19th Nervous Breakdown

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FINALE! Last chapter, whatever you want to call it. Don't be sad, I'm making a sequel :'D Ill get the first chapter of THAT up soon~ I love posting and writing for you people! However, I'm pretty sure after this you guys will think Donnas the devil~ have fun and review~

I KNOW Randy doesn't come in until the 8th season, but oh well! I needed a character D: ( I think the 8th? )

I'm sorry if the ending is kind of boring D: but once again, there's a sequel~

Much usage of the word 'hell' (: warning!

Chapter 10

Just then, I saw a group of people at the screen door, and I automatically ran into the living room. I felt like I just ran away from the thing I needed to confront, which is what I kind of did. I sighed, told myself to suck it up and walked back in the kitchen.

I glanced at the red-head sitting at the table. She was happily talking to Jackie about something. Kelso and Fes walked over to me just as she looked up, and I thought I was going to die. "Hey."

"Hey," I said back, clearing my throat. It suddenly got quieter. "How was your trip?"

"Good," She nodded. "But it's Florida, so it was kind of hot."

"Man, I wish I could've gone, there must've been like, hundreds of hot girls at the beach!" Kelso said. Jackie gave him a look.

"So, uh, how has your week been?" She asked me, ignoring Kelso.

"It was pretty good," I replied.

"Listen, Eric, I'd like to talk to you in private," She said. "But, first I say we feast on cookies."

Then she smiled, and my mom put a plate of peanut butter and chocolate-chip cookies on the table. Those were Hyde's favorite.

"Go sit down, boys," My mom said and Jackie scooted over, letting Kelso's chair in. Fes and I sat on the opposite side.

I picked up a cookie and took a bite, but I could barely chew, it reminded me Hyde.

"So Donna," My mom started to say, bringing over glasses of milk for everyone. "Tell us more about Florida, I hear it's terribly hot in the summer, but nice, huh?"

"Well, we visited the beach a lot, and I met a lot of people down there. I saw someone that looked almost exactly like Mick Jagger, but it turned out his name was Benny and he sells hotdogs for a living," She said, taking a sip of her milk.

My mom laughed. "Well isn't that something?" She stuck the pan of brownie mix in the oven and set the time for fifteen minutes. "Was the beach nice?"

"It was pretty hot, but I got a nice tan," She shared, grinning. "Oh, and so did my dad. Jackie, Kelso, Fes- you saw him at my house," Fes nodded and Kelso laughed.

"He was more red than tan," Jackie said. "He's like a giant tomato."

"Yeah, and he told me he doesn't have tan lines," She paused as everyone stared. "That was my reaction, too, but I don't believe him. Whenever we went to the beach together, he'd be in his shorts."

My mom laughed, trying to shake off the images in her mind. "Oh, well, that's nice."

"Yeah. We stayed with my mom, and the cool thing is she's actually starting to hate Florida, so she might come up here to live with my dad and me… again."

"Oh, your mother? That's wonderful, Donna," My mom said.

I kind of zoned out after that. I thought about anything that came to my mind. What if Darth Vader visited Earth? What is Darth Vader's natural hair color? I wonder what Mick Jagger would look like as a woman… what if I was in the Rolling Stones? I'm missing my G.I. Joe I got for Christmas last year… where did I have it?

My thoughts went on like that, and honestly I couldn't wait until this cookie-break was over. I don't remember how long I sat there, but it must've been awhile. The whole plate of cookies was gone by the time I came out of my thoughts. I looked at Kelso, who was groaning.

"Kelso, this is why the beautiful people don't eat so much. It makes us fat, and we get stomach pains," Jackie said, superficial as ever.

My mom got up and got him some stomach medicine. "Oh, Eric, while I'm getting Michael some medicine, will you take that plate there up to Steven's room. If he's still asleep, don't wake him up, just bring'em back down and I'll save them," I nodded and picked up the plate. I didn't think much during the walk to Hyde's room, but maybe I should have.

I knocked on his door; no one answered. I knocked again, but this time I heard a noise. "Hyde?" I tried opening the door but it was locked.

"Who is it?" I heard him ask through the door.

"It's your friendly neighborhood Eric Forman," I answered, failing at quoting Spiderman. I heard his feet dragging across the room. He opened the door and I frowned. He looked like he'd been through hell and more, I could feel my heart melt just looking at his face. His eyes and cheeks were slightly reddened, his hair was messier than normal and the soft look on his face he always held around me had suddenly disappeared.

"What do you want, Forman?" He said, looking uninterested.

"Um, my mom wanted to give you these," I held out the plate and he opened the door wider, taking them. "Hyde, are you okay?"

"Yeah," He said simply.

I glanced at the ground, then to him. "'Cause, you don't look okay…"

"Well I'm fine," He said sternly, but softened his voice. "Have you talked to Donna, yet?"

"Um, kind of," I scratched my head. "She and my mom were talking about her trip to Florida, but other than that, no," I sighed. "I'm gonna talk to her soon, though."

"Alrighty," He mumbled, then closed the door. I stared blankly at the door before making my way down into the Kitchen once more.

Almost immediately, Fes came up to me and grabbed my shoulders. "Eric, it is horrible!"

"What's horrible?"

"All the cookies are gone," I couldn't help but grin as he twitched. "I need chocolate, Eric!"

"Okay, that's enough sugar for you, Fes," I said, taking his hands off my shoulders. Jackie watched me as I spoke to Donna. "Hey, Donna, can I see you in the basement, for a second?"

"Sure," She said, and we walked down to the basement. We stood there for a good 30 seconds before anyone broke the silence. "Listen, Eric, I've been doing a lot of thinking… about us, and during my trip in Florida, I kept thinking about you."

I kept my face still as she spoke.

"There was even a Star Wars Convention down there it was driving me crazy just thinking how much I missed you, so I got you this," She reached in her coat pocket and took out the limited edition Luke Skywalker action figure with the green light saber. I've been looking for one of these for months.

I couldn't speak as she let me hold it.

"Eric, I'm sorry, I was an idiot for breaking up with you in the first place. We weren't drifting away, we were just growing up. And, I want to get back together with you," She admitted, holding my hands. She leaned in for a kiss, but I backed away. I grabbed one of her hands and set the action figure in it, then I looked her in the eye.

"Donna, thank you for being so thoughtful about the action figure, but I can't take it," I told her as she looked at me, highly confused.

"What the hell, why not?"

"I can't be with you anymore, Donna," I paused and licked my lips. This was harder than I thought. "I don't love you the way I did before, and I can't love you like that anymore."

"Why not? Is it because I broke up with you? I said I was sorry, Eric," She said angrily.

"I know you did, and you don't have to be," I struggled with this next part. "There's someone else,"

(HYDES POV)

I glared at the plate with the few cookies it had. It was my favorite, but I wasn't hungry at the moment. I set the plate on the dresser and sighed heavily, rubbing my eyes. Damn that Forman, why'd he have to go and toy with my emotions like that? I could kick someone's ass right, now. Hey, maybe I could go down to the bar and see if those creeps were still there. No, wait, I shouldn't. I shouldn't be talking like this, it wasn't Forman's fault he chose Donna. He had too. They've been together for forever; I had to get over it.

So I made myself believe I was over it. I opened the door and saw no one. But that was a good thing. I started to walk down the hall, but saw someone coming in front of the stairs. It was Red. He smirked at me, as if thinking 'dumbass' and picturing his foot in a Japanese Sniper's ass. We didn't say anything and walked right on passed each other. Weird.

I walked through the door and into the Kitchen, where I saw nobody but Mrs. Forman. "Hey, Mrs. Forman."

"Hey, there, Steven," She said, planting a kiss on my cheek and turning he attention back to the brownies she was taking out of the oven.

"Where is everyone?"

"They should be in the basement," She put the brownies on the counter to cool. When she looked back to find me, I was gone.

(---)

I walked to the front of the basement stairs where I saw Kelso, Fes and Jackie. Surprise, surprise. I was about to say something but Jackie turned back and put a finger to her mouth.

I stepped down to her level quietly and whispered, "What are you guys doing?"

"Shh, we're listening in on Donna and Eric, it doesn't sound good," She whispered back.

It doesn't sound good? What the hell does she mean by that?

I made myself listen, not thinking about getting caught.

(ERICS POV)

"Someone else?" She repeated in disbelief. "You suddenly fell in love with some skank-a-zoid in a week? What the hell?"

I didn't know what to say, so I stood there as she kept on. "How is this new friend of yours better than me, Eric?"

"'Better' is not exactly the word, Donna. I mean, Hyde actually listens believe it or not, and he's-"

"Wait, Hyde?" She looked surprised, but still pissed.

Oh shit. Now, if I wasn't screwed enough the past week, I am now.

"Eric, tell me our Steven Hyde is not the person you're talking about? He's a guy- you're not gay… Eric, tell me now, tell me you're lying," She started to yell, and I could see her eyes start to water. At first, she asked questions, now she was demanding me to tell her a lie.

"Donna," I shook my head, not knowing how to say this. "It's Hyde."

There was a moment of silence, and then before I knew it, there was a loud smacking noise. It took a second, but I realized my cheek was throbbing, stinging. It felt numb after a few more seconds but I was in a state of shock. I was brought out of my state as she threw the action figure at me. I caught it.

"You know what? You can take Luke Skywalker and shove him up your ass!" She started walking up the stairs. I waited, hearing silence again. It was broke by Donna yelling, "What the hell?!"

Then I heard a few people murmur something, there was a few hi's and a hello. Then, I heard footsteps up the rest of the stairs and then someone following her. I watched as Fes, Kelso and then Hyde come down the stairs one by one.

Fes and Kelso looked sympathetic; Hyde just looked plain out confused.

"Damn, she slapped you good," Kelso said, squinting his eyes and reaching out to touch my cheek. I pushed it away. I know she slapped me. I know she got me good and I don't blame her. I deserved it.

"Eric, I'm sorry," Fes muttered, frowning.

"Don't worry about it," I said, rubbing my cheek.

Hyde stepped to me and stared me in the eyes. "Forman, why the hell didn't you choose Donna?"

I was about to answer before I saw Kelso and Fes looking at as, very interested. "Fes, can you and Kelso get the hell out?"

"No," He argued, grinning.

"Fine, but you get no more chocolate," I threatened as Fes' eyes widened.

"You know Fes, Mrs. Forman just made some chocolate brownies, you should go get some before they're all gone."

"Screw you guys, I'm getting chocolate!" Fes gave us each one last grin and grabbed Kelso by his arm, running up the stairs.

Hyde turned to me and waited for an answer. "Well?"

I lost my answer and I couldn't think of anything to say, nonetheless any reason to why I didn't choose Donna. I mean, there were good qualities about them both but… I don't know. I gave him a smile, and then kissed his lips softly, gently. I hoped he would get it through that.

He sighed and let a smile show. "Alright, but we all know the reason you chose me is because I'm way hotter," He joked. My smile widened as his sense of humor came back. "I wonder how Donna's doing, though."

I shrugged, feeling kind of guilty, but it was easy enough to shake off. "She'll be okay; you know how feminists are- plus, I'm pretty sure she's talking to Jackie right now," I said as Hyde nodded in agreement.

"Are you done yet?" I heard Fes call from upstairs. I chuckled, yelled back a yes. Fes and Kelso came back down, practically tripping, with a plate full of brownies.

"Kelso, man, should you be eating brownies after your stomach ache?" I asked.

Kelso smiled his usual smile. "Probably not, but whatever,"

Fes glared at Kelso and stuffed a whole brownie in his mouth. "Back off my chocolate," He managed to say.

Kelso frowned. "C'mon, Fes, share!"

Hyde smirked. "I have an idea, let's see who can eat the most brownies, you or Kelso."

I grinned, knowing this couldn't end well.

SHORT EPILOGUE

Donna didn't talk to me for awhile, why should she? She was obviously upset. I didn't blame her, either. After a few days, when she did talk to me, it shocked me. She went from angry to apologetic, and I wondered at what age women actually start menopause, but I knew I was just kidding myself. She told me she was sorry she shit me and she shouldn't have been so hard on me. It didn't matter, all that mattered was I had a friend back, and we could have normal circles and have fun like the gang back when it was normal.

Ever since then, it's been great. Hyde and I are free to do whatever we want without the gang getting on our asses about it, the guys just didn't want to see us make out or anything more. Jackie and Donna didn't mind one bit. Jackie mentioned a few thousand times that it was cute, and that now she had more friends to shop with. Hyde immediately turned her down.

Donna actually surprised me, she actually got over me in less than a week and started dating this guy named Randy. He was a pretty cool guy and got along with everyone… except Kelso. He kept getting jealous of his hair for some reason.

Fes ended up going on his date with this girl named Caroline who he had made plans with before. Poor Fes forgot where he put her number and looked for days. Anyway, they accidentally met again at the bar and this time she made sure Fes didn't lose her number. We have yet to meet her, but Fes says she's great.

As for Kelso and Jackie, they've been going at it like rabbits, the usual. I was happy for them, at least I didn't have to hear from Jackie about how Michael was this and that like in the past. They had a few rocks and pebbles before but Kelso was changing. The gang actually thought he just might stick with Jackie and only Jackie for awhile. He was turning out to be a one-woman guy.

Or so we thought.