Hey, guys! It's Eve here with another story, this time a book of oneshots. (But you probably already know that, because hopefully you read the title.) Anyway, those of you following MCSM: The Disney Vacation! and The Amazing Race: MCSM Style, well, those are on hiatus for now. But I promise, I'm working on ideas for them. Especially the Disney one.

One last thing: this specific oneshot is written as if the main characters are nineteen or so. (Don't ask; I had to write this one for school and it just made more sense to have them this age.)

Okay, that's all. Please enjoy!

Lukas had a problem.

Two days earlier, he had posted an advertisement in the Beacontown Weekly for an available babysitter, hoping to draw in some extra cash for a new pair of jeans. But little did he know, babysitting was not as easy as it sounded.

Some people by the name of Isa, Jess, Cassie, Stella, and Stacy had called the previous day, all in need of a sitter for their "babies" the next night. Lukas had, at first, doubted that he could take care of five charges at the same time, but what else could he do? He needed the money.

So there he was, that Friday night at exactly 8:04, when he heard a knock. Lukas ran over to the entrance hall, leaving his muffins baking in the oven, and opened the door.

His geometry classmate Sparklez stood on the front step. (Do not ask why a teenage boy would want to be called Sparklez. Children are very weird at times.)

"Uh, hey Jordan," Lukas said, referring to his friend by his real name. Then he noticed the five animals standing next to his classmate. "Uh, why do you have those?"

No answer.

"Aw, come on, man, do I really have to call you by that weird name?"

The boy nodded. "My name is Sparklez, and I'm gonna keep it that way until I'm eighty years old. Granted, if I even live to be—"

"Fine, whatever. What are you doing with those animals?"

Sparklez shrugged. "I thought you were babysitting them."

Lukas's eyes widened, the truth dawning. "Wait, what?! I signed up to take care of five kids, not animals! And why do you have them?" He ran his hand through his blonde hair, making it stick up in all directions.

"The girls, Stella, Isa, all them, these are their pets. They're in my English class, and they offered to pay me if I dropped them off at your house."

"The pets are gonna pay you?!"

"No, you idiot, their owners."

"I don't know how to take care of pets! I just signed up for babysitting actual children. Not animals! What am I supposed to do?"

Sparklez shook his head. "Can you ask Petra to come over and help?"

Lukas sighed. "No, she's in Champion City. At a fencing match, I think."

"What about Ellegaard?"

"Nah, she's out of town. Visiting Gabriel. Hey, what if you help me?"

Sparklez drew back. "Um... all of a sudden I'm remembering that I left my hair dryer on. Gotta go! Bye!" He high-tailed it out of there, leaving Lukas with five animals and no idea of how to keep them from bringing him to his demise.

"He doesn't even own a hair dryer!" screamed Lukas, still standing on the front step.

Next door, his neighbor Olivia opened her window, looking over bemusedly.

"What do I do?" Lukas panicked. "I haven't owned a pet since my goldfish Prince Eddie, and he died of starvation the day after I got him!"

Lukas looked at the animals on his doorstep. "First, take inventory. Okay. Let's see. A llama. Okay. A pig. Good, good. A puppy and a cat. Nice. And a... chicken. Weird but okay."

He let out a short breath. "What else? Um, do you have names?"

The pig nosed Lukas's hand. The pig lifted his head, his collar gleaming in the hot sun. "Reuben," Lukas read. By careful inspection, he found out the rest of the animals' names. There was Lluna the llama, Benedict the chicken (a girl who happened to have been given a male name), Wink the puppy, Winslow the cat, and of course Reuben the pig.

"So..." he said, calming down. "I have to take care of you guys for three hours. How hard could it be?"

Apparently, very hard.

After taking the pets inside, Lukas realized that Lluna, the llama, did not get along very well with Wink, the dog. Wink had spotted the llama's blue-and-purple scarf and decided that it was now his newest chew toy. Understandably, Lluna did not appreciate that.

After twenty minutes of trying to separate the two animals, Lukas finally managed to let Wink out to the backyard and confine Lluna to the dining room and kitchen.

All of a sudden, the smoke alarm went off. "My muffins!" yelled Lukas. He had forgotten to set the timer when Sparklez had answered the door. Coughing the entire time, he managed to clear away most of the smoke, but the once-blueberry muffins were as blackened and burned as, well, something really blackened and burned. He dumped them down the drain, and then saw what Winslow was attempting.

One of his main house rules was "No cats on the chandelier" and Winslow was blatantly disobeying. As he was trying to reach the cat, Reuben trotted over. "What is it, buddy?" asked Lukas, trying to stop Winslow from swinging back and forth.

The pig oinked in the direction of Lukas's bedroom. Listening closely, Lukas heard crashing noises and angry chicken squawks. "What now?!" exclaimed the boy. He ran upstairs to find Benedict fiercely attacking the TV screen, pecking holes straight through the images of soccer players and Rachel Ray.

"That was my only television!"

This left him questioning if he absolutely needed money for new pants.

Suddenly, Lluna the llama popped out of the closet, scaring Lukas half to death. "There is now a llama creeping around in my closet. Wonderful."

He turned around to see Wink chewing on a notebook that was sitting on the bed. The puppy had torn apart the spine, sending papers fluttering everywhere. "Hey! Those were my history notes! Well, at least I have an excuse for not studying now."

Then there was a crash from downstairs. Lukas was afraid to check what had happened. Although he would later regret it, he stayed in his room, coaxing the llama out of his closet.

It turned out that Winslow had jumped off the chandelier, somehow managing to turn on the sink, which overflowed, filling up the entire first floor of Lukas's house. The cat himself came floating up the stairs on a paper plate like it was a boat.

Since Lukas couldn't swim very well, he and the five animals took refuge on his bed. He was uncomfortably squished between Reuben's head and Lluna's butt.

They sat there unhappily for over an hour, growing more bored by the minute. Eventually, they were washed out the window and into his neighbor Olivia's vegetable garden.

Lukas would never post another babysitting ad in the paper ever again.