"Oh, if you say I'm nuts, you're going right through that sliding door!"
Was the first thing Lacey Forman heard as she pulled open the fore mentioned door and stepped into the kitchen, confused she peered around her brother and his girlfriend to see a shouting Kitty who was obviously distressed.
Smiling softly as Kitty ranted at the two teens, Lacey pushed past her brother.
"I don't enjoy… Oh my god, Lacey," Kitty ran to her daughter all excited, forgetting all about what she was going to say to her son. Hugging her mother back, Lacey laughed softly as she was grabbed by the hand and pulled through the kitchen. Laughing even more at the flabbergasted look on Eric's face.
"Hey guys, I missed you." She managed to say before finding herself with a face full of blonde hair. Catching herself on the kitchen unit as she fell backwards from the force of her sister's hug, she patted her sisters back as her twin began sobbing in her arms. "Lolz, baby, what's going on? I didn't think you missed me this much?"
"Wow, I have never seen Laurie cry before?" was the remark from Donna.
"Making people cry is one of the powers that the devil twins share," replied Eric before shooting a smirk at his sister. Sticking her tongue out at her brother in response, she turned back to Laurie who was honestly making it a little hard to breathe, with how hard she was hugging Lacey.
Pulling herself together Laurie smiled at her twin, "I just missed you that's all. We must go out tonight, although since dad's not here, I don't have any money." Smiling at her sister's pout, and squeezing her hand in solidarity.
"I'd love too, I picked up my pay cheque before driving home, so that should pay for a few drinks. Where is dad anyway?"
Laurie shared a look with Kitty before they both turned to look at Eric and Donna, "He's gone fishing!"
Horrified, Lacey turned to the couple, "Oh god, what did you do?"
"What did they do? What did they do? I'll tell you what they did! Eric told your father that he is moving out?" Kitty ranted.
Confused, Lacey looked at her brother her eyebrow raised in disbelief, "and… this caused Dad… to go fishing?" she questioned, not believing that the thing that Red had been jokingly wishing for, for years, would make him angry enough to go fishing.
"Yes!" Kitty exclaimed, before turning to her son, "and just you wait until your father comes home." she stated before storming out of the kitchen.
Taking the cupcake offered to her by Laurie, Lacey hopped up onto the counter and watched, honestly amused, as Eric blamed Laurie for everything that happened. It was a running theme in their household that if anything bad happened to Eric when Laurie was in a ten-yard radius of him, it was automatically her fault. Though, Lacey really didn't like how Donna was now involved in teaming up against Laurie.
"Eric, you don't understand. This time I actually meant well." Said Laurie.
"That's what you said at the county fair after you locked me in the porta-potty with the goat."
Snorting, Lacey interrupted, "actually, that was me." smirking as Eric turned to look at her, a flabbergasted look on his face, she took another bite of her cake to hide her laugh.
"What!?" he shouted, swinging his arms around.
Acting nonchalant, she shrugged her shoulders, "What? All you talked about all day was wanting to see the goats."
Laurie struggling to hide her laughter walked over to the fridge, so she didn't have to face their brother. Donna bit her lip, but seeing Laurie's shoulders shake and Lacey's smirk made it hard for her to hide her amusement., So the red-headed girl turned away from her boyfriend and the twins.
Gobsmacked, Eric stuttered over his words before finally shouting, "I didn't want to be trapped with a horny one."
As Lacey walked down the stairs with her laundry, she found the basement as always occupied with Eric's friends.
"Third time is when I get funky."
Rolling her eyes, and snorting in amusement at Fez's ploy to have sex, thinking to herself that nothing really changed with teenage boys, or in her experience, men in general. They all thought they had to play games to get laid, when just having respect for their intended partner and being honest, would help them have sex more often.
The amount of laundry she had made it difficult not to fall, so, Lacey slowly moved down the narrow staircase. As she reached the bottom, she nearly had a heart attack as Jackie walked in slamming the door shut, walking in as if she owned the place.
Spotting Hyde on his usual seat, Lacey tried to look away from the anarchist as he reminded her of someone she was trying to forget. Hyde was not having any of it and made sure to catch Lacey's eyes as she made her way behind him, looking the older girl up and down, thoroughly checking her out, before turning away.
Having heard from Donna that Eric's, in his opinion, prettier sister was home for the foreseeable future, he had expected to see the girl at some point. Hyde had honestly felt his heart race at the thought of seeing her, not that he let it show.
Not seeing her since her short Christmas visit home, he wandered, not for the first time, how Lacey seemed to get all the good genes from her parents. While Eric was OK and Laurie was pretty, Lacey seemed to have that extra glow, that made people want to take an extra look or four at the girl.
Watching the older girl carry her laundry across the basement in just a large t-shirt, a favourite of the twins to wear around the house apparently, Hyde wondered not for the first time about Lacey's long golden legs wrapped around his waist.
Jumping up from his chair to odd looks from the others, as his thoughts nearly give him a boner, Hyde quickly offered to help Lacey with her load of laundry. As the rest of the boys stared like the perverts they were and Jackie continued to ignore him, Hyde placed the laundry basket on top of the washing machine for the older girl.
"Hi Lacey," Kelso shouted excitedly at the girl. Sniffing in amusement at her ex's baby brother, Lacey turned away from directing Hyde where to put her laundry basket.
"Hi Michael, you OK?" Lacey questioned the overexcited puppy, smiling as he grinned goofy at her.
"I'm good," he stated before whispering excitedly with Fez.
Smiling at the girl, as she smiled at him in thanks, Hyde felt awkward at how much the older girl could make him feel despite not having had a proper conversation.
Moving away from Lacey and focusing on Jackie, so nobody, especially Kelso and Fez, clued in to this crush of his. They would never let him hear the end of it, especially with the amount of crap he gave Kelso about Laurie. But if Hyde was actually honest with himself, the crap he gave Kelso about Laurie was more about him being slightly territorial over the girl, since until then he was the only one in the group to sleep with her, and Laurie sleeping with Kelso meant an end of an era, they could no longer fool around in secret if she was doing the same with Kelso.
Him beginning to fool around with Jackie was his own personal revenge, it didn't matter to him that Kelso didn't know about him and Laurie, it soothed his anger. Until he caught feelings for the small, bossy girl, but he knew that since they broke up, he was more concerned about Kelso winning this little competition between them than getting Jackie back.
Lacey kept her eyes down and her focus on sorting out her clothes to wash before she sat on the dryer with her current book, listening as Hyde tried to apologize to Jackie for cheating on her. Keeping quiet due to not wanting to get involved in someone else's relationship, she made sure not to look at anyone in the room.
As Jackie left not even acknowledging Lacey which was common from the jumped- up rich girl. She looked up from her book towards the group of friends only to see Fez taking a photo up Donna's skirt. Not willing to let him or anyone get away with that, she made sure to stick her leg out as he ran past her and away from Donna.
Fez went flying into the side of the couch and seeing that Donna was still behind him, he quickly got up and made his way out of the door, limping, to the sound of Hyde's laughter.
Donna came to stand beside her boyfriend's sister, "Thanks for that." The taller teen expressed her gratitude with a grin.
"No problem," Lacey replied, smiling at the younger girl. Donna was quick to leave to catch up with Jackie, knowing that her friend was going to want to talk about what happened with Hyde, despite her being the one who decided to ignore the anarchist.
Alone with Steven Hyde, Lacey tried to ignore the younger boy, as she read her book and waited for her washing to be done.
"So, what? You are just going to ignore me?" Hyde questioned as he sat on the arm of the sofa facing the girl he had been dreaming about for years.
Turning to look at the cocky teen, Lacey calmly smiled, "I'm not ignoring you, Steven. I just have nothing to say to you." Honestly the kid reminded her of his brother, the same with Michael to be honest.
Huffing in disdain, the troublemaker walked over and stood in front of the blonde girl. "What if I have things, I want to say to you?"
Purposely re-sorting some of her clothes that were going in the washer next, so she didn't have to look at Hyde, now that he was so close to her, she calmly replied to the easily angered boy. "Considering we've never had a conversation before, and I just heard you practically beg Jackie to take you back, what could you possibly have to say to me?"
Grabbing the girls face with both hands, Hyde forced Lacey to look at him, "How about the fact that despite being with Jackie, I haven't been able to keep my mind of you for years." He answered, surprising Lacey. For a second she was transported to last Christmas in a flat on the other side of town, nine gin and lemonades down with Billy Hyde instead of Steven Hyde staring down at her. For a second she leaned in as Steven leaned down to kiss her, until reality caught up with her with the beep of the washing machine.
Sitting down with Laurie, Eric, and Donna at the dining table that night was stressful for Lacey. When she realized she had to come home she was determined not to involve herself in any drama, she was determined to avoid her ex, avoid the older Hyde, and any boy that had any past with Laurie. And yet here she was after not even one day, nearly kissing the other Hyde, who had enough drama of his own, and who had slept with Laurie a couple of years ago.
Laurie was suspicious, as she noticed that her twin was in a bad mood, meaning she was extra bitchy when she did talk. Although it made Donna laugh, Eric and Laurie shared worried looks.
Lacey just listened to Laurie plan their night out, not contributing at all. Her thoughts kept circling on whether she made the right move coming back home, considering all the old drama she left behind unsolved, and all the new ones that seemed to be on the verge of drowning her.
She just really needed a night out.