Author's Note: A little shorter, but an update nonetheless. Season one.

B is for battle. Hyde always seems to be battling something. Edna, Jackie, Kelso, life itself. He sometimes wonders how he's still alive. It feels like everyday is a battle.

It's the bitterness that makes him who he is. Edna cares so very little for her son, Jackie drives him nuts on a daily basis, Kelso is a tool he wants to hit, and life is a bitch in general. It seems that the Formans and Donna are the only ones he can be around nowadays. Red and Kitty never change, and even simultaneous crushes on Donna can't change his friendship with Eric enough to make it worse.

Hyde doesn't feel much of anything when Edna leaves. It's not like she cared enough—he was expecting this. Career day was the one day she actually acted a little like a mother, but it was only a beer. It was more than anything she had done in years, but still, it wasn't anything. He can't miss someone who was never there.

All he is is worried about what he's going to do. He could steal food a few weeks, but he would probably get caught eventually. Mrs. Forman would feed him meals if he came over, but being there every meal would arouse suspicion.

Then Eric opens his mouth. Momentarily, he wants to kill his best friend—nobody needed to know about this; he didn't need pity. But he did need help, and that was offered. Pity tended to go hand in hand with help, but he would deal with it. Inwardly, he thought it might have been the best thing anyone had done for him.

Because he's finally part of a family.

B is for beautiful. What's beautiful? Jackie, Michael, their love. She may as well be floating on cloud nine right now. Sure, Michael may have strayed once—he is a guy, after all—but he came back to her. Who wouldn't? She's beautiful, and they're even more beautiful together.

It's a formula for success.

No matter what, he'll be hers, and she'll be his, and they will live happily ever after. Kids, a mansion. She'll have silk dresses and servants and be so much higher than everyone else—higher than she is now.

That's why she pulls him down on top of her, forgetting all those fantasies about a half open shirt and romantic music and candles and wind and a banner. What really matters is it's them, their special first time. Like she told Donna, she wanted it to be really, really special, not just out of her dreams.

Because they're cementing forever.

B is for brown. Fez is the only brown one at the school and he's mercilessly teased for it. He's glad for Hyde's protection, because sometimes even the jocks are scared of him. And Eric, Donna, and Kelso are also good friends to him, accepting his into their little group. He was an outsider still, but he was there, and they weren't kicking him out.

It was nice to have some friends. When he was flying over, he was worried about being the outcast. His own people didn't exactly accept him—his dreams were bigger than what they could give him, what anyone there had hoped for. How could he make friends in a huge country with everything so different?

Luckily, he found Hyde, who becomes in tutor in so many things. How to get in trouble, how to hide records.

He's accepted.

B is for bewitched. Her smile, her kiss, her eyes. Eric is thoroughly, utterly spellbound and hopelessly in love with the girl next door. Her kiss atop the Vista Cruiser was a pleasant surprise, the candle a romantic symbol. It takes too long for him to get another kiss, other than that too short when after the disco, again atop the Cruiser, watching an absolutely terrifying movie. But it's better than never for him.

He doesn't want to fight Hyde for her, but he wonders why his best friend likes her. He's never liked a girl before. He entertains the notion that it's just a passing fancy, out of loneliness, boredom, or some other vague emotion, like most of Hyde's are.

But whatever it is, it doesn't matter. Donna kissed Eric, not Hyde, so he's too worried for now.

He's in love—nothing can bother him.

B is for boogie. Donna's never really liked dance music, especially disco. But something about the magic of the music brought her and Eric closer. True, they never danced together, and she was afraid Hyde would actually kiss her when he said he wanted to, but something happened.

Maybe it was afterwards, in the Forman driveway, laughing along with Eric as they tried to sing Fernando and dance along. It was silly, it was stupid, but it was fun. Just the two of them, goofing off. To the passer-by it wouldn't mean anything, just two teenagers with nothing better to do on their weekend. But to Donna—and to Eric, if she guessed correctly—it was everything.

It was the moment she realised she loved him.

B is for blessed. Kelso's got good looks and good friends and a hot girlfriend. What more could he ask for? He's got everything. His life is set out for him.

Maybe that's why he doesn't know what to do when Jackie says she wants a house and kids... and maybe a chandelier. Can he give her those things? She's constantly telling him he won't be able to support her. If he can't, why is she asking him for these things?

Forever, she says. They lost their virginities to each other, and now they'll be together forever. He almost keels over at the thought.

Aren't they too young to be dreaming of forever?