"God damn it Steven, pick your shit up off the floor. You always leave all this crap everywhere. You're as lazy as your bastard of a father."Steven Hyde heard his mother yelling through the thin walls in his room. She must have just gotten out of her latest blackout and uncle "whoever" probably already left so she was taking out her anger out on him...as always.

Ever since Bud left them earlier in the year, Edna found guys to fill the void. The problem was she always chose guys who were like, or worst, than Bud. They were either drunk or high...some of them both. Several of them would steal from her when she was passed out on the couch. After they fucked her and robbed her, they left her. The following morning she would wake up and Hyde would be the one suffering the consequences of her latest abandonment.

Sometimes Hyde wished Edna was the one who left instead of Bud. Besides being a sleazy drunk, Bud was hardly ever there and when he was Hyde made it an issue to not be with him. Edna, however, was mostly always there.

The main problem about having a mother like Edna? Everyone assumed her son was just like her. People always thought they had Steven James Hyde all "figured out." He was a dirty low life whose hobbies included drinking, stealing and getting high. While the last one was certainly true, the other two were not a hobby or something he liked doing.

If he drank it's because his alcoholic parents raised him to believe it was okay to indulge as much as possible. If he stole, it was only because he had to. Having very little, he needed to find ways to support himself. It was either steal or die (not that this was not an option). If stealing was the way to stop his grumbling stomach or cover his freezing body, he was sure as hell going to do it.

Living in a small town like Point Place though, made it difficult for Hyde. It wasn't that he was ashamed of who he was, for he had learned long ago that he couldn't change that, he hated that everyone pegged him as a criminal. Even people who had never spoken to him avoided him. He had been lucky however. He was able to befriend Eric Forman, the Donna, Kelso...and the Fez. They were the closest thing to a family he had.

His three friends knew that there was more to Hyde than just the lazy Point Place burnout. They knew he was caring, even when he tried to pretend he wasn't. They understood how intelligent he was and how passionate he could be, especially when you got him started on government conspiracies.

If there was one thing people should know about Steven Hyde, it would have to be his desire to prove everyone wrong. He knew what people thought of him and what they expected him to become. He wanted to prove to them that he could be so much more than a drunk, lazy pothead...that he could be more than Bud and Edna.