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003. girl butt

THE KELSO HOUSEHOLD | 1977

─ "HEY MARGOT," Kelso smiled absently at his girlfriend, "You look hot today. Like, super hot."

She glanced down at her outfit, trying to mask the scowl threatening to cover her face. She didn't like the outfit, but in Kelso's attempt to appear like he'd become better at being a boyfriend he'd bought her the mini skirt and blouse she was currently wearing, so she had to feign that she liked it.

"Thanks, Mikey," she smiled, earning a wider grin
in return at the sound of the name only she called him. She had always called him it, tracing it back to Hyde's incessant mocking of her inability to pronounce Michael when they were young.

He leaned down to kiss her, one hand reaching down to the small of her back as she leaned on the wall of his house.

Initially, she'd had no problem with this strange relationship and how it was going for the first two weeks back before she was reacquainted with the gang.

Whenever Kelso had suggested they go see everyone, she'd said she wasn't ready and just 'wanted to spend time with him', sometimes much to his disdain.

When they were together they had sex, listened to music and then had more sex, pretty much. But now that she'd seen Hyde again she couldn't help but overanalyse and compare, even though she'd not been in an actual relationship with Hyde.

She could hold an intellectual conversation with Hyde. His music taste matched hers almost impeccably. And, though she didn't want to admit it, the sex had been far better. Perhaps, though, that was because it was more than just sex with Hyde even if he denied that when they last spoke.

"I'm gonna head over to the Forman's, okay? You coming?" he asked, grabbing her hand and pulling her towards the van.

She mulled the idea over for a moment, before just nodding with a forced smile, "Sure. More time with you, I guess."

"Cool! Jackie should be there today," Kelso smiled, before realising that mentioning her might appear strange, "So you can see her again too y'know."

His girlfriend nodded, silently hopping into the passengers seat and pondering whether or not to address her awareness of his whole ploy to make Jackie jealous with her.

"Mikey...uh, Kelso? I know why you're with me, you know that don't you?"

He laughed as he started up the engine, "Of course, duh! You're smokin' hot and totally my type."

She shook her head, placing her hand on his knee which startled him a little, "I know you just want to make Jackie jealous."

She felt incredibly awkward all of a sudden, particularly as Kelso didn't respond for a few seconds.

"Are you crazy? Pfft— of course not!"

His reaction only solidified what she already knew, and now that she'd mentioned it she knew she had to press on.

She didn't want to start an argument, but she wanted them both to be on the same page. Hyde telling her she was stupid for letting him use her made her wonder if maybe he was right.

She wasn't gaining anything, other than the physical aspect, if Hyde was aware they weren't really interested in each other. She felt stupid for ever thinking Hyde wouldn't see right through it.

"Babe, I promise it's fine," she sighed as the car pulled up outside the Forman residence, "Look, Mikey, this is more casual than you'll admit to the others and I know that's because you wanna piss Jackie off. And I'm fine with that, we're pretty much just friends with benefits. You want her to be annoyed with you."

Michael Kelso wasn't sure how to respond.

She was right, obviously. But he couldn't grasp the fact that a girl like Margot was so fine with them pretty much just having sex. He was so used to sex being used as some kind of leverage with Jackie that the notion of their casual sex was strange — though ideal — to him.

"Wait, you're okay with it?" was all he managed, given that he was more concerned with the fact they could carry on casually.

Margot hesitates before nodding lightly, "I mean yeah, as long as you stop announcing that you're in love with me. She'll see right through it if you try too hard...I'm happy to help you win her back. I'm sorta trying to get over someone too."

Kelso grinned, eyes starry as he admired the girl beside him, blissfully unaware of who it was she was trying to get over.

They jumped out of the car, headed for the Forman basement hand in hand. Kelso swung the door open, kissing her passionately before they actually stepped in, "You literally are the freakin' best, man!" he exclaimed.

Hearing this, Hyde rolled his eyes, "Great. The lovesick fuckin' puppies are back."

Eric slapped his arm, "You need to apologise for yesterday, man, I found her sat talking to my mom after you all left. She was so upset."

Hyde's eyes widened, "Shit really?"

Eric just nodded.

As they entered the basement, Margot's head hung somewhat low as she mentally recalled yesterday's events. A part of her regretted agreeing to come today, but she knew she couldn't avoid the gang (ie. Steven) forever.

"Hey guys!" Kelso exclaimed, sitting on the couch beside Eric and Donna and pulling Margot down onto his lap. At the same time, Hyde stood up silently and went to get himself an ice lolly. He returned with the same stoic expression as he opened it, ignoring the two newcomers completely for a moment.

The gang began watching the television, absently conversing amongst themselves. Margot still avoided Hyde's gaze as she discussed her time in the UK with Donna, until he suddenly rose from his chair and stood in front of her.

"Uh, Stevie— Margot, sorry," he began nervously, "Can we talk?"

The door opened just as he spoke, Jackie strolling in clutching a school yearbook between her fingers and causing Hyde to shrink back towards his seat, "Okay you guys. I just got an advanced copy of the yearbook. And you'll all be happy to know that 1977 is my cutest year ever!"

Eric smiled sarcastically, "Jackie that is so weird. Because I was just telling the gang how there is no way that you can be cuter than last year."

"You were?"

"Yep!" Margot chuckled, but Jackie stared at her blankly. Of course Jackie hated her now that she was with Kelso, not that she'd ever been fond of her anyway.

"Hey Steven, want to pop some popcorn and look at all the yearbook pictures of me?" Jackie swung her hips a little as she stood in front of Hyde, batting her eyelids flirtatiously though he ignored this.

"No, I figure I'll do plenty of that when I die and go to hell." he replies, the gang laughing. Jackie erupted into laughter that was clearly exaggerated as she sat down, "God, you're such a card!

Margot was confused by Jackie clinging to Hyde, and judging by everyone else's faces — they were too.

Fez stood up, heading to sit beside Jackie, "This is so exciting. My first American yearbook! Show us some pictures of Fez!"

Jackie forced a frown, "Sorry Fez, there aren't any."

He scoffed, glancing across at the book which was still open but now in Steven's hands. "What the hell? So, they don't let foreigners in your yearbook!"

"That's so shitty," Margot frowned, sharing a sympathetic look with the boy.

"Uh-huh!" Jackie responded, leaning back over to the yearbook to look at pictures of herself again, unsurprisingly, "Here's me cheering at the pep-rally last fall."

Hyde suddenly gasped as he scanned the photo.

"Oh my God, someone in the crowd is mooning!" he paused as the gang scrambled over to see, "You're all cheering away and the whole time you're getting mooned. Yeah!"

"Oh my God. That's a girl butt!" Eric exclaimed, pointing his finger, "There is girl butt in the yearbook! Oh man, I can't tell who it is. I wish we had a magnifying glass."

"Oh, here you go."

Kelso pulled a magnifying glass from his back pocket, causing Margot to blush red as all eyes fall on them both.

"He was... you know what, I don't actually know." she chuckled, her hand raising to her mouth, "This is Kelso we're talking about."

"I was... playing with some bugs," Kelso shrugged.

"God, I can't believe it," Jackie pouted as the others continued to laugh, "Someone's nasty butt is in my picture."

Margot made eye contact with Donna briefly, and knew from the second she saw her facial expression just who it was. "Oh my god!" she mouthed, stifling a laugh.

"Oh my God! That's not girl butt..." Eric made the sudden realisation, and Margot was amused by Donna's face when she could see that he knew, "THAT'S DONNA BUTT!"

Donna just nodded, a proud smile across her face. The gang — particularly the boys — glanced in the direction of her backside, before glancing at the yearbook photo again.

"It is... what the fuck! Donna's ass is in the yearbook."

"Hey! If you'd still been here we could've seen your ass too!" Kelso huffed, gesturing to his girlfriend.

Fez furrowed his eyebrows, "You've seen her ass anyway, haven't you? You know, when you're getting busy?" Margot rolled her eyes at his comment as she felt his eyes boring into her face.

"He's not the only one." Eric mumbled quietly, causing the gang to turn and look at him instead as Jackie just scowled at the sudden focus on Donna and Margot.

"What?"

"Oh— not me. You, uh, weren't supposed to have heard that." he gulped, unintentionally switching his gaze to Hyde, who look suddenly incredibly irritable.

"Hyde's seen your ass? What!" Kelso yelled, not angry, but confused.

Margot drew in a deep breath. This was gonna be a long, long night.

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sorry there's not much hyde x margot in this chapter i just wanted to get a little of the show in! it won't properly follow every ep and stuff but there u go

sorry it's been a while since i updated, just don't want to update loads and lose inspo so i abandon the fic — been writing more today though so enjoy!