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An unexpected pair
Chapter one, one

After Hyde left the hotel he started driving. He was angry at Jackie for cheating on him with Kelso, and wanted nothing to do with either of them; he knew that if he went back to Point Place he'd have to talk about what happened. And he wasn't in the mood to talk about his feelings.

Hyde drove down the main road leaving Wisconsin, and then got on the highway, going east. He was too angry to sleep, so he just kept driving. He'd occasionally stop for food, gas, and to take a short nap in his car, but he wanted to be as far away from Jackie and Kelso as humanly possible.

Hyde hadn't been sure how long he'd been driving, but he was shocked when he saw the sign welcoming him to California. He was almost tempted to turn around and go home, but he just kept driving.

"I didn't think I was driving that long," he said to himself.

Hyde decided he was tired, and needed a good night's sleep. It was after all two-thirty in the morning. So he stopped at a motel six in a small down, just outside of Malibu. He checked in and got the key to his room, walking to his room he went inside fell on the bed; and passed out. Not realizing that in the room across from his was someone he knew very well. Would be getting to know even more as he helps her leave her old life behind.

At nine-fifteen the next morning there was a knock at her door. She got out of bed and looked through the peephole, relieved to see that it was her friend Sharon; she opened the door.

"Hey what are you doing hear?" She asked.

"You have to leave town, he knows he left and is looking for you." Sharon said frantically pacing around the room.

"Oh shit, ware am I going to go?" She asked.

"I don"t know, how about you go back to Wisconsin. He"ll never find you there, he doesn"t know what town you lived in."

"No, I can't go back to Point Place. I'm not wanted there." She walked to the window then looked at her friend, "maybe. I should go back to Chris. He didn't mean to hit me. He was just having a bad day."

Sharon looked shocked as she walked over to ware her friend was standing. She stood in front of her and stared in silence for sometime, and then sat on the bed.

"Come sit here with me." The woman sat on the bed next to Sharon, as she continued talking. "Do you remember what happened when you went to Wisconsin to consul your daughter, and got back together with your ex-husband for that time? ; was he having a bad day then?"

"I can't leave him. I love him."

"You only think you love him", Sharon said. "You know one day he's going to have a bad day, and take it out on you, and you might not survive it."

"Ok well, what about my clothes?"
"Remember you have them all packed. You packed them when he went on one of his trips. You can take my car." They both got up and left the room. They stood outside the motel, talking about what she was going to do.

"Ok. This is what you're going to do. You're going back to Point Place, and find an apartment, and start a new life. Like what I did, except I moved out here."

"Hey Sharon thanks for helping me, I'll call you when I get there; and let you knew how I am." She said.

"You're welcome," she looked down the street and saw a man coming. "Oh shit he's coming, hide in the flatbed of that El Camino," she said pointing to the car in front of them. She did as she was told and got in, as Sharon threw the bags in the car, letting them land on the back floor.

"Ware is she," Chris shouted at the woman standing in front of him.

"Wares who?" She asked.

"You know damn well who I'm talking about, that slut I'm dating."

"She has a name," Sharon vented.

"Yeah whatever, ware is she?"

As Sharon and Chris argued, Sharon noticed a twenty-year-old man with blond curly hair get into the El Camino; and drive off. Chris became angry and stormed off.

"Good luck Midge," Sharon said to the car driving away.