A/N: I became inspired for this story a few weeks ago when I was in a really rough patch for writing fan fiction and was listening to the song "Letter to Me" by Brad Paisley. I originally was going to write this story Letters to Me for the TV series Boy Meets World (and I'm still seriously considering writing this fic just for BMW), but here we are. Please review and enjoy!

Hyde

Let's just get this out of the open before anything else: you and Donna are not going to work out. You're just not, so don't even try to get it to work. Don't try and go to the library with her on Valentine's Day and don't kiss her at Jackie's cabin. Just don't, let's leave it at that.

Anyway, here's the deal: right now you're seventeen and you think you're such a big shot. Your best friends have joined together and successfully painted a pot leaf on the Water Tower—you're biggest accomplishment in life so far, you lost your virginity to a girl you knew for an hour (at most), and your friends managed to get you to stay home and not go with her to New York. But now you have a bigger problem to face: your mom has left you alone, again, and you're left to fend for yourself, again. Don't push your friends out of your life just because you don't want them to feel sorry for you—don't do this to yourself. And when you do move to Red and Kitty's house, thank them every chance you get because they're the only family you really got.

Travel back a few months to junior prom. You've gotten sucked into bringing Jackie to prom and right now, I know you're dreading the next few hours. Trust me, in a few years you won't regret brining her—you'll only regret allowing her to go back together with Kelso… you're letter her get hurt, again.

Now you've got one more chance to family claim her, again. You've let your feelings get the best of you (don't worry, it's a good thing) and have brought the chick on a date. You know everything is true that she said, that your wondering how to open up to her, that everyone you've loved abandoned you, that you're not sure if your worthy of love (even the part about thinking she's beautiful is true). And here it comes: you're first kiss with her. Please just tell Jackie how it really feels instead of just saying, "Uh… no," and then, "I'm not opposed to doing it." You don't want to let her go, again.

But you did. Big shocker, right? Don't worry, you'll get her again when no one suspects it—over the summer before senior year. You know, she only started liking you because you got busted for her drugs. And that's how you became her knight in shining armor.

And here comes the catch that you had to see coming: you cheat on her because you think she cheated on you. Revenge can really suck sometimes, can't it? But here's something you would never have seen coming a billion years: you told her you loved her. That was just so you could get her to stay (or so most will think). Why'd you have to chose then to say it? Why not ten months before when you started dating her? So you lost her, again and you got her back again. You better consider yourself lucky.

Don't get used to it so fast—you're definitely not going to be lucky when she leaves for Chicago.

Hold on—don't even go to Chicago. You won't have to experience all the heartbreak if you tell Jackie to stay. And you know how you're going to make her stay? You're going to propose to her. Don't even question it, okay? Just drag yourself to the nearest jewelry store, spend all of your cash on the nicest ring you can find, bring Jackie to the most romantic place you can find, and get on one knee and P.R.O.P.O.S.E.

Here's the problem: though your mind is telling you this, you don't do it right away. Instead, you drive to Jackie's motel room in Chicago and, right when you're about to actually do it, Kelso decides to show up in only his towel.

If you don't listen to anything else I tell you, listen to this one: DON'T BREAKUP WITH JACKIE. You're probably asking, 'why would I do this in the first place?' Well, you think Jackie was going to sleep with him that night. Now your life's changed forever.

After the whole motel room scene, you flee to Las Vegas for a month and—wait for it—MARRY A FREAKING STRIPPER. Maybe back when you were 16 that would be a great accomplishment for you, but it's just not the same now. So she shows up at your house just for you to find out later that she was married to some other 60 year old freak. All that wouldn't have happened if you just listend to Jackie the first time when she told you Kelso wasn't there for the reasons you think.

And here's the worst thing of it all: JACKIE GOES OUT WITH FEZ. Now she's going out with your est friend… maybe this is just how Kelso felt.

So now you know how your future will be because of some extremely stupid mistakes. But there are some good things that come from your teenage years: you've made amazing friends, you've found parents who actually care about you, you've figured out who our real dad is (you're going to have to wait for that experience to happen), and you met the girl of your dreams.

Now all you have to do is go out and get her.