would have had my head on a plaque.
"Man, that scared the sh…I mean, that scared me." Tyler cut himself off and revised his statement, remembering the presence of the young lady. I nodded approvingly at his save. "I thought I had about dropped her."
"She is a little jumpy with me. Always flying out of people's arms to get to her favorite Uncle Emmett." Isadora was busy hugging my neck tightly while I spoke to Tyler, then she pushed herself away to stare at me with a big smile. "What are you doing here, short stuff?"
"Daddy bwought me to work with him. We pwayed the…" She cut off and her head crinkled as she tried to think of the word she wanted.
"Piano." Tyler whispered to her.
Izzy lit up at discovering the name. "We pwayed the piano!"
"Did you now? How did you do?"
"She did pretty well actually." Tyler said with a smile. Isadora nodded in agreement. "Did you see the mini piano that Esme bought her? It looks just like Edward's."
"NO WAY!" I said a little too loudly. Izzy clamped her hands over her ears and glared at me. "Sorry short stuff. Where is it?"
"Back by Edward's. I got a picture with Isadora sitting at her piano and Edward sitting at his while Edward wasn't paying attention. I thought Esme would like to see it next time she comes in. I think a few customers got pictures of her sitting on his lap playing his piano. Some said they would bring them in for him."
"Good thinking." I said distractedly. That was the cool thing about this place. Edward made friends with a lot of his customers, and all the bands that came to play here every other week or so, so a lot of people would do favors for him. Not to mention the shows were a great place to bring dates. Edward always screened the people who played, and they were always pretty good. Some maybe could use some practice, but still had serious potential. "You wanna show me your new piano?"
Isadora nodded excitedly and started hitting my shoulder with her palms, trying to get me to start moving. I walked back to the stage where Edward's piano sat and smiled widely when I saw the tiny little replica sitting next to it. Isadora wiggled out of my grasp when I got to the stage and took off towards her piano as soon as her feet hit the floor. She climbed onto her bench and started gingerly poking keys. It almost sounded like Mary Had a Little Lamb, but was so distorted it was hard to tell. Still it was pretty impressive for my little, three year old niece to be able to do that after only a couple hours of practice.
"When did you get here?" Edward asked, coming up behind me.
"A few minutes ago." I said, still smiling at Isadora as she replayed the jumbled version of Mary Had a Little Lamb. "That thing is awesome! She's actually pretty good. You must be as proud as a soccer mom right now."
"Yes, I'm very proud of her." Edward said with a smile towards Isadora.
"Why didn't you tell me she was gonna be here!? I would have brought her something, or came early." I looked around the shop, then back at Edward. "And where's Rose?"
"Rose had an interview, then she was going to go around and check in at other real-estate offices in town." He paused his sentence as he wiped off the leg of his pants. "And I didn't tell you because I knew you would bring her something. I am running out of room as it is, and with the way you keep bringing things over, my house will barely be livable."
"I can bring her stuff for here." I gestured around the store. "If she is gonna be coming to work with you, she will need something to keep her occupied."
"I brought stuff from the house actually." Edward said pointedly. "We had more than enough to spare. One of the corners of my office is completely taken over. Why don't you get her stuff for your place for when she comes over to see you, or just don't buy her stuff all the time."
"Yeah, I know I shouldn't so often, but that toy store is right down the street from the gym. I walk by it all the time when I get off work or am coming here for lunch. Sometimes the stuff in the window just calls to me and I have to have it. Isadora has to have it!"
"You have a problem Emmett." Edward patted me on the back, before walking over to Isadora and kneeling down beside her piano. He spoke to her too quietly for me to hear, then Izzy smiled a giant smile, grabbed Princess Cootie, and made her way over to me.
"Uncle Emmett! We get to go to wunch!" She said excitedly, launching herself at me again, making me have to catch her, again.
"Hey! That's awesome, short stuff!" I said in an overly excited tone. Edward was chuckling to himself as he jumped down from the stage. "Does that mean you're ready to get out of here?"
"Yeah, let's go." Edward walked ahead of us, stopping next to Tyler. "Hey, you want anything to eat?"
"Sure, anything is fine." Tyler looked up at Isadora in my arms and smiled. "See yah later Isadora."
Isadora waved her goodbye, along with a giggle that made Tyler beam. She had that affect on people. It was a proud moment in anyone's life when Isadora showed a liking for them. She had yet another victim wrapped around her little finger with Tyler.
(A.N. Yup, I'm such a cool, nice, awesome person that there is a picture waiting for you on my profile of Isadora's piano. Go look. Also, go ahead and keep an eye out for the preview on the thread on Twilighted. The link is right there on my profile, so have a look. Thanks! Playlist. First is my ode to Mary Had a Little Lamb, and the second is the song playing when Emmett arrives. Go listen! Oh and did I mention REVIEW!!!)
