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It's a week later. Hyde's at the Fotohut "working", but really just looking at the embarrassing pictures of people that are getting developed. Leo comes in, "Listen man, I got a niece showing up today." he says.
"Oh really."
"She's staying in Point Place for awhile, so I'm giving her a job here working at the Fotohut."
"That's cool." Hyde says.
"She's in the back, lemme get her in here." Leo turns around and calls out, "Hey Dana!"
The door opens up and in walks in a petite girl wearing a Jimi Hendrix shirt. She has medium length light brown hair and brown eyes. "Yeah?" she says.
"Dana, let me introduce you to Hyde. Hyde this is Dana."
"Hey." he shakes her hand.
"Hey Hyde." Dana smiles at him and turns to Leo, "Hey I couldn't find any film in the back."
"Ya sure, I got like 5 pounds of it back there?" he says.
"All I found was a big bag of weed."
"Yeah." Leo nods and thinks about it for awhile, "Oh wait, you meant real film?"
"Yes." she says. "Oh my bad. Hold up…" he says, and goes to get it, as she turns back facing Hyde.
"So you like Jimi Hendrix?" he says.
"Yeah, I also like Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, and Led Zeppelin." she says.
"For real, those are all my favorites, too."
"So how long have you been working for Leo?"
"Uh, for as long as he's been my hook up. And that's a pretty long time." Hyde shrugs, "I dunno, he's just a cool guy to work for."
"Yeah." Dana nods, "My uncle's pretty cool."
"Who's your uncle?" Leo asks, as he walks in.
"You are, Leo." she says.
"Oh wow, I'm an uncle!"
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The next day at the hub…
Eric, Donna, and Fez are sitting at their usual table when Kelso comes in.
"Hey guys, guess who's came to visit me?" Kelso says excitedly, as he looks at the others. They just look at him blankly, and don't really bother to guess. "Fine! I'll tell ya… its Annette!"
"Who's Annette?" Eric says.
"Oh, wait isn't that the girl from back in California?" Donna says.
"Yeah, she called me up and it turns out she's been missing the Kelso lovin'…
"Well who wouldn't?" Eric says, sarcastically.
"I know!" Kelso nods along, "Anyway she's outside waiting for me to bring her in. You guys are going to love her!" He goes outside and brings in the blonde, california girl, Annette.
"Everybody this is Annette." He says.
"Hey." They all greet her. Fez turns and whispers to Eric, "Oh wow Eric, she so pretty."
"Gotta admit, she is easy on the eyes." He responds, a little too loudly, and Donna looks over at him.
"I love you." Eric tells her quickly.
"Nice to meet you, Annette." Fez says, and turns back to Eric. "Ya know, she kinda reminds me of…"
"What?"
"I'm not sure…" says Fez, as he thinks.
"So ya'll like my new girl?" Kelso asks.
Donna coughs, "I'm gonna go get a hamburger." she gets up quickly and goes to the counter. And just then Jackie walks in, "Hey Donna."
"Oh. Um, hey Jackie." she says.
"Where's everybody else?"
"Um. Over there." Donna looks away. Jackie turns and sees Eric & Fez sitting down with Kelso and Annette. Kelso's got his arm around Annette, like she's some sort of trophy, and Fez's practically drooling over her.
"Donna, who is that?" Jackie asks.
"Who's who?"
"That girl sitting with our guys."
"Oh, um. That's Annette."
"Annette?"
"Yeah, she's just a girl Kelso dated in California." Donna says.
"And what's she doing here?"
"To visit Kelso, I guess."
"Oh." Jackie stares hard at Annette. Donna waits for her order, then turns back to Jackie. "Are you okay?"
"Fine." she says, choppy. "Ugh, why are the guys mooning over her? She's doesn't seem all that great. Her hair is obviously over bleached, her outfit is so last season & she looks like she's dumb as rocks. Plus she probably skanky."
"Well actually she's not a skank, Kelso told me she won't even do it with him."
"Shut up Donna!"
Donna just shakes her head, "So are you gonna go meet her?"
Jackie pauses, "No, no I don't want to. I'm just gonna go."
"Okay see ya later." Donna says, but she's already out the door. She goes and sits back down. Kelso telling Eric about how he and Annette met, and Fez is still thinking.
"I got it! A Barbie!"
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Later that day Jackie goes over to see Steven.
"Hey."
"Hey Steven." she kisses him quickly, and sits down. "How was your day?"
"Alright. Nothin' much happened" he shrugs.
"Yeah same here. Oh, but guess what that stupid Janet Majors did today. Okay, she actually thought she was good enough to try out for head cheerleader. I was like 'Please you can barely do a cartwheel.' So anyways then she tried to…"
"You know what." He interrupts, to get her to stops talking, "Actually, yeah today at the Fotohut, Leo hired a new person, Dana."
"Oh."
"Well actually Dana's his nie--"
Just then Kelso and Annette walk in loudly. "Hey ya guys." Annette plasters on a wide grin, but not as big as Kelso's. Jackie immediately turns away from Hyde to stand up and face them.
"Hey Jackie, have you met Annette?" Kelso says, blatantly.
Jackie gives Kelso a look, "Actually, I saw her earlier today at the hub."
"Well let me properly introduce you two." he says. "Jackie this is Annette. Annette this is Jackie."
"Nice to meet you." Annette says.
"Yeah, ditto." Jackie says, sourly.
"Wait a minute, Jackie? Are you the Jackie? Michael's ex-girlfriend?" she asks.
"He told you?" Jackie glances over at Kelso. "…Yeah I am."
"Michael told me all about how crazy in love you were with him & how you tried to trick him into getting married. So let me just warn, you he's with me now. So you better lay your paws off him, okay?"
Jackie glares at Kelso, "Well you know Annette, you don't have to worry cuz' me & Michael are so completely over with. You can have him." she sits back down and grabs Hyde's hand. "I'm with Steven now."
"Oh, so you remembered I'm here?" Hyde says, sardonically.
"Huh?" she looks over at him, hesitantly. He doesn't say anything.
"Well you know guys, we better go." Kelso says, "Did ya hear that Jackie? Me and Annette are leaving. Where, to be exact? My van." He snickers, as they leave. A few seconds later he opens the door back up and peeps in.
"And if you didn't catch that, we're going to my van to fool around."
Jackie rolls her eyes and leans back on the sofa. She looks at Hyde. "So what was that about?"
"Nothing."
"Are you sure?"
He nods.
"Okay so are we still gonna go to the mall later today?"
"Oh uh, I don't think so. I've gotta meet back at the Fotohut to show Dana the ropes…which probably won't take more than five seconds, but then I've gotta finish out the shift."
"Who's Dana?"
Hyde looks at her exasperatingly. "You weren't lis--"
"Oh yeah, okay yeah." she nods quickly, "I was totally listening…"
"Okay now I feel like we're in bizarro world. Since when do you zone out when I'm talking?"
"No, no that's not…"
"That's not supposed to happen. I'm supposed to mute you out when you're talking, not the other way around." he continues.
"No, Steven." she laughs a little. "I'm sorry, Really I was listening… Yeah I remember now. Dana, the person Leo hired. See?" Jackie smiles at the situation.
Hyde just looks at her skeptically, "Okay." he finally says.
Jackie just smiles at him and kisses him, "Okay then. Well then I guess I'll see you tomorrow. Okay?"
"Yeah, cool."
She leaves the basement.
