Summer
Hyde was more miserable than ever. Bud had left, and that seemed like a good thing at first, but then there was a slew of 'uncles' Edna had chosen, uncle Billy was worse than bud, and they gradually gotten worse. Hyde had black eyes and bloody noses all the time.
He was actually excited for school to start. But that was still a month away. Today, he decided to try to stay home and uncle proof his room. He had some planks and nails that he had stolen from the junkyard, and had taken a rock as an impromptu hammer. He nailed a plank across his door and bent the lock. The door was jammed and nailed shut. He added had taken a spare nail and flattened it with the rock, jumping out the window and putting it in the hide away rock he had taken from some rich persons lawn. Now, he could get in and out of his window, and no one else could. Especially not one of his uncles.
He pulled his window shut and walked off towards the Forman's house. It was the same every single time, but today, he had taken a brown bag from Edna's room and today would be the day to share it with the gang.
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Jackie was pissed. First, she had to climb up rose wall because she couldn't find her hideaway rock, and then once her mother got home, she came up to her room. As usual.
Pam Burkhart always asked the same question, and then said the same two sentences.
"Jacqueline!" she heard her moms heals click up the stairs.
"Yes mom." She groaned.
"Has your 'soul mate' responded to you yet?" Jackie knew what her mom wanted to hear 'yes mom, and he has tons of money!' but she didn't ask about money, she asked for help. But she wouldn't lie to her mother.
"No. He hasn't." it was true. Her soul mate hadn't responded.
"Maybe its because you don't have one" pam leered. She had never heard that, and that hurt, it was true, Jackie didn't have anyone who loved her in her life. That was another reason today sucked. "Well anyways, I'm going on a trip with uncle rob tomorrow, I'll see you in two weeks, and also your dad is in New York for business. "
That was new too. Her dad had said that he would be gone till the end of the month and the month had just started, so she would be completely alone for two weeks. That sounded nice, but she would have to find a key.
The circle
"Forman man, I'm getting bored"
"I think I'm going toooooo cut of my head gear! That'd make me hot! Speaking of hot Eric where's Lorie?"
"Kelso cut it. We could go to the hub."
"Man, we can't go to the hub like this. Lets egg something!"
"I like eggs. But I can't eat them with my head gear so I always have to eat them sunny side up"
"What would we egg?"
"I know! Today I took this rock from some rich persons lawn. Lets egg their house."
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"Honey, me and uncle rob are going to be in the movie room tonight, and you are going to stay in your room and copy this down onto one of your soul mate letters" she handed her a long letter and sneered " write small." after the door shut, she shredded the letter into pieces.
About an hour later, after she knew they were in the movie room, Jackie quietly slid open the window. She knew they weren't watching a movie. There were so many reasons she couldn't go through the front door. She knew that she would a) get caught if she tried to leave through the front door and b) she wouldn't like what she saw.
She stood on the landing and instead of leaving she sat down. Where would she go? She was bored of just walking around. The last time she had ended up somewhere it was when she broke her arm. She still didn't have many friends. But that would change soon! She was going to try out for the cheer squad in a month.
Eh, nowhere to go, so she would just walk around. Actually she would go to the playground. She about halfway down the rose wall when she heard a faint whisper of voices. Shit. Her mom. She clung to the wall as the voices got closer and louder. It wasn't her mom. What if it where her male friends from work? Her and 'uncle' rob had invited friends to there dates before. Wow. Her mom was a whore.
Wham. She heard a faint crack after the initial thud.
"Throw em harder idiot!"
"I tried! My head gear gets in the way!"
"C'mon. Throw more."
Oh my god. People where egging her house. Her mom would drunkenly blame it on her if she came into her room and saw that she wasn't there. So she started to struggle up the rose wall.
"Watch this"
An egg hit her head full force and she fell off the wall. Or not off, more down. Just like last year. And she landed on her arm, just like last year. And it cracked, just like last year. She had cuts on her just like last year. She yelped. This year, she had egg on her head.
"Oh my god! A gnome just fell of the wall! The furniture is coming alive! The sprinklers are going to eat us!" and with that, kelso ran off the lawn and down the street.
Eric just screamed. And then followed Kelso.
They weren't used to what they did in the basement, and that left Hyde to the girl. She was talking to herself.
"Oh my god. Pam heard me. What about 'uncle'? I need to get back up there. But she'll know. I'm covered in egg. How while I climb up with my arm?" she sobbed. She got up and started to scale the wall.
Hyde looked at the girl. Her arm looked weird.
"Whoa whoa whoa, you cant climb that, come here." He heard her huff. She had a temper. She lived here, probably some spoiled brat. She stomped over to him.
"Look- my mom is going to kill me- she'll know that I snuck out and she'll think that I egged the house! And you" she went to point at him but yelped again when she went to move her arm.
"C'mon." He grabbed her good arm and pulled her down the street. She thought she recognized him, but she couldn't quite place his name. And he thought he recognized her, but couldn't place her name.
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"Look, my friends mom is a nurse-"
"I know. Think I ended up here last year-oh my god! That's how I know you! You helped me after I broke my arm!" he remembered. He thought it was funny how she said that she broke her arm, and not her mom like the truth.
"Yeah! Funny how we ended up in a similar situation." The entire time that they were walking she was pulling egg out of her hair. They came down the driveway, and Hyde noticed that the basement door was open. Kelso and Eric where in the basement. Probably eating.
Jackie walked right through the kitchen and sat on the couch just like last time. Then kitty came in.
Shit. Jackie knew what he, Eric and kelso did. And then she would tell about the eggs.
"Oh my god, again? What happened to you?" Mrs. Forman asked, and Jackie didn't skip a beat.
"I was just biking and then I hit a rock, I flew into a thorn bush I guess." She turned to Hyde "he heard me and ran to help me," wow. Damn good liar he thought.
"Okay, I guess were going to see you like this a lot. You can call me kitty"
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"Take her into the basement, she can spend the night!" kitty sent them both downstairs.
"Everyone, this is Jackie" Hyde didn't sound happy. Like she was stopping him from doing something.
"And I'll be going home. You can go back to what you were doing before you egged my house. Hopefully my mom was so drunk that tomorrow when she sees no eggs because I cleaned it off now, that I'll only get in trouble for sneaking out." she opened the door and shut it behind her, you could barely here her going up the steps.
"She is hot!" kelso said, his headgear bobbing.
"You called her a gnome earlier idiot."
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Jackie grabbed a bucket of water and a rag from the shed. She looked at the house. Front door was ajar, her light was on. Pam knew.
"Jackie!" she turned.
It was the boys.
"What are you doing here? Come to throw more eggs?"
"No. Red is making us help clean up. He saw the empty carton of eggs in the basement."
"Oh. One of you has to boost me onto the roof. I can't climb the rose wall."
"Uh, I'm kelso and" he blushed "let me do it"
They cleaned for two hours.
"Thanks for helping, even if it's reluctant."
"Thanks for lying to kitty. Red wont tell her and shell continue to make Swiss pancakes for us" Eric chuckled.
She watched as they all walked off. She couldn't go into the house through the front door. She struggled up the rose wall only to find it locked. Damn. Couldn't go through the door. What if it was a trap? The skylight was an option, so was the basement, but that would mean she had to walk upstairs.
The backdoor led to the kitchen, but what if they were drinking? That's were they would be.
Skylight it was.
Putting her foot on the windowsill she hauled herself up to the first landing of the roof. Then pushing her self up the drainpipe. She made it to the skylight and looked into her room, it was clear. She swung down with her good arm standing on her bed. She locked her door.
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Two weeks went by and she still hadn't seen her mother. Tomorrow was the first day of school. She was sitting in her room and she heard a car pull in the driveway.
"Daddy!"
She sprinted down the steps and opened the door.
"Hello sweetie!" he scooped her up in a big hug. She loved her dad. He never did anything wrong. He worked hard- he wasn't a moneygrubber like her mother, and he never forced her to do anything. Not that she did anything her mother told her to.
And most importantly he didn't have any 'aunts'.
"Where's your mother?" he said as he set her down.
"I thought you knew, she's been gone for four weeks?" her dads face suddenly got angry.
"She was taking a personal vacation to Cuba."
"Personal?"
And just like that her dad had stomped out.
"But daddy tomorrows the first day of –"
"IM GOING TO CUBA"
She was alone. Again. She had gotten mail that her mom needed to sign, mail that her dad had to sign. Her dad put money on her mom's credit card for the maid and the cook, but the maid and the cook had stopped coming. The house was empty.
The maid wasn't really necessary; Jackie only used her room and the bathroom. She organized her room in a certain way. And the bathroom was spotless. Sure, she was running low on things but she would go to the store and grab the necessities.
But she would have liked to have a cook, she was having fruity pebbles for breakfast and dinner.
But being alone sucked. The only interaction she had was when the boys egged her house.
She headed up to her room and pulled out a box. This one was a plain shoebox, she had to throw out her heart covered one to convince her mom that she didn't have any more papers.
Please help.