Eric Forman was sitting on the floor in the basement, his girlfriend Donna was sat in the 'v' of his spread legs leaning back against his slim chest. Michael Kelso was sitting on the sofa with his own girlfriend Jackie sitting on his lap, with her knees bent over the arm of the couch. Fez, their foreign friend was sat next to the couple on the sofa controlling the TV remote and on the chair next to the couch, sat Stephen Hyde trading insults with Laurie Foreman who was sitting on the freezer at the back of the room.

Overall, it was a typical evening for the friends. However if anyone were to look below the surface of events they'd see almost a completely different story.

Eric and Donna's eyes were still clouded by the tension that had mounted from a fight they'd had earlier that day. Jackie was frustrated with her boyfriend because despite her many requests for him to take her home for some fun he seemed distracted and had just told her he was tired. Fez was casting wistful glances at the dark-haired girl every few minutes. Hyde's banter with Eric's older sister was less sharp than usual because he longed to grab the boy who was currently sitting underneath Jackie, pull him into a room away from everyone, and ravish him senseless. A day of near-climaxes had left him desperate and Laurie, although teasing mercilessly and being her usual hateful self was observing Hyde and Kelso trying to work out how best to use the new information she had gathered in secret.

"Well I'm beat" Jackie announced, glancing around the room before her eyes locked onto Kelso's "walk me home?" she asked, standing up. For a second Michael Kelso looked like a dear caught in headlights, but managed to compose himself before anyone else noticed it. Anyone excluding Hyde who was trying to prevent the steam whistling out of his ears.

"Sure" was Kelso's answer and he grabbed his denim jacket off the back of the couch. The couple walked to the door and muttered their goodbyes. Kelso cast one last longing look at his sandy haired lover and disappeared. As soon as the door closed, Hyde stood and announced he was going to the bathroom.

Running up the stairs two a time he was glad when he shut and locked the door giving himself some privacy. He walked over to the sink and gripped either side of it so hard his knuckles turned white, he then leaned forwards and rested his forehead against the cool glass of the mirror.

He'd promised himself long ago that he wouldn't let Jackie's relationship with Kelso bother him. Hell, it's not like he was in love with the other boy. Not at all. No way. Never in this world.

Methinks thou doth protest too much.

Growling at his subconscious Hyde went back to trying to compose himself. So what if Kelso would probably be at Jackie's until late and by the time he came from there he probably would have already gotten all the pent-up tension of the days activities out of his system. Setting his features in what Donna would label as his resolve face, he stepped away from the sink.

I'm just going to have to find a way to relieve my own tension, Hyde told himself with a not completely faked enthusiasm.

Hyde walked to the door and opened it, to find Laurie leaning against the doorframe.

"Hello Hyde" she smiled, Steven wasn't completely sure but he thought he saw her eyes glow red for a second,

"Laurie" he greeted warily, he took a step forward but she rested her arm against the other side of the doorframe to block his exit. He could have easily pushed passed but a part of him wanted to see where she was going with this.

"You made a quick exit" she observed quietly, her voice bordering between dangerous and her rather good attempt at seductive "the idea of Kelso and Jackie get to you?" she pouted "do you have a thing for the little brunette?" her eyes locked with his and he rolled his eyes.

"Yes. I am aching for Jackie. The way I'm aching for a tumour" he took another step forward so her arm was straight against his body, there was little tension in it and if Laurie was making an effort to keep him there, it was very feeble. This made him think that she was either baiting him for future reasons, or planning to jump him.

"Who said anything about Jackie?" she smirked and turned away walking towards her bedroom door. Purposely she missed Hyde's eyes widen, ensuring that he missed the ecstatic grin she gave herself as a reward for a game so well played.

Jackie looped her arms around Kelso's waste and leaned into him, placing her lips tenderly on his. Once again, he pulled back:

"Jackie, I am really tired," he protested, freeing himself gently from her grasp. Her expression turned harder,

"Michael what's the matter with you? You used to enjoy being with me" she pouted theatrically, "don't you like me anymore?"

"Jackie you know I do" Kelso explained, looking everywhere except her eyes, "it's just I've got other things on my mind." Now that excuse may have worked pretty well for anyone who was not Michael Kelso, but him saying it just made Jackie frown.

"Like what?"

"Like...stuff" he shook his head, this argument was getting him nowhere. He stepped forwards and pulled her body to his, kissing her. It felt wrong, her body was soft were Hyde's was hard. She was too short to meet his lips in the comfortable position that he'd gotten used to with Hyde.

She had a point though, not so long ago he'd enjoyed this. All the contrasts her body had to Hyde's had made this new and exciting. Her kisses were softer and he couldn't feel the early signs of stubble against his chin and face. Jackie's mouth was eager to accept his, were Hyde's was hungry to dominate his own. Her soft tongue sought only to play with his own, Hyde's played around in his mouth never staying there too long, much more occupied with finding places to tease and make him moan.

Nevertheless, lately he'd been getting less and less turned on by the girl he was supposedly infatuated with. Even after a day of being brought to the brink of orgasm with no release, he found it difficult to summon an erection to meet her.

It isn't supposed to be this way, he chided himself. It's supposed to be the other way around, I'm supposed to leave Hyde and end up with Jackie.

The fact that it was becoming harder and harder to watch the look in Hyde's eyes as he watched Jackie claim her possession over a person that even through nearly a year of denial was still giving himself up piece by piece to the boy who everybody thought was just his friend. Not even a very close one at that.

When Kelso came out of his thoughts he realised at some point he'd pinned Jackie to her pink bedspread. He sighed against her lips.

"I really should go," he muttered,

"You could stay" she offered gently,

"I really can't" another sigh "I'd like to but I really do have some things to sort out" he kissed her again for good measure. Luckily, she seemed much more placated now they had made-out and Michael managed to escape easily with just another ten minutes of groping and kissing.

The walk back to his house gave him time to think. He really couldn't deny that he was becoming far too attached to Hyde. When they had first started 'messing around' it had been so easy to promise that they wouldn't develop feelings for each other and that it would just be until they met the right person.

Unfortunately, Kelso was starting to worry that he may have found the right person and that right person was not Jackie. The right thing to do would be to call it all off. It would give him time to adjust and would be better happening before he unwillingly gave his heart away. Hopefully that way it would be less devastating to him as if he let the entire thing continue.

Then again, he saw the look in Hyde's eyes when he had left with Jackie and it had definitely not been the look of somebody who was in the midst of a no strings attached relationship. The younger boy had looked more as if he wanted to kill Jackie and drag him to the nearest bed.

Walking inside his house he was greeted by the welcoming silence he had come to expect. He threw his denim jacket on the table and walked to the fridge, grabbing a soda he leaned against the counter and took a gulp. He peeled the label off the bottle and shredded it in his fingers, the only outwards sign of his inner turmoil.

He felt somewhat bad for deserting Jackie but he was telling the truth, he really did have things to think about. Too many things. Life wasn't supposed to get this complicated. It did not help that his clothes now held the scent of feminine perfume.

With a deep breath Kelso walked towards the stairs, he planned to take a shower and wash the sweet smell from his hair and then fall down in a heap on his bed and try and figure out what to do next. His hand turned the door handle and he looked into the room and froze.

"Hullo" came the raspy greeting from the bed, Kelso glimpsed over Hyde. The boy was lying on Kelso's blue sheets, his legs crossed at the ankles and a sports magazine opened next to him. His shoes where placed against the bed and his leather jacket had been draped over the chair. His faded jeans were low on his hips and his white t-shirt had ridden up just enough to show his pale stomach. Kelso could see the dark line of hair that disappeared teasingly into his jeans.

"Hi" Kelso offered, standing awkwardly in the doorframe. All the thoughts that were consuming his mind stopping him from making any sort of movement,

"So" Hyde attempted to be nonchalant, "did you have fun at Jackie's?"

"I guess" was the soft answer, "I was just going to take a shower" he looked away from Hyde and to the carpet "nobody's home," he added as an afterthought.

"I know." Hyde's eyes sunk back to his magazine as he tried to hide the disappointment. A part of him had thought Kelso would be so happy to see him he would jump on him immediately.

"Okay" Kelso turned and made his way to the bathroom. He shut the door and pulled his clothes off, dropping them onto the toilet seat. Turning the water on he looked at his reflection in the mirror. His lips were bruised and swollen. He had a bright red hickey on his neck and his hair was more wild that usual.

Kelso turned and stepped into the shower, the hot water turning his skin pink. He moved his head under so the water was cascading down his face and causing his dark hair to stick to his face and head.

Just as he started to get lost in his thoughts once more he heard the bathroom door click closed, he heard the definite sound of a zipper being opened and of clothes being dropped on the floor. He kept still and didn't opened his eyes. He heard the shower curtain being pulled back and then felt skin against his own.

His eyes opened and he was looking directly into those of Steven Hyde.

"Hi" he smiled, tilting his head back to rinse the hair from his face. Hyde's eyes fell to the exposed Adam's apple and he leaned forwards and licked along the side of Kelso's neck. His teeth grazed the wet skin and he shifted Kelso's body so they were perfectly aligned once more, "S-stop" Kelso stuttered and Hyde pulled back immediately, looking up with confusion, "not in here, there's no lock!" Hyde stepped back,

"But nobody's home" Hyde explained, his fingers cupping Kelso's hip,

"But somebody might come home, it's too risky" Kelso thought he deserved a pat on the back for his minds clarity under extreme arousal. A few touches and he was once again close to coming, he cursed that he wouldn't be able to last very long.

"Okay" Hyde's voice was husky, "I'll wait, don't be long" he kissed Kelso deeply and stepped from under the water. He turned to leave and then smirked, he leaned towards Kelso again smiling seductively, then in one quick movement he shut off the hot water. Kelso yelped as the spray turned ice cold. "Don't want you coming to quickly tonight do we?" and with a wink Hyde had left the bathroom.

Kelso washed his hair before he went back to his bedroom.

Funnily, he left the hot water off.

After all, Hyde had indeed had a point.

Authors Notes ::

There you go, my first new chapter of this fiction in close to two years!

I hope you like the direction this story is taking, I figured since so many of you like the story it would probably be a wise idea to develop some sort of plot and not just wild sex!

But have no fears, there will be plenty of wild sex accompanied by aforementioned plot.

Please review and let me know what you thought, I gave much away in the form of character development in this chapter and I'd like very much to know if you like the way it's going.

Thank you.

Flizz (22nd August, 2004)