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"Ma!" Jaime called to his mother. He walked into the kitchen to see her hand place the phone on to the receiver. She was crying to herself again.

"Ma, its gonna be okay," He said walking over to her. He wrapped his arms around her while she began to cry on him. She had been a wreck ever since she found out about his father and the secretary. He was disgusted with his father for hurting his mother the way he did. He ran his hand through his hair trying to think of what next to say to his mother. He understood she was upset, she had every right to be but his mother was a very emotional woman. She had always been, he knew that these next couples of months were going to be hard for her. He watched as his mother pulled away.

"Thanks sweetie," She said looking up at him. Jackie was starting to see him as man, not a little boy and that made her sad again. But she tried her best to mask that she felt like she was going to cry again.

"So did you decide what you wanted to do?" He asked her.

"I uh… talked your father about it already," She told him.

"Oh you did?" He said surprised. He thought she would never talk to him again and he was a little angry she had discussed what she was going to do with him.

"Yeah, I wanted to move back to Point Place," Jackie said shyly. She wanted Jaime to come with her but she would understand if he wanted to stay here. He had lived here his entire life.

"Oh," He said quietly.

"You know you don't have…" she began.

"No, of course I'm going to go with you," He said looking at her like, she was crazy.

"Cause your brother isn't going," She told him.

"What?" He was going to have to go punch Josh for staying with dad.

"Well it is his senior year. I mean I didn't expect him to go anyway,"

"When do we leave?" He asked.

"I want to be out of here in two weeks. I got to give the station notice and pack up everything. And I don't want to make your father stay to long at a hotel,"

"Screw dad, don't worry about him," Jaime always wanted to protect his mother. She had always made sure that Josh wasn't to hard on him when he was growing up and Jaime felt like it always had been the two of them against his dad and his brother.

"Well the longer he stays in the hotel the last money I can rip from his hands in the divorce," Jackie smiled.

Ah, there was his mother. Jaime smiled back at her.

She looked at him and noticed something different about him.

"When did you get your ears pierced?" she asked when she saw the small hoops on his ears.

Shit! He thought, he knew his mom didn't think it looked good for guys to have their ears pierced and he knew she wouldn't have let him. He had to be careful because she might soon notice that his tongue was pierced.

"A few days ago," he lied. It had been like over a couple of months. She and his dad had just been fighting so much she didn't really notice.

"Jaime…." She said warningly.

'What?" He asked nonchalantly.

"You know that I didn't like that you shaved your head, but I let you do it. Now you got your ears pierced. I give you an inch you take a mile," She said frustrated.

"Oh, come on ma, it's not that big of a deal," He sighed.

Jackie just shook her head.

"So where are the boxes?" He said trying to change the subject.

"In the basement,"

"Alright well I'm gonna go pack," he told her and walked out of the kitchen.

"What am I gonna do with you?" Jackie said shaking her head again.

She didn't know if she could do this. She couldn't even control her sixteen year old with a father. What was she going to do about him once she was all by herself? She walked over to her computer and began looking for available houses and apartments.

Next day in Wisconsin

Steven Hyde stood outside his bathroom door frustrated. Beth's shower and toilet have not been working properly for the last month and the super hadn't been by to fix it. So now they had to resort to sharing a bathroom. He banged on the door.

"Beth hurry up!" He called to her.

"I'm almost done!" she called back to him.

"You said that fifteen minutes ago." He said angrily.

"Well if you didn't keep talking to me I could move faster," she complained.

"You have been in there for over an hour. What the hell are you doing?"

Finally the door cracked open and Beth came running out in her bra and underwear.

"I was doing my hair," She said pointing to it now in low ponytails.

"It took you an hour to do that?" He said looking at her face. He didn't really want to look at her wearing practically nothing, it made him uncomfortable.

"No, I had to shower,"

"You can't take long showers, it makes our water bill go up," He reminded her. "And you need to get done faster. You're not even dressed yet,"

"I took my make up out of the bathroom and put in my room, it cuts down my time in half," She told him matter of factly.

"Will you just go put some damn clothes on?" He asked.

"Fine! You can be so grouchy in the morning," She said treading back to her room.

He walked in the bathroom to find a mess. Her hair dryer was still plugged into the wall and laying on the sink. There was hair products laying all around and there was a build up from the sprays on the mirror. The trash can was over flowing with tissues and what he guessed was tampons but he dared not look at it. He quickly undressed he had to be fast if he still wanted to make it to work on time. In the shower all her shampoos and conditioners had taken up residence and a bright pink razor was laying on the edge of the tub. He sighed he couldn't continue to share a bathroom with her. He needed to do something. When they had first moved into the apartment when she was little it had been fine. He didn't have much stuff and her toys took up the majority of the space. But as she had grown older she had gotten more interested in clothes and shoes and music. Her room was a disaster area. It wasn't that she wasn't a neat person but she had a tiny room and trying to fit a malls worth of clothes and a record store worth of cd's in there wasn't going to work. It slowly spilled out into the living room. Their coat closet was no longer just for coats; every time he opened it he found more and more of Beth's clothes in there. One morning he had even found a skirt in his own closet. He had thought about buying a house a couple of times but never saw the point, there were only two of them and she was getting older, soon she would be moving out. But the rent kept going up and he was sick of finding her shoes everywhere but in her own room.

He hurried up and got out of the shower. He walked into his own room and saw shirts hanging from the windows.

"Beth!" He called.

She walked in this time fully clothed but some eye make up on one eye and the other one nothing. "What?" she asked.

"What are those doing in here?" He asked pointing to the shirts.

"Oh I made some shirts. I needed some place to hang them. I got some in my closet and some hanging in my bathroom but I had a few left over…" She trailed off. That was another thing, she liked to print her own shirts and make her own clothes which always ended up everywhere. The living room had become her sowing room.

Hyde rolled his eyes and grabbed his shirt off from his bed and walked out into the kitchen. Beth had already had the coffee going but he had to watch out for her shoes like land mines as he made it into their tiny kitchenette. She followed him out of the room and went back into hers. A few minutes later she emerged with all her make up done and dressed. He knew she was looking around for her purse and back pack. She always had a hard time finding it in the morning. They always teared apart the apartment looking for it.

"So I decided," Hyde began telling her as he opened a cupboard looking for a coffee mug. "That I'm going to start looking at houses,"

Beth looked up from the pile of dirty clothes in the corner. "Are you serious?" she asked excitedly. She had wanted to move out of their tiny apartment for a while. But she knew her father didn't see the point so it had been a losing battle ever since.

"Yes. But if we move into a house, this can't happen," Hyde said waving his hand around the living room indicating the build up of clothes and shoes.

"I'm so excited!" she said and ran up to give her father a hug. Then she went into the fridge and got out the eggs to start making her breakfast.

"Beth, you don't have time…" He began to tell her.

"Ah… I'll just go late," she answered. He smiled; she reminded him a lot of himself sometimes. Well not the clothes and shoes part, that part she got completely from her mother.

After School in the Forman Basement

"And that's how you win at Mortal Kombat!" Andy said throwing down his remote and making karate chops in the air. "Noob Siboat wins again!" He announced and then bowed.

"How come we always have to play trilogy?" Clark asked him.

"Cause all the other ones suck," Andy replied offended. "Best of ten?"

"You have already beaten me twenty five times," Clark sighed.

"You're right; I could probably beat you with my eyes closed,"

"You're on!"

Andy prepared and closed his eyes and brought his knees up on the couch to block his view. Just then the basement door opened and he heard the familiar sound of heels walk on to the concrete.

"What's going on?" He heard Beth ask.

"Just kicking Clark's ass at MK… with my eyes closed, I might add," Andy answered.

He continued to push buttons and Clark whined.

"You win," Clark told him. Andy let his feet slip back to the ground and threw his right arm behind the couch.

"So how was school?" He asked Beth.

"Good," Beth said smirking at him.

"You were late to homeroom,"

"Thank you captain obvious," she retorted.

Andy liked homeroom; it was his only time in the day he would get to be alone with Beth.

"You missed a pretty intense…. Roll call..." He trailed off.

"I'm sure I did… Mrs.Kingsley pronounce Robbie Falatio name wrong again?" Beth laughed.

"Nah, I lied I was just bored,"

"Yeah cause if I'm not there you sit by yourself," Beth answered.

"That's not true I have other friends besides you," Andy shot back.

"Name someone in our homeroom that doesn't call you Foreplay,"

There was silence for a minute.

"That's right because you can't," Beth said happily.

"That's not true… Wendy Groves doesn't call me that,"

"Oh yeah… she calls you Foreskin," Beth and Clark laughed. "So anyway I came down here to tell you that Ima Robot is coming to play at Madison this November," She looked at Andy and Clark to get a reaction out of them.

"That's awesome!" Andy said with the same enthusiasm as Beth.

"That's like three months away," Clark complained.

"Yeah but we can get tickets now,"

"Only Andy really likes that stuff you listen to," Clark informed her.

Beth frowned. "I thought you guys liked it too,"

"We only say we do because we are afraid you will beat us up," Clark answered.

"So if you are afraid that I will beat you up why are you telling me this now?"

"Because my dignity is gone anyway, Andy beat me with his eyes closed at Mortal Kombat. So if a girl beats me up it can't get much worse," Clark said sadly and the other two just laughed.

Outside on the Forman Driveway

"So you're finally gonna buy a house?" Eric asked Hyde. They were outside working on the Vista Cruiser.

"Yeah, so what?" Hyde asked as he began to fumble with something under the hood.

"So you're gonna have to take loan and find a realtor,"

"Or I could just look at for sale signs," Hyde pointed out.

"You can't always take the easy way out man. You don't want some crappy house," Eric said walking over to the driver's door.

"So you think Donna's old house is crappy?" Hyde said.

"What I never said that," Eric answered and then he looked and saw what Hyde was staring at. "Oh…"

On the corner where they put their trashcans was a larger for sale sign.

"Yeah,"

"We could be neighbors!" Eric said excitedly "I have to tell Donna!"

Hyde rolled his eyes and walked next door.

Pam, Jackie's mom was standing inside the house.

"Hello Steven," She greeted him.

"Uh... hi," He answered.

"What can I help you with today?"

"I was looking to buy this house but if you are trying to buy it…"

Pam laughed. "You think I would buy a house like this? No, I'm the realtor!"

"You are?" Hyde asked confused.

"I used to do relastate when I was younger but then Jackie's father started embezzling so I didn't have to work. But then once our bonds ran out I decided to go back into business. Isn't that fabulous?"

"Uh yeah… I guess." Hyde said confused.

"So are you interested in the house?" Pam asked him "Cause I can make you a good deal,"

In the Forman living room

"This is so exciting, if Hyde can buy your old house it will be like old times… well except a little different. But the old gang will be back together!" Eric said excitedly to his wife. They were sitting in the living room and Donna was watching TV.

"Uh huh," Donna said engrossed by the TV.

"Could you please listen to me for a minute?" Eric asked.

Donna looked at him "Sorry Eric, I'm trying to watch this law show to help Jackie take all of Kevin's money in the divorce,"

"So when is she moving here?" He asked.

"A little less then a week. And please be nice to her she has went through a lot," Donna

"Me nice? Tell her to be nice lady; she was the one that was mean first,"

"Well she wouldn't have been mean to you first if you hadn't told Kelso to break up with her every ten minutes. And it would have helped if you hadn't done it in front of her!"

"You say tomato,"

"Don't you dare bust out into that song," Donna warned.

"I say tamato…" Eric began singing before Donna threw a pillow at his face.

Basement

Andy and Beth sat in the basement by themselves. Clark had left to have dinner and they didn't know where Megan and Jake where. Beth was sitting on the couch out of her normal spot and Andy was playing with a rubix cube. He walked back over to the couch.

"Do you think anything is going on between Megan and Jake?" Andy asked her.

"No," Beth shook her head and went back to watching reruns of Malcolm in the Middle.

"No, seriously," Andy said putting down the cube on the table.

"Nothing's going on between them," Beth said shaking her head.

"How can you be sure?" Andy asked.

"Cause I'm her best friend. Why do you like Megan or something?" Beth asked angrily.

"No! Its just they are always alone together,"

"So… we are always alone together and nothings going on between us," Beth said looking at him.

"Unless you want there to be," Andy answered.

"What?" Beth's eyes got bigger.

"Look Beth, I like you a lot and…" But before he could finish he was cut off by Beth kissing him.

"Wow, that wasn't so hard," He said when she pulled away.

"Shut up!" She pushed the side of his head.

"So you like me too?"

"Maybe I was just trying to make you be quiet," She said looking at him.

"Well now you know how to make me be quiet maybe you should have me be quiet a lot more," He told her.

She looked at him and laughed, and then she rested her head on his shoulder.

"Andy and Beth sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g," They heard someone sing. They both turned around and saw Andy's little sister Ashley sitting on the basement stairs.

"Shut up!" Andy yelled.

"I'm gonna tell mom and dad," She warned him.

"You do and I'll flush your goldfish!" he replied. Ashley's eyes got wide and she stood up and ran up the stairs.

"Showed her," Andy laughed.

"Oh you are so tough threatening a little girl," Beth laughed.

Then Andy kissed her.

"What was that for?" she asked.

"To make you shut up,"

Outside on the drive way of the Forman's house.

The boys are all outside.

"So you're saying if I just put a box right here and stand on it I could totally see in to Beth's new room?" Andy asked Jake.

"Yeah totally! I heard her father was buying that place so I was been trying to find ways to look in to the house," Jake told him. "And if you climb that tree, you get a clear view. No bushes blocking your site,"

The girls walk up and are about to go into the Forman house but they heard the guys talking. Beth takes off her heels and the two girls walk up behind them.

"Oh and there's a window into her bathroom," Clark told the other two boys.

"Ow!" Jake yelled. The three guys turn around and saw the girls standing there. Beth had one heel in her hand and the other was on the ground. She had just chucked it off of Jake's head and it had bounced on to the ground.

"Thanks guys, I'll be sure to put curtains up!" Beth said before picking up her heels and putting them back on.

"Oh that's a good idea Beth! So when we have sleepovers we won't have peeping toms!" Megan smiled.

"Yeah too bad, they will miss all our pillow fights," Beth said sadly and the two girls walked off laughing.

"So they do have pillow fights?" Clark asked.

"Yeah man, that's not all the do," Andy answered.

A/N: I know that Beth and Andy seem have undertones of Donna and Eric's relationship. Well I don't even know at this point if they are going to be together or not. But if they are their relationship is going to be their own and not like Eric's and Donna's.