It's Friday morning, and the Forman family, minus Red and including Hyde were in the kitchen having breakfast. Kitty was preparing the food while Hyde and Eric sat around at the table.

"Okay Eric, it's your fathers last day at work, but don't mention it. In fact, my advice to both you kids is just eat and...get out! " Kitty told them.

"Mrs. Forman I could hide in the basement", Hyde suggested.

"No, no, no, I am not gonna have you kids leave without your breakfast! You know what's fun? A bacon sandwich, here, you can eat it in the car! " Kitty, hurriedly said to him, looking very nervous.

Then, Laurie walks in, wearing short boxers and a "University of Wisconsin" Sweatshirt. She immediately grabbed a plate of bacon and waffles and sits down at the table in her usual spot.

"Morning! " She happily greeted.

"Oh, GREAT! Now your father is gonna see THREE mouths he has to feed. OH you're wearing your University of Wisconsin sweatshirt!"

"Yeah mother, I went there", she annoyingly informed.

"No, you flunked out of there. You know, you might as well just wear your University of I Wasted My Fathers Money Sweatshirt!" She did one of her loud laughs though this one not looking so genuine, which it wasn't as she immediately stopped and frowned at her daughter. "Take it off."

Laurie started to undress, much to Hyde's pleasure and Eric's annoyance, and Kitty quickly walked over to her daughter. "Oh God" She exclaimed, pulling the shirt down. "Leave it on!"

"She lacks character Mrs. Forman!" Hyde sarcastically said.

"Shut up! You are lucky to even live here! You're an orphan." Laurie shot back.

"She called me an orphan!"

"Hey, he's not an orphan, his mom just abandoned him", Eric joked and he and Laurie shared a laugh at the burn.

"Shut UP Forman!"

Kitty groaned, rolled her eyes and walked over to the table. "Okay, that's it! Everybody just hide in the basement. GO!"

As they got up, Red entered the kitchen, looking normal. "Morning." He said to all of them. Everybody froze while standing at the breakfast table in silence, not knowing what to do.

"Amen!" Kitty lied and the kids went along with it. "Everybody sit." They all sat down and continued their breakfast, Red joined them with his morning paper. Though everybody was staring at Red, who was not angry like they all thought he would be.

"How are you?" Kitty carefully asked, though Red didn't take his eyes off the paper.

"Greeaaatt..."

"So uhm, what are you doing?"

"Reading...having some coffee..."

They all continued to stare, though Red didn't seem to notice. "Is the…coffee good?" Eric asked, in the same manner as his mother.

"Okay, everybody knows that today is my last day at work. Last day that the plant is open. So, I just wanna tell you all that everything is going to be great. So...great."

"Daddy, that is such good news! Can I have 20 dollars?" Laurie asked, making everybody at the table roll their eyes, and Kitty sent a threatening glare her way.

"You get in the basement!"

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Eric, Hyde, Fez and Kelso were standing in the Formans' driveway, staring at a beat down, ugly looking van. Most of them had the same expression: 'What the hell were they staring at?' But Kelso's reaction was much different, he had a wide grin on face, looking proud and excited.

"So guys what do you think? Pretty great huh?" Kelso asked, figuring they would agree with him. The guys scoped out the van. "My uncle actually gave it to me. He gave it to me for free!"

"I agree. I would pay tens of dollars for this", Fez exclaimed, looking inside the van's passenger window, along with Hyde, who was looking in it, disgusted. Fez's happy expression turneds into one similar to Hyde's. "Or not."

"What the hell is that smell man? Did your uncle own a cat?" Hyde asked.

Kelso shrugged while Eric who was next to him started giving his opinion. "Uh Kelso buddy…." Eric started, putting a hand on Kelso's shoulder. "No offense but uh…"

"Oh my god Michael!" A shrill voice yelled from the start of the driveway.

The guys all looked towards the direction of the voice to see a short brunette, and a taller redhead walking towards them.

Kelso walked to Jackie, his goofy grin still there. "So baby. What do you think? Pretty sweet huh? Now we can "do it" without any, uh….complications."

Jackie's frown deepened. "Michael! You said on the phone that is was much better than this. Look at this thing! It's a mess!"

Kelso looked offended, the grin from his face finally going away. "What! Jackie, how dare you talk about my van like that? Ask the guys, they know it's a great van."

An angry Kelso and Jackie, and an amused looking Donna looked at Eric, Hyde and Fez for answers. The three looked at each other, not sure of which answers to give, whether to back one of their best friends up and get a threatening look from Jackie, or take this opportunity for what it was: a chance to burn Kelso.

"How dare you treat your girlfriend this way!" Hyde yelled.

"You should be ashamed of yourself!" Eric exclaimed, trying to hold in a smile. He could tell Donna was seeing right through their lies which made her smile, but of course Jackie and Kelso couldn't tell.

"If I had Jackie, I would get her something much better than this", Fez joined in.

Jackie smiled happily at them and turned back to Kelso. "See even your friends think this is stupid! Now return it."

"Jackie it was free!"

"I don't care. I can't even stand to look at it, now do what I told you!" She ordered, expecting the same thing that always happens when she orders him something: For him to give in. And to all of them, it looked like the same thing was gonna happen again. Kelso was looking around, looking disappointed and upset. But then something happened that never happened when Jackie gave an order.

Kelso looked up at Jackie with a glare of his own, "You know what…..No."

Jackie gasped and stared at Kelso in shock, and without knowing it, Hyde, Fez, Eric and Donna were giving the same looks. They didn't mean to, but it was the fact that Kelso actually stood up for himself, even though in this particular situation Jackie was more right.

"Michael…I am going to let you redo this whole conversation. And this time, you're going to give the right answer okay? Now. Take. It. Back…."

Kelso puffed out his chest, "Nope."

"Oh…well now Michael, you are in big, big trouble. C'mon Donna!" Jackie yelled walking off.

Donna watched as Jackie left and turned to the guys with a smile, "Gee, I wonder what we're gonna talk about." She said and followed Jackie out of the driveway.

The two walked away and Eric, Fez and Hyde looked at Kelso dumbfounded, jaws dropped. Hyde walked over to him first and put a hand on his shoulder. "Kelso man...holy crap, I am at a lost for words."

"Me too", Eric said walking over to them and looking in the direction Jackie and Donna walked away in. "Has our Michael Kelso finally gained back his manhood?"

Kelso looked down, not sharing the excitement with the other guys. "Guys what am I going to do? Jackie is gonna be so pissed."

Hyde groaned, "No Kelso. This is it, man. This is the first step; this is a sign from God. This is your chance man, take it."

"Really Kelso", Fez began. "You won't get another chance like this to break up with Jackie. Do all of us a favor and break up with her so Fez can get her."

"Shut up Fez." Kelso snapped. "I gotta go think some stuff over." He told them before walking into Eric's house.

The guys looked as he left, Hyde turned to Eric and Fez. "Wow. Never thought I'd see the day."

Eric laughed, "Well, the downfall of Kelso and Jackie is in full swing. When do you think they will break up?" he asked.

Hyde shrugged, "Can't say for sure. But my main guess is sometime over the week."

Eric snickered, making Hyde give him a confused look. "Man, today is Friday. There is no way they will last that long. Give it over the weekend."

Fez snickered, "You are both wrong you fools. Jackie, being the strong, independent, and beautiful woman that she is, won't last another day with that idiot. I say she breaks up with him by midnight."

The three looked around at each other, Hyde and Eric with smirks, knowing they were thinking the same thing. "Well…." Eric started saying. "Looks like we have a bet gentleman."

"Damn right we do. How will this work though?"

"Okay, how about this. If she breaks up with him by tonight, me and you have to give Fez 15 dollars, if not he gives the 15 dollars to us and the same with over the weekend, if she breaks up with him by the weekend is over, I get yours and Fez's 15 bucks, if not and she breaks up with him by the end of the week, the money goes to you."

"Well what if by some stroke of luck, they don't break up?"

Eric looked stumped, not thinking about it that way. He figured it was impossible for them not to break up soon, but them staying together was a possibility.

"Hmm. Well then we all have to pay in some way."

Fez smirked, "I got it. What if we all call your hard-ass father a dumbass?"

Hyde grinned at his foreign friend, but Eric looked threatened. "Fez….what are you new here?" Fez's mouth opened to answer but Eric cut him off. "Don't answer that. But listen guys, Red would kill us."

"Okay then don't take the bet. And be a little sissy", Hyde teased.

"I am not a sissy, I just want to see the light of day."

"Listen, Forman, Kelso and Jackie have a 2 percent chance of not breaking up soon, so c'mon just take it."

Eric sighed and looked down. "Fine."

Hyde and Fez smiled, "Then let the bet begin."

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"Michael is so immature!" The short brunette screeched to her redheaded friend. The two were on Donna's porch after they left the Forman driveway. To Donna it was predictable, she would just have to listen to another rant, she would try to give advice, knowing that she wouldn't take it anyway. "I mean, who does he think he is!? Saying no to me. I'm Jackie Burkhart, nobody says no to me."

Donna shrugged, holding in a smile. "Jackie, what did you expect? You pushed him around for so long he was bound to stand up for himself eventually."

Jackie gasped and glared at Donna. "Donna! I do not push him around, I simply try to make him into a better person."

"Oh yeah, because ordering someone to get a soda for you is definitely doing that."

"Oh shut up you lumberjack! I am trying to be mad."

"Jackie, face it. There is nothing to be mad about. It's actually a good thing."

"Hm…well Donna, he will be back to apologize soon. You just wait and see."

Donna rolled her eyes at her friends arrogance.

Back at the Formans', Eric was watching TV in the living room. Hyde and Fez went to the Hub, they asked him to come but Eric didn't feel like going anywhere. As he was watching a rerun episode of Scooby Doo, he heard footsteps come down from the upstairs.

He looked over his shoulder to find his sister walking towards the direction of the living room.

"Where are you off to?" Eric asked.

Laurie stopped at the door and turned towards her brother, giving him an annoyed look. "None of your business Opie." She snapped back and left the living room.

Eric expected an answer like that. Out of curiosity he got up and followed her, a couple minutes after she left.

He exited the living room and looked through the sliding door, to see Laurie hanging out by the van, talking to Kelso. He hoped that she wasn't doing what he thought she was doing, but it would make sense because she had those tight shorts on.

All of a sudden she crawled in the van and got on top of Kelso, and it looked like they were talking some more. Eric wanted to go out there and stop what she was about to do. His eyes were widened.

Then he saw her go in for the kiss, and she said something else, inaudible to Eric and then she shut the van door.

Eric exited out of the kitchen and out the driveway, since they couldn't see him now.

"Now, those are my pants!" A manlier voice in the van said. Then the same voice started again. "Yes…yeess…."

He recognized the voice finally, it was Kelso. And soon the van started rocking.

Eric was filled with rage and anger, "Son of a bitch!" He yelled, knowing that they couldn't hear him; the van was starting to rock even more.

He couldn't stand to be there much longer so he went back inside the house with the increasing want to throw or hit something.

Kelso would pay for this.

XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx

The gang, minus Kelso were in the basement, talking and watching TV like usual, except Eric Forman, who was sitting on the edge of the couch, hand over his mouth, completely silent and completely still.

So many thoughts were rushing through his head. Some were to beat the hell out of Kelso, but then he figured that he probably couldn't. Another thought was to blackmail him, and another thought was to just plain-out tell Jackie. I mean, sure Jackie could be a mean person at times but she didn't deserve this. Again, at least. He knew she would take it hard, knowing how Jackie is pretty much obsessed with commitment, she would be angry if he told her. Which is good because Eric didn't want Kelso touching his sister.

But then, knowing how outright scary Jackie can be sometimes, she'll probably go after the nearest person and he didn't want that. Plus he'd be a rat. So he was stumped.

Blackmail?

Tell Jackie?

Or forget about it?

He immediately crossed off the last one in his head, there is no way Kelso wouldn't pay in some way.

Then another thought entered his head, a better one, an evil one. What if he told Jackie tomorrow, which as a result would make her break up with Kelso, which would have him win the bet. It was bulletproof.

The only thing he had to do is to make sure they don't break up by tonight, which probably wouldn't be that hard.

A smile formed on his face, unnoticed by anyone. He was going to get 30 bucks because of this, so maybe he should thank his sister.

He looked at his Deputy Dog watch on his wrist, and saw that it was nearly 8:00. Just four hours.

Now he could finally get that Star Wars Space Command Center box set he has wanted to get. As he was thinking of how cool it would be to have one, he heard footsteps coming down the stairs. He turned to see a grinning Kelso, coming down and heading towards the freezer.

"Hey guys", hey greeted, the gang responded with dull greetings except Jackie, who stood up and walked over to Kelso.

"Hello, Michael."

"Hello, Jackie."

They stared at each other for a bit, but Jackie finally sighed, looking as if she gave in. "Listen Michael, I'm sorry."

Suddenly the whole gang gasped loudly making Jackie turn around in annoyance. Kelso had finally won an argument, this was new. She turned back to a shocked looking Kelso, "Michael, I know I can be a little bossy and a little pompous sometimes-"

"A little?" Hyde teased and snickered a bit before Jackie hit him in the arm.

She turned back to Kelso again, a little more aggravated. "So, can we stop fighting? Please?"

Kelso smiled at her, "Sure."

Jackie smiled too and hugged him, "I love you Michael!"

The whole gang "Aww'd" in sarcasm at the two which made her turn around again, "Shutup!" Though Eric was the only one who was genuinely happy. There was no way they would break up by tonight now. That 30 bucks was pretty much his now.

"So Jackie, why don't we uh, prove our love again!"

Jackie grinned, "Lover!"

"You know it" Kelso yelled and picked up Jackie and went out the basement door.

The gang stared at them in confusion.

"Those two are making me sick", Hyde said.

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Later on it was 11:52, only 8 minutes and Eric was getting paid. Everybody was in the basement except Fez and Hyde, who went to his host parents' house.

Jackie and Kelso were flirting on the couch while Eric and Donna sat there watching TV.

Then suddenly, Donna got up. "Well, I am going to head home. Can't really concentrate on television with those two being a gooey next to me. See ya Eric."

"Yeah, see ya Donna", Eric responded and Donna left. It was just him and the two lovers. Only four minutes now.

After a quick kiss Kelso got up too, "Well I am going to go too. Did you want me to walk you home?"

"I would love to, but I don't feel like walking. Eric will just give me a ride, won't you?"

"Uh, well I wasn't planning on it but-"

"Eric!"

"But, apparently the Three's Company rerun can wait."

Jackie turned back to Kelso with a grin. "See you tomorrow baby."

Kelso waved goodbye at his girlfriend and his best friend and soon left the basement. Eric looked at his watch and saw that it was 11:59. He moved over next to Jackie. "Hey Jackie gotta tell you something."

"I am so glad me and Kelso aren't fighting anymore. I hate when we fight, and alot of times I'm the one that causes it, even when I don't mean to. Maybe it was a good thing that happened earlier. It's just sometimes I come off….a little bitchy sometimes, and I don't mean it, sometimes, and honestly I think him saying no to me earlier really taught me something about myself. I owe it to him, and I just love him so much you know…" She sighed but then looked at Eric again. "I'm sorry what did you want to tell me?"

"…Uh….nothing, it wasn't important", he said, disappointingly. He looked at his watch and saw that it was 12:04, he could do it right now. But after what she just said about him, he couldn't bring himself to do it.

He supposed being too nice was his weakness, because he knew someone like Hyde would tell Jackie right now, but he just couldn't. He didn't know that she liked him this much, she would probably break down crying right now if he told her, and Jackie could be a cold person sometimes, but crying is crying. And for some reason, the thought of Jackie crying made him angry, He couldn't figure out why. But all he knew was that he couldn't do it.

He never thought he would say this, but it wasn't worth the 30 bucks….

Or the Space Command Center.

"So how about that ride home Jackie?" Eric asked.

Jackie smiled in return. "Sure."

The pair got up and left the basement. A happy Jackie, and a surprisingly happy Eric.