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Winter 1976/77
By the time we were all seventeen, we slowly gone through a lot of changes, though we'd remained together through each and every one. In fact, our little group continued to grow with the appearance of Fez, the school's newest foreign exchange student at the beginning of the school year. Something about Hyde saving him from 'hanging' in the janitor's closet, due to a jock prank or something. He's somewhat strange and mysterious, especially since to this day I still don't know his real name or where on earth he's from, but he added some fresh air to the group for a change, but I digress...
Anyway, Eric and I had grown a lot closer these past couple of years. We were as near to dating as two people could be without actually being an official couple, though I had some misgivings about the relationship that I just couldn't quite put my finger on at the time. Jackie and Kelso had stayed together suprisingly, as those two had seemed to have a real love/hate relationship going on from the very beginning. The entire gang was making bets on what they would be fighting about this week. The fights were usually instigated by Kelso, but were long forgotten by the next day. Pretty annoying and predictable if you ask me. Ironically, despite all of this, Jackie had grown on all of us in the past couple years. Kind of like a tiny benign cyst, I guess you could say. We'd never admit it to her though, or we'd never hear the end of it. Hyde, in particular, continued to act horrendously annoyed by her, though frankly I thought it was simply habit and show by that point, as it was usually worse when Eric got into one of his 'Jackie' rants as I've taken to calling them.
Before we all knew it though, the holidays had come and gone and we had set into the winter blahs...at least until Jackie came by one day inviting us up to her parent's ski cabin for the weekend. We all leaped at the chance to get out of Point Place and the basement for a few days, especially once she tossed in the added bonus of it being an unsupervised trip. However, on the very day we were supposed to leave, Kelso, being the idiot that he is, decided to make out with the school slut, Pam Macy. To add insult to injury, he did it behind the gym in plain view of anyone walking by! It was sure to get back to Jackie in a matter of no time, but he was ignorantly optimistic that she'd never find out. Why we still continue hanging with this guy, I have no idea...I mean, I knew that while some of the arguments between Jackie and Kelso were bad, this took the cake. Nothing good could possibly come of this, and we all knew it. As predicted, not two minutes later, in walks Jackie furiously rambling on, asking how he could do this to her. She continued with how everyone at school were now talking about her behind her back, saying things like, "She thinks she's so great, yet she can't even keep her own man around..." and whatnot. Quite predictably, she broke up with him 'yet again' almost immediately in the midst of her continued angry ramblings. Needless to say, we were all majorly pissed at this point, and blamed Kelso for ruining what sounded like a great trip. He picked up on this immediately, and tried to use us as a way to enjoy the ski weekend before their breakup became official. Jackie wasn't buying into this though, and told him that the rest of us were still going...only without him. Oddly enough, the dumbass seemed so sure that we'd stay behind with him and forgo the trip. Wrong answer...
Ski Cabin
After sliding off the road and being stranded in the middle of nowhere for more than an hour, Eric finally managed to get us to the ski cabin. Not a minute too soon either, as I think I would've strangled Jackie, with the full support of the group, if I had to hear her whine about Kelso anymore. On top of that, I constantly had to fight of Hyde's passes at me whenever he thought Eric wasn't looking. This had been going on for the past few weeks, ever since we all went to that disco in Kenosha. Not sure where his sudden increased interest in me came from, as he hadn't tried anything since our last kiss at the carnival a couple years before. However, ever since Eric and I had gotten increasingly close, his advances had been becoming an everyday thing...almost seemed like he was jealous or something, but that wasn't really Hyde's style so I wasn't really sure what to think.
As soon as we walked in the door, a whining Jackie gave Eric and I the master bedroom, as her and Kelso's love was supposedly dead. Eric was really excited about us having a private make out place. Though I couldn't help but be caught up in his exuberance, I also felt a twinge of regret about it after hearing Hyde's weak protest as we bolted into the bedroom and slammed the door shut for some space and solitude. I tried pushing all that aside as we both started making out on the bed, but I couldn't quite seem to get into it for some reason, and when Jackie's persistant sobs ruined the mood, I couldn't help but feel a little relieved.
We came into the living room to see Hyde laying on a chair drinking a beer, and reading a magazine while Jackie was sitting on the couch crying hysterically. Eric tried to take charge of the situation, and restore a semblance of order, but the situation had already gotten WAY out of hand. Fez apparently had managed to down an entire bottle of Amaretto before running out into the snow in his underwear, while Jackie had continued to mope and cry over Kelso. With all of this newfound information, he decided to give Hyde the choice to either go outside and hunt for Fez (the look on Hyde's face at this suggestion was priceless), or to stay behind to console Jackie. His next words will be forever burned on my brain, not so much because they surprised me. His 'attentions' of late had pretty much prevented that...it was more the way he said it...so nonchalantly, almost like he didn't even fully realize what was coming out of his mouth that took me off guard. "I'll take Donna." Eric just gave him a look of suspicion before replying with, "You mean Jackie," to which Hyde, slightly flustered, 'innocently' responded, "Of course Jackie..." Eric must've been satisfied with that because he wandered off to look for Fez as Hyde went over and makes a feeble, yet somewhat ill-mannered attempt to comfort Jackie, which only ends up further upsetting her. She ended up running to the bedroom, sobbing even more hysterically than she had been since we arrived, leaving Hyde and I alone.
As if enough weren't already going on, he attempts to start making the moves on me again now that everyone is gone. This was only making me increasingly angry. How insensitive of him to make Jackie even more upset, just to try and find some time to hit on me...SO not impressive... I mean, Jackie can be bossy and annoying sometimes, but she's still our friend and she didn't deserve that. Besides, until Eric and I started dating, and getting closer to starting a relationship, he had not pursued anything with me since our last kiss a couple years back. We'd dropped the whole thing, and gone back to being friends...until recently anyway...
Looking back on it, I realize he was jealous, but at the time I thought it was simply a matter of winning with him. He and Eric had always been competitive, and I figured I was just the latest thing for them to fight over, and frankly it was beginning to annoy me. I'm not some trophy to be fought over dammit! Probably the worst part of the whole thing was that a certain part of me that I wasn't ready to examine, let alone acknowledge kind of liked the attention. To make matters worse, I couldn't seem to shake the feeling that something was missing in my relationship with Eric, though I couldn't seem to put my finger on it at the time. I had a suspicion what it might be, but I wasn't willing to even think about it, much less consider it in the bright light of day. I brushed it all off as simply jitters at starting my first major relationship, though I couldn't help but tell that Hyde was struggling with whatever it was he was feeling for me as well. This was only further confirmed by what he said next...something along the lines of not enjoying hitting on his best friend's girlfriend, but that he couldn't seem to help himself.
I already had my defenses on full alert as they always seemed to be with him these days, and replied rather haughtily, "Well, you better!" Then in happened...before I even registered what happened he'd leaned in and captured my lips with his own; his hand cupping my cheek, attempting to deepen the kiss almost immediately. Taken off guard, and more into the kiss than I was willing to admit, I pulled away angrily in about all of six seconds, smacked him across the face, and stormed off to the bedroom under the guise of consoling Jackie. In reality, I'd felt more in those six seconds than during my entire time with Eric, and needed some time to compose myself and think...especially since I was neither prepared, nor ready to acknowledge that fact.
By the time I came back out to the living room, it was after a teary eyed Jackie had run out to greet Kelso eagerly. He'd somehow managed to catch a ride with a very strange and possibly gay truck driver, if the hat Kelso was wearing was any indication. Eric walked in the door just in time to catch the reunion, carrying a nearly nude and unconscious Fez with him. He just dumped him on the back of the couch beside Hyde, and turned to watch Kelso and Jackie head back into the bedroom that we'd previously been occupying. Luckily this provided me with an adequate distraction, and Eric's reappearance served to strengthen my floundering confidence in our relationship...for the time being anyway. When I turned around and saw a full blown view of the nearly nude Fez, I couldn't help feeling a combination of disgust and amusement as I looked at both Eric and Hyde before sarcastically questioning, "Can't someone put his pants on?"
The rest of the weekend was relatively uneventful...we skiied and had an okay time, though when Fez woke up, his hangover was not pretty. Hyde pretty much kept to himself, though he did try hitting on me occasionally...I fended off his advances for the most part by staying pretty much glued to Eric's side the entire time, and Jackie and Kelso quite predictably spent the majority of the weekend in the bedroom...don't want to even think about what they were doing in there...we constantly had to keep closing the door after them though, to the disappointment of Fez, who seemed to love getting a free peep show...
After we got back, things pretty much went back to normal...every once in a while though, I couldn't help but wonder how things would've worked out between Hyde and I, had I not backed away and slapped him (yet again) at the cabin; especially since I seemed more confident than ever that nothing would ever happen between us again after this...I mean, how many times can you slap a guy before he loses interest?
Winter 1976/77
By the time we were all seventeen, we slowly gone through a lot of changes, though we'd remained together through each and every one. In fact, our little group continued to grow with the appearance of Fez, the school's newest foreign exchange student at the beginning of the school year. Something about Hyde saving him from 'hanging' in the janitor's closet, due to a jock prank or something. He's somewhat strange and mysterious, especially since to this day I still don't know his real name or where on earth he's from, but he added some fresh air to the group for a change, but I digress...
Anyway, Eric and I had grown a lot closer these past couple of years. We were as near to dating as two people could be without actually being an official couple, though I had some misgivings about the relationship that I just couldn't quite put my finger on at the time. Jackie and Kelso had stayed together suprisingly, as those two had seemed to have a real love/hate relationship going on from the very beginning. The entire gang was making bets on what they would be fighting about this week. The fights were usually instigated by Kelso, but were long forgotten by the next day. Pretty annoying and predictable if you ask me. Ironically, despite all of this, Jackie had grown on all of us in the past couple years. Kind of like a tiny benign cyst, I guess you could say. We'd never admit it to her though, or we'd never hear the end of it. Hyde, in particular, continued to act horrendously annoyed by her, though frankly I thought it was simply habit and show by that point, as it was usually worse when Eric got into one of his 'Jackie' rants as I've taken to calling them.
Before we all knew it though, the holidays had come and gone and we had set into the winter blahs...at least until Jackie came by one day inviting us up to her parent's ski cabin for the weekend. We all leaped at the chance to get out of Point Place and the basement for a few days, especially once she tossed in the added bonus of it being an unsupervised trip. However, on the very day we were supposed to leave, Kelso, being the idiot that he is, decided to make out with the school slut, Pam Macy. To add insult to injury, he did it behind the gym in plain view of anyone walking by! It was sure to get back to Jackie in a matter of no time, but he was ignorantly optimistic that she'd never find out. Why we still continue hanging with this guy, I have no idea...I mean, I knew that while some of the arguments between Jackie and Kelso were bad, this took the cake. Nothing good could possibly come of this, and we all knew it. As predicted, not two minutes later, in walks Jackie furiously rambling on, asking how he could do this to her. She continued with how everyone at school were now talking about her behind her back, saying things like, "She thinks she's so great, yet she can't even keep her own man around..." and whatnot. Quite predictably, she broke up with him 'yet again' almost immediately in the midst of her continued angry ramblings. Needless to say, we were all majorly pissed at this point, and blamed Kelso for ruining what sounded like a great trip. He picked up on this immediately, and tried to use us as a way to enjoy the ski weekend before their breakup became official. Jackie wasn't buying into this though, and told him that the rest of us were still going...only without him. Oddly enough, the dumbass seemed so sure that we'd stay behind with him and forgo the trip. Wrong answer...
Ski Cabin
After sliding off the road and being stranded in the middle of nowhere for more than an hour, Eric finally managed to get us to the ski cabin. Not a minute too soon either, as I think I would've strangled Jackie, with the full support of the group, if I had to hear her whine about Kelso anymore. On top of that, I constantly had to fight of Hyde's passes at me whenever he thought Eric wasn't looking. This had been going on for the past few weeks, ever since we all went to that disco in Kenosha. Not sure where his sudden increased interest in me came from, as he hadn't tried anything since our last kiss at the carnival a couple years before. However, ever since Eric and I had gotten increasingly close, his advances had been becoming an everyday thing...almost seemed like he was jealous or something, but that wasn't really Hyde's style so I wasn't really sure what to think.
As soon as we walked in the door, a whining Jackie gave Eric and I the master bedroom, as her and Kelso's love was supposedly dead. Eric was really excited about us having a private make out place. Though I couldn't help but be caught up in his exuberance, I also felt a twinge of regret about it after hearing Hyde's weak protest as we bolted into the bedroom and slammed the door shut for some space and solitude. I tried pushing all that aside as we both started making out on the bed, but I couldn't quite seem to get into it for some reason, and when Jackie's persistant sobs ruined the mood, I couldn't help but feel a little relieved.
We came into the living room to see Hyde laying on a chair drinking a beer, and reading a magazine while Jackie was sitting on the couch crying hysterically. Eric tried to take charge of the situation, and restore a semblance of order, but the situation had already gotten WAY out of hand. Fez apparently had managed to down an entire bottle of Amaretto before running out into the snow in his underwear, while Jackie had continued to mope and cry over Kelso. With all of this newfound information, he decided to give Hyde the choice to either go outside and hunt for Fez (the look on Hyde's face at this suggestion was priceless), or to stay behind to console Jackie. His next words will be forever burned on my brain, not so much because they surprised me. His 'attentions' of late had pretty much prevented that...it was more the way he said it...so nonchalantly, almost like he didn't even fully realize what was coming out of his mouth that took me off guard. "I'll take Donna." Eric just gave him a look of suspicion before replying with, "You mean Jackie," to which Hyde, slightly flustered, 'innocently' responded, "Of course Jackie..." Eric must've been satisfied with that because he wandered off to look for Fez as Hyde went over and makes a feeble, yet somewhat ill-mannered attempt to comfort Jackie, which only ends up further upsetting her. She ended up running to the bedroom, sobbing even more hysterically than she had been since we arrived, leaving Hyde and I alone.
As if enough weren't already going on, he attempts to start making the moves on me again now that everyone is gone. This was only making me increasingly angry. How insensitive of him to make Jackie even more upset, just to try and find some time to hit on me...SO not impressive... I mean, Jackie can be bossy and annoying sometimes, but she's still our friend and she didn't deserve that. Besides, until Eric and I started dating, and getting closer to starting a relationship, he had not pursued anything with me since our last kiss a couple years back. We'd dropped the whole thing, and gone back to being friends...until recently anyway...
Looking back on it, I realize he was jealous, but at the time I thought it was simply a matter of winning with him. He and Eric had always been competitive, and I figured I was just the latest thing for them to fight over, and frankly it was beginning to annoy me. I'm not some trophy to be fought over dammit! Probably the worst part of the whole thing was that a certain part of me that I wasn't ready to examine, let alone acknowledge kind of liked the attention. To make matters worse, I couldn't seem to shake the feeling that something was missing in my relationship with Eric, though I couldn't seem to put my finger on it at the time. I had a suspicion what it might be, but I wasn't willing to even think about it, much less consider it in the bright light of day. I brushed it all off as simply jitters at starting my first major relationship, though I couldn't help but tell that Hyde was struggling with whatever it was he was feeling for me as well. This was only further confirmed by what he said next...something along the lines of not enjoying hitting on his best friend's girlfriend, but that he couldn't seem to help himself.
I already had my defenses on full alert as they always seemed to be with him these days, and replied rather haughtily, "Well, you better!" Then in happened...before I even registered what happened he'd leaned in and captured my lips with his own; his hand cupping my cheek, attempting to deepen the kiss almost immediately. Taken off guard, and more into the kiss than I was willing to admit, I pulled away angrily in about all of six seconds, smacked him across the face, and stormed off to the bedroom under the guise of consoling Jackie. In reality, I'd felt more in those six seconds than during my entire time with Eric, and needed some time to compose myself and think...especially since I was neither prepared, nor ready to acknowledge that fact.
By the time I came back out to the living room, it was after a teary eyed Jackie had run out to greet Kelso eagerly. He'd somehow managed to catch a ride with a very strange and possibly gay truck driver, if the hat Kelso was wearing was any indication. Eric walked in the door just in time to catch the reunion, carrying a nearly nude and unconscious Fez with him. He just dumped him on the back of the couch beside Hyde, and turned to watch Kelso and Jackie head back into the bedroom that we'd previously been occupying. Luckily this provided me with an adequate distraction, and Eric's reappearance served to strengthen my floundering confidence in our relationship...for the time being anyway. When I turned around and saw a full blown view of the nearly nude Fez, I couldn't help feeling a combination of disgust and amusement as I looked at both Eric and Hyde before sarcastically questioning, "Can't someone put his pants on?"
The rest of the weekend was relatively uneventful...we skiied and had an okay time, though when Fez woke up, his hangover was not pretty. Hyde pretty much kept to himself, though he did try hitting on me occasionally...I fended off his advances for the most part by staying pretty much glued to Eric's side the entire time, and Jackie and Kelso quite predictably spent the majority of the weekend in the bedroom...don't want to even think about what they were doing in there...we constantly had to keep closing the door after them though, to the disappointment of Fez, who seemed to love getting a free peep show...
After we got back, things pretty much went back to normal...every once in a while though, I couldn't help but wonder how things would've worked out between Hyde and I, had I not backed away and slapped him (yet again) at the cabin; especially since I seemed more confident than ever that nothing would ever happen between us again after this...I mean, how many times can you slap a guy before he loses interest?