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Author's Note: Hey everyone! I know late chapter, sorry. I was getting ready for my final tomorrow. Really nervous about it. It'll be so good to be done with the essay though! Unfortunately this means no Chapter for Friday/. SO SORRY! BUT there will be one Sunday. And just because this story was not updated doesn't mean the others won't be either…That's all I'm saying about that! Now on with the story!Enjoy!
"Fine!" Kelso could be heard shouting as Fez walked into the Forman kitchen.
"I say good day!" Fez called out before slamming the glass door shut.
"Well what was all that commotion about?" Kitty, who had been standing at the stove, asked.
Fez frowned and dropped into one of the green kitchen chairs with his arms crossed. He glared at the door before turning back to Kitty.
"It was that selfish, mean, ungrateful, grumpy man out there!" he shouted turning back to the glass door as if Kelso could hear him.
Kitty frowned, "I thought Red was watching the game in the living room."
Kitty laughed at her own joke with her loud Kitty laugh. Fez didn't. He just sat in his seat still looking upset. Kitty noticed his troubled expression and stopped her laughing. She sat down in a chair beside the young foreign man
"What happened, Fez?" she asked in her concerned motherly tone of voice.
"My friendship with Kelso has ended is what happened." Fez announced, sounding as angry as he looked.
Kitty smiled, "Oh don't be silly. The two of you are as close as…Burt and Ernie."
A small smile appeared on Fez's face as he nodded, "Yes, we did connect to those two very well." Suddenly his smile dropped and his frown reappeared, "But not anymore!"
"Well what went wrong?"
Fez re-crossed his arms, "Nothing." He answered sounding like a small child.
"Oh come on, you know you can tell me." Kitty encouraged but Fez never budged. "I'll give you one of the beaters that's covered in chocolate batter." Kitty tried but Fez stayed in his position.
Kitty's smile grew as another idea popped into her head, "I'll give you both of them."
Joy quickly shown on Fez's face as he smiled a big wide smile. He sat up straight in his seat and uncrossed his arms, so that he could clap his hands together.
"Ok!"
Kitty giggled as she got up and walked over to the counter to unfasten the sliver beaters on the hand mixer. She walked back over to the table with a beater dripping with chocolate batter in each of her hands. She handed them over to Fez who gratefully accepted them and did not waste a second to dig into them.
"So now tell me what happened." Kitty said—while whipping his already chocolate stained face—reminding him why he was given the treat.
"It all started when Kelso hit a Ninja Raccoon,"
Kitty frowned with confusion as she shook her head slightly, "A Ninja Raccoon?"
Fez nodded as he licked the chocolate off the metal, "He hit a Ninja Raccoon on his way over here. And now the Ninja Raccoon wants to kill him. Kelso told us about it in the basement and I was the only good friend who volunteered to help him catch it." Fez explained as Kitty continued to frown, trying her best to follow along with the story.
"So we went to the store to buy some dynamite but then on our way back Kelso said he saw the Ninja Raccoon again." Fez went on, "And then he turned his van too fast and made my coffee be pee in my pants!"
Kitty frowned and shook her head at the fuming Fez who was trying to release some anger by licking the uncooked batter.
"I'm sorry, honey." Kitty began, "You lost me after Ninja Raccoon."
"Yes, well…I am not sorry that Kelso has lost me as a friend!" he declared.
"Oh you shouldn't talk like that, especially during the holidays."
Fez furrowed his brow, "Should I say it in the language from my home country?"
"No, no honey." Kitty shook her head, "I mean you shouldn't talk so negatively. It's Christmas time, happy time."
"I do not feel very happy." Fez said sadly.
"Oh, I'm sure you and Michael will work things out." She reassured him, "You just need some space."
"Hmm." Was all Fez said as he finished up the last of the batter.
"Oh and I know the perfect thing to cheer you up." Kitty excitedly told Fez.
"Oo!" Fez said in the same tone.
"But it has nothing to do with more batter."
"Aw!"
Kitty smiled, "It's even better."
"Oo!"
Kitty giggled another Kitty laugh before she told the eager Fez just what plan she had brewing in her mind.
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Back up stairs in the attic, Jackie and Hyde sat on the floor examining the newly found 'treasures.'
They had been lucky and nothing had been broken when Jackie dropped the box. Only a few things had fallen out of the box, but had been put back in until, the two young adults took notice to what exactly was in the cardboard box.
"Look at all this stuff." Jackie said softly as she started to dig into the box.
"Yeah." Hyde nodded, taking only a quick peek into the box, "Why would the Formans save this junk?"
Jackie looked up from the box and over at Hyde, a frown on her face. "Steven, I bet this stuff is really important to them…or at least to Mrs. Forman."
"Right, cause you can't buy more tissue paper." Hyde replied sarcastically as he lifted a small square piece of white tissue paper from the box.
Shaking her head, Jackie snatched the material out of his hand, "It's probably from the invitations."
As Jackie went back to looking through the various items in the package, Hyde scowled at her.
"Why would you put tissue paper in an invitation?"
"Because," Jackie began with a roll of her eyes, only to realize she didn't quite know the answer. Luckily she found something to change the subject. "Oh look Steven! The little people from the top of the cake!"
Jackie then proceeded to take out the two plastic miniature dolls of a smiling bride and groom. She smiled and began to play with them, making them kiss several times. Hyde shook his head at the scene before leaning towards the box.
Now that Jackie was preoccupied he could get a better look at the old stuff. Not taking too long looking inside, something caught Hyde's eyes. He reached in and pulled out a small stack of papers.
"Hey check out these photos from the wedding." Hyde said to Jackie, immediately getting her attention, "I would've thought Mrs. Forman had made a whole album for this."
"She did." Jackie informed, "It's like the only album that doesn't have any picture of Laurie or Eric." She paused for a few seconds, "By the way, despite what Mrs. Forman says, Eric was not a cute baby.
Hyde chuckled slightly, "Yeah I believe that." Then he frowned slightly, looking back at Jackie, "Wait. You've seen their wedding album?
"Yeah. It's in Red's den."
"You've been in Red's den?" Hyde asked still confused, none of them went into that room unless they really, really had to.
Jackie nodded and then noticed the shock Hyde was in. She rolled her eyes before explaining.
"I'm not as self-centered as you think I am, Steven." She told him seriously, "On one of the days that you guys were talking about something boring…you know something that didn't concern me, I got bored so I went upstairs. I had already been through the shelves in the living room so I went into Red's den and found the albums."
"Well I guess you're not as self-centered as I thought." Hyde admitted, "But you are as nosy."
Jackie snarled at him slightly, "Give me some of the pictures."
Hyde did as he was told, giving her at least half of the stack of old black and white pictures. The two sat in silence as they flipped through the old photos.
"Mrs. Forman's dress is so cute." Jackie said out loud, "I wonder if it's up here."
Hyde looked around the box-filled attic. "I wouldn't be surprised if you found the silverware from that day."
Jackie laughed softly as she went back to admiring the photographs. Then it was Hyde's turn to comment on a photo that his eyes had landed on.
"Look at this." He nudged Jackie causing her to turn her attention to the photo he was looking at.
It was of a much younger Red and Kitty. Kitty looked beautiful wearing her white lacy wedding dress while Red looked very handsome in his tuxedo. They were both smiling at the camera as they hands intertwined while they held the knife that was cutting into the three level cake.
"Finally some proof, that Red Forman can smile without doing something evil."
Jackie laughed at shook her head at Hyde's words. However she stopped the second she flipped over to the next photo.
"My proof is even better." She said handing him the photo.
Hyde's eyes widened even more. "Whoa."
The photo Jackie had found was snapshot photo, that Hyde guessed neither Red nor Kitty had known was being taken. Especially Red. Instead of looking at the camera, the newlywed couple seemed to only have eyes for each other as they danced on the dance floor. Kitty was looking up at Red with that familiar smile of hers and Red was looking down at Kitty with a smile that was even bigger than the one in the last picture.
"I've never seen Red smile like that." Hyde shared, "Isn't Red Forman smiling that big, a sign of the apocalypse?"
Jackie hit his forearm slightly before looking at the photo.
"They look so happy."
"Yeah." Hyde smirked for a second or two, "Until the next day."
"What do you mean?" Jackie asked with a frown.
"I mean…well maybe it didn't go that way for them, but that's usually how it goes with marriage." Hyde began with a shrug, "You're happy the day you tie the knot. Then the next morning when you wake up and the booze is out of your system, you 're ready to tie the knot around your neck."
Jackie's frown deepened. How could he think like that?
"Not all marriages are like that Steven." She said to him in a firm tone of voice, "Some are actually pretty happy. Look at the Formans."
"Yeah, well I guess they're one of the lucky ones." Hyde said as he looked down at the photos in his hands.
Jackie sighed and shook her head. This was why they had broken up. Their different views on marriage. Some things didn't change. Some things would never change.
She did however need to change the subject.
"I wish these pictures weren't in black and white." She commented, "I wanna know what color Mrs. Forman's bridesmaid dresses were. For my wedding I want my bridesmaid dresses to be bright pink!" she finished with an excited look in her eyes and her hands lifted in the air.
"No you don't." Hyde told her never looking up from the pictures.
Jackie crossed her arms as she began to get defensive, "I don't?"
"Nope."
"And you know what I want?"
"Yup."
"And what do I want?' Jackie questioned with one eyebrow raised.
Hyde turned to her and smirked, "Not bright pink."
"Ugh! You…" suddenly Jackie's glare erased from her face and her anger towards Hyde was put on pause. "Did you hear that?"
Hyde was silent as he tried to hear what she was talking about. After a few seconds he did hear a little something.
"Yeah, it sounds like…"
"I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee, won't my mommy be so proud of me…"
"Fez!" they both exclaimed as their foreign friends voice became louder and louder.
They quickly stood up and ran towards the wall of boxes. When they reached the obstacle they saw Fez already up in the attic and most importantly the attic door was open.
"And hello to you too." Fez greeted with a smile.
"Alright, Fez!" Hyde praised before trying to climb over the wall.
Jackie's smile grew, "I love you Fez!"
"Aw and I love you too, you guys!" Fez said happily before embracing both Jackie and Hyde in a tight hug.
Fez's hug stopped Hyde from continuing his journey over the boxes. Jackie tried to push Fez away from her as Hyde did the same thing, but Fez had quite a grip on them both.
Suddenly there was a slam and Jackie and Hyde watched their only exit close back up.
"No!"
"You idiot!"
The two yelled at him as they finally gathered enough strength to push Fez to the ground, making him land right beside the folded up ladder.
"What the hell?!" Fez asked sounding upset. "What was that for?"
"You let the door close, you moron." Hyde grumbled as he moved himself back to the side of the 'fort' he shared with Jackie.
"What? No, don't be silly. I just..." He laughed until he saw the shut door. "What happened to the door?"
"It closed." Hyde repeated.
"Well open it you sonofabitch!" Fez commanded in an almost panicky voice.
"Gee, why didn't I think of that?" Hyde asked sarcastically.
Jackie rolled her eyes. She knew Hyde's sarcasm wasn't going to get them anywhere. She looked over at Fez, still upset with him for blocking her way out of this mess.
"Fez, the door doesn't open from inside." She explained
"What?" he asked in a frightened tone of voice.
"We're stuck up here."
"Aye." Fez said worriedly as he looked up skywards. "This is because I had doubted you, isn't it? I am sorry Santa Claus."
Author's Note: there you go chapter 10 of "Stuck with You" Hope you liked!
Today's song title was picked because of Fez's final comment :-)
Until next time, thanks for reading, hope you liked, please review and lemme know what you think, stay tuned, take care, have a nice day and remember only 15 more days till Christmas!