That night I walked into the basement carrying my sketch book and a bundle of pencils wrapped in a rubber band. Hyde was in his usual place, watching the television.

"Hey, where is everybody?" I asked sitting down on the couch.

"Donna's at work, Eric's gone to pick her up, Fez and Kelso are off doing something stupid, and I have no clue about Jackie," Hyde answered.

So, I was the only one on time to try and help Hyde. Aw well, I guess it was better that we all didn't enter at the same time; it would have been a bit suspicious.

"Donna told me that you and Jackie used to go out," I said. "I can't imagine that."

"Yeah, she dumped me," he said in a matter-of-fact manner.

"I'm sorry," I whispered, trying to look past his sunglasses and into his eyes.

"Don't worry about it," he shrugged his shoulders. "What are you doin'?"

He had to be referring to the sketch book I was lightly marking in. "Oh, just drawing," I told him, surprised that he had even noticed. "Art's my major."

"Cool," he nodded. The room was silent through a segment of MASH. During the next set of commercials, I sensed Hyde watching as I was sketching on the pad of paper in front of me.

"What?" I finally asked him.

"So, you and 75, huh?" he said.

"Jordan, and yeah I've agreed to go on a date with him on Saturday," I answered not really sure where this was leading. "Why?"

"Tell me about yourself," Hyde said.

"Where are you going with this?" I asked.

"I'm just curious," Hyde told my. "I mean, we've sat in this basement alone numerous times and I just don't know anything about you, where you're from, your family life, ya know."

"I'm from just south of here," I started. "My dad's dead, mom's remarried, I had two older brothers, one died in 'Nam, one's in jail for running to Canada, I'm an art major." That should be good enough. He didn't need to know any more then that did he?

At that moment I heard Donna and Eric descending the stairs to join Hyde and me in the basement.

"Hey, Hyde, Eppie," Eric greeted when he saw the two of us. "What are we watching?"

"New episode of MASH," I answered.

"Great," Donna plopped down on the coach next to me. She leaned over and whispered in my ear. "Find anything out about Hyde?" I simply shook my head in response. Donna leaned back in disappointment.

We didn't discover anything else the rest of the night and soon I had to get back to the dorm. I had a test the next day and still had a lot of studying left to do.