A matter of trust
This is my guess for the upcoming episode Nobody's Fault But Mine. It is loosely based on spoilers for You Shook Me.
Hyde sat on his bed. Not since the dreaded "get off my boyfriend" incident had he felt this bad. And that wasn't his fault. Not the case this time. No, this time he blew it...maybe. Damn, Jackie. Things were so much easier when there wasn't all this relationship crap to deal with.
"Hey, Hyde." Eric called from outside the door.
"Forman, I'm busy." Hyde fell back, lying on the bed.
Eric walked into the room. "Wow, you are busy. It takes a lot of effort to lay down and sulk. I guess single-handedly destroying a relationship takes a lot out of you."
"Huh. You really want to talk about single-handedly destroying a relationship? Because I seem to remember a situation involving a scrawny neighbor boy, a shapely redhead, and a promise ring." Hyde sat up and stared at Eric.
"Sticks and stones, baby." Eric chuckled. "Now, Fez, Kelso, and I were going to partake in some....film, so quit the sulking crap."
"Partake?" Hyde questioned, following Eric out the door.
"I've been studying for the SATs again." Eric said sheepishly. "Third time's a charm." Eric and Hyde joined the circle, letting the good times roll. ---
"Donna, why?" Jackie wailed from under the covers of her bed. All that could be seen was the head of Fluffy-cakes, the stuffed unicorn, sticking out from the top of the blankets.
"Jackie," Donna began, stifling a laugh, "is there any way you could come out before I talk to you. 'Cause right now, I feel like I'm talking to a stuffed unicorn, and the only time I ever feel that way is down in Forman's basement, when I've been in the circle for awhile."
"Um, Donna," Jackie said, sitting up and throwing the blankets off, "do you think maybe you could try to be a little more sympathetic to my needs. I mean, I know you have trouble expressing your feminine qualities, but come on, give it a try." Jackie tucked a loose stand of hair behind her ear. "How could Steven do this to me? What did I ever do to him that would make him want to hurt me this way?" Jackie looked confused.
"Well, aside from your bitchy, domineering, self-absorbed, shallow, materialistic qualities....nothing." Donna put her arm around Jackie's shoulders. "Seriously, I know Hyde hurt you, but I really don't think he did it on purpose. This whole thing has been a giant misunderstanding."
"A misunderstanding? Donna, Steven slept with some slutty nurse at the nurses' ball. Exactly what is there to misunderstand?" Jackie sobbed.
"Well, first of all, you don't even know if that's true. I mean, sure, Mrs. Forman, of all people, is the one who said she saw Hyde kiss that slutty girl and go into her hotel room. But she also had a few too many, if you know what I mean." Donna said soothingly, smiling at the memory of drunk Kitty.
"Mrs. Forman also said she saw Steven's hand hang a do not disturb sign on the doorknob, Donna. Steven did not want to be disturbed while he was with that slutty nurse, Donna. Steven cheated on me with a slutty nurse in her slutty hotel room at that slutty nurse's ball, Donna."
Donna ignored this tirade. "Second of all, Kelso said Hyde was upset because he saw you and him together on my couch after you said you wouldn't be alone with Kelso anymore. You know that he is insecure about Kelso. Maybe he just needed someone to talk to about it. Mrs. Forman said he tried to talk to her, but lets face facts, how much help could the woman have been?" Again, Donna began to smile at the thought of drunk Kitty.
"Well, he could have come and asked me about it. Then I would have told him that I tried to get rid of Michael, but he needed to talk to someone about Fez having that sex dream about him. I was just being supportive. I can't hide my sensitive nature, Donna." Jackie said angrily.
"Still, I think you need to get Hyde's side of the story before you go back into hibernation." Donna said, staring at Jackie as she hid under the covers again. "People do stupid things when they're hurting. I'm not saying that's an excuse, just an explanation."
"I'm hurting! He broke my heart." Jackie said seriously, pulling the blanket down slightly to reveal her face. "What am I supposed to do now?"
"I don't know." Donna said quietly, staring back at her. ---
"Hey, man, I think I just came up with a song about my situation with Jackie." Hyde said after awhile, looking like he was concentrating very hard. "I'm gonna call it Nobody's fault but mine."
"Um, Hyde, are you ok?" Eric looked worried. "Cause making up songs is...well, it's lame. Plus, since when do you take the blame for anything?"
"Hey, Forman," Kelso interjected, "I wrote a few songs when I was trying to win Jackie back.
"Oh, yeah." Fez added. "Was that the second time you broke up, or the seventh? I get them all mixed up." He thought for a minute. "Either way, it was lame."
Hyde ignored them all and started to sing.
"Nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
Trying to save my soul tonight
It's nobody's fault but mine"
Devil he told me to roll
Devil he told me to roll
How to roll the log tonight
Nobody's fault but mine"
Then Kelso and Fez joined in, leaving Eric to stare at them in disbelief.
"Brother he showed me the gong?
Brother he showed me the ding dong ding dong
How to roll, the log tonight
Oh, it's nobody's fault but mine
Got a monkey on my back.
Got a monkey on my back."
Unable to resist any longer, Eric also joined in.
"Gonna change my ways tonight
Nobody's fault but mine
I will get down rollin' tonight
Nobody's fault but mine"
"Wow, how did you guys know the words. I just made it up." Hyde said incredulously.
Kelso looked confused for a minute, then smiled widely. "You must be psychic!"
"Hyde is psychic." Fez looked at him in awe. "I always wanted a friend with super powers."
Eric stared at each of them in turn, looking more dumbfounded with each person he turned to. "Um, first of all, the word is telepathic. If Hyde was psychic, he would be able to sing a song we made up." Eric shook his head. "Second of all," he turned to Hyde, "and I hate to crush your spirit in your time of need, but you didn't make that song up."
"Yes I did, you just heard me." Hyde protested.
"No, you didn't. That's a Led Zeppelin song, man." Eric corrected him.
"Oh." Hyde responded. "I like it."
"Yeah." Eric looked around the circle. "This is the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. I mean, Hyde's depressed about Jackie, Kelso's freaked out about the sex dream Fez had about him, Fez had a sex dream about Kelso, and I'm sitting here talking to myself cause no one's listening."
It was true. Hyde was singing "Nobody's fault but mine" to himself again, Kelso was concentrating on putting as much space between him and Fez as possible without getting off the chair, and Fez was eating a slice of cheese he had removed from his pants' pocket.
"We need to pull ourselves together here." Eric said standing up. "But first, I gotta pee." ---
Donna found Eric lying on his bed in his room.
"Eric, what are you doing?" Donna asked as she sat down at the foot of the bed.
"Well, I told the guys I was going to pee, and then we would pull ourselves together...but I just didn't feel like walking back downstairs. I guess it's because I'm tired, or it could be the dense cloud of....depression going on down there." Eric said, struggling to lift his head up to look at his fiancée.
"What a mess, huh?" Donna sighed. "Jackie is just the same over in my room...except instead of a cloud of depression, it's more of a cocoon." She gestured with her hands.
"Donna, I'm seriously afraid to set foot in my own basement." Eric said sitting up. "Kelso is freaked out about the Fez dream, Fez is pulling cheese out of his pants, and Hyde...I've never seen him like that before. Depressed is an understatement, man."
"Well, as usual, we are the only sane ones left." Donna moved up to sit next to Eric.
"Tell me about it," he replied, sliding an arm around her shoulders. "It's hard being the rock."
Donna shook her head in agreement. "How's your mom?"
"Hopefully drying out." Eric smirked. "I think Red's about ready to stage an intervention."
"Well, if he does..." Donna started, but Eric jumped in.
"Oh, we are so there." Eric chuckled. "Do you think we should head back down to our posts?"
"Dear God, NO!!" Donna yelled, clutching Eric's shirt. "How about we hide here, and wait for everything to blow over?"
"That could take awhile. How about we hide here until we need to eat and/or use the bathroom?" Eric asked.
"Deal." Donna agreed, resting her head on Eric's shoulder. ---
Kitty was finally able to venture down to the kitchen, after her pounding headache from the festivities of the night before had dulled to a slight throb. She was in the process of making tea when Hyde emerged from the basement. "Steven," she called, setting the kettle on the stove, "I'm so glad you're here. We need to have a little talk." She set a teacup on the counter and walked over to the kitchen table, pulling out a chair for Hyde before sitting down.
"Mrs. Forman," Hyde said, walking over to join her, "I think maybe we talked enough last night."
"Oh, Steven, honey, don't be silly." Kitty smiled at him. "I'm afraid that last night I was....slightly under the weather, and that is why I wasn't able to help you with your problems." She laughed nervously. "However, I'm feeling much better today, so you just tell me what is going on with you."
Hyde stared at her for a minute. "Well, I think it might be a little late for talking now."
"Oh, Steven. It's never too late to communicate." Kitty laughed. "Listen to me, I'm a poet."
Hyde looked skeptically at Kitty. "Mrs. Forman, maybe I should let you just sit there and enjoy your tea."
"Spill it, Steven." Kitty said harshly.
"Ok. Well, I think you know most of it....since you were the one who told Jackie and everyone about it. This whole thing started because I didn't trust her with Kelso, and now she's not going to trust me. She told me that she loved me, man, and I couldn't trust her. I think it's safe to say we're over." Hyde looked down at his hands.
"Have you talked to her?" Kitty asked, patting Hyde's arm.
"No. I kind of doubt she wants to see me." Hyde said looking up at Kitty.
"Well, Steven, I think you need to go see her and talk to her, whether she wants to see you or not. You need to get your side of the story out there, and make her understand what really happened." Kitty thought for a moment. "By the way, what really did happen?" ---
Kelso glared across Donna's den to the figure that walked through the door. "What's he doing here?"
"Well, Eric is my fiancé, so I invite him over once in awhile." Donna said, walking over to sit on the couch.
"Not him. FEZ!" Kelso yelled, slightly hysterically.
"Kelso, man, you and Fez need to work things out." Eric said, joining Donna on the couch. "It's just a little sex dream." Eric tried to contain his laughter.
"What if he had a dream about you. I mean, I know I'm one giant hunk, but that's going a little far." Kelso said looking at Fez.
"Fez, I think all Kelso needs is a little reassurance that you won't try to do it with him." Donna said, trying to mediate.
Fez thought about it for a long time.
"Um, Fez, buddy," Eric said nervously. "now is the time to say NO, I won't try to do it with Kelso."
"Kelso," Fez began. "You are a sexy man."
"Oh, no." Eric said, putting his head in his hands.
Fez continued. "But, I do not want to do it with you."
"Well, ok then." Kelso said hesitantly. "That's good enough for me," he smiled. "But it you ever try it, I'll pound you."
"Fair enough." Fez said, smiling back. "Did I ever tell you about the dream I had about Eric?" ---
Hyde walked down to the basement to grab his coat and head over to Jackie's. It turned out he didn't have far to go, because she was sitting on the couch. She turned to look at him when she heard him on the stairs. "Hi, Steven," she said quietly.
"Jackie, what are you doing here?" He asked, totally surprised to see her.
She shook her head. "I couldn't sit in my room anymore." Jackie stood up. "Actually, it's Donna's room. I couldn't sit in Donna's room anymore."
"I know I hurt you." Hyde looked a little self-conscious, for one of the first times ever.
"Yeah, why did you?" Jackie looked very small, asking such an innocent question.
"I saw you and Kelso together at Donna's. Then, at the hotel, Roy said you two were probably doing it behind my back." Hyde paused.
"And you believed him?" Jackie said, biting her lip.
"I just didn't like seeing you with Kelso." Hyde said, running a hand through his hair.
"Well, you could have come to me....your girlfriend....you know, instead of going to a hotel room with some skanky nurse." Jackie began to shout.
"Jackie, let me explain what happened...." Hyde started to say, but Jackie cut him off.
"It doesn't matter. Don't you get it, Steven. You don't trust me, and now, I'm not sure I can trust you. Whether or not you slept with that girl, you still ran to her the second you thought I hurt you because you wanted to hurt me back." Jackie stopped to wipe away some tears that had started rolling down her cheeks. "And that, is everything that was wrong with me and Michael. He cheated on me, I forgave him. I kissed someone else, he forgave me. But, in the end, we didn't trust each other anymore, even though we pretended nothing was wrong."
"Damn it, Jackie, why does it always come back to Kelso." Hyde yelled angrily. "I'm not Kelso."
"Well, you could have fooled me." Jackie said bitterly, walking quickly to the door.
"Wait. Don't go. I...Jackie, I love you." Hyde finally blurted out his true feelings in an attempt to keep her with him.
She stopped at the door and turned to gaze at him. "I thought so," she smiled faintly. "Steven, I don't know what to do. Tell me what to do."
"Jackie, I want you to be with me." Hyde said softly.
"Yeah, I wanted that too," she said sadly, almost inaudibly, before walking out the door, leaving Hyde to stare at the empty room.
This is my guess for the upcoming episode Nobody's Fault But Mine. It is loosely based on spoilers for You Shook Me.
Hyde sat on his bed. Not since the dreaded "get off my boyfriend" incident had he felt this bad. And that wasn't his fault. Not the case this time. No, this time he blew it...maybe. Damn, Jackie. Things were so much easier when there wasn't all this relationship crap to deal with.
"Hey, Hyde." Eric called from outside the door.
"Forman, I'm busy." Hyde fell back, lying on the bed.
Eric walked into the room. "Wow, you are busy. It takes a lot of effort to lay down and sulk. I guess single-handedly destroying a relationship takes a lot out of you."
"Huh. You really want to talk about single-handedly destroying a relationship? Because I seem to remember a situation involving a scrawny neighbor boy, a shapely redhead, and a promise ring." Hyde sat up and stared at Eric.
"Sticks and stones, baby." Eric chuckled. "Now, Fez, Kelso, and I were going to partake in some....film, so quit the sulking crap."
"Partake?" Hyde questioned, following Eric out the door.
"I've been studying for the SATs again." Eric said sheepishly. "Third time's a charm." Eric and Hyde joined the circle, letting the good times roll. ---
"Donna, why?" Jackie wailed from under the covers of her bed. All that could be seen was the head of Fluffy-cakes, the stuffed unicorn, sticking out from the top of the blankets.
"Jackie," Donna began, stifling a laugh, "is there any way you could come out before I talk to you. 'Cause right now, I feel like I'm talking to a stuffed unicorn, and the only time I ever feel that way is down in Forman's basement, when I've been in the circle for awhile."
"Um, Donna," Jackie said, sitting up and throwing the blankets off, "do you think maybe you could try to be a little more sympathetic to my needs. I mean, I know you have trouble expressing your feminine qualities, but come on, give it a try." Jackie tucked a loose stand of hair behind her ear. "How could Steven do this to me? What did I ever do to him that would make him want to hurt me this way?" Jackie looked confused.
"Well, aside from your bitchy, domineering, self-absorbed, shallow, materialistic qualities....nothing." Donna put her arm around Jackie's shoulders. "Seriously, I know Hyde hurt you, but I really don't think he did it on purpose. This whole thing has been a giant misunderstanding."
"A misunderstanding? Donna, Steven slept with some slutty nurse at the nurses' ball. Exactly what is there to misunderstand?" Jackie sobbed.
"Well, first of all, you don't even know if that's true. I mean, sure, Mrs. Forman, of all people, is the one who said she saw Hyde kiss that slutty girl and go into her hotel room. But she also had a few too many, if you know what I mean." Donna said soothingly, smiling at the memory of drunk Kitty.
"Mrs. Forman also said she saw Steven's hand hang a do not disturb sign on the doorknob, Donna. Steven did not want to be disturbed while he was with that slutty nurse, Donna. Steven cheated on me with a slutty nurse in her slutty hotel room at that slutty nurse's ball, Donna."
Donna ignored this tirade. "Second of all, Kelso said Hyde was upset because he saw you and him together on my couch after you said you wouldn't be alone with Kelso anymore. You know that he is insecure about Kelso. Maybe he just needed someone to talk to about it. Mrs. Forman said he tried to talk to her, but lets face facts, how much help could the woman have been?" Again, Donna began to smile at the thought of drunk Kitty.
"Well, he could have come and asked me about it. Then I would have told him that I tried to get rid of Michael, but he needed to talk to someone about Fez having that sex dream about him. I was just being supportive. I can't hide my sensitive nature, Donna." Jackie said angrily.
"Still, I think you need to get Hyde's side of the story before you go back into hibernation." Donna said, staring at Jackie as she hid under the covers again. "People do stupid things when they're hurting. I'm not saying that's an excuse, just an explanation."
"I'm hurting! He broke my heart." Jackie said seriously, pulling the blanket down slightly to reveal her face. "What am I supposed to do now?"
"I don't know." Donna said quietly, staring back at her. ---
"Hey, man, I think I just came up with a song about my situation with Jackie." Hyde said after awhile, looking like he was concentrating very hard. "I'm gonna call it Nobody's fault but mine."
"Um, Hyde, are you ok?" Eric looked worried. "Cause making up songs is...well, it's lame. Plus, since when do you take the blame for anything?"
"Hey, Forman," Kelso interjected, "I wrote a few songs when I was trying to win Jackie back.
"Oh, yeah." Fez added. "Was that the second time you broke up, or the seventh? I get them all mixed up." He thought for a minute. "Either way, it was lame."
Hyde ignored them all and started to sing.
"Nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
Trying to save my soul tonight
It's nobody's fault but mine"
Devil he told me to roll
Devil he told me to roll
How to roll the log tonight
Nobody's fault but mine"
Then Kelso and Fez joined in, leaving Eric to stare at them in disbelief.
"Brother he showed me the gong?
Brother he showed me the ding dong ding dong
How to roll, the log tonight
Oh, it's nobody's fault but mine
Got a monkey on my back.
Got a monkey on my back."
Unable to resist any longer, Eric also joined in.
"Gonna change my ways tonight
Nobody's fault but mine
I will get down rollin' tonight
Nobody's fault but mine"
"Wow, how did you guys know the words. I just made it up." Hyde said incredulously.
Kelso looked confused for a minute, then smiled widely. "You must be psychic!"
"Hyde is psychic." Fez looked at him in awe. "I always wanted a friend with super powers."
Eric stared at each of them in turn, looking more dumbfounded with each person he turned to. "Um, first of all, the word is telepathic. If Hyde was psychic, he would be able to sing a song we made up." Eric shook his head. "Second of all," he turned to Hyde, "and I hate to crush your spirit in your time of need, but you didn't make that song up."
"Yes I did, you just heard me." Hyde protested.
"No, you didn't. That's a Led Zeppelin song, man." Eric corrected him.
"Oh." Hyde responded. "I like it."
"Yeah." Eric looked around the circle. "This is the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. I mean, Hyde's depressed about Jackie, Kelso's freaked out about the sex dream Fez had about him, Fez had a sex dream about Kelso, and I'm sitting here talking to myself cause no one's listening."
It was true. Hyde was singing "Nobody's fault but mine" to himself again, Kelso was concentrating on putting as much space between him and Fez as possible without getting off the chair, and Fez was eating a slice of cheese he had removed from his pants' pocket.
"We need to pull ourselves together here." Eric said standing up. "But first, I gotta pee." ---
Donna found Eric lying on his bed in his room.
"Eric, what are you doing?" Donna asked as she sat down at the foot of the bed.
"Well, I told the guys I was going to pee, and then we would pull ourselves together...but I just didn't feel like walking back downstairs. I guess it's because I'm tired, or it could be the dense cloud of....depression going on down there." Eric said, struggling to lift his head up to look at his fiancée.
"What a mess, huh?" Donna sighed. "Jackie is just the same over in my room...except instead of a cloud of depression, it's more of a cocoon." She gestured with her hands.
"Donna, I'm seriously afraid to set foot in my own basement." Eric said sitting up. "Kelso is freaked out about the Fez dream, Fez is pulling cheese out of his pants, and Hyde...I've never seen him like that before. Depressed is an understatement, man."
"Well, as usual, we are the only sane ones left." Donna moved up to sit next to Eric.
"Tell me about it," he replied, sliding an arm around her shoulders. "It's hard being the rock."
Donna shook her head in agreement. "How's your mom?"
"Hopefully drying out." Eric smirked. "I think Red's about ready to stage an intervention."
"Well, if he does..." Donna started, but Eric jumped in.
"Oh, we are so there." Eric chuckled. "Do you think we should head back down to our posts?"
"Dear God, NO!!" Donna yelled, clutching Eric's shirt. "How about we hide here, and wait for everything to blow over?"
"That could take awhile. How about we hide here until we need to eat and/or use the bathroom?" Eric asked.
"Deal." Donna agreed, resting her head on Eric's shoulder. ---
Kitty was finally able to venture down to the kitchen, after her pounding headache from the festivities of the night before had dulled to a slight throb. She was in the process of making tea when Hyde emerged from the basement. "Steven," she called, setting the kettle on the stove, "I'm so glad you're here. We need to have a little talk." She set a teacup on the counter and walked over to the kitchen table, pulling out a chair for Hyde before sitting down.
"Mrs. Forman," Hyde said, walking over to join her, "I think maybe we talked enough last night."
"Oh, Steven, honey, don't be silly." Kitty smiled at him. "I'm afraid that last night I was....slightly under the weather, and that is why I wasn't able to help you with your problems." She laughed nervously. "However, I'm feeling much better today, so you just tell me what is going on with you."
Hyde stared at her for a minute. "Well, I think it might be a little late for talking now."
"Oh, Steven. It's never too late to communicate." Kitty laughed. "Listen to me, I'm a poet."
Hyde looked skeptically at Kitty. "Mrs. Forman, maybe I should let you just sit there and enjoy your tea."
"Spill it, Steven." Kitty said harshly.
"Ok. Well, I think you know most of it....since you were the one who told Jackie and everyone about it. This whole thing started because I didn't trust her with Kelso, and now she's not going to trust me. She told me that she loved me, man, and I couldn't trust her. I think it's safe to say we're over." Hyde looked down at his hands.
"Have you talked to her?" Kitty asked, patting Hyde's arm.
"No. I kind of doubt she wants to see me." Hyde said looking up at Kitty.
"Well, Steven, I think you need to go see her and talk to her, whether she wants to see you or not. You need to get your side of the story out there, and make her understand what really happened." Kitty thought for a moment. "By the way, what really did happen?" ---
Kelso glared across Donna's den to the figure that walked through the door. "What's he doing here?"
"Well, Eric is my fiancé, so I invite him over once in awhile." Donna said, walking over to sit on the couch.
"Not him. FEZ!" Kelso yelled, slightly hysterically.
"Kelso, man, you and Fez need to work things out." Eric said, joining Donna on the couch. "It's just a little sex dream." Eric tried to contain his laughter.
"What if he had a dream about you. I mean, I know I'm one giant hunk, but that's going a little far." Kelso said looking at Fez.
"Fez, I think all Kelso needs is a little reassurance that you won't try to do it with him." Donna said, trying to mediate.
Fez thought about it for a long time.
"Um, Fez, buddy," Eric said nervously. "now is the time to say NO, I won't try to do it with Kelso."
"Kelso," Fez began. "You are a sexy man."
"Oh, no." Eric said, putting his head in his hands.
Fez continued. "But, I do not want to do it with you."
"Well, ok then." Kelso said hesitantly. "That's good enough for me," he smiled. "But it you ever try it, I'll pound you."
"Fair enough." Fez said, smiling back. "Did I ever tell you about the dream I had about Eric?" ---
Hyde walked down to the basement to grab his coat and head over to Jackie's. It turned out he didn't have far to go, because she was sitting on the couch. She turned to look at him when she heard him on the stairs. "Hi, Steven," she said quietly.
"Jackie, what are you doing here?" He asked, totally surprised to see her.
She shook her head. "I couldn't sit in my room anymore." Jackie stood up. "Actually, it's Donna's room. I couldn't sit in Donna's room anymore."
"I know I hurt you." Hyde looked a little self-conscious, for one of the first times ever.
"Yeah, why did you?" Jackie looked very small, asking such an innocent question.
"I saw you and Kelso together at Donna's. Then, at the hotel, Roy said you two were probably doing it behind my back." Hyde paused.
"And you believed him?" Jackie said, biting her lip.
"I just didn't like seeing you with Kelso." Hyde said, running a hand through his hair.
"Well, you could have come to me....your girlfriend....you know, instead of going to a hotel room with some skanky nurse." Jackie began to shout.
"Jackie, let me explain what happened...." Hyde started to say, but Jackie cut him off.
"It doesn't matter. Don't you get it, Steven. You don't trust me, and now, I'm not sure I can trust you. Whether or not you slept with that girl, you still ran to her the second you thought I hurt you because you wanted to hurt me back." Jackie stopped to wipe away some tears that had started rolling down her cheeks. "And that, is everything that was wrong with me and Michael. He cheated on me, I forgave him. I kissed someone else, he forgave me. But, in the end, we didn't trust each other anymore, even though we pretended nothing was wrong."
"Damn it, Jackie, why does it always come back to Kelso." Hyde yelled angrily. "I'm not Kelso."
"Well, you could have fooled me." Jackie said bitterly, walking quickly to the door.
"Wait. Don't go. I...Jackie, I love you." Hyde finally blurted out his true feelings in an attempt to keep her with him.
She stopped at the door and turned to gaze at him. "I thought so," she smiled faintly. "Steven, I don't know what to do. Tell me what to do."
"Jackie, I want you to be with me." Hyde said softly.
"Yeah, I wanted that too," she said sadly, almost inaudibly, before walking out the door, leaving Hyde to stare at the empty room.