"I can't believe she's going out with that asshole," Hyde shook his head while rolling his eyes.

"Who?" Eric asked

"Eppie and Jordan," Hyde explained.

"Are you jealous of Jordan?" Donna asked.

"No, of course not," Hyde told her. "It's just that she fits in so well with our group and he most defiantly does not."

"True, but Jackie didn't fit in with our group," Donna replied.

"Maybe not, but Kelso is so much more stupid and wiped then Eppie," Hyde pointed out. "Maybe this has something to do with her stepfather."

"What are you talking about Hyde?" Eric was afraid of the answer, but he had to know.

"She told me that she had a stepfather but she didn't go any more in depth," Hyde was beginning to get that look in his eye, the one that could only mean he was thinking up some conspiracy theory. "Maybe he stepfather works for the government and she didn't tell me because she didn't want me to bug her about Area 51."

"What does this have to do with Jordan?" Donna asked.

"Give me a moment with that one," Hyde licked his lips and put a cigarette between them. "Okay, maybe the government is infiltrating the jocks to try and get them to join in some big cover up within the next generation of sports players. Eppie's stepfather is making her go out with him to begin the first phase of this."

"What ever," Eric shook his head. "Hey, Donna, need a ride back to the dorm?"

"Yeah, let's get out of here," Donna laughed at the craziness of this latest theory.

Hyde smirked to himself as he watched Eric follow Donna up the steps. He had told them what they had wanted to hear. It was crazy enough that they completely believed that Hyde believed the conspiracy he had spouted off at them. But his real conspiracy was really much more understandable.

Eppie had told him very little about her family and life outside of the college and the gang. Hyde thought that maybe she didn't like her life outside of what he saw. Maybe she was embarrassed about choices she had made or thought that Donna and the rest of them wouldn't accept her if she let them see what she was hiding. The only thing Hyde knew for sure was that Eppie was hiding something and he was determined to find out what that was.