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Author's Note: Hello everyone! How are you all? Hope you're doing well and have had a good week! Today I have for you a new installment for this summer collection but before we start I just wanted to say a few things. First off thank you so much for the wonderful support! All of your sweet reviews really made me smile, I'm glad you all liked the first little story. This installment is a tad bit shorter and it might be a little too silly, maybe even OOC with the silliness but hopefully not. If it is blame the heat besides isn't summertime the time for silliness? Also a quick shout out to Mystery Girl 911 who kinda helped with the inspiration for this story. If you have a summer idea you want to see just let me know and I'll try my best to fit it into the collection! This second oneshot stars all of the guys and of course it's got lots of friendship. I hope that you all enjoy it, I would love to hear your thoughts so please do review if you have the chance. Thanks again for reading, hope you like, don't forget to review if you can, and please, Enjoy!
"What're you morons doing now?" Steven Hyde asked as he stepped into the Forman backyard, on his way to the basement until he saw the sight that caused him to stop in his tracks.
The two morons in question looked up and grinned happily as they floated around in their swimming pool. Well technically they were sitting in their swimming pool since it was only a few inches deep and was so small in width that the two of them looked like they had to squeeze themselves into the bright pink plastic kiddy pool. However, despite the fact that their limbs were hanging out of the pool's edges, both young men still seemed fairly content. They had their matching dark shades on, cold drinks near them and a small table full of bags of candy and chips.
"We're staying cool while looking cool." Kelso explained proudly.
Hyde's brows furrowed just a tad, "Man, there's nothing cool about this. It's just sad."
"Oh no, Hyde, you are sad?" Fez, who had a heavy slab of sunscreen on his nose, asked with much concern, "Do not worry, we can make room for you. We can be like the three men in a tub!"
Just as the young foreigner was about to begin shoving his pretty man friend so that there could be space for the third friend to join them, Hyde put a halt to the actions.
"No, Fez, man. It's cool. I'm good out here. 'Sides it's not a tub and I think two grown men in a kid's pool is weird enough." He said, hoping his message was getting across; it wasn't hidden all that much but with these two you never knew.
When Kelso gave out a loud hurt filled cry Hyde knew they'd gotten it and he soon felt a smirk playing on his lips.
"This isn't a pool just for kids, Hyde!" the taller man tried to argue, grabbing a cardboard flyer that must have been attached to the pool by the picture printed on it, "It says ages two and up!"
Fez gave a firm nod from his spot next to Kelso, "Yes, and we are ages up!"
"Alright, fine." Hyde agreed, sounding like he was trying not to laugh, "You proved me wrong. Both look like you belong in there anyways."
The two water buddies shared a smile.
"So where'd you get the pool? Swipe it from some of the neighbor kids?" Hyde questioned, sounding only slightly curious.
Kelso shook his head, "Nah, it's Betsy." He replied but when he saw Hyde's eyebrow raise above the rims of the aviators he knew he had more explaining to do, "What? It's not like she was using it! She can use her wet diapers to stay cool."
Now it was Hyde who was shaking his head, this time out of disappointment, "Stealing from your own daughter, Kelso? Man, next you'll be stealing candy from a baby."
Hearing this, Fez's head swung over to look to his right where he went on to glare furiously at the man he thought was his best friend.
"You sonofabitch! You did not tell me she had candy!" he exclaimed over a big whooshing sound that came from the water as he stood up and out of the very shallow, pink pool and angrily marched off in the direction of the Forman's driveway.
Kelso watched his friend make his exit and instantly jumped out of the water and onto his feet. Shaded eyes met shade eyes, though one pair looked more upset than the other.
"Great, now I've gotta get him candy. Thanks a lot Hyde!" Kelso exclaimed angrily as he turned on his heel, nearly tripping and falling into the little pool, and followed Fez's tracks, "Fez, I didn't know. I…I'll make it up to you…Buddy?"
Hyde lightly shook his head back and forth as he watched his friends leave their spot. With the way those two acted and talked to the other it was getting harder to explain—and believe—they weren't really a romantically involved couple.
A while after Kelso and Fez had left, neither had yet to come back making it obvious that they weren't going to and were probably still in the middle of their domestic squabble thing; but even with his friends not returning, Hyde remained in his place watching the refreshing looking water in the kiddy pool. On a hot summer day like this any source of water could hypnotize just about anyone including The Zen Master.
"Hey Hyde." a new voice greeted but when they noticed their friend's state they frowned a faint scowl, "Um you uh practicing your diving? Because if you are I think the pool should actually be just a tad bit deeper than this."
Breaking from his daze, Hyde looked up and saw his adopted brother standing on the other side of the kiddy pool wearing a teasing smirk across his face.
"Although, I will say the color choice is perfect. Hot pink really is very in this season." Eric continued to have his fun.
However, Hyde did not appear to be amused at all, "Yeah? What about the colors black and blue?"
It didn't take long for Eric to understand what Hyde was really trying to tell him and once he had it figured out, his smirk was wiped right off his face and he cleared his throat before giving an answer, "Yeah those two colors are…yeah, they're not in. At all." he cleared his throat once more before quickly switching to a different topic, "So who's pool?"
"Betsy's."
Puzzled, Eric asked "What's it doing here?"
"Kelso and Fez were using it." Hyde replied as if he thought Eric should have already known this.
"Ah." The other young man nodded his head only to stop and frown again, "Wait. When you say using it….you don't mean…."
Hyde stared at his best friend, "Forman, with those two idiots there's only a few ways to end that sentence and still be able to sound surprised that they actually did that."
"True." Eric was quick to agree with a head nod, "But still. I mean even if it is Fez and Kelso…two grown men using a little kid's pool to cool off? The whole idea is just…it's…"
"Genius!" Eric exclaimed with his tone having clearly changed to a much happier one.
And Eric's tone wasn't the only thing in the scene that had changed in the past few minutes. The two almost brothers had gone from standing beside the small pool, staring at it, to slipping into the spaces that their friends had once occupied.
Both Hyde and Eric had changed into swim trunks, but kept t-shirts on (to keep some of their dignity) and unlike Fez and Kelso who'd sat side by side Hyde and Eric chose to it across from each other—though their limbs were still hanging out from the sides of the pool. While neither of the two had on big goofy grins like the previous pair, they did appear more relaxed than they'd looked when they were outside the water and frying in the summer heat. Hyde hid his contentment behind his shades while Eric…well he never did have a problem with sharing his thoughts or feelings.
"I haven't been this cool in weeks." Eric said as he stretched his arms against the round edges of pool and leaned his head back.
With his arms in a similar position, Hyde smirked and couldn't resist, "Forman, man, you were never cool."
"Hardy, har, har, Hyde." the other young man mocked, his head snapping back up, "I'm serious. I think Kelso and Fez might be smarter than we give them credit for. Hey, people always say that geniuses were laughed at before they were geniuses. And Hyde, we laugh at Kelso and Fez…a lot. I'm actually thinking about investing in Kelso's rocket shoes idea, now."
"I don't know, man." Hyde sounded uncertain, "Yeah, this pool idea's great and all but I'm still having trouble believing Lenny and Squiggy came up with a successful idea that didn't include getting more boobs or candy."
Eric could see his point and so he nodded his head before speaking up once again, "You know something I'm still having trouble believing is you actually getting in this pool, Mr. Cool."
Hyde stared at his adopted brother, unfazed by his words or rhyming, "Summer heat can make you do weird stuff, man."
"Very true." Eric nodded his head again, but quickly stopped and gave a smirk when he remembered a detail, "Didn't you and Jackie first get together in the summer?"
Wordlessly Hyde reached over—and a in a small pool like this he didn't have to reach very far—and roughly frogged Eric on his skinny shoulder.
"Ow! Okay! Okay! I'm sorry!" gripping his injured arm, Eric apologized.
"Good." Hyde sounded somewhat satisfied, a faint threatening look remained on his face, "Just remember though, you tell anyone about this and I'll kill you."
Smiling Eric placed his hand over his heart to show that he was touched, "Aw, it feels like the first day we met."
Before Hyde could reply another voice could be heard from a few feet away and they seemed to be getting closer.
"You see Red, I told you I heard splashing."
Hyde and Eric swung their heads around to see their mother walking towards them with a scowling Red not far behind her. But it wasn't Red that alarmed the two it was the camera she clutched tightly in her hands. Now it really felt like the first day they had met.
The boys should have leapt out of the pool as soon as they heard Kitty's voice but instead of their fear pushing them onto their feet it seemed to have paralyzed them causing them to both remain seated in the wading pool with big, surprised eyes.
"Oh look at the two of you! You look so cute!" Kitty enthused happily then lifted her camera up to cover her face, "Say cheese!"
Neither one of the boys smiled, nor did they move, still the bright flash of Kitty's camera went off as she snapped a picture. As if the blaze of light snapped him back to reality, Eric looked at his mother with wide eyes.
"Mom!" he squeaked out.
Kitty just smiled at him, "Oh Eric, honey, relax. It's just one picture." She paused and in that brief pause managed to bring her camera back up and snap another photograph.
"Mom!"
"And that one! No more I promise!" Kitty tired to defend herself with raised hands, she then quickly realized if she wanted to keep her promise she would have to leave now before she was tempted to take another picture, "Come on, Red. I can't wait to get these developed and show everyone! Oh! We could include it in this year's Christmas card!"
While Kitty laughed and walked off back to the house, Red remained standing in his spot frowning at the sight in front of him. His two grown sons were sitting in a pool made for toddlers, where they'd gotten this dumbass idea he didn't think he wanted to know.
He looked down at the boys with disappointment, "This time…I'm not even close to feel sorry, sons."
Red then walked off, following Kitty's path. As soon as he was gone Hyde wasted no time in getting out of the water while Eric, who was still sitting in the pool, dropped his head down into his hands. Yeah, Kelso and Fez were nowhere near being geniuses.
Author's Note: So what did you think? Yay? Nay? Too silly? Not silly enough? Lemme know in a review!
What about you all? Do you use a swimming pool to stay cool in the hot summer heat? Where I live you either need a swimming pool or need to know someone who has one lol. When I little we had the wading pools and blow up pools but when we moved we got the in ground pool—we've moved on up! So if you need help trying to beat the hot summer heat, pool party at my place! :D
Until next time, thanks for reading, hope you liked, please review and lemme know what you think, stay tuned, take care, and have a nice day!