Chapter 6
That night, it got really dark. I didn't realize how amazing Point Place looked at night. I climbed the ladder to find Hyde with a case full of beer, Kelso with some spray paint, and Eric with a bag of Cheese Ballz.
I smiled. "Alright. This is gonna be awesome! We got beer, spray paint, and Cheese Ballz!"
Hyde laughed. "Yep. Nothing else we really need."
Donna, Fez, and Jackie climbed up next, smiled and sitting on the edge with me.
I stood up once Kelso handed me a bottle of spray paint and a can of beer.
"I love the view. Point Place actually looks decent from up here." I said standing up.
I looked back over. "Who am I kidding? It looks just as crappy as it does on the ground."
Hyde laughed and opened up the beer for me.
"Thanks." I eyed him from underneath my bangs.
"Hyde?"
He turned. "Yeah?"
"Why do you still have your sunglasses on? It's night time." I took the glasses off his face and held them out once he started grabbing at them.
"Give them back, Sam!" He yelled playfully.
"Not a chance in hell, Steven." He smiled and I fell over a little. My back was now on the floor of the water tower. He reached over and took his glasses. He looked down into my eyes.
"Well you got them." I said as he pulled my hand to help me up.
By now, our legs were hanging over the edge, and the rest of the gang was busy spray painting.
"I like this." I looked over and smiled. "Thanks for inviting me."
He smiled, still not putting on his glasses. "You're welcome. And listen… I really am sorry, about the dancing thing."
I smiled. "It's ok, Hyde. I really don't care anymore."
He smiled. "I can't tell if that's good or bad, so… I'm just going to continue nodding."
I laughed at him as he nodded.
Kelso ran over and handed me a bottle of spray paint.
"I spray painted Fez's butt, but he didn't know it was me. Here you go." He threw the can at Hyde and I, then bolted down the ladder.
I shook my head. "What am I going to do with this group? Huh?"
I looked over at him. "Drink more beer, that's what I always say."
I took the beer from his hands and raised it. "Too… this crappy-ass town."
He opened another can and raised it. "Too… you being here."
I looked over and smiled. "Cheers."
"Cheers." He smiled, his blue eyes lighting up.
I put my arm around him and smiled. "Oh Hyde, I can see this as a beginning of a beautiful-"
"Beautiful friendship." He cut me off.
I bit my lip. "Yes, friendship."
"Well, I mean, you are into every band that I'm into. You drink beer, get high, and are insanely in love with Led Zeppelin. We are going to be best friends, Walker."
He looked back at me.
"Yes, yes. A beautiful friendship, before we go anywhere else, right Steven Hyde?"
He smiled at the thought of his full name. "Yes, Samantha Walker."
He leaned in a little, taking my arm from around him into his hand. This time, I didn't resist. I leaned back in.
Suddenly, Jackie raced over smiling.
"Oh my god, you guys HAVE to see what Michael wrote on the water tower for us. It's so romantic!" I opened my eyes and looked at Hyde.
"I guess we better go see how unromantic Kelso is, huh?" He whispered.
Still holding his hand I smiled. "Yeah." I whispered back.
He helped me up and let go of my hand. We walked around to the front of the water tower and smiled.
In the center of the water tower, Kelso had written, Michael and Jackie ForeVar!.
I rolled my eyes over to Steven. "She's kidding, right? Please tell me she's kidding with this!"
He shook his head. "She is completely, utterly serious, Sammy."
I blinked hard, rubbed my eyes and looked back up, still the same. I looked over at Jackie, who was holding her hands and smiling.
"Jackie, you know he spelled forever wrong, right?"
She nodded. "Yeah, but, it's kind of like when a child gives you a card with a million spelling mistakes on it and the picture they drew of you looks like a potato, but it's still cute. This is the child's card."
I shook my head and smiled. "You must really like him to put up with these kind of things."
She smiled then looked back up.
"Well, my next boyfriend will need to have perfect grammar." I looked back at Donna. "Just sayin'."
I looked over at Point Place and leaned against the hand-rail. Hyde smiled.
As I was looking back over at him, the hand-rail broke off.
Hyde reached out and tried to grab my hand as I fell off the water tower.
"Sam!" Donna called out just as Jackie, Kelso, Eric, and Hyde did.
When I hit the ground, everything went black. The last clear image I saw was when I came to for four seconds. Hyde was already on the ground with me. He was pushing the hair out of my face and kept saying my name.
I tried to squeak out his, but failed, then went back into the darkness.