Chapter 9-That Disco Episode

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"The game is Anaconda. Big ace. Eight ball. Red lady. Jackson. Fiver. Wild Man-" Eric says, placing all the cards down in front of us.

"Oh my god, Michael, they opened up a disco!" Jackie exclaims and cuts off Eric.

"Where at?" Kelso asks, intrigued.

"In Kenosha! You can wear your David Bowie butt-huggers!" Jackie squealed in excitement.

"Michael, that would be super!" Hyde laughs as he wraps an arm around my waist.

I chuckle a bit as the rest of the gang does too.

"Laugh if you want, man, but my butt looks pretty good in those." Kelso says as I chuckle.

"Cmon, are you guys crazy? I mean, a disco? No way." Eric scoffs.

"I don't know. It might be fun to go dancing." Donna smiles.

"Or we could go." Eric says quickly and I smile at how he will agree with what ever Donna says.

"I've got nothing, I fold." Kelso sighs and puts down his cards as I hug mine closer to my chest so Hyde can't see, but Jackie can.

"Man, Penny, you got crap!" Jackie exclaims. I actually got a good hand, Jackie just doesn't know how to play Anaconda.

"How would you know? You don't play Anaconda!" I roll my eyes.

"Hey Kelso, man, if you're out go make some popcorn." Hyde says.

Kelso stands up and walks around and starts his way up the stairs.

"Take her with you." I say, pointing to Jackie.

"What is disco?" Fez asks.

"Disco is from hell, okay?" Hyde says, "And not the cool part of hell with all the murderers- but the lame-ass part where the really bad accountants live."

"I beg to differ. I think disco is great! Oh, in California it was so amazing." I smile at the thought of going to many discos. I started swaying lightly to imaginary music.

Donna picks up Kelso's cards and I look over at them once she picks them up.

"Excuse me, what are you doing?" Eric asks.

"Looking at Kelso's cards." Donna and I say together.

"That's cheating." Eric says flatly as I roll my eyes at him.

"Eric, we can't find the popcorn!" Jackie yells from upstairs.

Eric stands up and sighs, hopping over the couch, "Hey um, Donna, Penny, why don't you guys take a look at my cards? Then you won't have to wait for me."

Donna shoves Eric's arm away from her as he fights back and tries to show them to us, "No, come on, take a look. Tell me what I have, cheaters!"

I take a look and Donna does too, "You got nothing!"

"Yeah, but I'm gonna bluff-so watch out!" Eric says and runs up the stairs.

"Donna has stuff for Eric, yes?" Fez asks.

"Not stuff, thing." I correct him and shuffle through my cards, placing one down.

"Donna has a thing for Eric." Hyde says lightly as I chuckle.

Hyde chuckles too, "Why do you have a thing for Eric?"

"He makes me laugh, he doesn't ask me stupid questions... He's smart, and you know." Donna trails off.

"No, I don't know." I say.

"I know." Fez raises his hand, in which Hyde points at him to go, "It is because Eric is noble, and a woman wants her first lovemaking to be in the arms of a man she can trust."

We all chuckle a bit and Hyde let's go of me only for a second, but soon returns it after rubbing his eye.

"Fez?" Donna asks, still smiling.

"Yes?" Fez asks.

"Go make popcorn." Donna says sternly.

Fez quickly runs upstairs as I laugh and take Hyde's sunglasses off of his face and I put them on.

"Hey!" Hyde laughs trying to take them back.

"Nope, they're mine." I laugh.

"Penny..." Hyde says, trying not to laugh.

"Hyde..." I say in the same tone and I small laugh escapes my mouth.

"You two are so cute." Donna remarks and smiles.

~~~

"Man, I can't believe you and Jackie are dragging everyone to that disco." Hyde sighs and places a trash bag into a garbage can.

"It's so sad." I say sarcastically as I sit on the ground next to Kelso.

"No, I'm just going to meet Kenosha chicks. I'm breaking up with Jackie." Kelso says. I punch his leg and he whimpers in response.

"Oh, get a tall chick," Fez says and I look at him weirdly, "Because you and Jackie look so silly together."

"Okay, that's all the deposit bottles. And the aluminum cans." Eric says, walking over.

I stand up and brush myself off from the dirty floor.

"We've gotta have at lest $1.15 worth of gas." Eric says and I roll my eyes. Getting gas money was not going to be easy.

"Cmon, my dad's got a ton of empties." Kelso says as Eric, Fez, Kelso, and I all go to get the cans.

"Wait, where's Hyde?" I ask as we walk towards Kelso's house.

"Eh, why would he come with us? He doesn't want to be apart of this disco." Eric says.

"Oh, right." I sigh.

~~~

We all sit in the circle, as high as a kite.

"Okay, I thought about it, and I'm going to the disco." Hyde says.

"Yay!" I smile as I put my arm around his shoulder.

"Just in the off chance they might mix up a Little Rock and roll, man." Hyde says smiling.

"Yeah, I have something to say," Kelso says, "I went to the mall today and I bought a new pair of shoes. And they are the coolest kicks in the cave!"

"So, no more for Kelso. He's toasted." Eric laughs.

"I would like some toast if you are making some. Or food of any kind would be good. I'm starving." Fez nods his head.

"I'm hungry too." I furrow my eyebrows.

"Oh, I read somewhere there are these people in India who fast, man. Yeah. And their minds are so advanced, they can actually think themselves to death, man!" Hyde says and I laugh.

"Woah. I hope I'm not doing that right now," Kelso says worriedly and I continue to laugh and Kelso's seriousness turns to laughter, "My mind's always doing things that I don't even know about."

"Man, we always think of so many brilliant things down here, but then later I can't remember any of them! I mean, they're brilliant, man!" Eric exclaims, laughing.

"Someone go make toast right now." Fez demands.

"Hey, we should record our conversations, man." Hyde says.

"Man! That's so smart!" I say and laugh once I'm done talking.

"Yeah, then we can play it back and wrote it down. I'll bet that's how the writers at National Lampoon do it." Hyde laughs.

"Yeah, I read somewhere that there are these people in France!" Kelso laughs.

"What do they do?" I ask as I remove Hyde's sunglasses off his face and I slowly place them on mine.

"You see, they're incredibly... French!" Kelso laughs as I do too.

"See, that's brilliant, man! I'm getting a tape recorder!" Eric says and runs upstairs.

"Where's my toast, you idiots?" Fez asks harshly and I just hold onto Hyde as he removes his sunglasses from my face and puts them back on his face.

~~~

It was the night of the disco and I found the perfect dress. It was simple but I liked it.

I walk over to Forman's house and I see the gang.

"Wow, you look... great." Hyde says and looks at me.

"Thank you." I smile and walk over by the rest of the gang.

"Okay, let's take some pictures!" Kitty yells, "Steven, get in closer next to Penny. Okay, let's all smush together! Okay. Big smiles!"

Kitty takes a few photos and we all get tired of standing and we just want to get going.

"Hey mom, why don't I take a picture of you?" Eric asks.

"No, no, no, no. Okay, you'll be late. By now!" Kitty shoos us off into the car.

~~~

We get to the disco and it's so nice. Kelso immediately drags Jackie out to the dance floor and Kelso looks like he's going to have a seizure, or he is having a seizure.

We all casually sit and talk. I sigh as Hyde puts his arm around the back of my chair.

"Jackie, where'd you go?" Kelso asks, walking over to our table.

"I had to go get something for you to bite on because I told everyone you were having a seizure." Jackie says harshly as I chuckle and Hyde does as well.

"When do they play the disco music?" Fez yells over the music.

"This is disco!" I yell back.

"No. This is samba!" Fez says, shaking his head.

I laugh at his remark and shake my head.

"Fez, its disco, man. It's crap." Hyde rolls his eyes.

"Oh, I think I like this crap!" Fez smiles, "Come, Jackie. Let's get down!"

"No, I think I'm a little tired." Jackie says.

"Don't resist me, mama. It's boogie time." Fez says and drags Jackie out to the dance floor.

Surprisingly, Fez was a really good dancer. He was probably the best dancer in the floor. Kelso kept critiquing their dancing every move. Eric asked Donna to dance with him and she kindly accepted, wanting to dance with him since the beginning of the disco.

"Who would want to dance that way?" Kelso asks, staring at Fez and Jackie.

"I would love to dance that way." I smile.

"Wanna dance?" Hyde asks me.

"Sure!" I smile, not believing that Hyde actually wanted to dance with me, let alone want to dance in general.

He takes off his sunglasses an takes my hand and we go to the dance floor. Once we got there, he wrapped his arms around my waist and I wrapped my hands around his neck. I was a little bit shorter than him... well, not by a little, more like a lot. I was as tall as Kitty, maybe a tad bit taller.

Hyde pulled me in closer, "I don't bite... yet."

I laugh as I set my head on his shoulder and we dance. He was really good at dancing, for claiming that he couldn't dance at all.

"You dance. I've only been here 3 months and I've never seen you like this." I laugh slightly as we move to the rhythm of the beat.

"Yeah, actually, you're my first dance." Hyde smiles.

"Oh wow, I'm honored." I smile too.

We sway to the music for a bit, not making any noise. My heart was beating so fast, I thought it would burst. Hyde rubbed my back lightly as the music continued to fill the dance floor.

"This is nice." Hyde smiles and looks directly in my eyes.

"Yeah, it really is." I smile widely, never wanting this exact moment to end.

Hyde spins me and we reconnect. He dips me down slightly and we both stare at each other for what seems like is an eternity.

"Penny, I feel like I wanna kiss you." Hyde says in a serious tone.

I blush as I look into his beautiful blue eyes, that looked like a completely different color in the lights that were flashing around the dance floor. He spins me around again, returning to our original position.

"You don't have to kiss me back if you don't want," Hyde says as I laugh slightly, "I'm not kidding.

"Shut up and dance." I smile as we continue to dance on. What was I thinking? Me and my stupid mouth. It doesn't agree with what I really want to say. If I could say what I wanted to, it would be like this, "Hell to the yeah! Kiss me!" But my mouth doesn't follow my programming, apparently.

We finish off dancing and he spins me one last time before getting in our seats. He puts his sunglasses back on and I smile and Donna gives me a thumbs up.

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We got back from the disco and it was just Hyde, Fez, and I sitting on the hood of the Cruiser.

"Hyde, you were right about disco music. It is evil. It's pulsing rhythm made me do a bad thing." Fez frowns.

"Yeah, well, sometimes it does that to ya." Hyde shrugs.

"I have to go home. See you." Fez smiles and hops off the hood of the car.

"Bye." I wave goodbye.

"See you around, Fez." Hyde waves as well.

I sigh and lean back on the Cruiser. What an eventful night.

"So, 'twas a great night." Hyde smiles, continuing to stay seated.

"Yeah, it was good." I sighed lightly.

"Was it not great?" Hyde asks, furrowing his eyebrows.

"It could be better." I shrug.

Hyde leans over and kisses my lips gently, but only for a second, "Did that make it better?"

"Yeah." I smile and blush furiously.

"Goodnight, Penny." Hyde smiles and gets off the hood.

"Goodnight." I huff.

I just lay in silence for a while as I hear the sliding door open. I don't bother to look over.

"Hey, uh, Hyde dancing. What a surprise." Eric laughs as he walks over to the pole by the porch.

I sit up.

"Yeah, who knew." Donna smiled at me.

"I better get going. See you two later." I smile and get off the Cruiser.

"Goodnight." Eric yells.

"See you." Donna yells too.

I walk down over to my door and I hear Eric sing loudly.

"There was something in the air that night!" Eric sang loudly as I could hear Donna saying no over and over again.

"The stars were bright!" Eric continues as I walk up on my front porch and laugh.

I then hear a muffled, "Fernando" and a whole bunch of "shh" coming from Donna. I laugh as I walk inside, never wanting to forget this memory.

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