Author's notes: This chapter will introduce the other three new kids. The bad guy will not be coming until a later, but I'll try to get him in as soon as I can.

Warning: this chapter will have my sad attempt at humor.

The next day the children came to school hoping the day would go by fast. Rogue stood with Kitty, Kurt, and Evan as they all waited for class to start. She would have rather been alone, but there was no where else to be.

As she stood she couldn't get the thought of Roberts eyes out of her head. Just the thought of them made her a little nervous. She then saw four kids walking in her direction. She figured they must have been the new kids because she had never seen them before, but there was one she had. It was Robert.

She watched as he walked towards her talking to the other three boys with him. He looked a little different from when she met him yesterday. He had lost the piercing look in his eyes.

Kitty tapped her on the shoulder and asked her "Is that the kid you told us about yesterday."

Rogue turned to her and said "yeah."

Kitty then smiled at her and said, "He looks kind a cute."

Rogue looked at her with an annoyed look. "That wasn't what he was like yesterday."

Robert laughed with the other boys as they passed the four mutants. He quickly noticed Rogue and Kitty staring at him and stopped. "Hey almost didn't see you there," he said to Rogue. She said nothing. Robert walked over to her and said, "look I'm sorry for startling you yesterday and making you drop your stuff."

Rogue said to the boy "you don't need to apologies"

Robert said, "Really you seemed kind of pissed off when I came out at you."

"It's no problem," said Rogue. She just said that to get the boy away from her. Kitty nudged her. She turned and noticed the other three watching her talk with the boy. She figured she might as well introduce. She said in a low voice and mumbling voice, "uh this is Kitty, Kurt and Evan."

Robert looked at the three and gave a short wave. He looked back at Rogue and said "what about you do you have a name?"

She looked at him thinking that he had no right of knowing, but she gave it to him any way. "My name is Rogue."

"Ah" the boy replied. Strangely he didn't ask what was with her name. Usually that's the first thing people ask her. Evan then said, "Uh excuse me."

Robert turned to him and Evan continued "Who are they?" He asked pointing to the other three. One of the boys said to Robert "did you forget us again Robert?"

Robert then noticed his friends again and said "Oh shit, sorry guys."

Each one of the boys walked up as they were introduced. First there was John. He was a portly kid with short blond hair, an orange shirt, and green pants. He gave a quick little solute with his finger. That amused the four mutants a little because nobody usually did that. Next was Troy. He was a skinny blond with a blue shirt and jeans. And finally there was Phil. He was portly but not as much as John. All of the boys had brown leather gloves on their right hands. After Phil was introduced they all stood in a line and said "Yo."

Rogue was a little amused by this. The bell rang and as the four boys left Troy said, "well off to purgatory." The mutants laughed as the four boys left and then they all went to class.

School went by quickly that day. Rogue decided to walk back to the institute again that afternoon. Scott offered to give her a ride, but Jean was in the car and she thought it would be a bad idea.

As she walked down the street she heard a noise coming from the woods. She couldn't really make it out so she went to go see what it was. When she entered she was in this big circular clearing. She never noticed this place before out of all the times she paced it. Then she saw what was making the noise. Robert and his friends.

They were laughing about something and did not seem to notice her enter the clearing. They had with them a small portable tape recorder.

Rogue over heard Robert say, "heavy machinery works best when your drowsy." She was very confused by his comment.

All three of his friends began to laugh uncontrollably.

Rogue walked up to them. "What are you guys doing?"

They turned to Rogue somewhat surprised. As they realized who it was John said, "oh sorry, we didn't know you were here. Um It's Rogue right?"

"Yeah," Rogue answered. "Now would you mind telling me what you're doing?"

Robert was the one to answer that question. "We were just saying lines from our favorite show Whose Line is it Anyway."

Rogue raised an eyebrow. "I've never heard of it," she said.

The four boys looked at her in shock. Robert's eyes turned wide as he said, "you've never heard of Whose Line? Oh lady you don't know what you're missing it's the funniest show on television in our opinion."

"Well, it's no wonder I haven't heard of it," Rogue said, "I'm not much of the laughing type."

"Not much of the laughing type," said Robert. "No wonder you looked so depressed when I ran into you the other day."

Rogue looked angrily at the boy and turned to leave the clearing.

Robert quickly ran in front of her and said, "hold it you ain't leaving yet."

Rogue shoved the boy away and said, "don't stand in front of me unless you're looking for trouble."

Robert did not seem alarmed or angry. He said in a kind voice, "I don't want any trouble. I just want you to stick around for a while you look like you need a good laugh."

Rogue gave a frustrated groan. "If you knew what I was you wouldn't want me to stick around," she said. She knew these boys were like every one else. As soon as they knew she was a mutant they would hate her.

Robert said calmly, "ok, what are you?"

Rogue sighed and said, "I'm a mutant."

They four boys were quiet, but they did not seem shocked. Rogue crossed her arms and said, "so I guess you think I'm a freak now?"

"Why would we think that," asked Robert.

Rogue looked at him confused.

Robert then said, "so you're a mutant. A mutant that looks like she needs a good laugh. And we are just the guys to do it."

Rogue paused for a few seconds then said, "you guys don't care that I'm a mutant?"

Troy answered that question. "No we don't. And don't go calling yourself a freak. We're freaks and we're damn proud of it."

Rogue walked back to the middle of the clearing. Phil grabbed the tape recorder and placed it gently on a rock. Then all four of the boys stood in row in front of Rogue.

"Alright," said Robert, "first I'm gonna tell you what Whose Line is it Anyway is. It's a comedy improve show hosted by the well know Drew Carry. In the show four performers play improve games and make every thing up right off the top of their heads. Ever since we saw that show we became very interested in comedy and improve and we really enjoy making people laugh. We are going to play one of the games called a Hoedown in which they get a suggestion form someone in the audience and sing a song about it. And since you are our audience we need a suggestion."

"Fine," Rogue said not happy or upset. Part of her wanted to leave that clearing, but part of her wanted to stay. Not many humans liked mutants and these four boys were a part of that very small group that did not care if she was different. Plus she was curious of this Whose Line is it Anyway thing.

"Ok," said John, "what we need is something embarrassing that happened to you that you want to keep secret."

"No way," said Rogue, "I don't even know you guys, I'm not gonna reveal an embarrassing secret."

"That's all right," said John, "then just give us something embarrassing that could happen to anybody that they would want to keep secret."

Rogue tried to think. The quicker she did this the quicker she could leave. This was somewhat humiliating for her. Standing in a clear waiting for four boys that she did not even know to make up a song was not something anybody normally did. If any of the X-Men saw her here she would never live it down.

She quickly said the only thing that popped into her head. "Blind date."

All the brothers smiled as if satisfied.

(Author's notes: I just want to say that this one song is going to be in script form. Just wanted you to know.)

"That's a good one," said John, "ok we'll be doing the Blind date Hoedown. Start the music Phil."

Phil quickly pushed the button on the tape recorder and got back in the row. The music began to play. The brothers waited a few seconds and started the Hoedown beginning with Troy.

Troy

I had a blind date last night and it was really scary

My date was really ugly and her upper lip was harry

People starred at us all night, and that girl was real rude

I hope that is the last time that my blind date is a nude.

John

I went on a date with a girl that I never met

She seemed like a real nice girl, more than anyone could bet

She wanted to sleep with me and I thought that was too bold

Well, that just might be because she's eighty-two years old.

Phil

I'm a real gross woman; I have tattoos on me

I have piercings where men think they should never ever be

I look extremely weird just like a large breasted man

The only one who will date me is Dennis Rodman

Robert

I had a bad blind date exactly the other night

I tell you when I had it I was real filled up with fright.

That girl freaked me out much more than anybody can

It hit me hard when she said that she use to be a man.

All

She used to be a man.

By the end of the song Rogue was laughing very hard. She had never heard something so funny in her life, and she could not help but laugh.

The four boys were laughing themselves. They really enjoyed comedy.

As Robert stopped laughing he walked over to Rogue. "So did you enjoy yourself."

Rogue stopped laughing and said in a giggling voice, "well, it was very" she could not finish her sentence. She just began to laugh again.

After a few minutes of laughing she began to cough.

Phil ran up to her and began patting her on the back. "Breath girl, don't die on us."

Rogue took a few deep breaths and stopped laughing. When she looked back at the boys she saw they were all smiling at her.

"I take it you liked it," Robert asked.

Rogue said, "yeah, it was good."

She then remembered that she had a danger room session that afternoon. She looked at her watch and saw that it was suppose to have been at the institute a fifteen minutes ago.

"Oh crap," she said, "I gotta get going."

Robert then looked at his watch and said, "yeah we better get out of here to. Maybe we'll see you in school tomorrow?"

Rogue looked at the boys. She actually kind of liked them now. She answered "yeah maybe."

The boys then waved to her and walked away. As she walked out of the clearing and back onto the road she couldn't help but laugh a little to herself. She didn't usually laugh much and it felt kind of good to her. She fiddled with the cuff of her glove and began to walk back to the institute.