Jamie yawned as he woke up and looked at his clock. Great. He'd just woken up and he only had fifteen minutes before he had to be ready and out the door. Plenty of time.

Ever since Jamie had learned to tell the original from the dupes, his life had been greatly simplified. The first thing he did was stand on his bed, then take a swan-dive off of it. He used the impact to help himself wake up and to create six new dupes. It had taken him a while to figure out something that always gave him the right amount of force. For once, he didn't need to tell his dupes what to do. This had become routine ever since he'd learned how to figure out who the original was.

The three dupes closest to the door went down to fix breakfast for him. He was never really hungry in the mornings, but he knew he'd regret it before lunchtime if he didn't get some breakfast now. It was probably a good thing that he wasn't hungry now, because that meant the dupes didn't raid the kitchen for themselves when he did this.

Jamie yawned and started slipping out of his pajamas while the dupe that had been closest to the middle helped him. The two that had been closest to his dresser headed over there to pick out the clothes he'd wear that day. He never understood why his dupes were more awake than him in the mornings. By the time he'd stripped the clothes-dupes had agreed on what he should wear and brought their choice over to him. He always made sure he looked to see what they were putting him in, since they did have a good sense for practical jokes on occasion, usually on a day after he'd been hanging around Bobby. He also checked to make sure they'd put the game tokens in his pocket. There'd be trouble if he didn't have those.

Satisfied that they had given him a good choice, Jamie extended his arms while the dupes helped him into his clothes. He went through some minor motions to help them, but most of it was their job. When he'd first thought this up, he'd done this, then re-joined with his dupes often enough for them to know exactly what to do. He still did re-join on occasion, since he didn't want to get out of practice.

Once he was dressed the dupe that had helped him undress started playing his game-boy while the clothes-dupes accompanied him to the bathroom. They waited outside for a moment while he 'took care of business.' It was entirely to strange to pee in front of himself. Once he had washed his hands, he let them in. The first one in grabbed the washcloth while the second one in grabbed his hairbrush. The first one washed his face while the second one brushed his hair. the hair-dupe always finished first, so it was the one assigned to get out his toothbrush for him, put toothpaste on it, and set the toothbrush and a cup of water by the side of the sink for him. Once the washer-dupe was done, he went to brush his teeth. Past experience had taught him that it was best to do this himself. While he was brushing his teeth both of his dupes headed down to the living room to watch TV until they faded away.

Jamie made his way to the front door, and as expected, he found the food- dupes waiting for him. At first, he'd had some trouble getting them to make him something good consistently, but he'd come up with a solution. He checked the bag, and found that it contained a normal peanut-butter and jelly sandwich (he pulled it apart, just in case), juice, a pickle, chips, and a cookie. He reached into his pocket and handed the dupes the game tokens that the clothes-dupes had put in his pocket for him. The other dupes knew not to let the food-dupes watch TV or play with any of his stuff if they didn't have the tokens, because that meant they'd tried to put hot sauce in his sandwich again.

Jamie headed out the door with the others, struggling not to smile as Amara berated the others for not even knowing of, much less experiencing, a proper morning routine, complete with servants to help them prepare for the day. Jamie knew his dupes weren't exactly servants, but they were more than willing to help him for a few minutes before they got to laze around and play until they faded out of existence.