A/N: So this is my first that 70's show fanfic, I am a bit nervous and really hope you guys like it. I will not really copy the series and just add my OC in, there will be some moments you will recognize from the series but mostly it is my own plot too. Please, review.
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Polouge
December 20th, 1975
This particular winter morning was cold and gloomy. Wisconsin this time of year was hard to describe, miserable? Yes. Kinda beautiful in its own way? That was also true. Christmas was finally coming to town.
Daria Bones woke up early in the morning. Her room a mess, old posters of bands she liked a long time ago destroyed and in mere pieces still struggled to stay on her bedroom walls. The light from outside seeped through her old navy blue drapes, they used to make her room black as night, but now being slightly parted and in worse shape made it easy for the december sun to light up her room. Her room was very simple. The walls were a deep maroon color, she had a tall, cheap bookcase that looked like it could break at any time with many books about romance or horror in it, she also had a comfy loveseat pushed into the corner with a small wooden table beside of it and she had a very large persian carpet on the floor.
"Daria? Are you up yet?" Her father's hoarse voice could be heard from the other side of the door.
"Yeah dad, I am" Daria mumbled, putting her glasses on and standing up from her bed. She slowly made her way to her dresser to pick out some clothes fitting for the cold weather. A small mirror hung above the dresser, showing Daria her morning bedhead reflection.
"Good, I'm making breakfast" And by breakfast he meant coffee and heating up some frozen waffles. Her mother, Susan Bones, would be at the hospital by now, working together with Kitty Forman who lived across the street.
Every house on the block looked similar, not necessarily like copies, but they had all the same charisma. They were small, yet comfy family homes. Some in better shape than others. But the Bones family house looked really inviting, a bit shabby due to it being the smallest house on the block, but yet cozy. It had no basement and only two rooms on the second floor. The house was a white brick house, with mossgreen windowsills and a black roof. The windows on the ground floor on the front of the house had colored glass, in shape of flowers. Daria often heard her mom say that those colored windows were the single reason they had bought the house, and not because of the low price or the peaceful neighborhood.
While her mother was a nurse at the hospital, her father, Luke Bones, owned his own workshop for cars and motorcycles. He knew all of his customers, and if he ever got a new customer they would quickly become friends and later a regular to Luke's.
Daria walked down to the kitchen, it was just like the Forman's kitchen, open and bright. But with ugly white and mint cabinets and ugly blue and green drapes over the widows to stop their snooping neighbor to the left, Mrs. Roth. She was one of those old gossiping housewives with such a dead marriage that she investigated other's lives to fill a void.
"What do you want for christmas?" Her father asked as he put down the morning paper and took a bite from his waffles. From first glance you would think Luke Bones was some sort of criminal, he was tall and really buff. He had a really gruff beard but short thick hair. He had dark brown eyes with a hint of green in them, but you couldn't see them very well because of his bushy eyebrows. But to think Luke Bones was a stray from the law was a lie, he was like a huge teddy bear, he had a heart of gold and a warm laugh. He didn't smoke nor drink much except for an occasional beer. But he had some tattoos, like two doves of his right calf that represented Susan and Daria. He also had a roaring lion of his left shoulder, that one was really bad ass.
"Nothing special.. Maybe one of those romantic books I spotted in the bookstore yesterday" Daira were very vague when it came to presents. But her mother would always, with some motherly magic, buy the right things. The holidays at their house were more about just being together in front of their small fireplace, watching christmas movies and drinking hot cocoa than swapping presents.
"Alright, I should get going.. See you tonight princess" Her father said in his deep voice and kissed the back of her head as he rose to clean his plate and coffee mug.
"Bye dad" Daira said before finishing her own breakfast and later on, made her way towards her best friend's house across the street.
Eric Forman, Donna Pinciotti, Michael Kelso and Steven Hyde were her best friends. They were together through thick and thin, knowing each other since they were really young.
"Hi Eric!" Daria said as she approached him talking to Hyde while waiting for Donna.
"Hello Daria" Eric cheered and smiled his typical dorky smile. Daira liked that smile, it showed of his side of boyishness that not many guys at their school had. It was cute.
"What no 'Hello Steven'?" Hyde teased, he was such a teaser. Their relationship had always been like that, him always looking after Daria but also somewhat-flirting with her all the same.
"Hi Hyde" Daria rolled her eyes but blushed faintly. She was a quiet girl, but was more outgoing and confident around her close friends. Though she had no real problem being labeled a 'nerd' at school. If being herself meant not being very popular at school, then so be it.
"You break my heart little girl" He said and put with arm around Daria. Despite both of her parents being rather tall, Daria was very short. Making it easier for some people to pick on her.
"Always" She teased back. Lately Hyde had been teasing her more and more. And she liked it, a lot.
"Okay, if you two are done flirting we better get to school" Eric muttered, literally shaking from the December cold. Donna was late as usual, making the rest of the gang freeze their butts off standing in Forman's driveway.
"It is so damn cold, I wish that one of us had a car" Hyde muttered, subconsciously pulling Daria closer to him to share his warmth.
"I second that request" Daira stated and looked at her wristwatch. If Donna didn't come out to meet them in two minutes they would have to go without her.
"I agree, man! Why is she taking so long?!" Eric groaned as it started to snow.
"We need to go Eric, or we will be late" Daria said gently and started to go down the driveway, Hyde following her while shrugging his shoulders towards Eric. He too started to walk with them when they heard a girl shout.
"Guys wait up!" Donna shouted and ran after them. It was pretty easy because of her long legs.
"What took you so long?" Daria asked, not realising Hyde had once again sneaked his arm around her shoulders.
"I overslept, plus my dad and mom are truly crazy" Donna muttered and rolled her eyes. Daria had to admit, Donna's parents were rather… peculiar. Nice and really funny. But let's just say they don't have all the horses in the stable.
"It's fine! Right guys?" Eric said and laughed nervously, kind of like his mother. Daria just nodded while Hyde grunted a 'yes'.
They arrived at school and quickly went to their classes. During school hours they didn't see each other that much, Daria shared some classes with them though, Hyde in english, Donna in math and history, Eric in biology and Kelso in P.E. Other than that they always met up after school to go to Eric's basement.
The school day pretty much sucked, even if it was friday and the last day before holiday break. And as the last bell rang, Daria was surprised to see Hyde standing by her locker. She usually just met him at Forman's.
"Hi Daria" He greeted with his husky voice and stepped out of the way for her to grab her things inside her locker. She didn't notice him looking her up and down. From her copper brown hair that was so curly and wild that it looked like she hadn't brushed it this morning, to her sweet lush lips and her face covered in freckles, she was short, but still had very noticeable curves. Daria was the type of girl that didn't need make up or fancy, expensive clothes. She was a natural beauty, kinda like Donna.
"Hi Hyde, what are you doing here?" She giggled, not having a single clue over her childhood friend's internal struggle.
"Just waiting on you, don't want you going home alone" Hyde confirmed, in truth, he just wanted to spend some more alone time with her.
"Okay.. that's very sweet of you" She turned to him, ready to go.
"Yeah well, let's just go" He stated and once again, this time catching Daria's attention, he put his arm around her. Daira wondered why he had started to do that, but thought nothing of it. It was just the mysterious Steven Hyde being.. Well, mysterious.
"S-sure" She mumbled and let him lead her home.
They walked in silence all the way to Forman's basement, entering it they spotted the guys and Donna already there.
"Where were you two?" Donna exclaimed as she looked up from her textbook, starting on the paper that their english teacher had oh so kindly given them as homework over the holidays.
"I walk slow okay?!" Daria groaned and started to take off her jacket and scarf.
"Yeah, Daria is like a turtle.." Kelso laughed, being an airhead as usual. Not really realising that his constant picking on her made her feel really down. It had all started when they were little, back then people would often comment on how cute their bickering was. But now, his words seemed to sting a little. Even if he didn't mean it.
"Thanks Kelso, Eric I'm going to get some hot chocolate for everyone.." Her words trailed off as she walked away from them and up the stairs to the kitchen.
"Sure" But Eric's words fell to deaf ears as she was already gone.
"Hey guys.. Have you noticed that Daria is kinda.. Hot?" Kelso babbled, laughing as he flipped through a playboy magazine he bought earlier that day on his way over.
"You just called her a turtle you moron" Hyde muttered as a response, flipping through a similar magazine.
"Well, I guess she is a turtle with a nice rack then.. Wait, does turtles even have a rack?" Kelso's train of thought failed him once again. Hyde tried not to get mad, he had just started to realise that he had feelings that were a little bit more than what you would have for a friend, and here he sat next to the biggest idiot in the world talking about her gorgeous rack.
"You idiot shut up" Eric said as well, joining the conversation about his childhood friend. He had always been overprotective of her, ever since kindergarden when she accidently fell and scraped up her knees pretty badly because of him being clumsy. And since she also was shorter than most people while growing up, he felt a very big-brotherly relationship between them.
"I thought you were going after that annoying cheerleader, what's her name.. Janet? Jordan.." Donna stated, not looking up from her homework.
"Jackie" Hyde said.
"Yeah that chick" Donna mumbled in agreement.
"Oh man she is hot!" Kelso exclaimed in excitement, now happy to talk about Jackie instead.
"See, so shut up about Daria" Hyde said, putting the magazine away. His dirty teenage mind of his kept replacing the model's face with Daria's.
"Why?" Kelso asked.
"Hyde, do you like Daria?" Eric asked, well yelled.. Eric knew something was up this morning. But didn't say anything.
"No…" Hyde vaguely answered, then stood up as nothing happened and walked up to the kitchen.
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A/N: Lies! Lies I tell ya! So hope you liked the first chapter. Don't know if I will be post next chapter during the holidays or after, but it will be going up soon.