AN: I only own Evie! Italics are Evie's thoughts. Warning! There are a shit ton of spoilers, lots of time skips, and probably a good bit of Jackie-bashing. I personally don't hate her but Evie kind of does. Please enjoy!
Point Place, Wisconsin
May 17, 1976
8:47p.m.
The Basement
I was in the basement with my twin brother and friends. Upstairs, Mom and Dad were hosting a party. Steven, Kelso, and Donna were trying their best to convince Eric to go upstairs and get us some beer. I was sitting on the back of the sofa enjoying the show.
"Eric, it is time." Steven said.
"Why don't you do it?" Eric asked.
"It's your house." Steven replied.
"Your house." Kelso parroted looking at Eric. Steven pointed up at were the party was.
"Listen to them up there. The party has reached critical mass. In 10 minutes, there will be no more beer opportunities." Steven explained.
"If my dad catches me copping beers, he'll kill me." Eric said. Yea, that's true. Steven slaps his hand on Eric's knee.
"I'm willing to take that risk."
"Why me? Why not Evie?" Eric whined.
"Cause you're older, brother dearest." I said with a smirk.
"Don't worry about it. Just remain calm, keep moving…" Kelso was saying when Donna cut in.
"And above all, don't get sucked into my dad's hair." Wait, what? I looked over at her.
"What's wrong with your dad's hair?" Eric asked her. Apparently, I wasn't the only one confused as fuck.
"Just don't look at it." Donna refused to explain. Now I really wanted to know what was wrong with his hair. I looked back over at Eric as Steven got up and grabbed his face with both hands.
"And, Eric…cold. Definitely cold." He said before releasing Eric and sitting down again as Eric jumped up and ran upstairs.
While Eric was attempting to get us beer, we were sitting listening to music and looking at magazines. Steven was looking at some dirty magazine and Kelso was playing an air guitar.
"Check it out." Steven said as he showed Kelso a picture of a naked girl. I looked over at Donna and we walked behind the couch.
"We see that every day." We said looking at the picture. Steven quickly hid the picture. Just then, Eric came down the stairs carrying five beers.
"He's alive!" Steven and I exclaimed as Eric passed out the beer.
"Good news. My dad is thinking of giving me the Vista Cruiser." Eric told us.
"Niice!" I said happy for my brother.
"You're getting a car?" Kelso asked.
"Ooh. Have I told you how incredibly attractive you are, Eric?" Donna flirted. Oh Donna. I knew she had a crush on Eric.
"No." Eric said a little smugly. And Eric had a crush on Donna.
"You told me he was cute." Kelso said to Donna. Kelso, shut up!
"No, I didn't." Good going, Dumbass. Embarrass Donna.
"I remember, 'cause you said not to say anything in front of Eric." Kelso really didn't know when to keep his big mouth shut. So I did what any friend would do. I slapped him upside the head.
"OW!"
"Shut up, dumbass!" I hissed at him. Thankfully Steven cut in.
"Let's focus on what's important here, people. Forman stole something. To Forman!"
"To Forman!" Donna and Kelso echoed as we raised our beers.
"You know what's sad?" Eric asked, beer still raised.
"What?" I asked looking at my twin.
"This is the proudest day of my life." He said before he began fake crying and Steven gave him a hug like a proud father would. I couldn't help but laugh at those to idiots.
~Time Skip~
The Next Day
I was sitting in the basement watching TV with Eric, Donna, Kelso, and his girlfriend Jackie. Donna was sitting on the floor in front of Eric. Kelso and Jackie were sitting on the couch next to Eric and I had the lawn chair next to the couch. We didn't have the sound on, so Eric and Donna made up the words.
"Wow, Marsha. A football in the face. That's gotta hurt." Eric said in a fake voice.
"Ouch! My nose!" Donna exclaimed in this snobby preppy voice.
"That's gonna be huge in the morning."
"Huger than my boobs?"
"Well, bigger than the left one." At this point, I couldn't help but laugh at them. But then the she-demon had to speak. The she-demon being Jackie, Kelso's girlfriend.
"Why are we watching this without the sound? I am totally confused."
"That's a shocker." I mumbled sarcastically under my breath. Apparently, I wasn't as quiet as I thought I was 'cause I heard Donna try to hide her laugh with a cough. It's not that I truly hate Jackie. It's just she's a . . . hm how to describe Jackie? Oh I got it! She's an annoying rich preppy bitch. I think that sums her up quite nicely.
"Here. Use the earphone." Eric said handing it to the she-demon. She put it in and started watching the show.
"So. What's the deal with the Vista Cruiser?" Kelso asked Eric.
"The deal is, there is no deal yet." Eric said before he got shushed by Jackie.
"How are we gonna get to the concert?" Kelso asked. Oh no!
"Shh! Shut up." "Shut up, moron!" Donna and I hissed at the same time. We didn't want Jackie to hear about the concert. But apparently our efforts were in vain 'cause she heard.
"What concert?" Dammit, Kelso! Why? Why did you have to bring up the concert with her in the room?!
"Uh . . . Todd Rundgren." Kelso answered her nerviously.
"When?"
"This weekend." Eric, Donna, and I looked away as Kelso answered all of Jackie's questions.
"Oh. Who's going?" Dammit! She's gonna invite herself! I put my face in my hands.
"Uh, Eric and Donna and me and Hyde and Evie and the foreign kid Fez. That's pretty mush everybody." I looked up at Jackie and saw her giving Kelso a look while nodding.
"And you."
"Oh. Good. Good. Good. Good. Thank you for telling me, Michael!" Jackie was irritated. Lovely. Eric had the sense to know it was time to leave.
"Well, I'm getting a soda." He said moving quickly to leave.
"Yep. Me, too." Donna and I followed just as fast. Kelso tried to follow but Donna stopped him.
"Sit down." She pushed him down and followed my brother and me. When we got to the kitchen, we each grabbed a soda and sat around the table.
"Well, looks like Jackie's coming." Eric said. I banged my head on the table and Donna reached over and pats my back. I picked my head up and looked at her.
"Maybe it won't be so bad." She said hopefully. I just gave her a blank stare that said it all.
"Yea. It's bad." She gave in. I nodded and got up.
"Well, I'm going up to my room so that I don't have to deal with the she-demon and the dumbass. See ya later, Donna."
"Bye." With that, I headed to my room.
~Time Skip~
The Next Day
"Ever since yesterday, I can't stop thinking about you. I mean, I've known you practically my whole life. I want you. I want you so bad." I think my twin has lost his mind. I was standing near the door in the driveway and Eric was talking to the Vista Cruiser.
"Eric, it's a car." Donna said from behind him. Then, Kelso came up behind him and put his hand on Eric's shoulder.
"Let's just leave these two kids alone." He said to Donna. As they started to walk away, Donna's dad, Bob, came up. And his hair. Dear Lord, his hair. I walked over and stood near Kelso.
"Say, hey there, Donna."
"Hey, Dad." Donna greeted her father as he gave her a kiss on the cheek. I looked at Kelso and saw absolute shock on his face. It was hilarious! I had to bite my tongue to stop myself from laughing.
"Ah, you kids. Standing around the driveway. It's so darn cute." He pinched Donna's cheek. Eric moved to stand next to Donna. "You know you may not realize it, but, this is the most fun you're ever gonna have."
"So it's all downhill from here, sir?" Eric asked.
"Yeah." With that, Donna's dad pulled out a comb, fluffed his afro, and left.
"Well, that's a great thought." I said. Kelso was starting to recover from his shock.
"What Happened to your dad's hair?" He asked Donna. Good question.
"He got a permanent." She said.
"So that's permanent?" Oh Kelso. A little slow on the uptake.
~Time Skip~
Later That Day
We were hanging out at the Hub. Eric, Donna, Kelso, Jackie, and I were sitting at a table. Steven was playing pinball and Fez was watching him. Fez was saying something to Steven when the she-demon opened her mouth.
"Michael, who is this guy?"
"Oh, that's Fez. He's a foreign exchange student." Kelso answered her.
"Who did we exchange for him?" She asked before getting up. Why couldn't we have exchanged Jackie?
"Donna, Evie, I have to go the ladies' room." Oh, hell no! Donna and I ignored her.
"Donna! Evie!" Donna rolled her eyes and got up but I kept on ignoring her.
"EVIE!" I looked up at her with a blank look and my arms crossed.
"Hell no, princess." I told her calmly. She huffed and walked away dragging Donna with her. Fez walked over.
"I, too, must go to the bathroom. Eric?" He said. I let out a laugh as Eric looked around shocked.
"No, it . . . doesn't work that way with guys." He explained to Fez. Fez left for the bathroom leaving Kelso, Steven, Eric, and me at the table.
"Kelso, how much longer are we gonna have to deal with the whole Jackie experience?" Steven asked. He was getting fed up with her too.
"Don't worry. I'm breaking up with her." He said.
"Never gonna happen." Steven and I said together. The three of us were looking at Kelso.
"It's over!" He exclaimed.
"Yeah, right." I said with an eye roll. She had him on a leash and he wasn't breaking free any time soon.
"She's cuttin' in to my free time." He said.
~Time Skip~
Next Day
The guys and I had the Circle going. This was where we sat in a circle, lit incense, smoked marijuana, and talked. Some of the shit we talk about is hilarious especially when we're high as a kite.
"So is Red still thinking about giving you the car maybe?" Steven asked with a snort. Kelso laughed.
"Even if we do get it, we're gonna need some serious gas money, 'cause the Cruiser's a boat." Kelso said and he had a good point. The Cruiser was a serious gas guzzler.
"I know it's a boat. This whole gas shortage bites." Eric said.
"Who's getting a boat?" Fez asked.
"No one's getting a boat Fez. It's just an expression." I explained to our foreign friend but was sadly ignored.
"There is not gas shortage, man. It's all fake. The oil companies control everything. Like, there's this guy who invented this car. . .that runs on water, man. It's got a fiberglass, air-cooled engine and it runs on water." Steven ranted. I swear almost every time he gets high he talks about this car and he never remembers it later.
"So it is a boat." Fez said looking at Steven. Steven looked at him like he was dumb. Although, I had no idea how Steven can see half the time 'cause he's almost always wearing these aviator sunglasses. I hated those glasses slightly cause they hid his pretty blue eyes. Wait. Did I just call my best friend's eyes pretty? Ok no more smokes for me tonight.
"No, it's a car. Only you put water in the gas tank instead of gas. And it runs on water, man!" Steven was getting really excited about this car. Kelso was busting a gut with how hard he was laughing. I don't know if he was laughing about the car Steven was talking about or something in that simple mind of his.
"I never heard of this car." Kelso said as he stopped laughing. Mystery solved. "Hey, Jackie's good for gas money." Whore.
"You are such a whore." Eric told Kelso.
"Couldn't have said it better myself." I said looking at Kelso.
"When does the boat get here, whore?" Fez asked. With that we all burst out laughing until Dad's voice brought us back to our senses.
"ERIC!"
"Yeah, Dad."
"I need to talk to you!" That could be either good or bad. In Eric's case, it was usually bad. As he went upstairs, the guys left to go home and I went to my room. I found out later that Eric did get the car. Now we had a ride to the concert!
~Time Skip~
Concert Night
Eric checked the tire pressure on the car as I climbed into the back seat.
"Kelso, that's sweet." I heard Donna say. I looked up and saw that both him and Donna standing by the open car door. Donna must have thought Kelso was being a gentleman which was very unlikely. He most likely just wants to ride shotgun.
"Actually, I'm riding shotgun." Called it.
"No, you're not." Donna said.
"Well, I'm not riding in the back." Kelso argued.
"What? Don't want to sit with me, Kelso?" I joked from my seat but was ignored.
"Why don't we let Eric decide?" Donna suggested. Both looked at Eric.
"Eric?"
"Kelso. . ." Kelso started to climb in. No way.
"Get in the back." I burst out laughing as Kelso fell out of the car then climbed in the back seat with me.
"Taking it for a spin. eh?" I heard Dad's voice. I looked out the window and saw him looking at Eric.
"Yes, sir."
"Well, have a good time. Oh, uh. . .one more thing. Very important. About the car. She's old, so . . . no trips out of town. Ever. Understood? Well . . . have fun." And with that, Dad walked off.
"Well, I guess that's that. We're not going." Eric said.
"Eric, you can't be serious! Donna, talk some sense into him!" I exclaimed. I knew Eric was afraid of Dad and all but come on! We've been waiting for this concert all week.
"Eric, do you want to go?" She asked Eric.
"He said no trips out of town."
"That's not what she asked." I told him.
"It's your car. Do you want to go?" She repeated the question.
"He's God." Eric replied. Oh my brother is such a wimp.
"No, he's not! Eric, grow a backbone and rebel a little! You might like it." I was getting fed up with this.
"I think God would want us to go to Milwaukee." Kelso tried to reason with Eric.
"Eric, you are a 17 year old man." Ok, man is stretching it Donna. "I'm gonna go with whatever you say. It's your decision."
"It is my decision." Donna nodded at that. "And my decision is . . . we're going to a concert." Everyone cheered and we were off to get the others.
It got a little cramped with seven of us in the Cruiser. Most of us sitting in the back. I ended up sitting on Steven's lap during the ride. And I have to admit, I never really noticed how buff he was! God, it was sending my hormones into overdrive! And I know I shouldn't be thinking like that about the guy who's been my best friend for forever. But . . . damn that's not something a girl can ignore! Ok, bad thoughts bad thoughts. Anyway, the ride was going great. That is until Jackie opened her big mouth. She was talking a mile a minute about shit that no one in the car wanted to hear. I could feel myself getting more pissed off the more she talked. Steven must have known I was close to losing it cause he wrapped an arm around my waist and pulled me a little closer.
"Oh please end my misery." I whispered.
"No. If I have to suffer this, so do you." He said to me. I let out a soft groan and banged my head against the window. Why? Oh why did the she-demon have to come with us?! If that wasn't enough, half way there the car fucked up on us. Eric pulled into a gas station and we climbed out of the car as a mechanic took a look under the hood.
"I'm telling you, we're out of gas." Kelso said.
"We're not out of gas." Eric and I said together. We were both annoyed as hell.
"It's the battery. It's six years old and shot to hell." The mechanic told us.
"I know what." Jackie said climbing out of the car. "I'll just call my dad."
"Kelso, tell her." Eric ordered.
"He can't take the car out of town." Kelso told her.
"I'm not calling his dad." She said like it made all the difference.
"Jackie . . . parents talk to each other about how we screw up." Steven said in this fake voice.
"Why would he talk about that?" She asked. Seriously?
"They can't help it, Jackie. It's what parents do." I told her. My brother took over the explanation.
"Look, say there's a party, see. And all of our parents are there. Together." He went on to do a poor but hilarious impersonation of what would likely happen if all of our parents got together and talked. It ended with us somehow doing the Hustle. Jackie apparently wasn't amused.
"Now . . . we are in the middle of nowhere, and I have to go to the ladies' room." She grabbed her purse out from the car and turned to me and Donna.
"Donna? Evie?" Donna followed her and Jackie looked at me.
"No way in hell, small fry." I turned back to the guys as the mechanic started talking.
"So . . . where you going?"
"Rundgren concert." Steven told him.
"Cool. So . . . what, do you want a battery? 'Cause I can get you a battery." The guy said.
"Are they cheap? Or possibly free?" My brother asked him.
"32 bucks. Minimum." The mechanic told us. Well, I knew none of us had that kind of money on us.
"All right. I tell you what. We'll trade you our battery, plus 5 bucks for one of your batteries." Kelso tried to barter with the guy but he wasn't buying it.
"Well, that's a really sweet deal, my friend . . . but how about this? How about one battery for 2 concert tickets?" The guy offered up as a deal. Which Kelso refused.
"No. We can't give up 2 tickets." The guy looked at us and walked away when no one spoke up.
"It's either that or none of us go." Eric said once the guy was gone.
"So who's out?" Kelso asked. I had a feeling that the first person that was out was gonna be Jackie.
"Well, there's always Jackie." Steven said with a smile.
"Of course Jackie. I mean, Jackie's gone." Kelso said. "But who else?"
"Oh, I don't know. Jackie's date?" Eric said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. And it was. It just wasn't obvious to Kelso. I have to stop myself from laughing at the 'Duh' face Steven was making.
"Come on. You know I'm breaking up with her." Kelso whined. I smiled at this and Kelso looked over at me.
"What about Evie?" Oh, hell no!
"Hey! I'm not the one that brought the she-demon with us. She's your date, dumbass. Date of the one that gets cut out also gets cut out!" I spat at Kelso.
"Yea and she doesn't make our ears bleed!" Steven added.
"No fair! You guys are chopping me out!" Kelso kept on whining.
"I've had to listen to her for a good hour." Eric told him.
"A really long hour." Fez added. With that, Kelso forked over the tickets to Eric who handed them to Steven.
"God hates me." Kelso said. Eric and Steven went find the mechanic to make the trade.
"How can you say God hates you? At least you have a woman's love. Be happy . . . whore." Fez said before walking away. I laughed and followed him. After the new battery was put in, we were back on the road and headed to the concert.
The concert was awesome! I had a blast dancing next to Steven and seeing Todd Rundgren live. Best of all, the she-demon had to stay in the car! No high pitched annoying voice! Sadly, it was over all too soon and we had to drive home. Once we got to the house, I said good night to everyone and went to my room. I feel asleep dreaming of good music and friends. And oddly of Steven, too.
AN: Ok guys! So that was the first chapter! Let me know what you think. Reviews are always welcome but please constructive criticism. Didn't get a lot of Evie/Hyde interaction but there will be more of that in later chapters. Also for those that don't know $32 dollars in 1976 has the same buying power as about $139.20 today.
Hope you liked it! :D