R&R

Monday came all too soon. After an intense night of partying at Jimmy's kegger, Hyde had slept through the entire day of Sunday and was still outraged that Eric came down to his room to wake him up for school.

"Forman, since when have I gone to school on time? I'm zen. I have no restrictions or appointments. School is something I happen to drop by on occasion. To wake up purposely would be corrupt and hypocritical to my being." Steven Hyde mumbled into his pillow while his scrawny best friend jabbed at him with a Star Wars action figure.

"Well, it's your funeral. Red says if you don't get up he'll nail your ass to his car bumper and drive until you cry. And if your gone, I'll have no one to put the blame on when I break something." Eric gave a cheesy smile and shoved Hyde off of his cot.

"Whatever, I'll get up. But I'm gone by lunch."

15 minutes later the Vista Cruiser was packed with Donna, Hyde, Fez, Kelso, and Eric.

"Oh, happy day! We are all going to school together, and with Hyde on time the football, baseball, basketball, track and chess team cannot put me in a locker! WHITIE WILL NOT BRING ME DOWN!" Fez screamed, only to have the other 4 people in the car turn and tell him to shut up.

"Dude, all I know is that I am totally gonna nail Barbara Manning! She and Jackie totally hate each other for some reason too, so it'll make Jackie jealous and she'll come back for more! It's my master plan." Hyde just chuckled at Kelso's enthusiasm.

"Well, I think some of us know it isn't hard to get Barbara Manning's clothes off. Right Hyde?" Donna laughed at Kelso's face.

"AWW, MAN! Hyde already made it with her? This sucks." Kelso crossed his lanky arms and pouted.

By second period Jackie was passing notes and staring at herself in the mirror. It wasn't hard to make her bored.

"Susan, don't you think red is my color? I almost feel like I look TOO good in it."

"Ehmygod, Jackie. Red is SO gorgeous on you. Farrah Fawcett has nothing on you."

"Yeah, Susan's right Jackie. And those brown corduroy bellbottoms with the platform wedges? Chip will NEVER be able to resist you."

Jackie laughed snobbily. Then she pulled on her tight, smooth, straight ponytail until it's placement was perfectly aligned with the dip in her V neck sweater. This was her most "sophisticated" outfit and hairstyle, and it was sure to attract the senior football captain, Chip. She put on one last thick coating of cherry flavored lipgloss, then skipped out of English without writing down the assignment.

Without watching where she was going, Jackie practically ran through the next hallway with her popular friends following close behind. Upon turning the next corner, she slammed right into someone very familiar, which knocked her to the ground.

Steven Hyde began cackling almost immediately when Jackie's tiny butt hit the floor. But the evil glint in her eye and the fact that all her little minions were standing a couple of feet away told him that if he didn't do something Jackie would go blabbing about his stash to Red.

And living in the Foto Hut isn't fun.

So, instead of walking away and telling all his friends about her little spill, he reached out a hand to the beautiful chick who now looked like she was going to cry. Jackie's face instantly lit up and she got a cocky smile on her face when she looked back at her friends.

"Hey Jacks, sorry about that. How's it going?" Hyde smirked at her. It tasted like poison in his mouth to be nice to her, but having a roof over his head depended on it.

Jackie Burkhardt put on her "cool" attitude, knowing every girl watching them was drinking in every move. She decided to push Steven Hyde a little farther. She would just pretend she knew what she was holding over his head.

"Oh, hi STEVEN." She paused to look back at the jaw-drops and gasps from her sophmores. She stepped a little closer to Hyde.

"Are we still going to the Hub later?" Jackie's eyes flashed, challenging Steven to start cracking up.

Hyde grinded his teeth. She was REALLY pushing it. " 'Course," he stammered. She opened her arms very low so her friends wouldn't see them. Did she actually expect him to HUG her?

Jackie spoke under her breath. "Hug me and kiss me on the cheek or Mr. Forman and the police know all about your little marijuana stash." She had a very angered look on her face, and then ended it with, "I don't bluff about these things."

Hyde angrily and gruffly pulled her in and hugged her, then gave her a millisecond of a kiss on her temple.

She is SO paying for this.

"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! Jackie, Steven Hyde thinks you're totally cool!"

"This is almost like, impossible. Hyde never talks to sophmores, he just beats them up!"

"You know, Steven Hyde is a total fox, once you get past the scary part of him."

"I KNOW, he totally is. And you know all he does is go on dates and hook up. I bet he would be a really sweet boyfriend."

"I bet he has a thing for you Jackie. First, he didn't put you in the dumpster when you called him Steven. Then he agreed that you're going to the Hub. Then he kissed you on the cheek! Hyde doesn't do that for every girl."

"Oh my God, Jackie, you have to let us come to the Hub with you and Hyde. We'll just sit in the next booth and listen to him be a TOTAL sweetheart."

Jackie stopped smiling and basking in her glory at that.

"No way. Steven is more of a mysterious kind of guy. And he doesn't JUST think I'm cool, he told me I was the hottest underclassmen he'd ever seen. And you know, he helped me through that whole Micheal Kelso disaster."

The tiny brunette knew she was laying it on a little too thick, but having Hyde just talk to her made her more popular than having Chip want to date her! She wondered what actually dating Steven would do for her. If you were on the outside looking in, you would think that a bunch of cheerleaders would be disgusted at their captain dating a scruffy, mean, joint-smoking bad boy; but it was the opposite. It was like Steven Hyde was forbidden fruit to the clean-cut, rich and popular cheerleaders, and they suddenly couldn't get enough of him.