Chapter Seven: Lousy With Hooch

Tina Forman was drunk. Sitting on her brothers ratty, taped-up sofa, she was so drunk that she was actually giggling as a boy named Kevin made farting noises with his armpit. She was so drunk that when Fez came over with all of Jackie's cheerleader chicks, she joined in the group, giving him a sloppy kiss on the cheek.

"Tina's pretty wasted," Donna whispered to Eric, gnawing her lip as she took a light gulp of her beer. Eric nodded, sending his twin sister a considering glance.

"Yeah…" Continuing to nod, he leaned closer and closer to the redhead, placing a hand on her hip. "Wanna check out the backroom with me? Got some pretty cool Easter decorations. Bunnies and… More bunnies."

It was a lame opening to a make out session. Donna realized that. Somewhere in the back of Eric's mind, he kind of realized it too. But when Donna gave him a sly smile and pushed him towards the backroom, that inkling of self awareness vanished. Eric Forman was a cool guy and he was going to do what cool guys did: make the moves on his next door neighbor.

As her twin brother was playing tongue hockey with Donna, Tina was still crowded around Fez.

"You know what, Fez?!" she slurred out, her cheeks rosy and her hands slapping down on the foreigners cheeks with such force that the cheerleaders all around him cheered and he winced. "A loooooottttt of people think you're weird."

"What?" Fez whispered, his eyes going wide and his smile slipping as the ladies around him giggled.

"Let me finish!" Tina gave him a wolfish smile, leaning forward until they were mere inches apart. "But I think that you're just unique. And I'll tell everyone in this rat shack just that! I will. Just watch me. I will!"

With that she got up on the table, raising her cheap glass filled with red punch and grinning around as the whole room cheered. "FEZ ISN'T WEIRD! NOW WHO'S GONNA KISS ME?!"

If we rewound an hour or so before, we would find a very docile gathering. Tina was sitting exactly where we had found her before and Hyde was leaning against the washer with a disgruntled look on his face and eyes that flicked from the door to Tina. She had done a relatively good job fixing up the place with beer coolers by the doors overflowing with ice and a series of food trays lining the washer set and cooler. But you couldn't really do much with a room that Kitty refused to enter on more than one occasion.

And sitting on the table that Tina would be standing on an hour or two later, was a bowl of the most rancid smelling punch the Kitty had ever made. Tina had smelled enough vodka to know that the bowl was spiked. She had also been awkward and annoyed enough to ignore that and do what any sane teen would do under pressure:

She drank the koolaid.

So an hour or two later she was absolutely sloshed and on the table holding up a her third glass of spiked punch.

"Hell yeah!" Armpit Fart Kevin screamed, jumping off of the couch only to be shoved back down as Hyde snarled at anyone in the room who dared to show even a remote interest in Tina's offer.

"Okay, princess. Time to come down from the fairy castle," Hyde said as he dragged the girl from the table, ignoring the sound of breaking glass as Tina dropped her cup in favor of wrapping her arms around Hyde's neck.

"It's Hyde!" she cheered, staring up at the curly haired boy with a grin as he opened the door to the basement and made his way up the stairs. Leaning up, she let a hand ghost across his jaw, her lips whispering along his ear. "I was hoping it would be you."

"Dammit, Tina." The brunette squeaked a bit as Hyde set her down roughly, stumbling slightly into the parked Vista Cruiser. Some of her sobriety came back to her at the cold glare that the curly haired boy was giving her as he ran an angry hand through his hair. "Why the hell do you keep doing this stuff?"

"What stuff?"

Hyde jabbed a finger at the tiny girl, his eyes narrowing dangerously and Tina suddenly realized that he was a lot taller than he had been when they were children. She had to crane her head to look up at him. And he was really close, his chest skimming hers.

"You know what you're doing, Tina," Hyde snapped. "You're messing with my head and then you're going all crazy and slobberin' over the foreign kid. You're acting like a complete-"

He stopped himself, glancing away as he bit his lip. Tina's eyes narrowed, almost all of her drunken happiness washing away as anger took its place.

"Acting like a complete what, Steven?" Hyde's blue eyes met her's for a moment and in her mind, Tina dared him to complete his thought. Apparently, he saw the dare written all over her face.

"A complete bitch, princess," he finished, his brows racing as he tipped his head to the side and she gasped.

"You - you -" She was so sloshed that she couldn't think of anything. Her face heated as he stared down at her, waiting.

"Yeah?"

"Shut up! I'm trying to think of something bad enough!" she snarled and then finally settled for going down the path that would lead to the biggest outcome. Desperately, she shoved at Hyde's chest, only getting a slight sway and then he was back up in her space. "You're a bitch! You're the biggest bitch on the whole block, Steven Hyde! And you wanna know why?!"

"Why?" He snarled back, leaning down so that they were inches apart.

"I'LL TELL YOU WHY!" And then suddenly things were coming out that should never, ever have left the safety of her own mind and she was pushing against him and staring up at him like she wanted to rip him apart. "You're a bitch because you kept shoving - Why did you have to ask me to pick out a present for Donna? Or Jackie? Whichever of them you've decided to go after! You know - you knew - you should have known -"

She bit down on her lip, suddenly feeling like crying and hitting him even more. She looked away, ignoring the hand that Hyde had slipped along her waist to the small of her back, his eyes intent. Finally, she lowered her head, her eyes blurry with tears.

"You know that I like you," she whispered, the words breaking. And then she was crying, her hands curling in the front of his vest. She was so embarrassed. And she was tipsy and she just wanted to go curl up in her bed and sleep this away. Maybe if she just walked away now then everything would be fine.

Calloused fingers tipped her chin up and she was staring into the bluest eyes that she had ever seen, even through a layer of shades. And then his hand was tangling in her hair, his other one dragging her against him as his lips crashed into hers.

Everything inside of her melted, an aching starting between her legs as her fingers curled more tightly into his vest. One thing that she had never known about Steven Hyde: He could kiss. His lips pressed to hers and then his teeth nipped into her lower lip, one of his hands going to lower to grasp her butt and bring her closer to him as she opened her mouth in a gasp. And then his tongue was tangling with hers.

He took her slowly and completely and by the time he pulled away her legs were shaking and she couldn't speak. Blinking mutely, Tina stared up at him, her lips stinging and her whole body shivering with tingles. And Hyde smirked like he had just seen something that he particularly liked, his eyes drifting to her lips once more. Was he going to kiss her again? Instinctively, Tina went up on the tips of her toes. She wanted him to kiss her again.

"TINA RENEE FORMAN!" All of the color drained from Tina's face at the booming voice, her whole body seizing up as Hyde instantly let go of her, his eyes going wide.

Slowly, she turned, her heart racing as she came face to face with Red Forman, blood vessels popping out along his temples as his face went purple. She shivered. Tina had never seen him like this.

"Daddy-" She forced out, taking a tentative step toward the enraged man. Her stomach flipped, bile burning the back of her throat. Behind him, Laurie was laughing silently, her mother looking like she was about to have a panic attack. "Daddy, I can explain."

And then she threw up all over Red's work shoes and khaki pants.

Thank you to RomanLizzy (Your review made me laugh, by the way:)) who reviewed last chapter and please save my sad writers heart some pining and review this chapter, one and all! Oh also, please follow and favorite. It gets me sad when I don't get any of those emails. :(