So the power was out and I had nothing else to do but edit this story. Enjoy!
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"Mom, I'm going across the street!" Kim called into the kitchen before walking towards the door.
"Okay! Here, take this to Mrs. Forman's while you're over there." Her mother handed her a beautifully made apple pie.
Kimberly smiled, "Okay, are you going to the rally tonight?"
"No, I'm going to work on getting more things unpacked. Are you going?"
"Yeah, I'll be back later tonight!" she walked out the door.
"Okay. Have fun!"
Kimberly closed the door behind her and crossed the street to the Formans' house with the biggest smile on her face. She had to admit that moving to Point Place had to be the best thing that had ever happened to her. She'd never felt like she fit in anywhere until she met Eric and the gang and she didn't think she'd ever fit in anywhere else. She had a little bounce in her step as she approached the Forman residence and she could see Donna, Kelso, Hyde, Fez, and Eric all standing in the driveway, and with the boys all dressed in trench coats she couldn't help but roll her eyes at the sight.
"Hey guys." She said with a laugh.
"Hey Kim." Donna replied, "Who's the pie for?"
"Mrs. Forman." She eyed the boys all standing there looking like drug dealers. None of them seemed to notice she'd arrived, "I see the boys are still on for the streaking?"
"Oh, yeah. They're working out their plan of action now."
"Okay. When the president starts his speech here, I'll blow my Oscar Meyer whistle, and we go." Hyde explained.
"Hey, did you write 'I hate the fuzz' on your butt?" Eric asked.
"Yeah." He smiled with a look of triumph, "Donna, here's your lipstick back."
"Keep it." Donna made a face and looked at Kim, her face not much different.
"You got the masks?" Eric said.
"Yeah. I got three Snoopys and one Nixon." Hyde said and with a smirk and a quick 'not it!' he tapped his nose with his fore-finger. Fez and Kelso joined him.
"Damn! Fez, how'd you know how to do that?"
"My country invented 'not it.'" He replied with a sly smile.
"So, can we go already?" said Kelso, "I'm itchin' to release the hound here."
Hyde put his hand out and all the boys followed suit, "It's go time."
"Oh, well, now look at you guys." Mrs. Forman came outside and they all turned to her, "What is it with you young people and Colombo?"
They stared at her a moment and ran out of there faster than if someone had called out that there was a topless woman in the street. Donna and Kim laughed, shaking their heads as Mrs. Foreman approached them.
"Aren't you going, girls?"
"No, my dad's gonna make me wear this really queer jumpsuit." Donna explained, "I don't know if I can do it. It's just too embarrassing."
Kim laughed, "Yeah, and I'm going with Donna for moral support."
"You know, girls," said Mrs. Foreman, "My grandmother came from Sweden, and she had this thick, thick accent and it embarrassed me to no end. Well, I asked her not to come to my high school graduation 'cause I didn't want my friends to hear her talk, and she didn't come. Sixteen years later, she got the gout and died. You see?"
Donna and Kim glanced at each other, "No."
"All families are embarrassing. And if they're not embarrassing, then they're dead."
Donna scrunched her face in thought and Kim gave a slow, unsure nod, "Well, Mrs. Foreman, my mommy made you a pie." She held it out with a bright smile, fully ready to change the subject. Awkward situations were not her specialty.
"Oh!" Kitty gave that nervous laugh like always and took it from her, "Thank you! I'll just add it to my others I made this morning. You know I always thought we should have another redhead around here." She headed back inside and Donna and Kim exchanged glances before laughing it off and walking back to Donna's.
"You know, she's right." Said Donna, "It's nice to not be the only redhead."
Kimberly laughed, "Yeah, I'm the only redhead in my family. I get called Cherry a lot because of my middle name."
"What's that?"
"Charlotte." She made a face, obviously not a fan of the whole ordeal.
"That's cute." Donna laughed and opened the door to her house and let Kimberly in, closing it behind her.
"If you say so." Kimberly chuckled. Once they were inside Donna made a face at the red, white, and blue jumpsuit that was sitting on the kitchen table. She bypassed it and went straight into the living room while Kimberly stopped and looked at it a moment before picking it up and carrying it into the room with behind Donna.
"Donna, I don't know. Maybe you should just wear it, you know?" she said
Donna looked at her and sighed, "I don't know, Kimmy."
"Oh come on, Donna. Can it really be that big of a deal?"
Donna looked at her and she merely smiled and held up the jumpsuit with an encouraging smile. The next thing she knew she was walking towards her parents wearing a jumpsuit of blue. She looked a little ashamed when a few cheered for her arrival. She glared at Kimberly who stood at the back of the room wiggling her fingers at her with a huge grin on her face. She thought she'd had it when her father had them start to sway back and forth so as to look like they were "waving in the wind." Kimberly laughed when she saw Donna mouth the words "Oh, God" and sat down in the chair at the end of the isle. She heard some commotion and saw Hyde sit down next to her with Kelso, Fez, and Eric filling up the row. She looked at them and they said nothing.
"Did ya chicken out?" she said.
"Yep, like a mother hen." Hyde said without looking at her. She chuckled and leaned back in her seat as the rally began. After a few minutes they finally called Red to the podium to ask a question to President Ford. Kimberly, Hyde and the rest of the gang and audience cheered as he made his way to the front of the room, but to the gang's surprise, as soon as he was at the microphone he stuttered and struggled to find his words. Kimberly leaned over to Hyde.
"What's wrong with him?" She whispered. She could feel the tension filling up the room fast.
"I don't know. This isn't like him." He leaned towards her in the same whisper. They turned when they heard Kelso's voice.
"Your dad is bombing." He was telling Eric who was standing beside him with Donna in her flag suit. It was as if things were beginning to go in slow motion as the awkward tension filled the air but it quickly subsided when Eric ran out from behind the curtains set up at the back of the room wearing nothing but his socks, his shoes and a Nixon mask. Kimberly's mouth dropped as he stood there yelling out to the crowd, "Wee wee! Pee pee!" She wasn't sure whether to laugh or if she should look away but either way all she could do was sit there with her mouth open trying not to laugh her ass off staring at Eric's nude form retreating out of the emergency exit with the secret service running after him. She turned to Hyde who also had his mouth open and they busted into a fit of laughter when Red finally got the courage to ask the president the question he'd wanted to ask him ever since the matter had been brought up.
"Hey, Gerry." He said, confidence radiating off of him, "Here's my question. How the hell could you pardon Nixon?"
"What?" Kimberly laughed and gave a standing ovation to Mr. Forman, whoopin' and hollerin' with the boys next to her, more proud than ever to know the man at the podium.