Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters except for the lovable goof Casey. Let me know what you guys think about the story. More action? More snappy comeback? Give it to me! I can take it like a man. Oh and I combined some of the chapters so they were longer so this is chapter…

Chapter 22/25 (read disclaimer if you're confused)

It was a two hour drive to Clark, Lousiana. And I couldn't wait to get out of the limo. I said nothing else to Eric for the duration of the car ride. Any questions I had I directed to Bill. When the limo finally pulled up a large boutique at the corner I didn't wait for the driver to open the door. I immediately got out. The streets were crowded and I felt suffocated. Let's just say that Bon Temps isn't exactly like the big cities I was use to living in. I had grown accustomed to the small town feeling.

I turned around to see Sookie walking up to me with Eric and Bill following close behind. "Get whatever you want." Eric gestured to the store. The place looked so upscale. Samanthas shop looked like a thrift store compared to this place.

Samantha

I was suddenly stricken with grief. I closed my eyes and immediately tried to get my emotions under control.

Not with this many people around Casey. No way.

Sookie and I walked into the store while Eric and Bill were speaking to the driver. I turned back to see that they weren't taking their eyes off of us and to be honest, it felt kind of nice.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw someone walking towards us. I turned to see a very short, stout woman making a beeline towards us. Her hair was tightly done in a neat bun. If I had to guess she looked as if she were in her mind-thirties.

"Yes?" was all she said.

Oh really?

Just ignore her Sookie. I thought but something told be that Sookie didn't need me to tell her that. She immediately brushed past the woman and started picking through the dresses on the rack.

The woman cleared her throat. When I looked down at her she had an annoyed expression on her face.

What the hell did I do?

"Yes?" I said mimicking her.

"IS there anything you were looking for in particular?" She asked shortly.

"Yes, as a matter of fact there is." I answered and brushed passed her just as Sookie had. I looked over at Sookie She held up a dress and a scrunched my nose and shook my head. I could hear heels tapping the marble floor. I turned around to see the sales associate walking towards me.

Jesus Christ

"What exactly is it you're looking for." She asked rudely.

"A dress." I simply said, annoyance edging my words.

"What kind?" She shot back.

"A nice one." I closed my eyes and said through grit teeth.

I immediately walked away from her and joined Sookie.

For a while we weren't bothered by the woman. "What's your favorite color?" Sookie asked me.

"Anything but orange." I said and put my finger in my mouth and stuck out my tongue in playful disgust.

After another couple of minutes we saw Bill and Eric enter the store completely ignoring the woman who now had a fake cheerful grin smeared across her face. Her expression suddenly changed when she saw that they were headed our way.

Sookie picked up a beautiful deep red dress and help it up. I put my thumbs up to let her know that I liked it.

Bill and Eric immediately walked over to Sookie and began talking to her while I went to the other end of the store. As I made my way, I immediately froze and my eyes darted to the display window. At the front of the store, I began staring out into the sea of people crossing.

A familiar feeling invaded my body and I didn't move. I couldn't remember where I had felt this feeling before. I felt someone's presence…but who? "That dress is $1300." I heard from behind me.

I almost jumped out of my skin.

Jesus. Someone needed to get this hag a bell.

"Okay?" I simply said.

"Do you and you friends plan on buying anything tonight?" The sales associate, I looked at her name tag, Gabriel, asked.

"Eventually but id do it a hell of a lot quicker if you weren't up under me." I finished the statement with a fake smile.

"Casey." Sookie called to get my attention for another dress.

"Pretty." I said indicating that it was going in the keepers section.

Gabriel was still standing there and I let out a aggravated sigh.

"Excuse me ma'am," I heard Sookie call. Gabriel reluctantly left my side and went over to Sookie. Bill and Eric were sitting in two large chairs near the dressing room. "Can we please get a fitting room started?" The angry little hobbit said nothing. She went to her pocket and pulled out a set of keys.

My eyes went back to the window once more. I noticed that slowly but surely crowd started forming in the window. I glanced back at Sookie and she beckoned me over. When my eyes returned to the window, about ten men were staring into the store….at me.

I looked around to see if anyone else was in the store that I could have confused but…sure enough…I was the only one standing where they were staring.

I tried to ignore then as I headed over to the lingerie section. I picked up a bra and checked the size. I wasn't sure what size I was now but the only I had on was a 36B so I decided to go up a cup size. I picked up a simple black lace bra and checked the size.

When I looked up at the window once again the number of men standing in the window had doubled.

My brows furrowed and mouth was hanging slightly opened. "I raised my hand and waived slightly." Instantaneously the men began waving, almost violently.

I backed away from the window slowly and turned to head towards the dressing room.

Apparently I still had the same expression on my face when I reached the changing area because Sookie asked, "Is something wrong?"

"Yeah…there's a…group of men….outside…waving at me." Bill and Eric turned to look out the window and sure enough they were still there…staring…and waving.

Eric and Bill gave a slight chuckle and Sookie followed.

I just stared at them and went into the fitting room.

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After trying on the last dress and not liking the way it looked Bill and Eric started getting impatient.

"Would you just choose something already?" Eric growled.

"Look…you may not care about your appearance but I do!" I bit out. "And I don't like the way they look!"

"Casey how do you know what it looks like on you…there aren't any mirrors in there." Sookie laughed.

"I still have eyes." I said flatly.

And if you wanna get technical I have many eyes.

Sookie sighed.

"Do you like white?" I heard her ask.

"it hasn't done anything to me to make me hate it." I said. I cracked the door and peeked out. Sookie was holding up a beautiful White, floor length dress.

"OOH Gimmie Gimme!" I shrieked in excitement while Eric and Bill rolled their eyes. It was the first time while I was with them where they actually seemed human.

I grabbed the dress and eagerly put it on.

"I am NOT coming out!" I shrieked.

Eric was banging on the door. "What could possibly be wrong with this dress?" Just a few seconds ago you were saying and I quote 'ooh gimmie gimmie'"

Sookie was laughing hysterically.

"That was before I put it on!" I defended myself.

"Aw come on Casey. It cant be that bad." I heard Sookie exclaim as she was gasping for breath.

Who's side are you on?

"You aren't helping." Eric growled at Sookie…I'm assuming.

I was then greeted my more banging on Eric's behalf. "Casey just comes out before he breaks the door down." Sookie said with stifled laughter.

"OKAY!" I moan sharply.

When I opened the door Eric's eyes widened and he stepped back. I took that as a que to leave the fitting room. Sookie immediately stopped laughing and her mouth hung open. I suddenly heard uproars of whooping and hollering my eyes immediately shot to the window where the men were standing. I finally looked in the mirror and I was speechless.

"Damn" I said in an airy tone.

There wasn't much to the dress. Material wise…at least where it counted. The neckline plunged down to a deep 'V' and if it weren't for a diamond-like studded buckle that clasped just below the best all of my business would have been on display for all the world to see. There was a slit going up the left side of the dress and I stuck my leg out to see that it stopped at my upper thigh. More hollering ensued from outside the store.

"Can you do something about that please?" Sookie ordered Gabriel. She didn't budge it wasn't until Bill shot her a look that she immediately went to the front of the store threatening to call the police.

"You look….amazing." Sookie finally said when she turned to look at me.

"It is quite flattering." Bill said.

"I don't like it." I then heard form Eric.

"Then I'm definitely getting it." I said not talking my eyes away from the mirror. I hadn't felt so beautiful in my entire life.

"It shows too much." Eric protested.

"So." I said. Ignoring his gripe

"I'm not paying for it." Eric said flatly.

I was suddenly confused. Was he jealous or something? I wondered. I opened my mind to hear what Eric was thinking.

A young lady shouldn't be wearing something like that. She's too young to be dressed in such a way. That can hardly be called a dress.

I then turned to look at him and he froze. I simply smiled and clasped y hand together and brought them to my chest. "Awwwww isn't that cute. I have a vampire for a big brother."

"I thought I told you to stay out of my head." He rumbled

I simply smiled. "Maybe you'll think about it next time you try to do some vampy mojo on some poor innocent human." I said with bogus concern.

Eric then squared his shoulders. "I don't care. I'm still not paying for that dress."

As soon as the words left his mouth Bill stood up. "I'll get it."

Eric shot him a insubordinate glare which only made Bills smile widen. Whether he was doing it because he knew that Eric wouldn't like it or because he saw I really wanted it, I was thinking option one, Bill reached into his wallet and walked over to the register.

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Before we left the store Eric and Bill said that the Grand Centime Plaza Hotel was only a block away so we planned on walking Eric still wasn't too please about my new dress and I was savoring every minute of it. Afterwards, when we finally left the store, there were still three men waiting outside. They looked as if David Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch had held them down while they got their eyes flawed out by an American Eagle i.e. the typical frat boy. They mustn't have been any older than me.

"Hi." They all had a thunderstruck look on their faces with the dumbest smiles I had ever seen.

"We haven't seen you around here before." One of them asked.

"Oh for the love of…" I heard Eric grumble.

"That's because I'm not from around here." I said simple while walking away trying to catch up with Eric, Bill and Sookie. They followed.

"Where are you from?" Another asked.

I paused before speaking. "Texas." I said. I wasn't about to tell these people anything about me.

"We're from LU here on vacation." The tallest one explained.

I smiled politely. "So…we were wondering if you wouldn't mind giving us your number so we could call you sometime…maybe take you out." The shortest one exclaimed.

We?....WE? The first time I get asked out on a date and it was a…

I was dumbfounded. It was a group pick-up! I was witnessing a group pick-up. I then paused. "Yah that would be great! How about tomorrow? That's when my husband gets on parole and we can all hang out."

All three of their smiles faded.

"Parole?" One of them asked. "You're boyfriends in jail? What for."

"yes but its fine. He copped a please for temporary insanely because a boy smiled at me." I finished sweetly. "So…are we still on for tomorrow?" I asked batting my eye lashed.

The looks on their faces were priceless. Sure enough one said that he had some homework to finish obviously forgetting that it was in the middle of summer and he had just told me that they were on vacation. Another said that he couldn't because he had a doctors appointment that he had just remembered and the other just turned around and speed walked away from me tripping and falling in the process.

When I turned around Eric Bill and Sookie were just staring at me in astonishment.

"What?" I asked simply and shrugged. "It helps to have a good imagination."

**Authors Notes** This was suppose to be a chapter for you guys to chuckle at while I got my thoughts together…because…get ready for it…I ma completely changing the ending of the story.