What's In A Codename

My Old Friend, Snicker-Chuckles

After a few weeks of the defeat of Apocalypse, everything had seemed to have gotten back to a relative norm. There was over an hour and a half before school started of the last day before the long weekend, as Kitty checked her email to see if anyone like her family had left her any messages. There was one new email from her parents and in it, it told her that there was an old friend of hers who wants to talk with you. We gave him your email address, we believe he's waiting to talk with you. It didn't say much else that their love her and their prayers are with her always and in the email, there was a link to her friend's email address and his username. She wasn't sure who the person was the username had she thought about might have given her a hint, but her mind was drawing a blank on her. Rather than try play email-tag, and find out if he or she was online and who he or she is, clicked on the username link, and was taken the MSN chatroom, and yes, there was a friend invite a few seconds later from the same person with the username Snicker-Chuckles. "Who is Snicker-Chuckles," she wisely checked the profile out, before she agreed to chat with him, and gasped. "It can't be, no way," the status said the user was online, and Kitty promptly invited Snicker-Chuckles to chat with her, it took a few seconds but Snicker-Chuckles was there ready to chat. "Could it be?"

The screen shook. Then some words or rather one big word, came onto the chat screen, as it shook again. -EARTHQUAKE‼‼-

Kitty just laughed! -Who is this, who's Snicker-Chuckles?- Although, she was fairly sure she knew who it was, still she had to know for sure. There was still a chance the user wasn't who he or she said they were.

-I'll give you a hint, Kitty. Want to play shadow tag?-

-OMG, Sydney! So how have you been?-

-Could be better, I lost my mamma over 3 years or so ago now, and papa still hasn't gotten over it. I can't seem to cheer him up. But he hasn't laughed since her death he's so depressed, still. Hey, do you have web cam?-

-I'm so sorry to hear that. Yes, just a sec.- Both were putting their cameras on into the live feed and there she saw her lanky brown-haired brown-eyed old friend on the screen. Both squealed in joy delighted to see each other again!

"Hey, can you see and hear me?"

"Yes, hi, Syd, can you see and hear me?"

"Sure can. Wow you grew!"

"So have you. So where are you now? I never got a letter or address from you after we moved away. What's up with that, I thought we were friends."

"We are. I lost your address in the move or rather the fire. My mamma fell asleep with a lit cigarette, and she nearly burned down the house, literally. We all got out safe thanks to the smoke detectors. Still, we lost a lot of stuff in the fire so we had to move, too. The insurance on the house paid for everything, the downside was we had to move. We moved to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, still here. It's a very friendly community, after all, it's the home of Mr. Rogers. So, won't you be my friend and neighbor? So where are you situated at?"

"Oh I'm so sorry to hear that, well at least you all got out that's the important thing, right. Right now, I'm in New York, at a, uh, a boarding school."

"Hey, that's not far from here, that's what 5 or 6 7 hours at the most away, I'm so coming there to visit you! Give me your address, I'll be right over!"

"Sydney, be serious!"

"Don't you ever use the S word around me, that's so a dirty 4-letter word to me, or rather uhh... a dirty 7-letter word. I'm so coming there! Does your boarding school allow visitors for the weekend? There's a professional day at my school this Friday, so what do you say, can I come for the weekend?"

"Same here. Uhh, can I go ask first?"

"Sure, go ask."

Excitedly she not only bopped the laptop a bit as she left, but also left the live feed camera on forgetting herself she used her powers to go through the door. "Professor, can I, oh you're not going to like, believe this. An old friend of mine, Sydney, well, wants to visit, over the weekend. I haven't seen Sydney in years; so would it be okay if Sydney came here for a visit this weekend?"

"I don't know, Kitty, it will be an inconvenience for Hank and Kurt to have to leave, just so your friend can visit."

"I know Sydney, if there's one thing Syd hates, it's prejudice, Sydney won't be bothered by mutants, I just know it. Syd even told off a few kids who were teasing and hurting a black kid and I just know that Sydney would be the same way with mutants. Syd has a big problem with prejudice and hatred towards them. I don't think Sydney will have a problem with mutants or hanging out with us for the weekend. So can Syd come?"

"Alright, but just to be sure, I'll have to scan her mind, when she gets here, and if need be, I may have to be prepared to send some of the students on a field trip this weekend with Hank. Go tell you friend though, she can come."

"Uh, yeah, okay, and thank you so much," she squealed delightedly and hugged the Professor! Running back in her room she at least used the door this time and was surprised to see Rogue chatting with her friend.

"What kind of name is Rogue?"

"It's ah nickname!"

"Well fine, you can call me Chuckles; I would have used Chuckles as my screen name, but it was already taken, but Snicker-Chuckles wasn't which is twice as good since I not only love to laugh and tend to a lot, but I really love chocolate too and..."

"Right, what are you doing with my laptop?"

"Ah was going to shut it off, thinking ta save you some battery power since you stepped out, but Ah see you got ah boy online, so Ah thought Ah would be nice and talk with him until you came back."

"Well give it back I have to tell him something. Well I got good news and some slightly funny news, for you."

"Let's hear the good news first, I love funny, save that for dessert, so what's the good news, tell me, tell me, tell me!"

"Well the good news is you can come for the weekend!"

"Yes, yes, yes, score‼ I'll be right over! So what's the funny news?"

"The Professor, he thinks, well, you're a well, uh, well, a she, a girl."

"What, hee, hee, hee, hee, now that is funny news! I know my name is the boy girl spelling but... Well that's no problem, I'll just get a wig and a bra, and stuff them with socks and tissues, hee, hee, hee, and he won't know the difference," he says in a very girlish voice. "Or I can borrow one of Rogue's cute tank tops, and skirts."

"Ah catch you in mah drawers, and Ah'll break your arm off!"

"Wow, third base offer on the first day, wow, hee, hee, hee, hee, wow you must really like me! Sorry to disappoint you, cutie-pie, you're pretty and all, but I'm not that kind of guy."

"Ah can see why he calls himself Chuckles and Snicker.

"I was kidding, come on, but really I'm quite the gentleman around the ladies. Besides, I like meeting new friends. Hey, we can have a lot of fun together; we can have a slumber party and we can all play Truth or Dare when I get there! Hey, that rhymes."

Kitty started laughing, "Just don't expect me to dare you two to kiss. Let's just say when Rogue sucks face, she really, sucks face."

"Don't you dare, dare me to make a move on her either; she is so not my type! No offence to Rogue there, but Goths, are so not my type. When I get there, we'll have to do something about that, and get you out of that dark funk you're in."

"Yeah, you try that."

"What is your type," Kitty asked.

"Sweet little Jewish blue eyed putty tat, meow," Sydney said doing a perfect cat meow as he pretended to lick the back of his hand and wash his face with it. "Hey how about this, Rogue, when I get there, you can dare me to smooch Kitty," he says making kissing noises then turned around to pretend he was making out!

"Ugh, the guy reminds me of Kurt."

"Who's Kurt, who's Kurt, oooh, is he your boyfriend, by any chance?"

"No! He's mah half-brother; and he's got a reputation as a jokester."

Busying himself with something else on his computer he chatted it up with the girls as he made the preparations. "Really, well, I'd love to meet him; he couldn't be as bad as me though, since I'm the school's official jokester, prankster, and class clown. I can get just about anyone to laugh, and if I really get them going, well, it usually gets going, all right, right into their pants, if you know what I mean! There's nothing better than that nice relieving warm feeling…yeah, I think I need to go to the bathroom, just thinking of it."

"Oh man, Ah think your friend is totally crazy!"

"Oh come on, what, you never peed your pants laughing, that's the best kind of laugh there is! To quote it, 'friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth'. No truer and touching words could be said," he sighs deeply and goes back to the work he was doing.

"Like Ah said, you're crazy!"

"Maybe just ah bit, honey," he says half mocking Rogue's voice and accent, but a light touch in the male voice side. "But not to worry, we're all ah bit crazy hon, Ah've been to the zoo ah few times mahself, to see all the lions tigers bears and koalas oh mah gosh! Ah love me some jokes, chuckles, and laughs, so get on board, or get on out!"

"Fine with me, Ah'm out of here!"

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, you really got her ticked. That was a pretty good impersonation of her voice, you almost got it down. I see you're still doing your impersonations, imitations, and voices."

"I haven't stopped, if anything I've gotten way better at it, it's scary. It doesn't take me long usually to start to imitate someone's voice."

"Really? Hey, what are you doing?" Kitty asked noticing that his head was down and he was obviously typing something out, she could hear it and see he was typing something but there was nothing coming on the chat screen nor did it say Snicker-Chuckles was typing to her.

"Making the travel arrangements, I just need the exact location, and the name of your boarding school, please and thank you, and I'll do the rest on this end." She typed out the information it was easier than having to repeat it. He likewise typed out all the information he needed to plan the trip there and was ready to deliver the verdict.

"Ah forgot mah... is he still there?"

"I won't be here for much longer. I got it, it's all set, done. So I'll go pack up now, I'll see you really soon, Katherine, and I can't wait to meet all your other kooky friends too. Ciao."

The video feed on his end was cut off, and Rogue smiled at Kitty, "Katherine?"

"Uh, it's my full name."

"Right, stick with Kitty. And ya better get ready for school."