ON WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN A GORGEOUS AFTERNOON SPENT TAKING A NAP, ALL FIVE ROSS KIDS STOOD IN A STRAIGHT FORMATION IN THEIR LIVING ROOM WITH JESSIE PRESCOTT STARING AT THEM AND BERTRAM WINKLE READING A MAGAZINE ON THE COUCH. The kids knew Jessie was furious, but they didn't know why. But no matter what it was, it was most likely Maya or Luke as they were the two pranksters in the home. But there was no time for questions because just like the glue swap with Mrs. Chesterfield last year, the kids were being stared down individually by their nanny. Bertram was only watching the situation play out while flipping through Butler Beat to see what the latest new trends were in how to spoil rich people.

But his magazine didn't matter so much when Jessie grabbed it, rolled it into a cylinder, and whacked him on the bald head with it. "Pay attention!" she shouted, pointing a finger at the man who stared at her in shock. "Hey, I'm not responsible for watching the kids. So whatever they did, is your fault!" he retorted, snatching back his reading selection and stomping into the kitchen. Maya smirked and folded her arms across her chest, "I'm surprised he got up. You know, since it's so far away," she joked, making her four siblings laugh. "Quiet!" Jessie warned, pointing her finger down the line.

The red-haired nanny walked to the couch and dug inside her purse until she grabbed what looked like a metal can. She held it up and pursed her lips, waiting for a reaction from at least one kid. "Can anyone tell me what this is?" Luke sheepishly raised his hand and Jessie motioned for him to speak, "A used stink bomb?"

"Exactly," Jessie nodded. "And guess where I found it?"

"The party supply store?" Zuri jumped in, a smile on her face and her hopes crashing through the roof. "No," Jessie sassed, shaking her head with a glare, "Someone dropped it onto Mrs. Chesterfield's terrace."

Emma stifled a laugh and placed a hand over her mouth and Ravi gave a disapproving look to his siblings, "A shame, my siblings. A shame."

"Well, someone has one minute to confess before all of you are grounded," Jessie threatened. "Till when?" Emma remarked. "Till you're married and have five kids of your own!" Jessie snapped back. "But you're not married," Maya muttered, looking down at the ground. Luke jammed his elbow into his twin's side and shook his head as to say 'don't push the beast.' "Thirty seconds," Jessie announced, shrugging her shoulders as she had no problem grounding everyone.

The kids looked at each other, each wanting someone to confess so they didn't get punished. Emma went as far as to punch Luke, thinking he was the one who had made Mrs. Chesterfield's terrace smell like rotten eggs. And Ravi had to hold Zuri off of Maya, though he didn't do much. So the apartment turned into a full-blown argument with Emma and Luke, and Ravi chasing Zuri who was chasing Maya around the apartment.

"Three," Jessie shouted, "Two... One--"

"It was me!" one of the kids finally confessed, making everyone whip around and stare at the culprit. Jessie smirked and congratulated herself on successfully finding the stink bomber before stalking over to the kid. "I want a written apology to Mrs. Chesterfield in my hands before dinner! And you're grounded!"

"How long could a written apology possibly be? I tell her that I'm sorry that she has to curse everyone with her presence and I too wish she could go away, and then what, say thanks?" the child sassed. Jessie's face grew tomato red while all her charges laughed at the joke and she had to shout at the top of her lungs to make everyone stop talking.

"Maya, I don't want to hear it! And better yet, Mrs. Chesterfield would love an apology face to face," she finished, taking the phone from the girl's hand and stalking away into the kitchen to talk to Bertram. "Making me look at her face is punishment enough!" Maya yelled after her guardian.

Maya let out a huff and narrowed her eyes at the door even though Jessie couldn't see her. It was then when Luke approached her and slung his arm around her shoulders with a look of approval, "You did good, kid. You did good."

"Yeah, I knew it was you, but stink bomb drop on Chesterfield's terrace? Classic," Zuri praised, giving the brunette a high-five. Maya grinned and thanked the small sixth grade before turning to Emma who was looking at herself in the reflection her phone was casting. "Yeah, totes good job. Mrs. C deserved it."

"I agree, but was it not too much to make the gas stink?" Ravi wondered. Maya shook her head and waved her hand in front of her chest, "No, that made the whole thing."

While everyone talked about the success of the prank, Maya found herself drifting away into her own thoughts. She was a prankster, sure. She and Luke were so similar in their personalities, yet so different. To people she didn't know, Maya was shy and untrusting. It took her years to be able to trust her siblings, but that was probably since she was thrown around with her brother from foster home to foster home before finally being adopted. And unlike her siblings - aside from Ravi - she didn't throw her money around. She liked to work for what she had, and most certainly didn't brag about being rich, or even advertise it in any way. She wore overalls and t-shirts to school, unlike Emma who dressed as if she were a part of the movie Clueless. But, even still, she enjoyed her pranks. Mrs. Chesterfield was normally her victim.

After letting her thoughts roam free in her mind, Maya plopped on the couch and grabbed the flashcards that Ravi had helped her create. Luke, however, just wanted to have fun with his sister, not study for some chemistry test. "Can't we go to practice early? I've been dying to try out a new move all week," he said excitedly, sitting next to his sister. "No, I need to get as much studying in as I can. That test in three days is huge. It's worth... Ravi, how much is it worth?"

"Forty-five percent of our final average," he replied with a smile. "Right, that," Maya told her brother. "But that's like, only half."

"Actually, that's less than half. This is why you didn't go to camp last summer," Zuri smirked. Luke rolled his eyes and glanced at Emma who was admiring her nail polish, "At least I'm not like twinkle toes over here. The only smarts she has is when it comes to clothes."

Emam gasped and whined at the insensitive comment before smacking her brother across the head with a pillow. "Take it back!" she threatened, picking up another pillow and crawling across the couch to beat him with it. While trying to defend herself from Luke's blows and give him more, Emma accidentally swiped Maya across the face, causing the brunette to get angry and snatch the pillow from her hands.

What were five kids sitting peacefully on the couch was now a pillow fight between three of them. Zuri was shaking her head and watching with Ravi who was wondering how the three high-schoolers were even allowed to attend such a prestigious school like Midtown, but he settled on the answer of money, which made sense. Maya was smart enough and interested in biotechnology, so her spot remained unquestioned, but Luke and Emma were as interested in science as cats interested in dogs. It just didn't work.

But Ravi wasn't able to question it as Maya let go of a pillow mid-swing and spiked Ravi in the face, causing him to fall off the couch with a groan escaping his lips. "Ravi, I told you not to sit there! Gosh!" Maya called out before hitting Emma again.

Normal people would be sitting at a desk doing their homework, or even watching television. But the Ross's were not normal, and instead were hitting each other with pillows, recording the pillow fight - Zuri, or holding an ice pack to their head because one small girl had so much brute strength that it bruised his skull - Ravi.

This, to the Ross's - was as normal as a day got. And that's all they needed.

well this was short, but hey, meet the ross's