A/N: Hey guys! So I've been trying to upload more often since finals are coming up. So this will most likely be my last update until after the 17th (which is when I take my last final). I hope you enjoy this new chapter even if it is a bit short. Once finals are done and I'm finished with this semester I'll start working on this story a lot more. See you all in a few weeks!

Madison-

A few minutes had passed since Jackie ended their conversation and Donna still couldn't believe it had happened. There was no one Jackie was right. She admitted that their friendship was not what it once used to be, but it had nothing to do with her being a bad friend. It was never her goal to hurt Jackie, but she couldn't go around choosing sides between her friends for the sake of keeping the group together. That's the only reason she became friends with Sam. She was Hyde's wife and they couldn't all just treat her badly, otherwise Hyde would have been upset with them. And besides, she had know Hyde longer than she had known Jackie, so she definitely couldn't make him mad.

'Jesus' Donna thought. She did always pick Hyde's side, she had just done it again. Throughout their friendship, Donna had stuck up to Hyde when he couldn't do it himself, but this time it cost her a good friend.

She hadn't realized that she was being a bad friend to Jackie, she was just trying to be a good one to Hyde.

Donna picked up her paper once more and one sentence stuck out to her. It read: "The feminist movement, with its unique methods, would not have been successful had it not been for the unity and solidarity of the women (and men) involved." Donna realized in that moment that as far as Jackie was concerned, she preached this idea, but never actually put it to practice. This not only made her a bad friend, but a bad feminist as well...she had failed at the two things she had prided herself in being.

Point Place-

"What do you mean you're moving to California?" Kitty shrieked.

Hyde had just told her of his plan to manage a store in California, and as he suspected, she was hurt by the mere idea. She probably thought Hyde would stick around for a while after the accident. He couldn't blame her, for she always wanted someone to take care of and now that the rest of the gang had moved away, he was the only one close enough for her to care for.

"Mrs. Forman, I'm sorry but I can't stay here anymore."

"And why not?" she asked, "Red and I have been like parents to you, why do you want to move away from us?"

This was the part Hyde was dreading. He knew she would take it personal. The only reason he had even stayed as long as he has is because of them. Before the Forman's took him in he didn't have any family left. Hell, even when Edna was around he planned on leaving for New York just to get away from her. With the Formans though, the thought of leaving never even crossed his mind. When he moved into their house he had people who cared about him, people who actually loved him...a family.

There was no way he would be able to leave all of that behind. The problem was that four years later, he was still comfortable doing the exact same thing he was doing at 17, and it was time for a change. He could no longer sit around doing nothing while all his friends moved on with their lives. He refused to be the one in the gang who amounted to nothing. He refused to prove those who doubted him right. Steven Hyde needed to get out of Point Place and start his life.

"I don't want to leave you guys behind, but if I stay I'll just keep doing what I'm doing now, and I know I can do more than that."

Kitty sighed. She knew sooner or later the boy would get bored of the daily routine just as the others had. She had always wondered what had taken so long for him to realize it was time to grow up. However, in an effort to keep one of her babies around she didn't say anything.

"I can't do what I want to do here in Point Place Mrs. Forman, I hope you understand."

"I do understand Steven, but why California of all places?"

"It's a good place for a music store. All the major labels are there, a lot of people trying to get discovered. I could do a lot with a store there."

"It sounds like you have your mind made up then."

"I do."

"What if I bake you some chocolate peanut butter cookies?"

Hyde laughed at her persistence. "Sorry Mrs. Forman, as good as your cookies are, I'm still leaving."

"Oh alright then. When are you thinking of leaving?" she asked.

"Well I still have to talk to W.B. about it, but as soon as my car is fixed. Maybe two or three weeks."

"That's sooner than I thought."

"I know, but the sooner I get started the better."

Kitty sighed. She really hated what had become of her once crowded home. She tried for years to make her house the one all the kids wanted to be in. She cooked for them and showered them all with as much love as she did her own children (Eric more so than Laurie), but nonetheless, she had worked hard to be a mother figure to them all, yet there she was watching them leave one by one. Again, she knew the day would come. However, what upset her most was the way they had left. None of them were completely happy. They no longer had the friendship they once had with each other.

She remembered the day after Jackie left. Everyone sat in the basement as always, but no one said much. She went to give them a batch of cookies as a way to console them, but no one so much as looked at them. Well, Fez did because he simply couldn't resist anything sweet. She had don't anything possible to cheer them up, but to no avail. They just sat around for hours hardly talking.

That only lasted a few weeks because one by one, they had started moving on with their lives and moving away from Point Place until Hyde was the last one left. The Hyde that was left though was very different from the one she had grown to know for the last few years. This new Hyde was moody and wasn't as successful at hiding his emotions. The zen master had lost his zen.

"Steven, I know I'm not your mother but I want to make sure you're making the right decision. You tend to be..well, a bit impulsive. Deciding to move to California all of a sudden might just be a reaction to the accident."

Hyde shook his head. This was something he expected her to say for the sake of keeping him around, but he was convinced that this wasn't a reaction, it was much more than that. Something told him that California is where he needed to be, where he needed to go to find the one thing he was missing. He'd be damned if he wasn't going to go get her back...erm, it. He'd be damned if he didn't get it back.