"You're sleeping with Laurie? How could you" as Jackie spoke this sentence her voice had gotten gradually higher and as she trailed off she quickly slapped her boyfriend for good measure.
Now, taking into consideration the earlier point, Kelso's reaction was perfectly understandable.
He blinked, stuttered and then got slapped again.
This was when a panic-stricken Donna and a smiling Eric ran into the basement of the Foreman household.
"Jackie!" Donna exclaimed. Eric giggled. Donna frowned. Eric looked apologetic.
"He cheated on me Donna!" was the indignant reply,
"We don't know that!" Donna pointed out, rather rationally when you consider that Donna really didn't doubt Kelso's infidelity. She had known him most of her life after all. "Kelso," she barked, "did you cheat on Jackie?"
"N-no" a pale, still confused Kelso choked, "definitely not with Laurie!" he added, his voice cracking.
"So you are cheating on me?" Jackie screamed,
"No, I meant" he paused and looked at Donna, who rolled her eyes. Eric was giggling again. "Dammit Jackie, why would you think I was cheating on you?"
"Laurie said" Jackie frowned.
Donna sighed, "upstairs?" she offered to Eric who looked rather disappointed, he agreed and the two headed off.
"Well, for a minute there that could have been fun" Eric added as the two entered the kitchen, Donna nodded,
"I thought there would have at least been some blood" Donna grinned, opening the fridge and slurping some juice from the carton. Eric couldn't help but think that his mom wouldn't at all like that, but then realised he didn't really care.
"What's up?" Hyde said, walking out of the lounge,
"Jackie and Kelso are fighting-"
"Were fighting" Donna corrected, "they're probably making up as we speak."
"Ok." Hyde denied refused to acknowledge the sinking feeling in his stomach.
The day had gone pretty smoothly after that, Kelso and Jackie had disappeared off to have make-up sex, Eric and Donna had spent the day watching TV, Hyde had joined them.
But now it was twenty minutes after midnight and Hyde was alone in his bedroom, laying on his bed going through a world of what-ifs. Now would be the time he headed over to Kelso's, crawled in through the window and was greeted by soft, warm lips and a tight hug. They'd kiss and fall onto the bed, then spend the night getting each other off.
Hyde thought of the first time it happened, Kelso had been insisting he was the better kisser. They were only about, thirteen at the time and had held a kissing competition with some girls they found. The results had been announced and the girls had decided that yes, indeed, Kelso was the better kisser.
Not one to give in so easily, Hyde had wanted to see what all the fuss was about and had demanded that Kelso kiss him if he was so good. After much proclamation about how it was only scientific and not at all gay the two had kissed.
Hyde remembered marvelling at how natural it felt, how warm and inviting Kelso's mouth had been. His tongue manoeuvring expertly around his mouth.
The kiss had left Hyde feeling quite weak-kneed.
Nevertheless, afterwards he still claimed he was the better kisser.
The two hadn't done anything after that for a few years, even when they gave into temptation again it was only a bit of fooling around. Foreplay, groping that kind of stuff. No girls would do it at the time so they just gave it to each other.
When they'd discovered they could actually have sex together, through a rather crude jokes of Eric's that he'd read on a bathroom wall somewhere, though intrigued, the two were hesitant to try it. One day, sick of hand jobs and blow jobs curiosity got the better of them. They tried it once.
After that Hyde found a girl to experiment with, and although she willingly stripped Hyde of his virginity, Hyde always found himself going back to Kelso.
They had settled into the nightly routine so seamlessly, Hyde couldn't really remember when it began.
Snapping out of his memories, Hyde suddenly realised how much he longed to go to Kelso. He hadn't slept on his own for so long. But Jackie was probably there.
A tear escaped Hyde's eye and he quickly wiped it away, it wasn't in his character to cry. And if anyone saw he'd never live it down. He was angry at himself, he shouldn't be this affected.
Another tear.
"Dammit Hyde!" he growled at himself, "this is why you don't sleep alone!"
"Talking to yourself?" came a voice from outside, the voice was joined by a face as Eric stuck his head around the door, "are you crying?" he scoffed,
"Fuck off Foreman," Hyde turned away, "I'm not in the mood."
"Are you okay, man?" Eric's tone changed quickly,
"Of course," Hyde lied,
"If something was up, I mean like really up, you could tell me, you know?"
"Whatever, sure" came the gruff reply.
"So" Eric pushed, "what's up?"
"Nothing."
"Okay, I just wanted to see if I'd left my jumper down here, it's freezing tonight" when all the reply Eric got was a forlorn, distant look, he turned to leave.
"Foreman," Hyde added as Eric was almost gone,
"Yeh?"
"What do you think about gays?"
Eric went pale.
"Er, I'm not sure" something in the younger boys gut told him to tread carefully, he turned and headed back to Hyde, "Hyde are you okay?"
The other boy shook his head, Eric sat down next to him,
"I think I might be one."
So that's how Eric Foreman got a front row seat to see Hyde breaking down, the floodgates opened and all Eric could do was wrap an arm around the sobbing boy's shoulders and try to wrap his head around what his best friend had just revealed.
Author's Note
Sorry these are so short, but they've been kind of filler chapters and I hate filler chapters. Nothing's going on but they need to be there to help the story advance. However now, as you can see this marks the end of fillers for a while! Yey, now we're moving into a little bit of drama, possibly with a bit of an angsty front moving in from the west!
Hope your all ready,
Flick x
PS please excuse mistakes, I don't have a beta reader annnd I was feeling lazy, I'll proof-read it tommorow and re-post but I thought you might all want it ASAP.
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