Jamie of course enjoyed having quintuplet brothers and sisters around since they kept her parents busy. However, just like in those stories where you finally get that wish you've always wanted, there's a price. When the Grover family came home, there was a crowd waiting for them. It was so bad though that Jamie's parents forgot her, so she and Casper had to take a taxi cab back to the house.
Jamie brought Casper into the nursery as the five babies cooed in their new beds and settled into their new home. In Jamie's words, not bad, totally bogus, but not bad. However, the downside settled in as one baby soon cried which made the four others cry along. It was soon chaos in the Grover household with five newborn babies to take care of and five times the babies made five times the headaches from their crying and whining.
"So, do you feel different?" Zoe asked Jamie as she came into school.
"I feel like drinking coffee." Jamie shrugged.
"Okay, fine, but after the baby nurse starts today, why is your life gonna be so much better?" Brad asked.
"That's a good question." Casper agreed.
"I don't know... Well, maybe without my parents watching my every move, I can get into Magnet." Jamie replied. "You know, work my way in."
"That's it?" Brad asked her. "Don't get me wrong, I want you to join me at GW, but that's really what you wanna do with your freedom?"
"Yeah... Isn't it?" Jamie replied.
"I dunno, you tell me." Casper said.
"Hmm..." Jamie hummed in thought as she didn't feel so sure anymore ever since Adam, Becky, Charlie, Debbie, and Eddie had been born.
Casper, Brad, and Zoe soon looked concerned and saw a teacher walk by.
"Yo, Mr. B!" Zoe called out.
Mr. Blackmer looked over and smiled as they came to him.
"Why should Jamie do now that she has five brothers and sisters?" Zoe asked.
"Uh... Learn to make pancakes?" Mr. Blackmer shrugged with an amused smile.
"Seriously, like, with her life, sir." Casper told the man.
"You know, here at school." Zoe added.
"Oh, that's easy: join Art Club." Mr. Blackmer suggested.
"Why?" Jamie asked.
"Well, sometimes I work hypothetically, and I think hypothetically, that you might like Art Club," Mr. Blackmer replied. "Sometimes I work alphabetically, and Art starts with an 'A'."
"But I'm not good in your class, so why join Art Club?" Jamie asked. "My heart just isn't into Art. You said so yourself."
"So much for that." Casper said to himself.
"Where is your heart, Jamie?" Mr. Blackmer smiled.
Jamie looked down a moment. This made Zoe and Brad also look to her as they wondered what she was thinking.
"Ah, well, when you answer that question, then you'll know exactly what to do," Mr. Blackmer advised. "But in the meantime, Art Club can be fun, and the best thing is 'no grades'."
"That is the best thing." Zoe smiled and nodded.
Jamie then smiled back to her.
"Plus, I hear the guy who runs it is pretty cool." Mr. Blackmer then smirked.
Zoe then waved her hand in a so-so fashion.
"Heeey..." Mr. Blackmer said to her before handing Jamie a paper. "Here."
Casper soon took a look with Jamie to see what the paper was. It was a sketch of Jamie in a short that said 'ART CLUB ROCKS!'.
Eventually, after school, Casper came over again, only this time, Zoe also came over, and he looked over to Jamie's parents. Mrs. Grover was shushing and cooing to her whimpering babies as they latched onto her.
"Hi, Mom!" Jamie smiled.
"Oh, I am so happy you're here," Mrs. Grover replied as she looked exhausted. "Uh, Zoe, Casper, have you ever changed a baby's diaper before?"
"Uh, do dolls count?" Zoe replied.
"Okay, maybe we oughta start you with a girl, Casper, you take a boy." Mrs. Grover decided.
"Boys tend to pee on you." Jamie whispered.
"Eww..." Zoe winced.
"Gee, thanks, Jamie..." Casper muttered, though he knew a little bit on what to do based on what he saw Mo do as she used to change Junior's diapers when he was a baby.
The front door was soon heard opening.
"Oh... Oh, I hope that's the baby nurse," Mrs. Grover said befor handing Jamie the baby in her arms. "If I don't get some sleep soon, I-I-I don't know what I'll do."
"Get some rest, Mrs. Grover, you look so exhausted." Casper suggested.
"Such a friendly boy." Mrs. Grover replied.
"Well, won't it be weird, you know, having somebody in the house all the time?" Jamie asked as she carried one of her sisters.
Mrs. Grover and Jamie soon looked all around in silence between them, though the babies still cried until Casper finished changing Adam.
"Trust me, honey, you won't even notice she's here." Mrs. Grover told her eldest daughter.
A new woman soon came into the room.
"I guess that would be the baby nurse?" Casper guessed.
"Oh, you look terrible, you must be the mother," The woman examined Mrs. Grover as she had dark circles under her eyes. "Well, then, have a rest. There you go, sit down, have a seat. There, I'll take control now."
"Um, nice to meet you, ma'am." Casper said to the woman.
"Ah, hello there," The woman replied. "Who are you?"
"I'm Casper; Jamie's friend." Casper introduced himself.
"I'm Jamie, and that's Zoe." Jamie then added.
"Well, it's a pleasure, I'm Fiona, and this is my room, so farewell," The woman said as she took the baby from Jamie's arms. "Only the immediate family is allowed around here. Whatever."
"But I'm their older sister." Jamie replied.
"Ohh... My apologies, Older Sister," Fiona smiled to her as she cradled the baby before shooing out Zoe and Casper. "We'll be seein' ya. There ya go."
"Bye, Grovers." Zoe waved.
"Uh, yeah, bye..." Casper said as he suddenly had to go now.
"Good day! Good day!" Fiona smiled as she shut the door and went straight to work, almost like a nanny.
Soon, Casper came home.
"Casper, you're home early," Atticus said as he played video games with Cherry on the couch. "Is Jamie okay?"
"I had to go," Casper said. "Fiona told me to leave."
"Who's Fiona?" Cherry replied. "I thought your girlfriend's name was Jamie?"
Casper sighed to her. "First of all, Fiona's the new baby nurse, and second, Jamie is not my girlfriend!"
"If you say so," Cherry smirked. "Man, you got some charm on ya. Kat Harvey, Wendy the Good Little Witch, and now this Jamie girl. I guess you're a 'kidanova'."
"Ugh..." Casper groaned before going to sit down with them. "Whatcha playing?"
"Something called Shantae: Half-Genie Hero," Atticus said. "Drell told us to play it for some reason."
"Wouldn't surprise me if it became an adventure." Cherry added.
"Yeah, he's funny like that..." Casper said. "I'm starting to feel bad for Jamie though, these babies are kinda controlling her parents."
"Well, that's what happens with a new baby in the house, or in Jamie's case, five," Atticus replied. "It's nice that you're worried and thinking about her though."
"I guess so..." Casper said. "I wish there was something I could do. She's thinking about joining Art Club now though."
"That should be fun," Cherry replied. "Art Club's pretty amazing."
"Yeah, I was thinking about doing it too for support." Casper said.
"Is that all?" Cherry smirked.
"Jamie isn't my girlfriend, Cherry, and you know it!" Casper scolded.
"You've talked about her a lot lately, if anything though, I think she likes you." Cherry said.
"L-Likes me?" Casper blushed. 'You mean, like, likes me likes me?"
"I think she does anyway," Cherry shrugged. "That's just my guess though."
"Hm..." Casper shrugged himself. "I gotta do some homework."
"You need any help?" Atticus offered.
"I'll tell you if I do, but Math's gotten easier." Casper said on the way to his room.
Atticus smiled to that and went back to playing his game with Cherry.
The next day soon came and Casper was shown to be in Art Club with his fellow students. Jamie was there, but mostly because she didn't want to come home right after school with Fiona around with the babies.
"So, Casper, what's that you're drawing?" Mr. Blackmer asked.
"His name is Super Power Man," Casper smiled as he drew the imaginary friend he had adopted from Atticus. "He can do almost anything."
"Quite an imagination you have there," Mr. Blackmer chuckled. "He looks rather high and mighty, I wouldn't wanna mess with him."
"Ah, he wouldn't hurt you, you're a pretty cool teacher." Casper smiled.
Mr. Blackmer nodded to him with a smile and came to check on the other students who were involved in their artwork, except for Jamie who seemed to just be sitting there.
"Come on, grab a paintbrush, clay, anything." Zoe told her friend as she sat on the table.
"I'm only here 'cuz you and Casper are here, Z," Jamie frowned. "I don't know what to do."
"The motto of Art Club is this: 'When you don't know what to do, do something you don't know how to do'." Mr. Blackmer advised as he handed her a sketchpad and a pencil.
"Wait... Translation, please?" Jamie asked out of confusion.
"Have you ever closed your eyes and imagined?" Mr. Blackmer suggested.
"Imagine what?" Jamie asked.
"Exactly," Mr. Blackmer smiled. "So, close those eyes and then draw what you see."
Jamie glanced at him as he soon left, but her mind was a complete blank slate.
"Come on, Jamie, at least try." Casper said as he soon colored in Super Power Man with blue and yellow colored pencils.
"Yeah, it won't hurt." Zoe added as she went back to her sculpture.
Jamie sighed as she soon closed her eyes and began to sketch something.
"Um... Say, Jamie?" Casper spoke up. "How'd you like to come over for dinner tonight?"
Jamie looked over to him then.
"You know, as friends?" Casper smiled sheepishly.
Jamie looked to him and then smiled back. "Sure, Casper, that sounds like fun."
"Great!" Casper smiled to her.
The two then went back to their artwork until they could go home.
Casper had called Emily in advance about Jamie coming over, so she made a special dinner. The two came into the kitchen as the woman of the house was cooking dinner right now.
"Hey, Mom, this is Jamie from school." Casper said.
"Oh, hello there, dear," Emily smiled. "It's good to finally meet you."
"It's nice to meet you too, Mrs. Fudo," Jamie smiled back before sniffing the air. "Ooh, what smells so good?"
"I hope you don't mind pizza because it's for dinner with some chocolate cake for dessert." Emily said playfully as all kids loved pizza.
"That sounds great!" Jamie beamed. "I love pizza!"
"Well, what growing kid doesn't?" Emily chuckled. "Why don't you kids do some homework? It should be done once you finish."
"Okay, Mom..." Casper sighed softly about having to do homework.
"You know how important homework is." Emily replied.
"Yeah, I know." Casper said.
The two soon did their homework together. Due to Atticus tutoring Casper in a lot of hard classes, he was quite bright and able to help out and seemed to be a young genius.
"Gee, Casper, maybe you should go to GW." Jamie suggested.
"Maybe." Casper chuckled, though ne now remembered that his biological father was quite a genius in his day.
Jamie smiled to him, blushing from his laugh as it sounded quite cute, but she changed the subject so she wouldn't sound awkward. "Um, well, it's nice to have attention away now that my brothers and sisters are born..." she then said.
"Are you really happy, Jamie?" Casper asked. "It seems to be a drag having quintuplets in your house."
"Oh, it's no trouble at all, really..." Jamie said. "So, is it just you and your brother?"
"Actually, I have him and two sisters," Casper explained. "Darla's a little bit older than I am, and Jessica goes to college. She should be graduating soon."
"She like living far away?" Jamie asked.
"She says it's nice to have her own space, but she really loves to come home and see us, especially with Oddball." Casper said.
"Oddball?" Jamie raised an eyebrow, wondering who that was.
"Oh, her dog, she's a Dalmatian like Atticus's dog, Patch." Casper said.
"Oh... Okay..." Jamie said. "I guess having a pet is another member of the family."
"Yeah, it can be," Casper smiled. "Jessica also had this friend in school who considered their dog named Comet to be apart of the family."
"I never thought about having a pet before... Maybe I should've wished for that..." Jamie said softly.
Eventually, dinner was ready and everyone sat down. Jamie actually liked how quiet it was in the Fudo house compared to her own since she had five baby brothers and sisters.
"So, Jamie, how do your parents feel about you being in Art Club?" Patrick asked.
"Um... Well... To be honest, I haven't told them..." Jamie said softly.
"You haven't?" Casper frowned.
"Well... I don't know if they would approve or not..." Jamie said as she played with her food a little. "It's not part of their plan."
"Jamie, your life is your life, and your parents should accept that." Emily advised.
"Well, I suppose that's true..." Jamie said. "I just don't want to disappoint them."
"I'm sure you won't," Casper coaxed. "Mom and Dad are right though, you should be honest with them. That's what parents are there for."
"Hmm... Maybe you guys are right..." Jamie said.
This made the others smile to her and she soon ate her slice of pizza. Of course, coming over to this house was a lot of fun since Jamie loved her freedom from her parents.
"Could I show you guys what I made in Art Club?" Jamie asked. "I'm hoping that my brothers and sisters would like it in their nursery."
"Sure," Emily smiled. "What is it?"
Jamie took out her paper from art club and showed a painting that had trees with Fall leaves on them with all sorts of colors. This of course won over the family and they showered her in compliments.
"Wow, thanks, you guys." Jamie smiled.
Doc Croc and Yoyo even smiled to the painting.
"She's a great artist." Yoyo whispered.
Casper shushed him so Jamie wouldn't hear them. Of course, right about now, things were going to change a lot more in the Grover household. Jamie would become more stressed, especially since Fiona decided to quit as watching over quintuplets was too much, even for her.