And here's how the group home gang sees Jojo's observatory for the first time!

Chapter 21: Observatory Tour

As Jojo and Marcus take Frankie, Max, Manny, Diego, Hoagie, Josh, Jared and Ryan to Jojo's observatory, in comes Mike, Cody, Jonah, Sam, Travis, Hawk, Cyrus, Caitlyn, Misty, Zeke, Dustin, Seth, Austin, Chad and Noah coming along with them. Jojo looks up and sees the gang coming by, which made him all the more ecstatic and amazed to go to the observatory. When they got there, they saw that they were heading through the main entrance. Manny looks down and sees the entire entranceway and asked, "How do we cross there?"

Jojo chuckles and said, "Simple. You guys can take the slingshot."

Manny gulps and asked, "Slingshot?"

Most of them follow the entrance of the entire course and when they all got to the slingshot, most of them were anxious about entering in this slingshot. Diego looks up and asked, "Is it safe?"

"Yeah, it's safe. Just lay back and pull the lever."

Diego stretched back and then, he pulls the lever and unexpectedly, it goes down and he shoots up in the air and then makes it to the stairs. He walks up, then he looks down and said, "That's cool!"

Everyone else made it in the observatory and when they all got there, Jojo opened the bottom door as everyone made their way in. Frankie and Max gasped in extreme surprise as they saw the entire thing in their own eyes. Max asked, "Is this really your observatory?"

"Yep. Been here for several years as an escape from everything in my life, primarilly, my dad and other stuff in my life that I don't want to deal with."

"So, this is your getaway?" asked Manny.

"Yep."

"What do you make in here, anyway?" asked Diego.

"Musical instruments. Watch this."

Jojo went up to this one place, pulled the lever and it comes alive as it's playing music and then, he went through the kites and saws were playing like violins, then he goes through every bell, rode around the buller band ball, slides down as the two rubber band balls play drums, and some metal circles were falling from the ladder as Jojo slides from the ladder. Frankie, Max, Manny, Diego, Jared, Ryan, Josh and Hoagie could not believe their eyes when they actually see this in person. And then, Jojo heads to the top of the observatory and opens the roof and they saw the entire sky.

"Whoa...that's radical." Jared said.

"Told you he has the coolest observatory." Mike said.

Jojo comes down with a rope and all of the others climbed on it as they got a close peek at the amazing view before their eyes. Manny sighs in awe and said, "Would I give to have a view like this."

"To tell you the truth, if I had an observatory like that, I would stay up there forever." Diego said.

"You would?" asked Caitlyn.

"Well, only until dinner an stuff."

"You're so modest."

Misty looks at Caitlyn and asked, "Modest? Really?"

"I'm just trying to be nice."

"Dude, I honestly never saw a getaway place like this before. I always thought my room at group home would be a place to get away from everything." Ryan said.

"Well, it's an alternative for me." Jojo said.

Josh looked at this grey thing from the other side of the observatory, picks it up and looks at it. He asked, "What is this?"

Jojo looks over and told him, "This is the one that my dad used to put on his record player in his office to hear music. Naturally, it's known for that time we had that Horton incident a year ago."

"Wasn't Horton that elephant your dad was talking to?" asked Zeke.

"The same one."

"I remember that now. Someone said, 'YOPP!' in the middle of this chaos." Josh said.

Jojo chuckled and said, "That was me."

Josh turned around and asked, "That was you? I didn't know you were a part of this."

"Yeah, I helped saved Whoville and even after that, almost anybody took me seriously."

"I lived through that whole thing and everyone in the wntire group home all feel the same way when that happened. I guess we got together for that event, except for Diego, of course." Hoagie said.

"Well, I didn't exactly participate in it, because I still had too much to deal with." Diego explains.

"What did you dealt with?" asked Marcus.

"The pain I went through with my past and mostly, I didn't care about anyone or anything. I was all alone and no one really cared about me at all, so it's like 'What's the point?'."

"But, you're cool with us now." Jojo said.

"Jojo is the glue that keeps us together, no matter what." Cody said.

"Maybe he can keep us stuck with you guys?" asked Jared.

Jojo chuckled and said, "Of course I will."

"I wish I could say the same for Stephen." Max said.

"Not to worry. I'm sure some family will take Stephen in."

"Hey, how about us?" asked Jonah.

Jojo looked at Jonah and asked, "What?"

"Well, I just thought about it. What if Stephen could be a part of our family?"

"Our family's kinda big enough as it is."

"Well, hey. We might need an extra one."

"My dad did say he wanted 105 kids, so..."

"Your dad must want a big family." Dustin said.

"He grew up with a huge family, oldest of 200 kids."

"200?" everyone asked.

"True story."

"Well, that's huge." Misty said.

"I guess we'll work it out. So, what do you guys think about my observatory?"

"It's awesome." Max said.

"I wish we could come here all the time." Manny said.

"You're in luck-you guys can come in anytime you like." Jojo said, happily.

"Aw, thanks, Jojo."

Everyone looks at the skies at the observatory as they headed to the roof of the observatory and enjoyed the view and saw the entire city of Whoville from there. It was a breathtaking sight for them to see for the first time.

Awesome, isn't it? There's more adoption news in the next chapter!