Point Place, Wisconsin

January 13th, 1977

Thursday Afternoon

Eric Forman's Basement

Eric, Fez and Hyde were in Eric's basement. Eric held out a map in front of them all.

"Okay guys this is no sweat. If we leave right after school, we can make it to Jackie's ski cabin at about 6", Eric explained.

Hyde and Fez nodded happily. "Man, I cant wait to go to my favorite place….anywhere but here", Hyde joked, making Eric and Fez chuckle. Hyde walked over to his chair and sat down while Eric and Fez climbed over the couch and sat down.

Then Kelso walked in. He walked in with swagger and confidence, having a very cocky smile on his face as he walked over to the three guys. "Guess who made out with Pam Macy, behind the gym?"

Hyde looked at him. "Everyone."

Kelso shook his head, "No….ME!" He yelled and started laughing, though Eric and Hyde's reactions weren't as happy.

"Kelso a lot of people hang out behind the gym", Eric said.

"Yeah! That's what's great about it, everybody saw it", he replied, very stupidly.

Hyde smiled at him, but it was a shady smile. "Yeah, that's great man. Yeah! Except now everybody can tell Jackie you moron!" Hyde yelled, his tone getting much more angry by the end of his sentence.

Eric nodded and turned back to Kelso whose face dropped. "Yeah, and then she is going to dump you and we wont be able to go to her ski cabin!"

Kelso shook his head, "She isn't gonna find out guys." Just as he says that, Jackie comes in and immediately goes to Kelso and starts hitting him.

"You are a dog Michael! A dirty, dirty dog!" She yelled, but Kelso played dumb.

"What I do?"

"You kissed Pam Macy", Fez said, making Kelso gasp.

"I trusted you Michael! Now people are laughing at me! I can't even show my face in the 3rd floor bathroom….and that's the cool bathroom you idiot!" Jackie continued waving her finger around at him.

Kelso stared at her, "But…I-"

"No Michael!", Jackie interrupted. "We're through."

Kelso nodded angrily, "Fine, if that's the way you want it, we're through, and Monday after we get back from the ski cabin, its over!" Kelso argued, making Jackie smile evilly at him.

"No Michael. No, no, no, no, no. You won't be skiing this weekend." She tells him and goes and sits down next to Eric and Fez. Eric notices she is wearing the necklace that "he gave her". She was probably so drunk that night, she thought it was Kelso who got it for her, and it was better that way for Eric.

"Fine Jackie. Cancel the ski trip, and disappoint all our friends!" Kelso yelled.

Jackie smiled, "Oh no, no, no. We…" She says, patting Eric and Fez's legs. "Are still going." Making Eric, Fez and Hyde look at each other happily.

"Well they're surely not going without me", Kelso said confidently. "Right guys?"

Eric's, Fez's and Hyde's smile faded. They kinda felt bad, though Hyde not so much.

"Oh and did I mention my parents are not coming, so it'll be just us", Jackie said, smiling. That made up the three guys' mind.

Eric turned to Kelso. "So we'll see you Monday!"

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Eric was walking down the stairs to the basement after a random speech he had from his dad about "kitty litter" or maybe it "buckling down" he didn't really listen.

He walked down to see Jackie sitting on the couch.

"Hello Jackie. Nice that you invited yourself to my basement." He told her, sitting on Hyde's chair.

Jackie nodded slowly. She didn't snap back at his comment like he thought she would, she just sat there, staring at the TV, not even looking like she was watching it. She looked sad.

Eric looked at her warily, "You…okay Jackie?"

She immediately turned to him, and wiped the sadness off her face. "I'm fine!" She said perkily, completely changing her mood.

Eric shook his head at the weirdness and turned back to watching the TV.

"I guess I should probably give this necklace back huh?" She asked.

He looked at her and smirked. "Yeah. It is his you know. And I'm sure he paid a lot of money for it. Money that his dad wouldn't of grounded him over if he didn't spend it."

She looked at him weirdly. "Uh…okay. I just don't know how he can give me this and then just cheat on me a couple days after."

Eric shrugged. "Kelso is complex, Jackie."

"I guess."

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The gang were all outside, getting ready for the trip to the cabin. Hyde walked over to Donna. "Hey Donna man, I brought my double sleeping bag," He smiled at her and she smiled back.

"Lets hope we can use it", she replied, giving him a quick kiss.

Back in the house, Eric was walking to the kitchen, but then Red then walked out, giving Eric a flare and his emergency road side kit. "You make sure to use this, if things get out of hand, understand boy?"

Eric nodded, "Yes, sir."

Red looked at him, "Hey. You're not upset about Donna and Steven right son?"

Eric shook his head. "No, why?"

Red shrugged. "It's just that I thought…you two would…you know-"

"No dad, its fine... I'm fine."

He still looked at his son warily, "You…still do like girls, right son?"

Eric rolled his eyes, "Yes dad. Of course I do."

"Well back in my day, when you took girls to places where there were no parents you actually did something. Now all you hopheads do is just talk about your feelings with each other. Listen son. All I'm saying is, if Donna is a no go, you find someone else, understand? It might be hard to do, knowing you're not good at sports, or anything else that girls like a man to do….but play the field. Don't hang on one girl, and this isn't advice Eric…it's an order."

Eric couldn't help but almost laugh. Even if Red didn't say it, he was actually giving him advice. This only happens in a blue moon, he thought. Eric nodded, "Yeah. Sure."

Red patted his shoulder, "Good..." He stood awkwardly, not used to such a moment. "Remember what I said about kitty litter." He said and walked into the den. Eric walked into the kitchen to find Kelso there glaring at him.

"Oh….hey Kelso. Look I just wanna make sure we're cool?"

Kelso continued to glare.

"Thanks for understanding" Eric said before walking toward the sliding door.

"Yeah I understand. I understand that we're not friends anymore!" Kelso yelled turning toward him.

Eric turned back. "Look man you brought this on yourself."

"I know I did but that's no reason for me to suffer!"

Eric looked at him strangely, how stupid can somebody be. "That's a great reason for you to suffer!"

"Eric man, look why do you have to go? You have nobody. Hyde has Donna, so its just gonna be you and Fez and Jackie. Oh what are you going to do, make out with Fez!?" Kelso argued. "Or Jackie!? Go ahead see if I care!"

Eric rolled his eyes, "Man, its still no adults and free booze. That's good enough for me. I'm going."

Eric said before walking out the sliding door.

"Fine go!" He yelled. After a couple seconds, he couldn't take it anymore. "Oh come on man!"

He ran out to see Eric opening the car door and getting it.

"Oh wait…you're not really going!" Kelso laughed. "This is just a gag, you're gonna get me all worked up. That's a nice burn!"

Eric nodded. "It sure is….bye bye." He said, turning the car on and pulling out the driveway as Kelso watched, still with a wide grin on his face as if he still thought it was a joke.

Poor kid.

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The gang arrived at the ski cabin, barging in the door quickly as the storm got worse.

"Yes! We made it!" Donna said in excitement.

"Yeah, just in time, that storm was getting nasty", Eric replied. Eric put the things down and saw a shivering Fez.

"I am so cold! The snow has stolen my manhood!" The foreign boy complained.

The gang looked around. Jackie walked over to Hyde and Donna and put her arms around them. "Now guys, that room was gonna be for Michael and I….but since our love is…..dead" She wimpered a bit. "Its yours."

"Far out", Hyde replied and him and Donna went in the room, just as Fez fell to the ground holding him self. It was just him, Jackie and Fez in the room. Jackie went over to the couch and sat down, holding a pillow.

"I am freezing!" Fez cried out. "The winter in my country is 70 degrees." He gasped and looked up. "We must hold each other for warmth!" He said, crawling to Jackie's leg and hugging it. Not long before Jackie smacked him in the head.

"Stop touching me!" Jackie yelled, making Fez flinch back.

"I'M GOING TO DIE!" Fez yelled and started crying.

"Jackie, you have anything that can warm him up, I don't want to hear his whining this whole night" Eric asked her.

Jackie looked over to him and shrugged, "I don't know. There's some alcohol on the shelf over there." She pointed toward the shelf and Eric spotted a bunch of bottles.

Eric put a finger over his mouth, in a thinking manner. "Mhmm? Which one?" He spotted a bottle and picked it up, smiling. "This one looks sweet, Fez try this." He said walking over to him and handing him the bottle.

Fez opened it and tries it and his frown turns into a smile. "Oh, liquid candy!" He starts chugging the bottle, way more than Eric expected him too.

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Later on, Hyde and Donna haven't left their bedroom and there sits Eric with a heartbroken Jackie. She starts to cry while a sad record is playing, making it even worse for her. Fez left a while ago, after he killed that bottle.

Eric was sitting on the chair with his head in his hands, about to pull his hair out after hearing the crying for about 10 minutes. He finally looked up. "Ok Jackie. C'mon stop crying. Want beer, or something? It'd probably make you forget-"

"I don't want any alcohol. I want Michael", Jackie replied, tears dripping down her face.

Eric sighed, and moved on the couch next to her. "Ok Jackie lets-" He was cut off suddenly by her gripping him into a hug.

"Oh, okay, okay Jackie. Your kind of killing me with all these hugs lately", Eric sarcastically remarked though Jackie wasn't listening, as she was crying on his shoulder. "Okay Jackie. C'mon lets just calm down here okay?"

She tried to stopped but still whimpered a bit, and released him from the hug and looked at him as Eric put his hands on her shoulder.

"Okay Jackie. Listen, Kelso….Kelso is a good guy okay, he just does some stupid stuff is all…like when he shot my pet rabbit with a BB gun. Or the time when he stuck a firecracker in my locker. But, anyway, sometimes he just doesn't realize the dumb things he does."

Jackie looked at him, starting to actually calm down.

"He does like you Jackie. Even if you put him down all the time, he still likes you. So just when we get back to the house, just try to talk to him okay? Try to work things out, maybe get him back by kissing another guy or something, I don't know" He joked starting to laugh, though Jackie's seriousness stayed. She stopped crying, though tears were still left over in her eyes.

"So you okay?" He asked.

She smiled back at him, "Yeah, thank you Eric." She said and hugged him again.

"Again with the hugs", Eric teased.

She let go of him and stared at him.

Eric smiled, "So Jackie now-"He was cut off suddenly by Jackie crashing her lips into his.

Eric's eyes bulged out as she started kissing him. He pulled back immediately.

"Whoa! Jackie! What the hell!?" Eric yelled, jumping to the side of the couch away from her.

She looked at him, looking embarrassed. "Well you said I should get him back by kissing another guy."

"I was kidding! And I meant Fez or something, not me. Jackie I don't like you."

Jackie looked down, face dropping, looking like the tears were coming back.

Eric wished he didn't say that. He felt like he kicked somebody who was already down, he didn't mean it that way but he knew that's how she took it.

He moved closer to her, "No, no, no Jackie. I didn't mean it like that okay? Your…..well, um….cute I guess. But you're just a little too...mean for me. Listen, you're just desperate right now. If you were the normal Jackie who invites herself into my basement you would probably throw up at the thought of what you just did. You're vulnerable that's all. And this isn't the right way, okay?"

Jackie nodded. I know, I just miss Michael that's all. And I was just so-"

" I know Jackie, don't worry about it. Like I said, just talk to him when we get back. Get everything settled and we'll both try to forget what happened tonight deal?"

"..Deal."

Eric sighed, "So…we're good? What happens in the ski cabin stays in the ski cabin right?"

"Why would I tell anybody I kissed you, that's totally embarrassing", Jackie said, starting to sound like her own self-centered self again. At least she was back. But she looked at Eric again and smiled. "Thank you."

Eric smirked and nodded. "No hugs though okay?" Making Jackie laugh, which Eric returned.

Then Kelso walked through the door and when Jackie saw him, her eyes lit up. "Michael! Oh Michael!" She yelled, in excitement running to him and jumping on him in a tight hug.

"You traveled through the dangerous snow storm just to get to me didn't you Michael!?" She asked in excitement, letting go of him.

Kelso looked around, confused but then nodded.

Jackie's grin faded into an evil glare, "And you would never, ever do that for Pam Macy wouldn't you?"

"No."

Jackie smiled again, her eyes sexually charged. "Lover."

Kelso smiled, "You know it." He said, picking her up again just as Hyde and Donna walked out of the room, both with their hair and clothes messed up and with lipstick all over Hyde's face.

"The hell is all the commotion about!?" He asked, just as Kelso ran into the room with Jackie in his arms and closed the door. "Dammit! Now we have no room."

Eric got up and smiled at Hyde. "Good your back. Now come with me, we gotta find Fez."

Hyde groaned, "Fine."

They started putting on their jackets. "So, sorry I had to leave you out here with the midget cheerleader. But hey."

Eric smiled. "No its fine. You gotta do what you have to do right."

Hyde smirked back and they both went outside to look for their half naked, drunk foreign friend.