Hello 1980!

Part 8 - Crash (Part 1)

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Fez sits at the bar with his drink. Beautiful girls in bunny suits flit around him. He is not dreaming; this is real life.

"Hey buddy!" Kelso slaps Fez on the back. "Sorry I had to leave you here, but I have to do my rounds, you know."

"Super," Fez says sarcastically. When he arrived at the Playboy club, Kelso barely ushered him in before he had to get one of the patrons off the girls.

"What's the matter, Fez? You seem glum?" Kelso asks, taking the stool next to Fez.

"I broke up with Jackie," Fez says, then takes a long drink.

"Oh, I'm sorry, man. What happened?" Kelso asks.

"She loves Hyde," Fez says.

"Been there," Kelso says.

"I should have known. No goddess like Jackie would want to be with me," Fez says depressed.

"Don't say that! You're a great guy! It just...wasn't meant to be. As much as I hate to admit it, me being the stud I am and all, neither one of us ever had a shot. They belong together. " Kelso says.

"I suppose you're right," Fez nods. Kelso can make a lot of sense sometimes.

A blonde with especially perky breasts collects her order from behind the bar.

"Kelso, you have the greatest job in the world!" Fez says.

"Yes, I do!" Kelso agrees, also admiring the lady.

"The only problem is...it gives me needs," Fez says.

"Yeah, me too," Kelso admits. The two of them follow the bunny with their eyes as she serves her drinks.

As if on cue, the two of them get up together and make a bee line for Kelso's office.

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In the morning, Fez returns to the hotel after a very satisfying night out.

"Jackie," he says as he opens the door. Jackie isn't there; she must be in the bathroom. He keeps talking. "I'm sorry about last night. Look, I was thinking, we could still be friends..." He waits for some acknowledgement, but there is no sound. "Jackie?" he knocks on the bathroom door. The door wasn't closed properly and opens as he knocks. The bathroom is empty. Fez looks around the room. He now notices that the bed has not been slept in and Jackie's bags are gone.

Fez runs downstairs to the front desk. "The girl who was staying in 1205, did she switch rooms or something?"

"I'm sorry, we can't give out personal information for our guests," the clerk says.

"But it's my room!" Fez says.

"Oh, well in that case, she left this morning," the clerk answers.

"She left?" Fez checks his watch. It's only 8:30.

"Yep. We ordered her a cab to the bus station around 6."

"Jackie took the bus?!?" Fez exclaims. Jackie awake before dawn AND taking the bus? Stranger things have happened...

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Kitty crosses the living room to answer the front door. It's odd, she wasn't expecting anyone.

"Jackie?" she says as she answers the door. Why didn't Jackie come to the kitchen like normal? She's alone and stands very formally.

"Hello, Mrs. Forman. Is um..." Jackie scans the room quickly, "Is Eric home?"