I'm glad you liked the first chapter...
Eric pulled into his driveway 'stealth-like' after dropping Jackie off, but his muffler was messed up, and was making a scraping sound, so it was like trying to sneak an elephant into a library.
Eric saw his father standing with his arms crossed with a scowl on his face, his legs was cocked with assertion to what Eric saw as a way to intimidate him. Eric wished everyone would leave him alone, so what if turned Donna down? It wasn't anyone else's business but Donna's and his own.
Eric turned off his car after he parked it, he got out and tried to walk past his father without seeming as if anything were wrong, "Hey." Red shot at him.
"Hmm?" Eric simply asked, Red pointed, "Don't act like that, you know what you did." Red stated.
Eric sighed and looked at his car, "Oh, yeah. I'll fix the muffler, okay?" Eric said with a smile, Red then pointed to the house, the kitchen namely.
After Eric went in the house, he sat down at the chair placed in the middle of the kitchen, his mother was joined by Red in standing in front of him...glaring at him.
After about a minute of silence, Eric sighed, "Look, if you guys have something to say, just say it." Eric said annoyed.
"Dumbass!" Kitty scolded him, Red looked at his wife, surprised by what she said.
"So Donna wanted to get back together, and you said no?" Red asked him, Eric rolled his eyes, it only reminded him of what Jackie said to him in the car.
"That's correct." Eric replied sullenly, everywhere he went he was talked down to, about his looks and how he wasn't worthy of being with Donna, he was nearing a breaking point on the subject, he didn't want to sound like a chick, but no one considered his feelings at all.
Red exhaled, "And YOU said NO?" Red asked him again
Eric sighed trying to hold back himself from yelling back, "Yes, I had my reasons." Eric replied, sitting back in the chair.
"What could they be? What could they possibly be?!" Kitty asked frantically.
"The morning after she breaks up with Casey, she comes running to me? I'm not gonna be some rebound for her, okay?" Eric defended himself.
Red scoffed, "So you're too proud to take her back?"
"Why do you guys care anyway?" Eric shot at them.
"Because Donna is over there bawling her eyes out, because you were completely insensitive of her feelings." Kitty replied calmly.
Eric stared at his mother, after a few seconds he spoke up, "I'M insensitive of HER feelings?" Eric asked, he stood up and pushed his chair back in to the table, "Look at you two, ridiculing for turning down a woman who insults me, using like a damn prescription whenever she's down. Mom, if Dad did that to you, you wouldn't want that would you? And Dad, if Mom did that to you, you wouldn't care for that too much would you? You guys wouldn't do that to each other, cause you love each other. So why would I want to be with Donna if she treats me like that?" Eric retorted, Red and Kitty seemed to take that in, and they looked at each other.
"What a bunch of crap!" Red finally said looking at Eric.
Kitty hit Red on his shoulder, "Look Eric, we all know you still have feelings for her, so I suggest you fix things before it's too late."
Eric gave her a confused look, "Mom. Can we put a bet on this? Cause I sure wouldn't mind making 20 dollars." Eric asked, very seriously.
Red pointed at Eric, "You go over and fix things with her right now, boy. Or you won't get any dinner." Red warned him, Kitty didn't like the sound of that, but if it got her son to fix things she would back it up.
"Wait. So if I don't go next door, and patch things up with Donna...I don't get dinner?" Eric asked, as if he were truly effected by this ultimatum.
Red and Kitty nodded, their put his hand to his chest, in a his high pitched voice he said, "Oh, no." Eric stated, with fake worry, "What am I gonna do? This is terrible! No dinn-Oh, God." he continued, getting a tissue off the counter, putting this act up as Red looked anything but amused.
"Enough of that." Red warned him again, Eric smirked and dropped the act, just then Hyde walked in, he of course sensed something was up, "What's up?"
Red sighed, "This dumbass turned down Donna, cause he thinks he's too proud to take her back." Red replied still looking at Eric with his arms crossed.
Hyde got a beer out of the fridge, "Cool." he replied simply, as he walked back to the basement. Eric simply shook his head at his friend not caring too much about his 'romance' problems, or maybe was Hyde understandable for his choice?
Eric looked down, "Look, I promise I'll do something meaningful this summer, being with Donna would the same old thing as always. Why can't you be happy for me?" Eric asked them, Red groaned, "Because we both know you'll mope around the house for three months, and do nothing of any significance until school starts." Red stated.
Eric stared at his father, Eric then looked down and walked out the sliding doors. The second Eric shut the sliding glass door, Kitty smacked Red arm, "Reginald Albert Forman, how could you say that to him?" Kitty asked him with an angry tone, "YOU are the one who won't get his dinner tonight." Kitty scalded him as she left the kitchen, Red just groaned at his misfortune, he then started to think about what he said to Eric, he of course shook it off and left the kitchen as well.
The Next Day...
Eric woke up in bed, he hadn't spoke to his father since yesterday and that was fine by him, he knew he wanted to do something fun and out of character this summer, but had no clue where to start. Eric got up from his bed, put on some simple clothes, and went downstairs. His plans were to avoid his father, and most of all Donna, he had a plan for his whole summer, and that was to avoid Donna Drama at all costs. Eric looked to his watch and read the time: 9:00am.
Eric knew his father was eating breakfast most likely, so when he arrived at the bottom of the stairs, he turned left into the den and made his way through the hallway to go into the basement.
Eric walked down the old wooden stairs and heard some sniffling even over the creak of the stairs, he peared his head forward to see Jackie sitting on the couch, "Stupid...kettle head." Eric heard Jackie mumble.
"What's wrong with you?" Eric asked causally, he made his way to the chair to the left of the couch, he chose this seat simply to avoid sitting next to the devil herself.
Eric sat down and watched some TV show, he could care less on what it was, he noticed Jackie didn't even reply to him, he turned and saw Jackie holding a letter in her hands, her eyes were red and puffy, "What's wrong?" he asked again.
Jackie handed him the note, and he took it and began to read and it was obvious it was from Kelso, not many words could be made out, mostly from Kelso's lack to spell correctly so it looked like Kelso had a panic attack while writing, but also because tear splotches were strewn about the letter, Eric read the letter and found out Kelso couldn't "Bear the thought of merrying" her. Eric let out a small laugh at Kelso misspelling 'Marrying'.
Eric felt bad for Jackie as she was only was left with a poorly misspelled note, saying how Kelso couldn't marry her, Eric handed it back to her.
"He misspelled your name." he replied.
"Jackee" snatched the letter and ripped it up aggressively, "That stupid son of a bitch!" the angry brunette yelled out.
Eric simply nodded, "Yeah, well..." he said as his voice trailed off.
"Do you even know where he's going?" Eric asked her after a few minutes passed,
Jackie ran her hands through her perfect curly hair, "To hell I hope." the raven haired girl said bitterly.
Eric laughed as his attention went back to the TV show, several minutes passed yet again, "I can't stay here." Jackie stated looking at the floor.
"Well, I ain't giving you a ride home again." Eric replied as it sounded like a warning.
Jackie rolled her eyes, "No idiot, here!" she almost yelled.
"Oh."
She just sighed, "My mom knows all about this stuff, she's gotten hung out to dry soooo many times and she's abandon weddings even more, so maybe I could talk to her." Jackie stated again.
Eric cleared his throat, "Well, that's mighty lucky for you, isn't it?" Eric teased, Jackie groaned and leaned back on the couch.
Another silence came over them, "I want to visit my mom..." Jackie stated sadly.
"Then go visit her." Eric replied plainly, he was trying to think of something he could do for the summer, but Jackie talking made it hard for him to focus.
"I don't have a car, Eric." she told him sadly, almost like he was a normal friend she could open up to, "And she is all the way in California, so my daddy wouldn't let me go there." Jackie rambled on, "Oh, that would be just the thing I would need to get away from all this crap." the dreaming brunette stated again, Eric didn't hear the last part and was too zoned out to care about Jackie's little fantasy.
"Huh?" Eric said, not hearing most of what Jackie was talking about.
Jackie groaned as she thought he was actually listening, "I said that I wanted to go to California." she shot at him, angry that he couldn't be a friend to her, even for more than a few minutes.
Eric snorted, "I ain't giving you a ride there." he stated, Eric didn't hear a snarky reply, instead he heard silence.
Eric could see just out of the corner of his eyes that her head turned to look at him, so by curiousness he looked over at her...wondering why she didn't reciprocate.
Jackie was staring at him as if she were thinking something over in her head, but still looking at him with a loaded expression, Eric gave her a weird look and then realized what he had said.
"I am not giving you a ride there." Eric said slowly and in a warning tone, hoping she would understand and drop it.
But he knew she wouldn't...
Jackie sat on the edge of her seat, "Eric..." she said simply as if she was about explain her reasons.
"No!" Eric shot at her immediately, standing right up and almost ran out the door.
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