A/N: chapter 11! The last chapter where Casey is seven! In the next chapter she will be NINE! I decided to be nice to Edward and let him be nice to Casey! Yeah Edward! The last sentences in this chapter are really important, becasue they are going to let you know exactly what Casey plans on doing! I will get Chapter 12 up ASAP, but no promises as I am not sure what I'm going to write about other than recaping what happened from this chapter to the next! So stay tunned!

Chapter 11: Piano

Edward POV

Yesterday had gone well. Casey had been absolutely terrified for a minute, but after she acted as if she had forgotten all about vampires. We had explained our hunting and that when we leave her we would have to go and hunt. We told her about the way our eyes change color when we are thirsty and all the mechanics she needed to know about us.

I was upstairs in my room lounging quietly and listening to some of my favorites in the music department when I heard something that startled me. Music? Not the music I was listening to, but from the piano downstairs. Though many members of my family were talented musicians they didn't often play, so the fact that I heard music was very strange. Most of my family had left to hunt after breakfast this morning. Only Alice, Esme, and I remained in the house with Casey.

I walked slowly down the stairs to the living room where my piano who, next to my car f course, was my prized possession and frankly my favorite thing in the entire world. My family's thoughts had nothing to do with the piano. Esme was focusing on her plans to re-design our kitchen, something we never had to do before we had a person that ate food living with us. Alice was shopping online for the latest designer clothes from Paris and everyone else was out hunting and out of my range. Then who was playing my piano?

I turned the corner hearing the music that actually wasn't that terrible and saw Casey so tiny on the seat of the humongous grand piano. Her tiny hands were attempting to hit the right notes, but it wasn't going so well. I looked at the song sheet and read Somewhere Over the Rainbow. It was a classic and simple song to play, but she was having problems getting her tiny fingers to reach each of the notes.

"That's pretty good," I said walking toward her, "I didn't know you played."

"After I left I tried to teach myself," She explained starting over again from the beginning.

"Really? That's really good for someone who taught them self." I was honestly impressed. The seven year old orphan that taught herself how to play the piano, that was impressive.

"I'm no good," She sighed getting frustrated.

"Here move over and let me show you," I said, my hands already flaying across the keys with flawless perfection through the chorus and verses. I looked down at Casey her jaw dropped and she crossed her arms.

"So what ya think?" I asked laughing at her expression.

"Not bad, for a stupid vampire!" She mocked laughing. And I joined her.

"Oh, if your so good lets see you try!"

"Fine!" Her small fingers were long and flexible, perfect for piano playing, but she was still to small to play more than two or so notes with each hand. The rhythm was there, even though she only hit about ten percent of the notes.

"Here let me show you a trick to playing multiple notes." I said beginning to let my hands follow the rhythm to the song and showing her note by note how to play the song.

An hour later we were both playing effortlessly the song. Our hands flew across the keys as natural as the waves in the ocean and I sang the song quietly, Casey only mouthing the words in concentration.

"Good show you guys!" Alice said standing with Esme in the doorway to the living room from the kitchen when we finished playing.

"Casey your lunch will be ready in a few minutes." Esme said as she and Alice walked back into the kitchen.

"Edward that was so much fun; thank you so much for helping me!" Casey said throwing her tiny thin arms around me and laughing.

"Any time kid!" I said and I have to admit she was just so amazing at everything she did. I was completely won over.

Over lunch we discussed any other activities Casey would like to do. It looked like dance classes were on the plan along with taking horseback riding lessons. I didn't know how the horse thing would work out with the vampires who killed animals!