Love Wisconsin Syle
~L.O.V.E.~
Everything happened so fast. Hyde and I were fighting, loud, angry words spinning around like a whirlwind, on the verge of breaking up when Eric came trudging home from the Pinciotti's, looking defeated and upset.
"Donna ran away to California," he muttered. "And it's all my fault."
And at that exact second, Jackie came bursting through the screen door, sobbing because she had just received a call from Kelso, who had also run away to California to keep from marrying her.
Then Hyde and I weren't fighting anymore. We were too busy comforting our friends to even think about being mad. I don't think we even remembered why we were fighting a mere seven seconds ago.
"...oh, Sarah, what will I do?" Jackie sobbed on my shoulder. "I love him so much. I wanted to marry him."
"Kelso isn't the marriage kind of guy," I reassured her. "Maybe this is fate telling you that you two weren't meant to be."
"This isn't fate, Sarah!" she cried. "This is Michael being too much of a coward to marry me, so he ran off to California with Donna!"
"Donna ran off with Kelso?" Eric asked, dumbfounded. "As in...they're together now?"
I shook my head, vigorously. "Donna would never date Kelso. What happened with her, anyway? I thought she was still dating Casey."
Eric quickly explained how Casey broke up with her and then tried to get back together with him, but he didn't want to be her second choice, so he said no and now she was gone.
Jackie was sobbing on my shoulder and Hyde had his hand on Eric's shoulder, telling him that it wasn't his fault. Then Fez came in the kitchen, asking what was wrong and I silently cursed Kelso and Donna for being too chicken to face their problems.
They ran away from everything, not caring about the consequences, not caring about who they would hurt. I looked around. And most importantly, not caring about the wreck they would leave behind.