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Chapter 2: B Average at Best

In sixth grade, after seeing how the boys and Kitty reacted to Laurie, Tina Forman started to stuff her bra which unfortunately ended in odd lumps that slipped out of place easily. Red had had the awkward honor of having a "talk" with his youngest daughter. And her twin brother laughed so hard when he saw her that he actually peed himself. Which made them look like the stupidest pair of twins in all of Wisconsin.

In eighth grade, she put makeup on so heavily after seeing her eldest sister applying lipstick, that the curly haired boy who always wore a pair of obnoxious sunglasses and hung out with her brother told her she looked like a batfish. When she had finally been able to find a picture of said fish, she cried so hard that Kitty had almost taken her to the emergency room.

By her freshman year in high school, Tina Forman had decided that she was going to be her own person. She decided that she would stop putting on blush and chopping off her auburn hair to make her have more of a bob like Laurie. She would stop putting on lipgloss and blue eyeshadow because the curly haired boy that her brother liked to hang around with wasn't going to stop coming around and he definitely wasn't going to stop calling her mean names.

She went through her freshman year reforming herself. Tina Forman changed her whole look until even sunglasses boy couldn't utter a word. Bell-bottoms were in and Tina looked good in them. Tight shirts were in and Tina finally had boobs. She was a new woman and by the time that the summer of her sophomore year hit, Tina felt like she could do anything. She could be anyone.

And that was the summer that she had met Todd Jackson. He was hip. He had suntouched curls and dimples and he was handsomer than any boy that Tina had ever met. She liked him. She wanted him.

So she decided to take him.

Unfortunately, that brought her into a head-on collision with Laurie - an experience that Tina had never had before. It was like a rickshaw getting run over by a mack truck. Tina had never worked so hard for something and come out with nothing more than a stuttered apology from Todd as he left on wobbly legs and disgustingly stained sheets.

It broke her. It decimated more than it should have because it was the first thing that Tina had decided on taking for herself. And it made Laurie the center of everything that Tina hated in the female sex.

"You are so bad!" Tina Forman could hear the obnoxious shriek of Laurie's little friend all the way through two doors and across a whole hall. The two college girls had been in that room all day talking about boys and sex. Which was an impressively long conversation.

"I'm not lying, Kate. All shaved," Laurie emphasized.

Tina couldn't take it anymore. Rolling off of her small bed, she threw on a jacket and rushed out of the house. It had been little more than a day or two since the two girls had taken over the house with their nail polish and their hair dryers and already Tina wanted to tear the place down.

"Where are you going?" Tina gritted her teeth at the rough voice of her father, stalling at the bottom of the stairs with the front door so near. It was pure agony but somehow Tina forced her gaze from it to catch the steely gaze of her father.

"Um," she floundered, her eyes flicking to the door that lead to the kitchen where she could hear her mother humming merrily. Kitty was absolutely thrilled that she hadn't had a full-out brawl break out in the past day or so. She had been ready to put her skills as a nurse to use from the moment that Laurie had called with the news of her visit.

Only last May had the blonde left with a black eye after Tina had "accidentally" punched her older sister at Eric's birthday party.

"Eric?" Tina finally said, tossing aside the prospect of joining her mom in making another batch of cookies or some kind of yam thingie for Thanksgiving.

"You know I don't like you hanging out at that sex shop," Red said darkly but he was already digging around in his pocket for a ten. The Hub, Tina thought with a bit of relief, hurrying over to her father quickly and taking the money.

"Thank you, daddy," she whispered, kissing his cheek and heading out the door.

The Hub, contrary to a lot of peoples believes, wasn't a hang out for "cool kids." It was a hangout for the burnouts and the losers. They sat in the crappy, ripped booths that lined the walls and they huddled together around the dirty air hockey machine, talking about girls and sex and whatever else. In the seventeen years that Tina had lived in Point Place, she had never, ever seen any of the football players and cheerleaders spend more than an hour at the dingy short-order diner.

Tina breathed out a sigh of relief as the glass door swung open and she was able to step out of the chill autumn air and into the cozy diner.

"So, is she hot?" Hyde. That gravelly voice could only be Steven Hyde's. Her eyes immediately caught on the group of teens who had pushed two tables together and were now huddled around it, the main center of the attention being her brother who looked like a lost toddler with his knees clenched to his chest and his eyes dreamy and big.

He had been like that ever since Laurie's little friend had taken over his room.

"Why would you want to know?" Tina leaned around Hyde to grab up some fries that were piled onto a plate in the middle of the table, ignoring the odd fluttering that beat through her heart. She had been feeling this way for a while now whenever she got near Steven.

But in the end she chalked it up to early-onset heart failure. His cool blue eyes met hers through the usual screen of his sunglasses and a fire tingled up her spine. Heart failure and maybe a bit of indigestion.

Keeping his eyes, she leaned in until she was close enough to nearly touching, lowering her voice. "I was under the impression that you didn't go for bottle blondes with a ditzy streak."

His lips tipped up into a small smirk, his eyes flashing as he let out a laugh and Tina pulled away to take a seat next to Kelso and just across from the curly haired boy.

"Times can change, Tina," Hyde responded calmly, taking a gulp of his cola as he watched her eyes flash as she sat down heavily in the chair. "I've heard that those girls get pretty frisky between the sheets."

Her eyes narrowed dangerously, a streak of irritation taking over. "Odd. Last time I checked you wouldn't know much about anything that happens between the sheets besides sleeping."

The two tables roared.

"BURN!" Kelso crowed, pointing at Hyde who still sat with a practiced grin on his lips.

Tina felt a wave of triumph course through her brain as her brother gave her an awed smile. It was rare that anyone was able to get anything over Hyde. And when it happened, it was something to be celebrated. She smirked. In an even odder way, she felt ecstatic for having crushed Hyde's curiosity about Kate so effectively.

Hyde gave her an indulgent smile as the two tables slowly quieted down. "Hey...now that Laurie's back, you gonna start stuffing your bra again?"

Tina's smile dropped, heat searing her face as the tables broke out in appreciative gasps. He knew how to get her. Her insides knotted as his eyes dropped lazily to her boobs and she resisted the urge to pull her jacket tighter around her as his lips tipped up even more. Eric coughed, his eyes wide as they flicked between the pair. They had been going at it since middle school and it didn't look like they were any closer to softening it up.

Hyde's eyes flicked back to Eric and he took another gulp of his soda. "So, hot or not?"

Tina settled back, her eyes flicking away from Kelso who had a goofy smile on his face and to the redhead sitting a bit away from her between Jackie and the foreign exchange student - Fez for short.

"Course she's hot. All college girls are hot." Tina rolled her eyes, reaching across the table to take Eric's coke. Not that he notice. He was too busy taking in the all mighty advice of Kelso. She sighed. Boys were some of the dumbest creatures that she had had to learn about in school. "I mean, we've all seen the brochures, right?"

"Okay." Tina glanced over to see Jackie dragging Donna to her feet. Desperately, her eyes caught Tina's in a pleading stare. It was too bad that the cheerleader was such a force. Usually Tina could worm her way out of anything. Guiltily, she looked away, focusing down on dipping a fry in ketchup. "Donna. Help me play some music. Right now."

Contrary to popular belief, Tina knew that Jackie was a cold, calculating bitch. She was smart in a way that most people wouldn't understand. In fact, for the longest time, Tina hadn't. But when she had found Todd Jackson and her sister under her covers, it had become painfully clear how greatly Jackie outweighed the brunette in the world of relationships.

And in this moment, it looked like she was laying some of that wisdom down for Donna.

"She's hot." Hyde declared and Tina had to bite her lip to resist the urge to send her foot into his shin.

"Oh, so hot!" her twin brother nearly sang. Boys were so stupid. Eric's eyes sought out Tina. "Tina saw her. She knows. Isn't she hot?"

"Wow," she said blandly, gulping as a bitter taste filled her mouth. "This is almost as bad as being at home."

"I just…" Eric's voice cracked and he pulled his knees tighter to his chin with a sigh and a watery eyed stare. Tina rolled her eyes. "She's so pretty. And she smells like...like toast."

Tina's nose wrinkled at the thought.

"So," Hyde started in, grinning across the table at the brunette. "Does she have bigger knockers than Laurie?"

"If she had bigger knockers than Laurie…" Kelso's eyes went distant as he did a series of calculations and then nodded. "That makes her up to my level in hotness. And I'm pretty hot."

"That's it." Tina stood, jerking on her coat with a scowl. "I'm leaving."

"Aw." Hyde threw back his head keeping a keen eye on the brunette as she stormed around the tables, giving Fez a loving pat on the head which he leaned into. She had been the first to find him and ever since she had treated him like a pet. "Don't leave, sissy. We'll love you no matter what. Even if your rack is only in the high Bs at the most."

That was it. Tina froze, the words making her muscles stall out. Heat rolled up her spine before firm resolve curled her lips. Turning, she threw Hyde a slow smile and moved lazily toward him. Behind his glasses, she saw his blue eyes swirl darker as she leaned closer until she was a breath away from him, her arm propping her up on the table.

"A perfect B, Steven," she whispered and smiled softly as fire lit her insides. On the table, Hyde's fingers twitched, moving forward to scrape along hers without thinking. "A perfect B that you'll never get your hands on. Poor thing."

With a small, fake pout, she pushed off from the table and made her way swiftly to the door. She didn't see the way that Hyde was staring after her, his eyes heated and his body turned toward where she had been.

"We'll see about that," he whispered, watching the door swing shut behind the brunette.

"Dude." Eric's fist crashed into Hyde's shoulder, sending him off-balanced. "That's my sister."

"No offense," Kelso said, his eyes also on the now empty glass door. "But your sisters hot enough to bang. Ten times over."

"Dude!" Both Hyde and Eric were on him before the lanky teen had any time to draw in another breath, sending Fez into a gale of laughter and clapping.

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