A/N It is 4:50 am, I have insomnia, and radio is not helping. I have not spelt a single word correct at all since 'A/N', perfect time to write more of this stuff. If it is crap, I'm sorry. I'm currently being distracted by PINK; she's a good artist, very loud. Oops, that finished, it's now some crappy British boy band, yay.

Jake was normally up a lot earlier so he wasn't used to there being so many people when he got his breakfast. Normally it was a simple case of grabbing some cereal and a bowl, but had to actually go to cafeteria if he had a hope of being fed now.

He noticed the odd looks from people as he walked by, no one looked particularly hostile but it was still disconcerting. He decided to get two breakfasts, one for him and one for Mark so that he wouldn't have to go up and get served as well. The dinner lady smiled at him warmly like she did whenever he saw her, she had a tendency to nag him about eating more so she didn't complain when he grabbed two portions, she seemed rather happy about it actually. He found an empty table in the corner and started eating slowly, waiting for Mark to get there but not torturing himself by not eating whilst he did so.

"Hey there your Jake right?"

Jake looked up to find a couple of girls standing over him, smiling as friendlily as Jake would. He wiped the milk dribbling down his chin away and swallowed his cereal before nodding nervously.

"Are these seats taken?" One of the said.

"Err, I'm waiting for someone, but those are fine." He said, pointing to the ones opposite him.

"Are you waiting for Mark?" Another said enthusiastically. Jake nodded and they giggled happily.

"Hey, he's not there for you to gawp at" Said another girl, older than they were "Leave him alone."

The girls trudged off in a hump, leaving the other girl and her two friends with Jake.

"Hey, word of advice, try to avoid girls like that. They're too immature to recognise gay guys aren't dolls to play with." She said. "I'm Clara by the way, and you're the talk of the Institute."

He red hair matched her orange lip stick and bizarrely her red eyes too.

"Don't worry, it's harmless." She assured as she took the seat opposite him. "It had to happen sometime." Jake looked at her and then her friends, one was a stocky blonde boy with deep blue eyes and the a slim girl, with pouty red lips set against bright white skin and blue hair tied pigtails which made her look like some strange porcelain doll.

"Err, what did?" Jake asked confused.

"A gay guy in the Institute, there was one before but he wasn't a student." She answered. "You watch, now that you and your boyfriend have come out, a dozen others will too."

"Your pretty brave kid" The boy said with a warm smile.

"I don't think so, if it wasn't for Mark I'd still be in the closet." Jake replied.

"Mark was in the closet also remember. You helped him as well." The other girl said matter of factly.

"That's Kira, she knows stuff." Clara explained. "Oh, and that's Yana, he's a Pyrokinetic, he controls fire. My powers are, strange, comes from having strange parents. What about you?"

"I, err, it's hard to explain." Jake said, instead he showed them. He turned his hand into glue and shaped into spoon, making it hard enough to eat his cereal from.

"Cool, so you're like, a proper old school mutant." Yana said. "None of this pathetic, I can make my finger glow, look at how amazing I am. You can turn yourself into see through modelling clay."

"You should not mock him Yana, Mr Kitchener's powers are not yet fully developed, and the day they are realised is approaching." Kira said.

"Kira, you're gonna scare the kid, stop it." Clara said. "Don't mind her, she talks crap half the time, you used your powers in any action outside the danger room?"

"Yeah, I was on a mission a few days ago." Jake answered. "But I shouldn't talk about it."

"I don't want to know what you did, just what you blew up." Yana said. Jake thought for a moment, he hadn't really thought about it until then, he had been too busy.

"Err, I don't know exactly, but I think about two or three helicopters and I must have taken out two dozen guys." He said casually, he didn't think it that amazing for a mutant.

"Whoa, impressive dude, I underestimated you, your killer see through modelling clay."

Jake smiled, he didn't know why they were talking to him but he liked them a lot, they seemed nice in a strange sort of way. He saw Mark entering and waved him over, attracting a lot of attention as he did so.

"Ooh, he's a sweetie." Clara chuckled when she saw Mark "If he weren't gay I'd consider dating him and I don't say that often."

"Yeah right" Yana said under his breath.

"Shut it you." She said, she suddenly reminded of an older, less black covered Quinn. "I can see why you like him, to be fair you're not too bad yourself."

Jake slumped back, his cheeks red once again, he wasn't used to the being called attractive. Mark smiled cautiously as the three seniors around Jake and took a seat next to him.

"Hey, you must be Mark." Clara said. Mark nodded nervously, unsure what was going on.

"We were just saying, or about to say if these two didn't keep interrupting." She said. "That we are proud of you two for not hiding who you are. I don't like bullies or homophobes, if you ever come across someone who is both, I'll deal with it.

"They have been informed of many who will do the same Clara." Kira said. "Truthfully all they need is Quinn and Caim, though be wary of Lars, he is not who he says he is."

Clara leapt up and grabbed her friend rough to tell her that she needed to shut up. "Sorry, someone has forgotten to take her crazy pills today. Well, we'll see you around Jake, you too Mark." She winked playfully and left, her two friends not far behind.

"What was that about?" Mark said.

"I don't know but they seemed nice enough." Jake replied "Strange though."

A/N Its 6:00 am now, that took a while, I have school in like, two hours and now I'm falling asleep, great…

Hoped you liked that curveball. Kinda, sorta, maybe an idea I'm cooking up for another story with Jake in, their some of the characters in it. I hope to have Mark and Quinn and Hack and Caim in it as well.