Author's Note: Happy New Years everyone! I hope the holiday season was great and that this year brings happiness to you all. I figured I would start off the year with a brand new story so I hope you all enjoy it. I will be updating every Sunday so a new chapter should be up in two days.

November 15, 1979- 8:15pm:

Jackie stands fiddling with her fingers as everyone in the living room watches her with anticipation. They are all waiting to see what her answer was going to be. She looks down at Michael Kelso kneeling down before her with a blue balloon. Having just proposed to her, he seems anxious. Jackie looks back up and sees Hyde and his wife standing across from her behind the Forman's love couch. Samantha looks on, a dopey half-hearted smile splattered on her face. She's probably happy that Kelso is proposing because now she won't have to worry much about Jackie and Hyde, not that there was anything to worry about in the first place. Part of Jackie wants to just walk over and slap the smile off her face. Next to Sam, Hyde stands, his eyes shielded by the ever-present aviator sunglasses. Jackie notices that his forehead is furrowed and she can feel his eyes on her.

"Jackie," Kelso says, "did you hear me?"

Jackie looks back down at Kelso. How bad of an idea was this really? Sure Donna had laid out the mental image of what life as Mrs. Michael Kelso would be like. Maybe there would be boxes full of puppies and hopefully Michael had grown out of being a cheater, but even with that possibility, what if it was the complete opposite? It's not like they were kids anymore and, if anyone could fix Michael Kelso and make him an idea husband, it was Jackie Burkhart.

"Oh Michael, of course I'll marry you" she says.

As Kelso gets off his knee and lifts her up to kiss her, she can hear Fez squeal in delight behind her. When the newly engaged couple break apart, she looks towards Donna who is shaking her head in disapproval. Jackie frowns. She is doing the right thing and she was not going to let anyone ruin her special moment. Sure this was not exactly how she imagined her proposal, or even with this person, but it did not make it less magical. She was happy that someone wanted to devote themselves to her and she was going to make sure to be the perfect wife. She looks away from Donna and sees that everyone has forced smiles plastered on their face and they mutter congratulations. Then, she looks over to where Sam and Hyde are standing but sees that Sam is the only one there. Behind her, the door to the Forman's kitchen is swinging.

November 13, 1979- 4:10pm:

Michael Kelso walks into the novelty store with Fez and Hyde trailing behind him. The three men are the only ones in the store besides the manager who sits by the counter, flipping through an old magazine. He raises his eyes once or twice to check on the three friends, mostly to make sure they're not doing anything fishy or stealing anything.

"How crazy is it that I'm proposing to Jackie? Man, I'm going to be someone's husband" Kelso says excitedly.

"It's crazy alright" says Hyde, his tone flat. He still isn't sure how serious Kelso is about proposing to Jackie. He had to know it was a bad idea. The last time they had been together was over two years ago and Kelso had run off to California to avoid doing the exact thing he was about to do now. Also, how could Kelso not think that Hyde may have a problem with him proposing to his ex-girlfriend, not that he had a problem because he had a wife now and was in no position to object, but it would have been the decent thing to do to ask. However, Hyde feigned interest in the matter because he didn't want people to think he cared whether Jackie and Kelso were engaged. He didn't. Truthfully, however, the thought of the engagement made him a bit sick. Not so much the proposal itself, but rather the possibility that she would accept. He is immediately taken back to the night in Chicago when he found Kelso in Jackie's hotel room. He had been so mad and his insecurities of always coming second best got the better of him. Now, months later, those same feelings were back, except now he had no leverage to speak against it, because Jackie wasn't his girl anymore.

"Crazy good" Fez exclaims. The foreigner was probably the most excited out of all of them. Despite his own adoration towards Jackie, he was glad that something good might be coming her way. After months of living with Jackie, he's become aware of how difficult things have been for Jackie since Sam's arrival. Having to deal with the love of her life flaunt someone new right in front of her and have her best friend, who she herself has stood by for years, basically leave her behind had done a number on the tiny girl. The poor girl spent every day crying, desperately throwing herself at any guy who would look her away despite them being below her standards and tried her best to avoid the basement. She once told him that she felt less included now than she did when she would first come around, years ago when she first started dating Kelso. Knowing exactly how it felt to be excluded, Fez empathized with her. Sure this proposal is rushed and ill-thought out, but he knows it would make her happy to still feel wanted, and damn it, he loved weddings.

The three men, now at the toy aisle, looked around at the multiple bags of balloons. Kelso picked up one of the bags and held it up to his face.

"Don't think too hard" Hyde says sarcastically referring to Kelso's confused face.

"How am I supposed to pick a color?" Kelso asks as he examines the colorful balloons inside the bag.

"Well, hello, something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Obviously you have to give her a blue one" says Fez.

Hyde rolls his eyes at his friend. He was already over this entire situation and did not need Fez to romanticize it more.

"Fez...you're a genius" Kelso screeches before he darts off to the counter.

"Don't encourage this" Hyde tells Fez who started looking around at the other toys in the aisle.

"Why not?" Fez asks.

"Because it's a stupid idea and you know it" Hyde tells him before following in Kelso's steps towards the front of the store.

Fez frowns as he looks after his grumpy friend. 'oh no' he thinks and follows suit.