Well here's my attempt at the Thanksgiving episode rewrite.  I would like to extend my thanks of M3 for helping me put these stories together, as well as everyone who has read and reviewed.  Makes all the hard work worthwhile. 

Point Place, Wisconsin

November 24th , 1976

3:45 pm

THE BUS STATION

It's the day before Thanksgiving and it's freezing outside the bus station. Eric shivers and hugs himself to keep warm while the family waits for Laurie's bus to arrive. Kitty won't let them go inside the station to wait - the people in there are unsavory. Red won't let them sit in the car - it will waste gas. Eric starts to argue but Kitty changes the subject.

"Oh Eric, I forgot to tell you. Your sister's bringing a friend home, so you'll be sleeping in the basement." Kitty nervously looks around, missing the outrage on Eric's face.

Kitty drops another bomb, this time on her husband. "Oh, and Red, I've been thinking. Maybe this Thanksgiving, we should skip the big turkey. Small ones are on sale at Piggly-Wiggly," Eric begins to argue about the basement, and Red begins to argue about chickens and his mother.

Red, realizing he's getting nowhere with Kitty, settles both issues in his usual blunt way, finishing it off with a spectacularly grumpy "and we're all having a happy damn Thanksgiving!"

Laurie emerges from the station before Eric can do more than pout, and introduces her friend, Kate, to everyone. They quickly head for the station wagon, the rest of the family missing Kate's flirting with Eric. Suddenly, it's not quite so cold outside.

THE DRIVEWAY

Red orders Eric to get Kate set up in his bedroom, and Laurie can't resist a burn about his G.I. Joe dolls. Eric burns her back, but forgets all about Laurie when Kate informs him quietly that she sleeps practically naked. "I hope it's not cold tonight."

Midge appears in the driveway to chat about the holiday. Kitty begins to get worked up about Red's mother coming to visit, and Midge confides that she and Bob take bubble baths when he gets tense. Kitty imagines a soapy Bob in a tub and shudders. For once she's glad to hear that her mother-in-law is on the phone, and quickly walks away from a clueless Midge.

THE HUB

The gang was gathered around Eric in the HUB, waiting to hear the details about Kate, Laurie's college friend. Fez is going to pout about missing a conversation like this, Hyde thinks, smiling to himself.

"So this Kate, is she hot?" he asks Eric.

"Of course she's hot. All college girls are hot. I mean we've all seen the brochures, right?" replies Kelso, not realizing that Hyde was directing the question to Eric.

Hyde just rolls his eyes at his ignorant friend. What a fantasy world Kelso lives in, man.

"Okay, Donna, help me play some music, right now." Jackie interrupts, trying to get Donna away from the guys. She really wants to ask her what she thinks of the whole Kate situation. The girls head to the jukebox, away from the table, to talk.

Waiting until the girls were out of earshot, Hyde repeats, "So, she's hot."

"Oh, so hot!" responds Eric.

"Okay, are you okay?" Jackie asks her red headed friend. She wonders how Donna is taking this latest incident, especially after the whole drive-in drama this past week. She tried to question Donna about what happened to her mystery man, but so far her lumberjack friend had managed to dodge all her questions.

"Umm, yeah." Donna replies, not sure what Jackie is actually asking about. Somehow the thought of Kate staying in Eric's room didn't bother her as much as she thought it would. She starts thinking about the conversation she had with Hyde after the drive in a few days ago.

Jackie interrupts Donna's thoughts. "Donna, how can you be okay? There's a college woman sleeping in his bed!"

Donna shrugs and flips through the jukebox titles, but Jackie won't let up, as usual. "This wouldn't have anything to do with your mystery man would it? The one that you've been avoiding talking to me about all week?" Jackie stares at her with that stubborn mule look, so Donna asks for a dime, to distract the little pit bull.

As Jackie digs through her purse, Donna's thoughts go back to Hyde. People were starting to get suspicious, Eric included. We've been friends for far too long to have Eric confront Hyde about this. It would totally blow up, Hyde could break Eric like a twig, and nothing would ever be the same in the group. Hyde had refused to apologize for The Kiss and Donna didn't press it. But for her part, she refused to admit that she actually enjoyed both the kiss and the dance. I started this thing with Eric, and for the good of the group and our friendships I have to ignore any random Hyde feelings. Luckily, Hyde seemed to feel the same way. I wonder what I would have said if he hadn't let it go and didn't agree to forget about it. And Jackie is staring at me again! Donna took the dime her friend was holding out to her and picked the first song her fingers landed on.

Jackie saw Donna's eyes glaze over as she pretended to pick a song and realizes her friend was thinking about Mystery Man again. I already know that it's Hyde, Jackie thinks to herself. I just wish we could talk about it. Whatever had happened at the disco seems to have been patched up, but they did seem a little cozier than they had before. There were looks, smiles, little comments back and forth. I can't believe Eric hasn't noticed. He's probably basking in the glory of having a girlfriend finally, and can't even see the most obvious threat! Jackie rolled her eyes. "Um, back to Eric and the slutty girl? And your mystery man?" she prompted.

"He's sleeping in the basement," Donna replies, pretending to look for another song. But why aren't I bothered by this slutty girl? Eric is supposed to be my boyfriend, I think, so I should be upset. "And as far as my mystery man's concerned, I know I promised to tell you everything, but there's nothing to tell. We talked and decided its best for us to remain friends." Except I'm still thinking about him, Donna's mind taunts.

 "Donna, stairs are not going to stop a high school horn dog. Barbed wire will not stop a high school horn dog. A wall of fire will not…" Jackie replies, but trails off mid tirade as she realizes that Donna just accidentally revealed some important information. "Your mystery man is a friend??" She tries to pretend that this is news to her, widening her eyes. "Well, I'll just tuck that bit of information away. I mean how many guys can a lumberjack like you keep around?" Donna glared down at her. "Um, no offense, of course, I'm just saying that… You spend most of your time with the guys in the basement." Oh crap, that was wrong, Jackie panicked to herself. "And you seriously need a makeover, Jackie style." Maybe if I piss her off enough, she won't catch on that I know, and she'll let something else slip, and then I can play Nancy Drew and reveal the entire plot!

"Jackie!" exclaims a rather enraged Donna. "Don't you think that was taking it a bit far?"

Judging by the look on Donna's face, her plan was working. "I'm sorry, it's just that you're clearly not over this guy, yet you keep avoiding the topic. I'm your best friend, Donna! You can't blame me for wanting some girl talk," Jackie responds defensively. It is so obvious that Donna cares about Hyde, whether they are 'just friends' or not. Whatever they discussed, it's not over, not by far. And Nancy Drew is on the case! "Plus, who else are you going to confide in? Certainly not one of those guys!"

Both girls turn and look at the guys back at their table, who were still smirking about Kate's hotness and her staying in Eric's room. Kelso makes a particularly nasty innuendo, which results in Eric frogging him in the arm. "Owww. That hurt!" Kelso cries out in pain.

Donna raises an eyebrow at Jackie. "I see your point. But there's nothing to confide, we're friends and that's that," she responds wistfully.

"I don't think that's quite true," replies Jackie.

"Jackie, it doesn't matter. I'm with Eric, and he's got a skanky college girl staying in his room." Donna tries to make it sound like she's upset. Jackie will never leave me alone if I don't at least act pissed off at Eric. But… for some reason, I don't really mind. And that's probably not the right response.

Jackie sniffed. "If I were you, I'd tell him to order the skank out of his room. That sort of thing always works with Michael." She was watching Michael, rubbing his arm yet again before he started in on Eric. God, he never learns, no matter how many times he gets smacked. She rolls her eyes and turns back to Donna, "And when you're ready to talk about the mystery man, remember I'm here okay?" she adds in a nicer tone. I want some juicy gossip but the lumberjack holds out on me yet again. Well, I'm sure she'll slip eventually, and I'll be here to listen.

Donna realizes that she had been staring at Hyde back at the table. "Um, yeah, okay Jackie," she replies, trying to get her friend to back off. "Well, I'm done here with the music so…" They headed back to the table, Donna missing the fact that Jackie was staring at Hyde as well.

"So what do you guys wanna do?" she asks, inadvertently looking at Hyde. Donna forces her gaze away, focuses on Eric and smiles brightly. OK, not too obvious there, Donna, she chides herself, Let's stare a little bit more, why don't we?

Eric stares down at the ketchup on his plate, which suddenly looks like Kate. "Eric, I hope it doesn't get too cold tonight. I sleep practically naked," says Kate/ketchup. Kelso dunks a fry in his ketchup, abruptly ending Eric's fantasy.

"Yeah, well, I guess I'm just gonna, just gonna, I'm tuckered out, so… I might as well go home!" a rather panicked Eric replies and runs out of the Hub.

ERIC'S BEDROOM  

Later That Night

Kate is sitting on Eric's bed playing with his GI Joes when someone knocks on the door.

"Come in!" Kate calls.

Eric walks in and stops. "Wow," is all he can manage to say, seeing Kate in her thin nightie, lounging across his bed. His bed, where no woman has gone before. And certainly no woman in a thin, lacy little nightie.

"What?" asks Kate, playing innocent.

"Um, I was just coming up here to get something to sleep in. So, I, I guess I'll see you later." He turns towards the door.

"You can stay and talk a minute if you want." She smiles and puts the action figures down.

"Okay."

"Close the door."

Eric does so, and turns back around saying, "Okay. So, Kate. That's short for Katherine, right?" She smiles at him, giving all the right signals.

Eric manages to walk across the room without tripping and sits beside her on the bed.

"So, have you thought about where you wanna go to school yet?" Kate asks him.

"Oh. Well, I like your school. I found that it was really…"

Kate cuts Eric off by abruptly kissing him. Eric starts to pull her down onto the bed but she breaks the kiss.

"I have to go to bed now." Kate says, throwing Eric completely off balance.

"Wait, we are in bed. Oh. Okay I see." Eric says looking disappointed.

He starts to get up, then changing his mind sits down again.

"Okay," he says.

"So, goodnight."

"Goodnight." He doesn't move.

"Eric." All the girly sexy signals are gone now!

"Could just… one second…" Eric needs to cool down and beings to run through a mental list of non sexual images… baseball, Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon, Pat Boone, the girl that gives the weather, no, no. Okay, jellyfish, really big spiders, come on, dig deep, dig deep, okay, the day we backed over Skipper in the driveway. Instead of going to the county fair, I had to bury him in the backyard.

Finally he speaks again, his voice a little high, "Okay. I'm good and goodnight," Eric stands and leaves his room.

THE BASEMENT

The next day

The guys are in the basement, sitting in the circle.

"So you made out with a college girl?" Fez says to Eric.

"Kinda."

"Start talking." Hyde replies. If he's done anything to hurt Donna, I'll give him a foot so far up the ass he won't know where it ends and he begins. Whoa, where did that come from? he asks himself. He considered the matter closed between him and Donna. She'd shown up to talk the night after her drive-in date with Eric. Hyde had told her he would not apologize for kissing her, and she… She didn't seem to mind. They decided it would be best if they were just friends. Donna didn't say it, and I didn't have the nerve, but I know she kissed Eric after the Rundgren concert. She made her choice. So why wasn't he convinced?

"Tell it like a story, like a sexy story," Kelso was saying to Eric when Hyde started paying attention to the group again.

"Okay, she like jammed her entire tongue into my mouth and you wouldn't think a girl had like that much tongue," Eric replies in a tone of awe. He didn't notice Hyde giving him a disgusted look.

"That is great!" replies Kelso, just about falling off his chair.

"Oh, oh yeah," Eric looks dejected.

"OK, What?" Hyde asks, still looking angry, but trying to maintain his zen-like composure. Damn, man, Eric can be such an idiot. He's got the perfect girlfriend and he screws it up by kissing one of his sister's slutty friends. Hyde shook his head and took a deep breath. He handed something over to Kelso. Meanwhile, here I sit wanting to pound one of my best friends because he's hurting the only girl I've ever cared about. What am I thinking?

"I don't know, I feel kinda guilty. Almost like dirty." Eric coughed and passed something to Fez.

Hyde was staring at Eric now, but Eric was staring at the posters behind Fez. I thought Donna and I were good. We're friends. Just friends. Normally, I'd encourage Eric to screw up so it'd all blow up and Donna would pound him and I'd laugh… But after dancing with her… Holding her and looking into her eyes… Fez was nudging him to take something. He passed it on to Kelso without even thinking.

"Dirty is good," says Kelso in a lewd sort of way, before erupting into giggles.

"I like feeling dirty," responds Fez. Man, is Fez really that innocent? Or is he just pretending? This circle really messes with your mind. Hyde raises an eyebrow at Fez and is about to ask when Eric interrupts.

"No, no, I mean I feel bad. Look, I think I gotta tell Donna." Eric looks a little sick. We should cut him off, before he does something really stupid, Hyde thinks.

Instead, the anger kicks in. "Really, well, on behalf of men everywhere…" Hyde trails off as he stands up, reaches across the table and slaps Eric. "If you tell her, you're only gonna hurt her man." I should have slapped him harder, Hyde thinks and begins to reach out again.

"Oww. That hurt!" exclaims Eric. "Besides, what makes you care so much all of a sudden? You thrive on this sort of thing… I screw up, get yelled at, you're happy." He was rubbing his cheek.

Hyde looks at the rock posters guiltily, but doesn't respond. Damn, he thinks to himself, Eric finally quit being suspicious about the disco and I had to go and blow it by lashing out at him. He flexed his hand under the table, still feeling the sting from the slap. But man, he deserved it! It's bad enough that he kissed some skanky college girl behind Donna's back, but to see him hurt her by telling her is more than I can take… Hyde manages to look up at Eric, who seems to have recovered and is accepting something from Kelso's outstretched hand. There's a mark on Eric's face, though.

Kelso, lost in his own thoughts missed the whole confrontation between Hyde and Eric and comes out with, "Yeah man, the right thing to do is to juggle them both until it all blows up in your face."

Everyone just looks at Kelso, disgusted. What a ****ing moron. Why are we friends with him again? Hyde opens his mouth for a rebuttal to Kelso's stupidity, but Eric speaks first.

"I know you think it's a bad idea to tell her Hyde, but you guys just don't understand. I can't hide anything. The minute she looks at me, she's gonna know," says Eric. He even manages to mix 'scared' in with 'worry' on his face.

Donna chooses that moment to come down the stairs.

"Hey, what are you guys talking about?" Donna asks.

"I kissed a girl," Eric confesses in a rush.

Hyde, Fez, and Kelso get up and toss various insults and dirty looks at Eric. Hyde pauses for a second as he passes by Donna and gives her a pitying look. Then the three of them leave, giving Eric and Donna some time alone to talk.

"You what?" Donna exclaims angrily. OK, being in the same house with a college slut is one thing, but kissing someone is totally different!

"You know that friend my sister brought home from college?"

"The slutty one." Donna replies. Please please don't tell me Jackie was right about this. Eric, please do not tell me you…

"Yeah, um, I kissed her," Eric says contritely.

… kissed the slut. "Why are you telling me this?" And why am I less angry and more disappointed?, Donna questions herself. Maybe it's because I did the same thing with Hyde?

Yeah, but that's not the same thing, I mean it's not like I kissed Hyde or anything. He initiated it, so why should I have to feel guilty?

Eric's voice brings her back to the present. "…I, I feel guilty because it was like really kissing."

"So, what we do isn't really kissing?" Donna replies, a bit angry at what Eric seemed to be implying. You should be happy I kiss you at all you lying little twerp!

"I thought you should know considering that you and I have a thing. Right?"

"Well, obviously we don't have a thing if you're running around kissing slutty girls right?" Donna threw back at him.

"Okay, you're mad," says Eric anxiously.

"Mad, no. Why should I be mad, in fact, you can kiss whatever you want. Start with your own butt!" Donna replies, and storms out of the basement. She was well on her way up the kitchen stairs before she realized she was muttering out loud. Donna stopped for a moment, clenched her teeth, and continued her angry stomp and inner thoughts.

FORMAN KITCHEN

Red, Fez, Kelso, and Hyde are sitting at the table talking.

"Why are you here? Why are you always here? It's Thanksgiving, don't you have families?" asks Red, exasperated.

"Ugh!" the guys reply, thinking of their families. I doubt Edna even knows it's a holiday, Hyde thinks to himself. And I know that Fez's foster parents don't want him to celebrate their holiday, him being a foreigner makes him unable to grasp the concept. Kelso probably doesn't even know where he is, let alone what day it is.

Donna walks right by everyone without a word.

Hyde takes a look at her as she's walking away. "Donna, you wanna talk?" he asks, wondering about her look earlier, and wanting to apologize about the way Eric was treating her.

She utters a simple, "No, it's okay," and leaves. OK, that was sweet. And so not Hyde-like. He always seems to have a soft spot where I'm concerned, she realizes. She is thinking again about how he learned to dance for her… Thinking again of the kiss… She puts her fingers to her lips as she heads home.

 Jackie was right, Eric is a whore. It must run in the family, Whore Laurie brought Whore Kate home to meet Whore Eric. Whore Eric who was supposed to be my boyfriend, my loyal boyfriend. Hyde wouldn't pull that crap. He wouldn't kiss some slut if we were going out. Hyde actually cared about me. She stopped suddenly in the driveway, and turned back to face the kitchen. Maybe I should… Donna looked at Hyde, who was standing staring into an open refrigerator. Suddenly, as if he knew he was being watched, he looked up and out the glass patio doors right at her. He seemed angry and disappointed, but kept her gaze. Eric needs a taste of his own medicine. I should tell him about the disco. Hyde looked away first as Fez came over to stand beside him and take a pudding cup. Donna turned back to her house.

PINCIOTTI'S KITCHEN  

Hyde isn't a slut, and that's not why he kissed me. But I still didn't tell Eric about it. Does that make me the slut? Donna found her mother in the kitchen, and slumped down in a chair next to her at the table.

"Sweetie, what's wrong? You know your father doesn't like people to be unhappy on his favorite holiday!" Midge reached over and tucked a strand of long red hair behind Donna's ear.

"Nothing." Donna replied. She wished she could have some privacy for once. But Midge just went back to her coffee, lost in her own thoughts.

It's different with Hyde, Donna stared into space. Kate is a slut. Eric is a slut. But how can I even get mad at Eric when I did almost the same thing? And how about the fact that since it happened I can't stop thinking about it? And how about the fact that I've wanted nothing more than for Hyde to kiss me again? I told him I wanted to remain friends so we didn't screw up our group of friends, but I just can't forget the fact that he learned to dance… for me… Donna wished she could ask someone about all this, and glanced over at her mother. No. She couldn't tell her mother. Donna almost picked up the phone to call Jackie. But that would mean she'd have to tell the bossy little midget about the Disco. And she didn't want to share that yet. It's like a happy, confusing little secret.

"What the hell!" Donna exclaimed out loud, smacking the table and startling Midge.

FORMAN KITCHEN

"I guess Donna didn't take it very well," says Kelso, still sitting at the Forman kitchen table.

"Take what well?" asks Red, frowning at Kelso.

"Eric made out with Kate."

Red's eyebrows shot up. "Anything else?"

"Your son is a whore!" interjects Fez, struggling to open a pudding cup. "Oooh, chocolate!"

Fez leaves the kitchen with his pudding, Kelso and Hyde close behind just as Eric comes in. Hyde gives Eric a dirty look as he leaves, which no one notices.

"Eric, now Donna came through here looking very upset. Would you have any idea what that's about?" Red asks Eric, keeping his tone mild.

"I have no idea. She seemed fine when we - um, you already know." The look on Red's face spoke volumes. He was going to start yelling.

"Of course I know. Donna is such a sweet kid. How could you do this to her?" Surprisingly, Red really sounded more disappointed than mad. Which was even scarier.

Eric stammered, thinking of a response that wouldn't trigger yelling. "I don't know. It seems like bad things are always happening to me, like I have bad luck or something."

"Son, you don't have bad luck. The reason that bad things happen to you is because you're a dumbass. Now fix it!"

PINCIOTTI'S KITCHEN

Donna and Midge are sitting frowning down at the kitchen table when Eric bursts in.

"Look, Donna, um, can we talk?" Eric asks.

"I'll leave you two alone." Midge replies, and she gets up to leave.

"No. You should stay. We don't have secrets in our house, we don't sneak on each other like a little horny rat, kissing other girls," Donna retorts. Though the actual incident didn't bother her as much as she thought it should, she was still mad at Eric for doing this to her. Their relationship wasn't off to as good of a start as they had hoped if he's kissing other girls. Now I almost wish that I didn't stop Hyde at a simple peck… Why should I feel guilty, I mean if Eric's going to be making out with other girls, why can't I do the same with guys? I wonder what the kiss might've been like if I hadn't stopped it…

"Look, Donna, please come to my house for Thanksgiving desert. Everyone's gonna be there, you always come. Please don't let some stupid thing that I did wreck that." Eric says, breaking Donna's chain of thought.

Donna raises an eyebrow at him. "Well, I can't depend on you, so why should you be able to depend on me?" she sniped back.

"Look, Donna, please, okay, I'm really sorry, and I feel really bad." Eric says, remorse showing all over his face.

"Good!" It took him long enough to apologize.

Eric leaves the house, dejection evident in every part of his body. Donna slams the door after he walks out.

"Poor thing!" Midge says, looking at the door.

"Mom!" exclaims Donna, surprised her Mom would take Eric's side. If only I could tell her about the kiss from Hyde…

"Oh you, of course I meant you!" Midge cries, looking apologetically at her daughter.

FORMAN DINING ROOM

Red, Kitty, Eric, and Laurie are sitting at the dinner table preparing to eat their Thanksgiving dinner. As they get started, Kitty comments that she can't seem to help thinking she's forgetting something. Suddenly, the phone rings, and realization dawns on Kitty's face. "Oh. My. God."

She takes the phone from Laurie and puts on a smile, "Hello Mother Forman! No, I didn't forget you! Oh, I don't know, the kids left a half hour ago to pick you up. I can't imagine what's keeping them." She hits the table in frustration, and sends Eric and Laurie scrambling out the door to pick up her mother-in-law.

LATER

The kids have returned, but Mother Forman is nowhere to be seen. Red prompts Laurie, who explains that grandma is going to Cousin Joe's for Thanksgiving. She lights up a cigarette as Red smiles, anticipating a nice quiet holiday without his mother's complaining. Eric adds that, "Grandma told us to enjoy ourselves." Kitty spouts off about kissing some old woman's ass on her holiday and starts dishing out the food. The phone begins ringing again, but the family is ordered to ignore it.

FORMAN LIVING ROOM

Some time after dinner, Donna reluctantly goes over to the Foreman's with her father. While Red and Bob are comparing feasts and turkey sizes, Donna attempts to talk to Eric.

"Hey Donna, I'm so glad you came," says Eric.

"Only came because my mom made me. Okay?" Donna replied, still looking miffed.

Hyde walks in with two plates of pie. "Hey Donna, alright, good to see you! Got you some pie!" he says, hoping to cut the tension a bit between her and Eric. OK, did that sound desperate? I hope that wasn't too happy-sounding. Ah hell, who cares.

"I don't want any stupid pie." Donna spits out at him. Not knowing how to retract the retort without suspicion, Donna just gets up with a dirty look on her face, and stalks past the boys. I really shouldn't be taking my anger at Eric out on Hyde. He's been nothing but nice to me, despite everything that's happened, despite our conversation about being friends…

"What, I didn't kiss her!" Hyde exclaims defensively. Eric runs after Donna, leaving Hyde holding the extra piece of pie. I wouldn't have kissed her, either! He looks down at the pie. Dumbass.

"Hey there Bob, you wanna piece of pie?" asks Hyde.

Bob looks at it and unzips his pants a bit more. "Oh yeah."

PINCIOTTI'S KITCHEN

Donna enters her kitchen and slams the door behind her for a second time today. Luckily, her mother was at the Forman's house this time. She takes off her coat and throws it on a chair. Eric follows right behind her, re-slamming the door.

"Hey Donna…" Eric says, in a tough guy macho voice.

"Hey, don't get all tough with me!"

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah!"

Eric breaks down and looks contrite, "Okay, sure. No look, we need to talk."

"I'll start, get out!" Donna raises her voice. I should have done this earlier, she thinks to herself.

"What do you want me to say? I already apologized. You just wanna forget about us because I kissed some girl?"

"Why did you do it?" That was all Donna really wanted to know. She was having problems deciding how angry to be and about what, exactly. If Eric was her boyfriend, then she should be plenty pissed. But if she was having second thoughts about Eric, then she should be less pissed. But then again, if Eric thought he was her boyfriend, he definitely should not be kissing other girls. Either way, he still went behind her back, and that hurt. The kiss with Hyde was different, they were friends, and they fixed it. Eric, however, bragged like a damn pig about what he had done. And that was worth getting angry about.

"Well, I have on pretty good authority that I'm a dumbass," explains Eric.

"So, you liked it?" Donna asked. She didn't really want to know, but some part of her needed an answer to that question.

"Yeah, I liked it," responds Eric.

"No would've been a better answer." He should have had the sense to deny having enjoyed it, Donna thought. But I guess, I do have to give him some credit for being honest.

"Donna, look, that kiss was great and if I could take it back, I would because it's not worth ruining what you and I have." Eric says pleadingly and honestly.

"Eric, you are a dumbass!" Yeah, but at least he has the guts to be honest, even if I don't like what he has to say. Maybe I should give this relationship a try… Everyone already thinks we're the perfect couple. It's all I've heard since we were like, five. And he's kind of doofy and adorable, especially when he looks as panicked as he does right now. From now on, I have to put Hyde, the dance, the kiss, everything out of my head. I picked Eric, now I have to follow-through.

"So is that like I forgive you dumbass, or get out of my house you dumbass." Eric asks. The pause was taking longer than he was comfortable with.

"Oh, I'll say the first one." Donna replies. I'll give it a serious shot this time. Everyone thinks it's meant to be. That has to mean something, right?

Eric gets close to Donna and kisses her. The kiss grows stronger, and Donna holds onto him. Suddenly the thought of Hyde pops into her head. I wonder how Hyde would kiss if I gave him a chance. Remembering her promise to herself just five seconds ago, she pushes those thoughts from her mind and continues to kiss Eric.

Finally they break apart. "Wow! Tongue!" Donna is impressed. I didn't think Eric was up to tongue yet! That's such a Hyde thing to do… Damn it. Not again.

"Oh yeah. Okay well, let's go to desert," Eric says happily, oblivious to the fight going on in Donna's mind.

Donna forces her mind to clear, and follows Eric back over to his house…