Moving On
Disclaimer: The following story is based on characters and plots from That 70's Show, copyrighted by the producers of this series. I do not claim to own any of the material derived from the program. This story is not written for any commercial purpose or use. It is meant to be posted on the fanfiction website to be read gratis by other fans of the program.
Note: I wrote this to explore what Hyde may have experienced during the time that he was in Chicago and Vegas.
Moving On, Part I
Chapter 1 "Broken"
Kelso walked into the hotel room wearing only a towel. "No one can see us doing it from the parking lot."
Hyde snapped off Kelso's towel and shut him out of the room. Hyde stared at Jackie with a look of shock and hurt for what felt like forever. Her eyes were big. She was speechless. He turned his back on her and walked out the door.
Hyde puked in the parking lot on the way to his truck. In the periphery, he could see a naked Kelso frantically running about the motel, pounding on doors, terrified that Hyde would beat him up.
Hyde pulled out of the motel parking lot and drove down the highway; he didn't know for how long. He parked over on the side of the road.
He felt as though he had been gutted and he couldn't get that image of Jackie in her slip and Kelso wearing only a towel out of his mind.
Hyde could remember crying only two times in his life, when his father walked out on him when he was 8. And when he was 12 after one of his mother's boyfriends, "Uncle" Frank, beat him to a bloody mess and booted him out the door. Both times he was alone.
This was the third time. Bent over the steering wheel, chest heaving, his body was racked with dry sobs. It wasn't until he crumpled over onto the front seat that the tears flowed. His head throbbed. He was dizzy. He stayed like this for how long he didn't know. At some point he fell asleep.
The ring he had bought for her fell out of his pocket, and rolled under the seat.