"The last time I was on this side of the glass, I was three," Hyde told me while we were waiting for my brother. "My mom was visiting my dad."

"Bobby!" I cried out when I saw my brother being led through the door by an armed guard.

"Eppie, can you believe they have me being escorted by a cop?" Bobby asked after picking up the receiver. "Me? I'm a pacifist!"

"It's good to see you again," I smiled.

"You too," my brother replied. "How are you doing in college?"

"Really well," I answered. "And I have a good group of friends, too."

"Great!" Bobby was genuinely happy to hear this. "I'd like to meet them some time."

"Good, 'cause I brought one of them with me," I said, a little unsure of how I was going to introduce him to Hyde.

"Really?" Bobby said.

I looked over at Hyde and kind of motioned for him to scoot over so that he could see my brother through the window. "Bobby, this is my friend Hyde," I said. "He insisted on coming home with me for Christmas Vacation so that Alan wouldn't…"

"So Eppie told you?" Bobby nodded to Hyde.

"Yeah," Hyde said. "She told me all about you too. I would have run too."

"You came all this way just to keep our stepfather off of her?" Bobby sounded almost as if he didn't really believe Hyde.

"Yeah," Hyde answered.

"Are you sleeping with her?" Bobby asked bluntly.

"No," Hyde almost laughed. "No, I just… I don't know man… she just seems so innocent and I couldn't let her get hurt anymore."

"This is a good guy, Eppie," Bobby said without taking his eyes off of my friend.

"Please don't let that get around," Hyde said. "That's not really a reputation I like to be popular for."

This was when I realized that I had been biting my nails, and quickly pulled my hand away from my mouth as I pulled in a deep breath. Bobby approved of my friends. As much as I hated to admit it that was really the reason I had asked Hyde to come with me.

"Let's go Taylor," the guard interrupted.

"One moment," Bobby replied. "I guess I'll see you later, Eppie. I'm so sorry Peter and I missed your graduation."

"I understand," I told him as I stood up and grabbed my coat from the back of the chair I had been sitting on.

"Hyde, get her back to school safely," Bobby instructed.

"I will man," Hyde answered.

"Was Peter your oldest brother?" Hyde asked to break the silence that was hanging heavy in the car.

"Uh-huh," I answered barely turning my head away from the side car window.

"With the way you skate, you should help Jackie get ready for the next roller disco," he said. "I think she was considering signing up for it."

"I could definitely see Jackie doing roller disco," I responded with a laugh.

"Donna said that Jackie and Fez actually won the last one she was in," Hyde told me.

"So I guessing you didn't go see it?"

"No way, disco sucks," Hyde said. "But I wish I had gone."

"Why?" I asked. "Did Jackie kill you for not going?"

"No this was before we were dating," Hyde informed me. "Nope, Kelso swallowed a marble while their and I would have loved to have seen that."

"I should have known that it would have involved Kelso doing something stupid," I shook my head.

"Did we ever tell you about the firecracker suit?" Hyde took a glance at me.

"I don't believe I've heard of this," I smiled.

The rest of the car ride was filled with talk of the stupid things Kelso has either done, said, or convinced others to do.