Author's Note: Laurie may act OOC here, but I wanted to give her redemption that she never got from the show, but I believe she deserves it other than just being a mean girl. We'll be entering Season 6 in the next chapter. Hope you enjoy this one and please review! :)
Unfortunately, Jackie and Steven broke up as well. Jackie wouldn't take him back after Steven told her why he cheated on her. It's because of a huge misunderstanding. She's been hurt too many times by Kelso and never expected Steven would do the same thing to her, too. I didn't blame Jackie for breaking up with my brother, but I kept my opinions to myself. It was so easy for Steven to take my side when it came to mine and Eric's break up, but it was hard for me with this issue and I got torn whose side to take concerning Jackie and my own brother.
Our Graduation Day was coming soon so there's no better way to celebrate it with a Senior prank. I decided to join Steven, Kelso, and Fez to vandalize the water tower because it did sound like a cool and an awesome prank. I did the prank with the guys to still avoid Eric. Also, Laurie was back which meant she's in her bedroom again and I didn't want to deal with her. Although, Donna said she talked to her before and it sounded like Laurie had actually changed and was nice. I didn't know what to think of that and couldn't imagine a nice Laurie Forman. All I thought of her was a whore or the devil reincarnate.
The four of us climbed up to the water tower and put our paint bucket down. I stood in between Fez and Steven while Kelso was on Fez's right side. We decided to it at nighttime so no one else would see us. We were all holding our paint brushes.
"Ah, the sacred Senior prank, where we vandalize the water tower. I've been waiting for this moment since, well, the last time we vandalized the water tower." Fez said.
There was many times where we have been up here in the past...
While I tried to think of something clever or crude to paint, Kelso was getting on Steven's nerves purposely again over Jackie.
"So, Hyde, I gave Jackie some jellybeans today."
Fez and I was right in the middle of them. Kelso kneeled and put the bucket down so he could open it.
"Who cares?"
"Yeah, well you should because they were pink and that is the bean of love and I got her that particular bean because I never stopped loving her."
"Yeah, well you stopped long enough to cheat on her with Laurie. Then you went down to an all time low when you dated Pam Macy. You left her without a care to California with Donna and started to date Annette. For someone who claims to love her, you sure do move onto other girls very fast and never thought twice about it."
Kelso just laughed. "Jackie was with other guys and you cheated too on her with a nurse."
"It was a misunderstanding that you caused," Steven then got mad and was about to attack Kelso. "That's it, let's go!"
"Steven, stop!" I pulled him back by his shirt and my hand was on his chest to stop him. Even Fez tried to intervene by putting distance between them with his arms spread.
"Oh, okay, I hope you got that nurse's phone number cause you're gonna need it when I'm done with ya!"
"Hey! Stop it!" Fez angrily exclaimed. "You two need to grow up and start painting genitals on the water tower! Rachel, you can paint a vagina."
The two boys glared at each other.
"Fine! I'll be over here." Kelso went over to his spot and Steven did the same.
"Fine! I'll be over here."
"Well, since I've never seen another man's genitals, I'll have to paint my own. In that case, I'll need more paint," Fez laughed to himself at his dumb joke. "And a bigger tower."
Kelso was on Fez's right side and climbed on top of the ledge starting to paint and I wonder what he was about to do. I saw him writing his name down and he obnoxiously laughed.
"Kelso, what are you writing?" Steven asked him.
"Michael plus Jackie?" I read. "Seriously?"
That got Steven really angry. "I'm kickin' your ass!"
He walked over to Kelso, but Fez and I stopped him.
"You could make him fall." I warned.
"You can't kick my ass from down there. All you can do is punch my ass." Kelso was wiggling his butt at our faces.
I just rolled my eyes at him and got annoyed because he could get really hurt if he wasn't careful. Knowing Kelso, he would.
"Hey! Get down!" Steven angrily yelled.
"Yeah, Kelso! Knock it off!" I also yelled at him.
"Just face the fact, Hyde! You're down there," He let go of the water tower and was balancing on the ledge. "And I'm up here," He couldn't hold his balance anymore on the ledge and tried not to lose his footing. "And I am invincible...!" We tried to catch Kelso in time, but missed. He fell down from the railing all the way to the ground with a thud.
I shrieked in fear for his safety and had my hands cover my mouth in horror because of Kelso's bad fall. Steven, Fez, and I looked down to see where Kelso fell.
"Kelso, are you okay?!" Fez shouted worriedly down at him.
"I think I fell!" Kelso answered in pain.
"Oh my god!" I said in disbelief.
"Let me go check on him." Steven exited the water tower by the ladder leaving Fez and I to ourselves.
"Looks like we have to finish the prank ourselves." Fez said to me.
"Maybe I should go help Steven..." I thought aloud.
"Nah, he's fine. He's a big boy. Kelso's just an idiot." Fez carelessly said waving it off.
I shrugged. "Alright..."
We turned to the water tower about to paint on it.
"I want it to look like it's coming right at me." Fez said and I just smiled in amusement, shaking my head.
He painted a big and black circle and I painted a black oval. When we painted our sexual shapes, a huge light flashes at us and we heard a siren wail. Fez and I exchanged a look of fear that we've been caught. We stopped painting and turned to the police.
"Aw, crap..." I muttered.
"This is the Point Place Police Department. You two are under arrest!" The man said on a bullhorn's voice.
We turned around to the police and the bright light nearly blinded my eyes I had to squint a little to adjust to it. I never ever thought I'd be in this position. I never imagined myself getting arrested before. Well, there's a first time for everything.
"I am a painter from a foreign country and this is my gift to America." Fez stupidly announced and I rolled my eyes in annoyance.
"Shut up, Fez, and put your hands up!" I hissed with my own arms up in the air like I've seen from those cop shows. I dropped my paint brush.
"Get off the water!" The officer yelled at us.
Fez had his arms out wide as if to present something. I just stared at him. "People of America! I give you 'Genitals In the Sky'!"
I rolled my eyes at him and shook my head.
We're doomed.
Fez and I came down on the ladder and we got handcuffed by two police officers. They took us to their car and drove us to the police station. I got put into the women's prison cell and Fez was in the male's prison cell. I wish Steven would help us to bail us out, but he was with Kelso to care for him. I wish I could hurt Kelso some more for his stupidity. If he would have never fell, they could help us out or they'd be in the same prison like us.
"You have one phone call." An officer told me and opened my cell. And it's actually true they do say that to you like in the movies.
I have no one to call to. If I call the Formans and Red would answer, I worry that I might get kicked out of his house. I remembered he did that for Steven. I couldn't afford to get kicked out. I don't have enough money to buy a place of my own just yet. There was Steven, but again, he'd be at the hospital with Kelso. There really was no one for me.
"I rather not make one," I said and he just shrugged and closed my cell. About to turn away to his desk until he turned around hearing the urgency of my voice. "Wait! I think this is all just a big misunderstanding. This was just a dumb and stupid high school Senior prank. We really didn't mean any harm. Honest! We're just dumb kids and we're going to graduate soon. You were a kid once and did stupid things, right?"
"No." He flatly replied.
What a loser...
"Oh..." I muttered and bowed my head in shame.
"We're going to interrogate you two soon so just sit tight, alright?"
"Yes, officer." I said and sat on a bench.
I hoped Kelso's hospital visit would be quick and he and Steven would realize we're missing. We all know we could get arrested from vandalizing the water tower and they would know that's what happened to us. But the longer I waited, I knew no one was coming for us.
During the interrogation, they did background checks on us. I turned out to be fine and in the clear. They knew I had some parking tickets, but I paid it off, and one time I drove past the speeding limit and got a ticket for that, too, but I paid the fine for that as well. As for Fez, he wasn't that lucky. They found out his Student Visa expires so he'll get deported. I felt terrible for him.
After that fiasco, they released us with no charges because I explained everything to them how it was just a dumb high school Senior prank. Fez was there to confirm it and be a witness. A police officer drove us to our home and I gave him the directions to the Formans house. He dropped us off, and to make this night worse, he escorted us to the front door and pressed the door bell button.
After a while, the door opened and it was...Red. Great. "Oh, holy hell!" He groaned being angry and upset that Fez and I was with a police officer. Kitty, Eric, and Laurie was watching the scene. Eric and Kitty was shocked and Laurie was taking this in with pure delight like the devil she was.
"Hey, Mr. Red." Fez greeted uneasily and was scared of him.
"It shouldn't be much of a surprise to you that another Hyde got arrested, right?" Steven got arrested for lying to the cop that the pot was his and not Jackie's.
"What did these two dumbasses do?" Red asked the officer. "And why didn't you keep them?"
"We caught them vandalizing the water tower, sir." He answered.
"Wait. Where's Hyde and Kelso?" Eric asked curiously. He knew about the prank.
"Kelso fell off the water tower." I answered.
"Again?"
"Yeah," I rolled my eyes. "And so Steven took him to the hospital. Is he still there?"
"No, they're downstairs."
"Good. I can't wait to get my hands on them..." I growled.
"You two vandalized the water tower?" Red angrily asked us. "Why on earth would you do that?"
"It was just a silly Senior prank!" Fez answered.
"Yeah, the silly Senior prank that got you to be deported." I muttered, but they all heard me.
"What?!" All the Formans exclaimed in shock.
"We did a background check and discovered his Student Visa will expire when he'll graduate from high school," The officer said. "Sorry to do this in the light of graduation, but these are the laws. Are there anymore questions?"
"No. We can take it from here, officer." Red answered and was glaring at the both of us.
"Have a good night." The officer politely tipped his hat at us and left for his car. Fez and I entered the house being ashamed of ourselves.
"What were you two thinking?" Red demanded us.
"Don't just give a lecture to us! Steven and Kelso was involved, too!" I angrily said. "We just happened to get caught. I know it was stupid, alright? It won't happen again!"
"It better not," Red scowled. "I know I don't have authority to Tonto over here, but I do to you and you're grounded for two weeks!"
I wanted to argue with him and shout back, but this was Red Forman so I knew better. I was just angry. Getting arrested was punishment enough.
"Fine," I bitterly said. "I just need to go talk to my...lovely brother first."
I went downstairs and Fez was following me.
As we reached the last stair, Fez stormed to them behind the couch and I furiously stood next to him.
"Well, thanks a lot for getting us out of the police station, you two sons of two BITCHES!"
Steven and Kelso exchanged clueless glances at each other then stared back at us.
"What? What happened?" Steven asked.
"Well, I got arrested and they did a background check and found out that my Student Visa expires when I graduate from high school." Fez answered.
"What...?" Kelso softly asked in disbelief.
"Yeah. Now I have to leave the country after graduation. That's in a week and I have to relearn my native language," Then he said sadly. "Good day..."
Kelso said with disappointment. "No, but Fez..."
Fez talked to him in a foreign language and stormed out of the door.
"Yeah, so, thanks for that!" I exclaimed being equally pissed off like Fez was.
"This is my fault, Rachel, I'm-" Kelso was about to apologize, but I turned to him fuming.
"Does it look like I want to hear an apology from you right now?" I snapped and he backed off. I was mad that I got arrested and Fez was getting deported.
Steven got up from his chair and walked up to me. "I'm really sorry. I didn't know. If I did -"
"Yeah, I know," I snapped. "Kelso was much more important! It's bad enough dealing with my break up. And to you hear you two fighting over Jackie like children. To top it off, not only did I get arrested tonight, Red grounded me. So thanks for all your help! You're really the brother of the year!" I glared at Kelso and was livid with him. "And you're an idiot for falling of the water tower!"
After I punched his arm, I angrily stormed off and went to my room.
After my two weeks grounding was up, I'm finally free and made the promise to Red that I'll never get into jail again. He said I should be lucky that he didn't kick me out, and believe me, I was.
Then, it was time for our graduation camping trip being altogether with our friends at the Big Lake. Tyler, Donna's boyfriend, was going to come with us, but they broke up because of college differences. Donna was going to Marquette and Tyler just wanted to desperately get out of Wisconsin and go to Texas. They didn't want to do long distance and just broke up. Fez was still sad and depressed about being deported and I really didn't blame him. Meanwhile, it was so annoying that Steven and Kelso was fighting over Jackie. I just wanted the both of them to shut up about her. They were both idiots in their own special way because they cheated on her. However, Jackie was liking the attention that they were fighting over her.
Even though it was supposed to be just our friends camping together, Laurie joined us unfortunately. But she was trying to be better to treat us somewhat decent. I have no idea what happened to her that she changed and be...nice.
It was night out at our camping sight. We had the fire going and Kelso was strumming on his guitar. He was parodying Don McLean's American Pie with his own version. I was sitting on the rock and being a bit uncomfortable that I sat next to Eric...who was my ex boyfriend. He noticed the seating arrangement too, but we didn't say anything. I hated how things was with us now, but that's how it had to be.
"Something touched me deep inside the day that Hyde...lied," Hyde gave Kelso a look and I tried holding in my smile. "So, bye, bye, Mr. Steven Hyde! I'm a hottie and you're nottie. Jackie's gonna be mine. She likes my brunette locks not your curly ass twine. Oh, Jackie Burkhart, you are so fiiiine," Kelso finished singing. "Wrote that just for you, Jackie."
"You didn't write that, you just ripped it off from American Pie." Steven accused.
"Nuh-uh! The American Pie guy ripped me off!" Kelso argued.
"Shut up, man!" Steven angrily yelled.
"You shut up!" Kelso fought back.
Jackie and I rolled our eyes at each other.
"You're better off with a monkey at this point, Jackie." I told her.
"Hey, I thought you were on my side." Steven got defensive at me.
"And then you cheated so good job," I remarked sarcastically. "And I still don't quite forgive you for leaving Fez and I to fend for ourselves as we got arrested!"
"Okay, guys, let's just have a good time together, alright?" Eric said being neutral. "This is, like, our last night being together like this."
"You're right," Donna agreed. "We shouldn't fight or argue," She looked at Steven and Kelso to scold them. "Jackie's a grown woman, not a toy the two of you can fight over like kids! She can make her own choice who she wants to be with."
"Thank you, Donna," Jackie said appreciatively and then started rubbing her hands together. "I'm kind of cold. I'll reward whoever gets more firewood by letting them feed me marshmallows."
"I'm not going to go running around the woods trying to impress you." Steven shook his head.
"I will!" Kelso immediately said and got up to look for wood.
Steven hesitated to follow after him because he knew that'll make him just as whipped as Kelso was. It's like he was debating about it. "Damn it!" He got up and went to look for more wood, too.
"You're having way too much fun with this." I said with amusement to her.
"They deserve it." Jackie said simply.
"Kelso has always been a two timing sleazebag, but what happened with Steven genuinely was a misunderstanding. He would have never wanted to hurt you and always regret it." I told her.
"I get what you're saying Rachel, but I don't really need to hear it from you and make excuses for him. I want to hear it from Steven. I just hated being treated this way by guys when I didn't even do anything wrong." Jackie was upset.
"I know that we may have not been the closest and I did make Kelso cheat on you with me," Laurie started to say. "And I know this apology is way overdue and I know it wouldn't even make up for half of the things I've done to you, but I'm really, really sorry for the break up I've caused with you and Kelso, Jackie," All of us was surprised and shocked to hear her say that. Out of all people. "Honestly, I was jealous of you and that you have everything and never had to work for it like I had to. You were even a single child," Then she looked at her Eric. "No offense, little brother," She turned her head back to Jackie. "And now you even have two guys fight over you which is, like, every girl's dream. If it were me, I'd just sleep with the both of them and be done with it, but you're not like me and you're better than that. Which is why I hate you even more. While you guys dated, Kelso didn't even want to kiss me if that made it any better, but when I saw you outside of the house, I did it anyway to hurt you. And I'm just sorry, okay. For everything. You don't have to forgive me. I don't really expect you to."
Everyone was speechless and we really didn't know what to say. Jackie was stunned and didn't expect that apology as well.
"Uh...thank you for that, Laurie," Jackie said. "Kelso and I was a thing in the past, anyway, but now...I don't know. I love them both in different ways."
"Go with Steven, Jackie," Donna advised. "He's obviously the better choice."
Jackie looked like she was in deep thought about it.
"That was really...nice what you said, Laurie," Eric said to his sister. "You really did change."
"Well, it's about time I should grow up," Laurie figured. Her blue eyes looked at him and I. "Are you two still dating?" The last time she visited, we were.
"No, uh, we broke up." I answered uncomfortably and she was surprised.
"Oh! I'm sorry..."
"It's fine." I said carelessly, waving it off.
The five us talked to each other and it was beautiful and serene being under the stars with nature. Later, Steven and Kelso returned with the wood. It looked like Kelso won the contest because of how little Steven had gotten. They restarted the fire again.
"Good. You two are here," Jackie said to them. "I thought it over and I made my decision."
"You did?" They eagerly said together.
"Yeah, and Michael-"
"HAH!" Kelso cheered triumphantly. "She picked me, man! Suck it, Hyde!"
"No!" Jackie shouted aggravatedly. "I just want to talk to you. In private."
"Oh, I know what 'in private' means, Jackie." Kelso slyly said with a stupid smirk.
"We're not going to do that, you moron!" Jackie rolled her eyes and dragged away with her.
Steven watched them go.
"Do you know who she's going to pick?" He asked me and I know he was worried and insecure.
"No." I admitted.
It was a while that Jackie was with Kelso, but the couple eventually returned. Kelso had a neutral, but pleasant look on his face. I didn't know what that meant.
"Okay, so, what was that about?" Steven asked confusedly.
"I just needed to talk to Michael alone to set some boundaries and closure," Jackie answered. "Because I really thought hard about my choice and I pick you Steven."
"Really?" He was surprised and so was I.
"Really," She confirmed with a small smile. "I know why you did what you did, but it was a misunderstanding, and you've just got to trust me better and we need to learn to talk and sort things out. If you do anything like that to me again, then we're over. For good. Got it?"
"Got it." Steven answered still being in shock and awe that she chose him.
"And, yeah, man, what Jackie said. We're friends and we shouldn't be fighting over a girl. You have my blessing to date Jackie and I'll back off." Kelso said maturely.
Steven gave him a look and I thought he was going to make some kind of a smart remark to him, but didn't. "Uh, thanks, man," He looked back to Jackie and approached to her. "I won't ever hurt you again, Jackie, and I really mean it. And I'm going to start showing you that more than speaking about it. You mean everything to me and I don't want to lose you like that again because...because I love you."
That was really big of Steven to tell Jackie to that. Not just to her, but to everyone in public. He usually wouldn't ever do that before, but I knew he means it from his heart and Jackie did too.
"I love you, too, Steven." Jackie softly said and they kissed each other.
"Aaaaawwwww!" We all cooed at them to get on Steven's nerves.
"Get bent!" He barked at us and we just sniggered at them. Jackie and Steven went into their own tent together.
"And they all lived happily ever after! The end!" Fez declared as if he finished reading a novel.
"Yeah, don't you just hate happy endings?" Kelso sadly sighed as he sat down on a rock looking glum.
"Oh, come on, Kelso, there's other girls out there," Eric encouraged. "You're always bound to find any poor girl who's willing to do it with you."
"But Jackie was different and special. She just wanted Hyde more than me, I guess..." He looked depressed. "Maybe I deserved it."
"You do." Eric, Donna, Fez, and I bluntly agreed together.
There was a long silence until Laurie got up and happily announced. "Well, I'm going to skinny dipping! Anyone wants to join me?"
"Yes!" Kelso and Fez eagerly said like the perverts they were.
"Not you two," She glowered at them, but brightly looked at Donna and I. "Rachel? Donna?"
"No thanks." She rejected.
I shrugged. "Sure why not?"
Laurie smiled and grabs my hand to lead me to the lake. We stripped off all our clothes together and was about to swim until Laurie screamed and covered her naked self with her hands.
"Wha - ah!" I screamed as well when we caught Fez and Kelso spying on us. I covered my body with my hands, too. "What are you pervs doing here?!"
"We didn't think you'd find us behind the trees!" Fez replied trying to be innocent.
"I don't even have a camera!" Kelso exclaimed, but we threw rocks at the both of them anyway until they'll run off.
After they're gone, we couldn't believe what those two idiots did.
"Fun time got ruined..." I grumbled.
"No, it didn't. We can still go swimming." Laurie insisted.
"Now I feel like there's eyes watching us." I said being paranoid.
Laurie simply shrugged. "Well, if you're not going to swim then I will!"
"You go do that. Don't you want towels to dry off?" I offered.
"Sure."
"Okay. I'll get changed and look in Kelso's van for them." I told her and I put my clothes back on and look for Kelso since he had the keys.
I found him on my way in the woods to our campsite.
"Kelso," I called for him and he turned around with a stupid grin on his face.
"What do you want, good lookin'?" He smirked at me and I rolled my eyes.
"Laurie needs towels to dry off after swimming and I need you to open your van so I can get them." I explained.
"Oh, the keys are already in there."
I stared at him in disbelief. "You left your keys inside the van?! Why would you do that? What if somebody stole it?"
"It distracts me from my natural bulge, god!" Kelso yelled and I followed him to the van. On our way there, he told me. "You have a very hot bod, by the way."
"Uh, thanks." I rolled my eyes.
He opened the van and opened a duffle bag to give me a towel. We sat inside the van together and looked up at the sky in admiration.
"It is a beautiful night tonight, isn't it?" Kelso asked looking at me.
"Yeah, it's been a while since I went camping." I said, staring back at him.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"I did it at a friend's house when I was younger, but it was in her backyard. We made smores with the microwave. It wasn't that great."
"I'd be willing to try it."
I smirked. "Of course you would."
"I didn't say this to you, but I'm sorry things didn't work out with you and Eric" Kelso sympathized. "Why did you break up with him again?"
"I thought he still likes Donna. And they're probably alone together right now so who knows what's going on with them?" I had to change the subject from talking about them. "You can't be really okay that Jackie is back to dating my brother again."
"I'm not, but if Hyde is what makes Jackie happy then...her happiness is more important to me."
"That's real mature of you, Kelso." I said and was actually impressed by his growth.
"Thanks," He smiled to me. "Looks like we're just two pathetic broken hearted people, huh?"
"I guess..."
Kelso wrapped an arm around me and said suggestively. "We just need some makin' love in between us to fill the void-"
"Kelso, you're not going to sleep with me just to get back at Jackie and Steven!" I said angrily and was about to leave, but he stopped me looking shocked and offended.
"I'm not! I just thought that the both of us are alone and heartbroken, and we only have each other right now! We're going through the same thing!" He insisted. "It's just two friends being together and coming together." He smiled a little at the end there and I gave him a look for his innuendo which made his smile went wider.
"I don't know..." I shook my head.
"You never had The Michael Kelso Experience. It'll rock your world, babe." He bragged.
I laughed. "Yeah, right!"
"I'll prove it to you!" Kelso's hands was holding onto my face and we stared at each other's eyes. Then he leaned into me and kissed me.
His mouth moved along so expertly and being skilled. Had a lot more experience than Eric did, but that's not the only reason I love it. It actually was amazing and got me lost with his kiss. How he kissed me so soft and slowly and he easily slipped his tongue into my mouth and danced with mine. Our lips perfectly molded together in unison. Kelso was a very talented kisser, I'll give him that. It also made me feel something I never felt before. Something entirely new and different than when I kissed Eric.
This felt more real with him.
I didn't know how long we kissed until we moved our bodies to be inside the van in the back. We were still hungrily kissing each other and going at it like crazy. I now knew why it was so easy to get seduced by the great Michael Kelso. After a while, we stopped making out to catch our breaths.
"That was..." Kelso was at a loss for words.
"Wow." I filled in.
"Yeah. Wow," He made a smug smirk. "Do you want to continue or...?"
"Close the door." I found myself saying and there was that glint in his eyes because he knew he had me.
Kelso went to close the door and we heatedly made out again as if we're in desperate need of each other. He was kissing my neck and our hands was groping and caressing each other's bodies. He let my clothing come off first and then his.
After a bit of foreplay, that's when I really had The Michael Kelso Experience. Of course we were protected. I even cried out his first name at the intense pleasure. I never called him by Michael before. He was happy I did for the first time especially at this moment.
We were under the blankets after our...one night stand.
"You called me Michael," Kelso teased and I scowl at him. "You should call me that more often."
"Yeah, well, don't get used to it." I muttered.
