Chapter 1
My bellbottoms wrapped around my legs as I walked down the back steps of Donna's boyfriend's house. "Are you sure that they'll like me?" I asked as Donna fixed my hair. "Of course!" She said. "You're sweet, pretty, and just a little bit slutty! They'll love you. Especially Jackie." We laughed. I took a deep breath as Donna opened the back door. I walked into a small, cozy basement. "Hey, guys. This is my cousin Sam, who I was telling you about last week, remember?" They all looked at me. "No." I laughed. "It's cool, Donna." I took a seat in a lawn chair next to a small, black haired girl. She smiled. "Hi, I'm Jackie. Oh my god, I love your boots." I looked down at my old, dark brown boots. I smiled. "Thanks." Jackie looked over a brown haired boy. He looked like one of the popular boys at my old school, who had movie star good looks. Jackie pointed at me. "Michael! Don't be rude!" He looked up from the TV. and smiled. "Michael Kelso, nice to meet you." I smiled back. "Nice to meet you too." I said, knowing he probably really didn't give a crap. Donna pointed to a Hispanic looking boy behind Michael. "That's Fez." I smiled and he waved. "Hi, Fez." He smiled and said, "I also like your boots." His speech was a little slurred, but I smiled. "Thank you." Donna smiled at me, then took a skinny, brown haired boy's hand. "And, this is Eric!" I shook his hand. "Nice you to meet you Eric. You were right Donna, he's a little cute." Eric smiled and in a sarcastic tone, said, "Well, thank you so much for talking me up Donna." They kissed and I sat back down. I took off my leather jacket and adjusted my Led Zepplin tee-shirt. Eric's eye's widened. "You like Led Zepplin?" I smiled. "Yeah, their music is sick!" Donna smiled and said, "Well then I guess we should go meet up with Hyde!" I looked up at her, confused. Donna smiled. "You'll love Hyde!" I looked down doubtful. "Trust me! Come on, guys."
We walked up the basement's steps into a small kitchen. "Hey, mom, we're going to meet Hyde." We all walked past a small woman who was making a pie. "Tell Steven I said I, sweetie." She looked over at me, and stopped us. "Well, Eric, who's this?" She smiled and I shook her hand. "I'm Donna's cousin Sam. I just moved in with them." She smiled wider. "So you're the Sam that Bob's been talking about the past few weeks. Nice to meet you, dear." I smiled and walked out the sliding glass door to see the gang in a station wagon.
"Come on, Sam!" I heard Jackie say from the backseat. I climbed in back with Michael and Jackie. "So, Sam," I looked over at Michael. "Where you from?" "New York." Jackie smiled excitedly. "Like Broadway, New York?" I shook my head. "No, a really boring town called Millhouse. It's almost exactly like Point Place." Jackie frowned. "Darn it! I wanted to know if you've ever seen Madonna walking around." She turned to the rest of the group. "Madonna lives in a pent house above all the poor people." We nodded.
Walking into a small store, I turned and noticed a guy sitting in the corner of a booth. His curly hair waved around his giant sunglasses, while his side burns raped around his face. "Hyde!" Eric called and the boy waved us all over. Donna sat down and introduced me. "Hyde, this is my cousin Sam." Hyde extended a hand and I shook it. "Nice to meet you." "You too." I nodded and too a few quarters out of my pocket and ushered toward the record machine. "I'm gonna go pick out some music." "Led Zep!" He called over to me. I gave him thumbs up.
Donna came over as I searched through the records. "Eric and Hyde have tickets to Led Zepplin for tomorrow. They have an extra one, and since your new, and you love them-" I turned around quickly and grabbed her arms. "Yes! Yes! Yes!" I scream so loudly that Jackie and Hyde turned around to laugh at me. I waved over in embarrassment, and said, "They invited me along?" Donna smiled. "Yeah! And Led only comes once every two years here, so we figured that the Zepplin freaks should go." She laughed and I turned back to the records. "That's awesome! Thanks so much Donna!"