Chapter 4: What Eric Thinks

Place: Foreman Basement

(The Next Day)

The gang minus Donna, Jackie, and Eric were in the basement.

The gang was watching TV when Donna burst through into the room.

Donna, pissed off, said, "I am having a horrible day!"

Hyde got up, walked over to Donna, and kissed her on the lips.

Hyde looked Donna and said, "Does that help at all?"

Donna, a little less pissed, said, "Not really."

"Damn…" Hyde said. Then he grinned and continued, "Well we could go into my room and do something that I know will cheer you up."

Donna blushed and was a little embarrassed, said, "Shut up Hyde."

Randy said, "So what's wrong Donna?"

Donna looked at Randy and said, "Well, first of all my dad has been home bragging how he bagged some famous chick, and second, I can't find Jackie anywhere."

Fez said, "Wait a minute, who is the famous chick your dad bagged?"

Donna, annoyed, said, "I don't know? But that isn't important. Jackie is nowhere to be found and I looked everywhere, even at some of the place she told me never to show or tell anyone!"

Randy, confused, said, "Wait, what happened?"

Everybody suddenly got nervous. Donna and Hyde sat back down in their seats.

Randy looks around at the rest of the gang, smiled, and said, "Well, I guess I'll just have to ask Fez, because I know he'll tell me."

"My lips are sealed." Fez said, while turning his head the other ways.

Randy, grinned, as he put his right hand is his pocket and said, "Are you sure you won't tell me? Even if I give you my package of… Pop Rocks?"

Fez now looked at the package of the sweet candy that was in Randy's hands and said, "No not even for… we think that Jackie is in love with you."

Fez grabbed the package, ripped it open and swallowed it whole.

Donna, angrily, said, "Fez!"

Fez looked at Donna and said, "What? I love Pop Rocks, they are my temptress."

Hyde shook his head then looked at Randy and said, "Ok man, here's the deal, Donna found Jackie's diary last night and in it she says that she is in love with you. We confronted her about it last night and she stormed out of the house. Now, we can't find her."

Randy, looked a little stunned, said, "Wait a minute, did it say exactly word for word that she is in love with me?"

Donna said, "Well, it really said that she was in love with someone, but since she has been hanging out with you and Eric recently, we figured that it was you."

Randy grinned frivolously; the rest of the gang looked at him curiously.

Donna slowly said, "Wait a minute you know something that we don't know, don't you?"

Randy, still grinning, said, "Yep"

Kelso smiled and said, "I know, isn't that feeling awesome, when you know something everyone else doesn't know."

Hyde looked at Kelso and said, "Kelso, when have you ever known something that we don't know?"

Kelso looked at Hyde and said, "Well what about the time that I uh… how about when uh… Well, damn Hyde you know I can't think this fast."

Hyde shook his head then looked back at Randy and said, "So, what is it that you know that we don't know?"

Randy smiled and said, "Well, I was outside waiting for Jackie and Eric to return to from getting salsa, then some hot chicks came over to me and we ended up going into your dad's hot tube for a while. A little later some dog ended up taking my shirt, so I chased the dog to the bushes that separate the Foreman driveway and the Pinciotti lawn. Then looked over to the Foreman driveway and I saw…"

The gang waited for Randy to continue for a few seconds before Randy said, "I don't know if I should continue this…"

Hyde loudly said, "Come on man just finish it!"

Randy chuckled and said, "Ok man, ok. So I looked over at the driveway and I saw Eric and Jackie sitting on the Cruiser and they were talking about something, I couldn't hear what they were talking about. Then Jackie grabbed Foreman and kissed him."

There was complete silence in the room. Then the door opened and in walked Foreman.

Foreman was looking at an object in his and said, "Hey guys did you know that George Lucas is going to do a…"

"You kissed Jackie, what the hell!" Donna yelled and got up.

Hyde also got up and said, "Yeah man, why didn't you tell us last night!"

Eric, shocked, said, "Hold on how did you find out?"

Randy said, "I was in the bushes when you and Jackie kissed."

Eric said, "You were the person who I heard say 'what the hell'."

Donna, determined, said, "So Eric, why did you kiss Jackie?"

Eric, defensively, said, "I didn't kiss Jackie, she kissed me."

Fez said, "Then why don't you tell us all of the details."

Eric said, "Look, while you guys were talking about that ice cream stuff, I decided to go and talk to Jackie myself because she usually would open up to me when she wouldn't with others. I saw her on the Vista Cruiser, so I went over to talk to her. We talked for a while, but I couldn't get her to admit that she liked Randy. As I was trying to get her to admit it, she kissed me, and then she ran off."

Donna stared at Eric and said, "So what does this mean?"

Kelso said, "Well this means that Jackie is trading down, because see she liked me and I'm like a Mustang, then she liked Hyde and is like his El Camino, then now she likes Foreman and he's like the Toyota that Red owns."

Eric looked at Kelso with no expression and said, "Wow Kelso, thanks for making me feel better."

Kelso laughs and says, "Your welcome."

Donna said, "Eric do you know where Jackie is?"

Eric shook his head and said, "No, I've looked everywhere I could think of, but I still couldn't find her."

Hyde just thought of something and said, "I might know where she is."

Eric quickly said, "Where?"

Hyde said, "Well, before she and I broke up, her mom ended up buying the old cabin her dad used to own, and Jackie said she would always go to the cabin when she needed to think."

Donna said, "The cabin, I forgot about that place."

Eric stood up and said, "Then let's go."

The whole gang was getting up and Hyde said, "I'll take Donna in the El Camino and Foreman you can take Randy, Fez, and Kelso."

Place: The Burkhart Cabin

(About an hour later)

Donna and Hyde made it to the cabin first, as they got out of the El Camino and rushed into the cabin. They found Jackie sitting on the couch in the main living room. Jackie was sitting there and was reading a book.

Jackie heard the door open, she turned her head around and said, "Donna, Steven, what are you doing here?"

Donna loudly said, "Looking for you, what do you think?"

Hyde said, "What are you doing here?"

Jackie put the book down and said, "Look I have a lot on my mind and I need to be someplace…"

Donna interrupted and said, "Are you sure it wasn't so you could think about your kiss with Eric?"

Jackie, a little shocked, said, "Did Eric tell you?"

Hyde said, "No, Randy ended up seeing the whole kiss and told us today."

Donna said, "So does this mean that you are in love with Eric?"

Jackie didn't respond but her face gave her answer.

Donna put her hands to her mouth and said, "Oh my gosh, you're in love with Foreman."

Hyde smiled a little and said, "Good for you Jackie."

Jackie lied down on the couch and said, "How can this be so great?"

Donna sat down on the couch near Jackie's head and said, "Jackie, Eric is a good guy."

Jackie said, "I know, but how could he like me after all the mean things I said about him and his family?"

Hyde said, "Jackie, Eric has also said some mean things to you too."

Jackie said, "Yeah, but he was only saying those things because of the things I said about him."

Donna said, "Jackie, over the last month Eric has said a lot of positive things about you."

Hyde follows up by saying, "Hell, he's even said he's enjoyed your company this last week when you have been joining him and Randy at their nerd stuff."

Jackie said, "You're just…"

The door opened again and Randy, Fez and Kelso walk in. Jackie and Donna got up and looked at them enter.

Hyde said, "What took you guys so long? And where's Eric?"

Randy said, "Eric's still parking the car. We had to stop because we almost ran out of gas, and we would have been here sooner if Fez didn't decide to hit on the gas lady."

Fez defensively said, "Hey, I haven't had lady action in a long time."

Just then Eric walked in the door and instantly Eric's eyes connected with Jackie's. Eric started to walk over to Jackie, and as he was walking towards Jackie, she looked a little scared at what Eric was going to say. Eric walked right up to Jackie and they looked in each other's eyes.

Eric said, "Hey Jackie."

Jackie said, "Hey."

Eric opened his mouth to say something, but Jackie, who was now looking her feet, cut him off by saying, "You don't need to explain anything, I get it. You don't like me lie that, and I can't blame you. I mean how could you like me after all the mean things I said about you and your family? Even if I do look good, I don't expect you to like me because of my looks, and…"

Eric lifted Jackie by the chin and looked into her eyes, which had tears in them right now, and Eric said, "Jackie did you know you talk too much?"

Eric then kissed Jackie and it lasted for a while. Then the gang was clapping at Jackie and Eric, as they broke their kiss.

Jackie looked at the rest of the gang and said, "Shut up. Oh, and you all need to leave so I can spend quality time with my new boyfriend."

Eric looked at Jackie, pulled her closer and said, "I like the sound of that."

Kelso yelled, "BURN!"

Everybody looked at Kelso oddly, before he said, "Oh, Fez and I made a bet on whether Eric would hook up with Jackie today, and Fez now has to pay me five bucks now."

The rest of the gang shook their heads at Kelso's stupidity.

AN: This was the hardest chapter to write with so many possibilities to start and end the chapter. Thanks for the reviews!