A/N Second attempt at adding this, silly me forgot to check the formatting after uploading it and didn't realise it was unreadable. Also please go easy on me, first attempt at writing a story/anything in a long long time, so I'm just trying to ease myself back in now I have more free time.

Chapter 1:

Donna Pinciotti's Bathroom

4:57pm

Jackie stared in front of her, tears blurred her vision as she tried to comprehend what was in front of her.

"Shit."

She had no other words because her brain had turned to complete mush. It felt like someone had tipped a bucket of icy cold water over her. Her stomach had twisted into knots which could never be untied.

The little plastic stick confirmed something she had been fearing for weeks now, but she had only now had the bravery to confirm it. The faint line was evident, she was pregnant. Jackie Burkhart was pregnant. Despite her precautions she had become another statistic to add to the long list of teenage pregnancies.

She sank slowly to the floor of Donna's bathroom, letting her head rest against the cool tiles in order to try and get some clarity back into her life. How did she let this happen? This couldn't happen now, things were going so well with her and Hyde, and this is the thing that could lead him running to the hills. It wasn't like her talk of marriage which was just a possibility for the future, marriage wasn't written in stone and was never a definite. A baby is something that's a definite and no matter what in nine months time there'll be a tiny little person. Jackie took a deep breath in attempt to steady herself.

"Inhale and exhale. Inhale and exhale. Inhale and exhale." She repeated to herself quietly whilst trying to clear any thoughts out of her head.

She was Jackie Burkhart, she could do anything, something like this wasn't going to break her perfect composure that she had spent years building over a far from imperfect childhood. There was no need to panic, for the time being no one needed to know, not least until she herself came to terms with it.

Yes, she had decided, no one needed to know. She was going to cope with this by herself, figure out what to do and then tell everyone. If she told them first all she would get would be their pity and Jackie did not take pity, that was so not her thing. So with this new steely composure she stood up, straightened her skirt, checked that her curls were still intact and marched out of the bathroom.

Eric Foreman's basement

5:31pm

Steven Hyde sat with his legs resting on the coffee table, staring blankly at the TV, dimly even aware that the TV was on. To be frank, he was bored. Kelso was rattling on about some insane idea he had about how they could parachute off the water tower to see how far they could fly. Fez was in the corner whining about how lacklustre his love life was.

"Why do none of the pretty girls want me? I would be a gentle lover…Steven why do any girls not want me?"

Hyde looked over at Fez and simply rolled his eyes, before turning his eyes back to the TV and shaking his head vowing to get some new friends. As his mind wondered he began to think of the fiesty brunette in his life and he became curious as to where she was. Because even though Steven would never dare admit out loud, he had grown to enjoy her company more than anyone else's. A concept which a few years ago would have seemed totally foreign to him when he had convinced himself that he hated her, which in all fairness in many ways she was everything he hated. Shallow, demanding and at times annoying. But in the same way that she was everything he hated, she was everything he loved and needed in his life. The way she could make his heart skip a beat by just simply looking at him with her beautiful big eyes, the caring and tender side of her which he hadn't seen until he got closer to her. She completed him in all the ways he never thought anyone could.

His thoughts were interrupted as he heard the basement door open and the object of his thoughts entered. And damn, there it was again, he felt his heart beat up by just simply looking at her. The way the light shone on her, the way her hair fell perfectly in her face and of course that delicate smile that for him, and just him.

Jackie moved swiftly across the room and plonked herself onto his lap. Steven's arms automatically without conscious thought moved to pull her closer to keep her near him. She hugged him tightly burying her head in his chest, almost as if she was trying to hide from something and his chest was the only safe place to do this. He sensed this immediately and tucked his finger under her chin to tilt her head up, making her eyes meet his.

"You ok?"

"Yeah, I'm fine Steven." She replied maybe a little too fast. "I just missed you."

"I missed you too doll."

He still had a gut feeling that there was something she wasn't telling him, after spending this much time with someone it was like a sixth sense to see that there was something off. He didn't want to push too hard not when they weren't alone and were in the very public setting of the basement. So against his better judgement he let it go when she brushed it off.

"You know if there's anything up you can tell me?"

"There's nothing up Steven, I've just had a long day"

"OK, if you say so."

Hyde squeezed her tightly as they continued to watch TV together in silence. He was just starting to zone out when he heard a slight whisper.

"I love you."

Smiling, he looked down at her, making a mental note to ask her later what was up as he hoped she would be more open with just the two of them alone together.