DON'T OWN THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY: EXCEPT THE ONES THAT AREN'T FROM THAT 70S SHOW
"Oh my god! So, Michael knows! We were going to tell him together, so it wouldn't be so hard on him. Poor Michael," Jackie gave a big sigh of frustration. Donna had just told her about what Kelso had seen then through the window. But she was just mumbling and barely speaking to Jackie, still loathing herself for what she had done to Eric. Jackie looked at Donna and decided it was time to switch the topic back over to her and Eric.
"Donna, it's going to be okay. Eric can't get anyone else, and once he realizes that then he will come running straight back to you!" Jackie tried, in her own way, to cheer Donna up.
This only made her angrier, "He would probably rather be alone for the rest of his life then be with me," her eyes got big.
"Oh Donna, they've gotta stop making Playboys and Penthouses some time!" Jackie was still in a peppy mode, in an attempt to cheer Donna up.
"Thanks Jackie," Donna pretended to be slightly more peppier, deciding that this was the nicest Jackie was going to get.
"Donna, I know that you said that it was private and you weren't ready to share it, but you can't just tell me that Eric left with out a reason why! I mean, you are teasing me! God, just tell me why he left, or I am leaving!" Jackie's frustration had been building up inside of her from Donna's consistent stubbornness. She refused to give Jackie all the details about what she had told Eric, all she had said was that she might not love Eric the way she thought she did and that was all she left it to for Jackie.
"Jackie, I know it's not fair, I'm sorry. Okay, I'll tell you. The reason I might not have strong feelings for Eric anymore is because I got with some one else when we were broken up. And I have these different feelings for him then Eric, but they are both good and I don't know which one is real! I don't know which is love! And I know that I should be with Eric, because this other guy surely has no interest in me! But I couldn't go on leading him on, pretending that I love Eric when I probably don't…" Donna let it all spill out into a mess of words. Jackie seemed to catch all of it, but another questioning had popped in her head.
"Man, that's bad. Who's the other guy?" Donna jerked her head up at Jackie, her fear had happened. She knew that Jackie would come to that. Donna gave a surrendering sigh, "Hyde," she mumbled looking back down.
Jackie's mouthed dropped, "Whoa! Whoa! Donna!" That was all Jackie could manage to squeal out. Donna had an ashamed look.
"You and Hyde! You know, don't be so sad that he doesn't love you, because I am with him right now and he hates me!" Jackie calmed down.
"You guys aren't like officially together though, it's just a fling," Donna pointed out. "True, but still… He doesn't like me…" Jackie tried to keep her point strong.
"Yeah, well… I don't know what to do…" Donna went back to thinking about her situation. Jackie gave her a love pat on the back.
Eric and Kelso sat in a bar, both with numerous beer bottles around them. "So... have we beat the record yet for most beer drunken ever… cause it feels like it!" Kelso moaned, putting his beer down and grabbing his stomach.
"Well, I'm going until I forget what my name is…" Eric continued to chug a beer. "Well, I already forgot about Hyde and Jackie… so that is has far as I wanted to go," Kelso through his hands up in the air. "AH DAMN!" Kelso realizes what he said and starts to pick up his unfinished beer again.
Eric and Kelso came out of the bar, wobbling around in the parking lot, clearly drunk.
"Man, where are we?" Eric looked around, it was dark outside so he couldn't really see his surroundings. "Oh don't worry man, we are free! Free to go where ever when ever! It doesn't matter where we are!" Kelso leaned on Eric, searching for his keys to his van.
"Whoa, you're not going to drive tonight? We are both really drunk, I think we should just sleep," Eric looked down at Kelso's hand, noticing that he was jiggling his keys in his hand.
"Eric, you are such a square!" Kelso rolled his eyes. "Where is the van?" Eric forgot about Kelso and started to look around again.
"Oh, I gave it to the valet or something. Who would of thought that a little deserted bar would have something like that!" Eric gave Kelso a crazy look, "Well, he couldn't do anything if you have the keys?"
Eric was worried about what Kelso had told him for a second but then realized what Kelso was still jingling around. "Oh, I had a spare! I always carry a spare key!" Kelso nodded. Eric looked down, worried, he gave a big sigh. "This would be so much worse if we weren't so drunk," he finally blurted out.
Eric and Kelso were walking along a dirt road, still dark outside. "Man, how could anyone see that coming? I mean, come on, if someone offered to take your car you would let them!" Kelso turned to Eric who was looking worn out.
"Yeah, whatever, well they said he went down this way, so at least we got some chance that maybe he realized what a piece of crap your van is and ditched it not to far from here!" He had an angry tone.
"Hey! That van is a classic!" Kelso was clearly insulted. "Plus, you're the one that just had to get away! I wanted to stay behind and kick Hyde's ass! I mean, there is no way he could take two of us!" Kelso switched the blame over to Eric.
"Man, staying behind would have been worse! I mean, Hyde stole the women that we loved! That is humiliating! I couldn't bare to look at those people in my house," Eric explained himself. "Yeah… well, whatever…" Kelso realized that Eric was right, how could Hyde do this to his best friends? He must of gone over board with the circle! Kelso and Eric both walked in silence thinking of the intense "betrayal" of their best friend.
"Man, we have been walking for an hour straight! I think some one stole the van, so BURN! So you better say sorry for calling it a piece of crap!" Kelso had a sound of triumph. Eric rolled his eyes, "It is a piece of crap! And it's no burn! Our ride home is gone and we are in the middle of no where!" Eric through his hands up in the air and sat down on the side of the deserted dusty road.
"Relax, I saw a truck stop about a mile back," Kelso had a smirk across his face. Eric looked up at Kelso, with a shocked looked on his face. "Why didn't you say that a mile back? Ya dillhole!" Kelso's smirk faded and he rolled his eyes, "Well, DAMN, I wanted my van! And you were to busy grieving about this whole Hyde and Donna thing! What about me! Hyde stole Jackie from me WHILE I was still with her! So that is way worse mister!" Kelso pointed his finger at Eric, leaning over him. Eric sat there looking up at Kelso, with a blank look.
He finally gave a surrendering sigh, "You're right… I'm sorry man. But I just loved her so much… I, I mean… it sucks…" Eric turned away from Kelso, putting his face into his hand. "Yeah well…" Kelso agreed sitting beside Eric.
Hyde sat on the couch, looking back in forth between Jackie and Donna. They were both sitting on both sides of him, casually watching TV, while he sat awkwardly in between them. "Um, okay, I think we all three know what is going on here, so why are you guys acting so normal? It is creeping me out!" Hyde sat up straight; both Jackie and Donna looked at him.
"What is there to talk about? It's not like it's any of my business," Jackie looked confused at Hyde. "What! Okay, you make everything your business!" Hyde returned Jackie's confused look.
"Yeah, and I really would rather clear everything with Eric first," Donna really didn't care about talking about anything with Hyde. Her feelings had turned from vulnerability to anger because of Eric's recent disappearance. She really wished he had stayed to talk about it with her instead of just running off and staying angry. Jackie had to admit to herself that she was a little jealous; she didn't want Donna to steal Hyde away from her. Not after she finally had him after all that time.
But there is no way that Donna is going to take Steven away! I mean why would he leave beautiful, irresistible Jackie Burkhart for a big goon like Donna. She didn't mean to think such mean thoughts about Donna, and she surely didn't want to fight with her about it and drive Hyde away, thinking she was some desperate freak! So all she could do was blow it off. Hyde wanted more than anything to get out of the awkward trap he was in. He was frozen in fright between the two girls; they were trapping him in between with their eyes. He knew that they both never meant what they said, and if he just got up like it was no big deal, he would really hear about it later.
"Okay… um… that's cool…" Hyde sunk lower into the couch, deciding that the awkward silence was better then the terrifying stares he was getting from Jackie and Donna from breaking the comfortable cover they both had.
"Oh, I just remembered, I am supposed to meet Fez at the Hub… So…" Hyde quickly made an attempt to escape, "BYE!" He shot up off the couch and ran out of the basement door. Donna and Jackie both sat there, watching him take off in confusion.
"Oh poor you! You have two hot girls fighting over you, maybe even giving a possibility of topless mud wrestle! Waa!" Fez mocked Hyde, frustrated at Hyde's constant whining. Hyde looked up at Fez from his French fries, "They are not fighting over me! They just make it so hard, it's like they want to torture me or something! They get me alone, and then they act like everything's okay! So, it's not so bad at first, but then you have the long sighs, and the side glances. It's hell! I would rather them just be straight forward and yell or something, or tear my eyes out with their nails!" He put his hands up to his face, pretending to claw at his eyes with the tips of his fingers.
"Man, you are one poor son of a bitch!" Fez chuckled at him. Hyde gave him a glare. "But, man, I miss Kelso and Eric. Don't you think that we should go find them?" Fez switched the subject over, turning the mood over with it.
"Yeah, well, it's only been like a day," Hyde started to think about what Eric was thinking of him right now. He didn't even get to talk to him or anything after Donna told him. He had hoped that Eric wasn't going to get into anything stupid.
Eric and Kelso walked into the deserted truck stop and looked around. "Well, hey there! What brings you fine boys into this place?" An old woman, with a dirty apron and a coffee cup in her hand shouted to them from behind the counter.
"Oh, some one stole our van so… We are trying to find a ride…" Eric and Kelso sat on the bar stools in front of the woman. "Oh that's so sad… You boys want something to drink?" The woman didn't even wait for the two boys to answer before bringing out two glasses and pouring a bottle of beer into both glasses.
They both took them. Suddenly, a man walked up to them, he was quite large and had a long dirty beard with a dirty face to match.
"Hey, heard you boys needed a ride. Where ya headin?" He was sitting down beside them, they were both looking at him blankly.
"We really didn't have a plan… we just needed to get away from home…" Eric mumbled to him, taking a sip of beer.
"Let me guess, best friend steal both your women? And they love him now and not you?" The man said it so casually, leaving Kelso and Eric with a shocked look upon their faces. "Yeah… how did you know that?" Kelso slowly asked to man, still frozen in shock.
"Been down that road!" The man chuckled and looked away from them. They were both looking at each other in confusion. "Hey I can give you guys a ride. I am supposed to be delivering a huge beer supply to Milwaukee, but I just say 'what the hell with it'. It's beer! I'm drinkin! So you wanna join me?" Eric and Kelso both look at each other, and exchange a shrug. "Sure," they both said at once, getting up with the man.
Fez and Hyde are coming home from the Hub. "So, you think that they are home by now?" Fez looked at Hyde, who was in the passenger seat looking at Fez.
"No, they are probably out doing something stupid. You know them, they always like to be such girls about things and get so dramatic!" Hyde was getting angrier thinking about how Eric just ran off, not even giving anyone a chance to explain. Then he thought about how Kelso was also with him, they were probably building up each other's hate for him. Who knows what it would be like when they got back? Fez took a look out the window, and then his jaw dropped.
"HEY! That's Kelso's van!" A big smile crept across his face. "Man, where are they going? Follow them." Hyde looked out of the back window, his eyes following Kelso's van that just flew past them. Fez turned the steering wheel completely around fiercely, sending Hyde to hit the side door.
"Okay, there they are up ahead! They are stopping at the motel… good," Fez and Hyde's eyes were focused on the van up ahead, that Eric and Kelso were supposedly in. The van pulled into the parking lot of the Sunshine Motel and sat there peacefully, Hyde and Fez violently turned into the lot and came barging out of the car after parking beside the passenger side of the van. Fez came over to the driver's side and quickly flung the doors open. "Alright! No more running away! You come back so we can all talk about this!" Fez finally looked at the young tiny girl that was sitting in the driver's seat.
"Um, hey. Are you one of Kelso's new friends?" Fez nervously chuckled. "Who? Oh, I guess that is the owner of the van…" the girl looked a little embarrassed all of a sudden, with a little shame in her voice. "Wow, you didn't even know each other's name, you are easy!" Fez forgot all about Eric and Kelso and focused on what he thought was going on.
"Actually, promise you won't call the cops, but I kind of stole it from him at a bar about three towns back, so that must be where your friend is…" she confessed, she could see the worry in the two boys' eyes.
"What! Why would you steal of piece of junk like this?" Hyde came up behind Fez and stuck his head in the van. "I'm sorry, my boyfriend and I got in this huge fight and he left me there stranded. If I didn't get home to my parents soon then I was going to be in BIG trouble! This was like so easy… I mean, he was such a moron," the girl gave a chuckle at her last statement.
"Okay! Whatever! Just tell us where they are!" Hyde chose to ignore the grand theft auto story; he was to determined to settle things with Kelso and Eric. "I really can't say exactly, I mean it was in the middle of no where! Really sorry…" The girl tried to close the driver door to end the conversation with Fez and Hyde, when Hyde grabbed the door to stop her.
"Uh, I don't think so… We are taking this, thank you," He stepped beside for the girl to get out; she followed the instruction and slowly dropped onto the ground. She handed them the keys, a look of defeat had come across her face, she stood there frowning. Fez hopped into the passenger seat, while Hyde got into the driver's side and started the van. "Come on, let's go get Donna and Jackie," Hyde backed out of the parking lot and sped off.
Hyde and Fez came barging into the basement where Donna and Jackie sat watching TV. "Hey we are going to get Forman and Kelso," Hyde waved them over to the door, with his hand on the door knob.
"What? Where are they at?" Donna and Jackie stood up in surprise, as Donna questioned what they were both thinking. "We don't know, we are all going to try and find them. They are kind of stranded somewhere, we got there van from this girl that stole it. She says they are at some bar somewhere," Hyde explained. "So we are all just going to take off, not even knowing where the hell we are going?" Donna now looked confused, trying to talk some since into Hyde's 'bizarre' story.
"Oh road trip! Don't you get it Donna! This will be fun, and I think it is important that we all go!" Jackie seemed excited all of a sudden and ran over to Hyde, ready to go out the door. "Okay… But like how are we going to find them? And if we do, won't it be kind of awkward, I mean what do we do. Yell at them? Be happy to see them? What?" Donna was still reluctant to join them in the search.
"Donna, you don't want Eric and Kelso to be lost forever! Stop asking questions and let's just go!" Fez grabbed Donna's hand and they all headed out the door.
Kelso, Eric and the man were sitting scrunched up in the man's truck. Eric was sitting in the middle, Kelso on the passenger side, and the man was driving the car. They were all sitting in silence, "So where to begin our journey?" Eric asked intrigued at the since of 'freedom' he was feeling.
"Well, I figure we could drive a couple a miles… Then stop and drink some beer… Then go a little more… Then a quick beer stop… Then drive… Then another stop… That's the way I do it," the man turned to Kelso and Eric with a smirk. "That sounds fun!" Kelso gave his stupid little grin and nodded in agreement. "Wait? Shouldn't we like take a rest after drinking? I mean we don't wanna get drunk and drive?" Eric questioned the man's plan. Kelso and the man looked at Eric like he was crazy.
"Okay… never mind…" Eric gave up trying to bring rationality to the table. "Listen kid… I am a very skilled drunk driver… I mean you can't even tell that I am drunk when I am driving! In fact, I am not that good of a driver normally," the man tried to calm Eric down. "But you are driving pretty good right now?" Kelso pointed out. The man looked over at Kelso, and raised his eyes brows, as if saying 'exactly'. Eric and Kelso both got the message and they got big eyed. They exchanged confused looks.