Chapter One:

"Come on, Jackie. You never do anything for me." Kelso whined to his girlfriend.

"He's right, Jackie. You're being very selfish." Hyde chimed in from his usual seat in the basement, giving her his best smartass grin.

"Funland! Funland! Funland!" Fez began to chant. The other two guys quickly joined in.

"Would you all just shut up?" Jackie snapped, standing up. "I don't know what you expect me to do."

"Just talk to Eric, and convince him to come to Funland with us." Kelso explained. "He's just sitting up there and he could really use some fun."

"What makes you think I'll be able to get him to come?" Jackie asked, placing her hands on her hips. "We're not friends or anything. Plus, he just lost the love of his life, and you don't just bounce back from that."

"Come on, Jackie. You're a woman." Fez said, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Use your soft compassion and kind words to bring him out of his depression."

Jackie shot him a glare.

"I was thinking more along the lines of you annoying him to death until he finally comes out of that room." Hyde suggested.

"Yeah, see Jackie's not much for the kind words. But being annoying is like her bread and butter." Kelso smiled.

"Michael!" Jackie yelled, elbowing him in the side.

"See, she's using her annoying voice right now." Kelso nodded.

"It's making me want to leave the room." Hyde agreed. "I think it will definitely work."

"I don't want to go up there!" Jackie protested. "He's probably crying. I don't do well with boys crying."

"Come on, Jackie. You're my girlfriend." Kelso whined again. "It's like your job to do my dirty work."

"No."

"You're going back on your girlfriendly duties." Kelso accused. "I fulfill all of my duties."

"You cheated on me, Michael!" Jackie yelled. "You don't buy me things, and we only ever do what you want to do! What duties are you possibly fulfilling?"

"I make you look good." Kelso offered, putting his arm around her. "Without me, you're just a pretty girl. Together, we're a power couple of gorgeousness."

"Fine." Jackie sighed, shaking her head. "I'll go up there and talk to him for five minutes. But that's it."

"That's all it would take me to be annoyed with you." Hyde offered.

"Aw, I feel a group hug coming on!" Fez grinned, holding out his arms to the other three.

"No thanks." Jackie said, heading for the stairs. "You guys better not leave without me."

"Do you think this is going to work?" Fez asked, once she had left the basement.

"Eric and Jackie hate each other." Kelso said, smiling. "He won't be able to stay in a room with her for more than five minutes."

"I give him two minutes tops." Hyde wagered.


Jackie Burkhart was nothing less than a loyal and determined girlfriend. In fact, it was her loyalty and determination that had her marching up the stairs that led to the second floor of the Forman house. She had never been upstairs before, and she couldn't help but feel slightly out of place.

Despite being on a mission, Jackie couldn't stop herself from glaring at the closed door of the room that belonged to Laurie. She frowned for a moment, thinking about what kind of things went on behind that closed door back when Michael was cheating on her. Shaking her head, she told herself to focus. The more time she spent thinking of Michael's infidelity, the more her loyalty and determination began to waver.

She was brought back to the mission at hand when she heard the sounds of the melancholy chords of Ritchie Valen's "Oh, Donna" blaring from behind the next door. Jackie slightly rolled her eyes at the image of Eric huddled under a bunch of blankets pouting over the redhead that he loved and lost. Truth be told, however, Jackie couldn't help but feel sorry for the poor guy. All he really wanted was to be with Donna forever, and that was a sentiment she could relate to. After all, what good was it to be in a relationship now if it wasn't going to last forever?

"Eric, open up." Jackie called, while pounding on the door. "I know you're in there. I can hear your pathetic music from downstairs!"

"Go away, Jackie!" Eric called back.

"I can't. I'm on a mission." Jackie said, continuing to knock. "If you don't open up, I'm coming in on my own."

"Fine." Eric groaned. "Come right in, make yourself at home."

"You should know by now that I'm totally immune to your sarcasm." Jackie huffed, walking into his room. "Wow, you look like hell."

"Always the little ray of sunshine, aren't you, Jackie?"

Jackie made a face at him in response to the insult. Then, she took a moment to look around the room. Eric was huddled under the covers listening to sad music. The room was a complete mess, and the curtains were closed. She felt a small pang of sympathy for Eric when she realized how much this scenario reminded her of herself after she found out that Michael had been cheating on her with Laurie. Shaking her head, she brought herself back to the right mindset.

"Ugh, you really need to get out of this room, Eric. It's starting to smell." Jackie said, crinkling her nose.

"All the more reason for you to leave." Eric said, getting out of bed to pull her towards the door.

"Oh my god. You're not wearing pants." Jackie said, making a face.

"It's called depression, Jackie. Work with me."

"Oh, ok. That reminds me of why I'm here." Jackie said abruptly. "Put on some pants, we're going to Funland."

"I told the guys already. I'm not going."

"And then Michael sent me here to change your mind." Jackie said, smiling.

"Why would he think you could do that?" Eric asked.

"Fez said that I could use my compassion and kind words to ease you out of your depression."

"Right…" Eric said sarcastically, raising an eyebrow.

"Then, Michael and Steven said that if that didn't work, I could annoy you until you were forced to leave the room." Jackie explained, sitting cross-legged on Eric's bed. "So what should I do first: sing or talk about my hair?"

"God help me." Eric groaned. "I'm going to find my pants."

"Yay!" Jackie said, clapping her hands. "Michael's going to be so happy I saved the day."

While Jackie waited for Eric to clean up she started to look around at his disaster of a room. She raised an eyebrow when she saw GI Joe lying on the floor under the dresser.

"Let's go, Jackie." Eric sighed, unenthusiastically. "The sooner we get there, the sooner I can come back here."

"What happened to this poor guy?" Jackie asked, holding up the figure.

"I didn't want to look at him, because he was lonely and reminded me of me." Eric explained lamely. "God it just sounds so pathetic when I say it out loud."

"It's not your fault you're a girl in boy's clothing." Jackie smirked.

"As a cheer-up squad, you kind of suck." Eric said, snatching the GI Joe from her hands and sitting on the bed. "I would think that you, of all people, would be a little more understanding of a broken heart."

"I know." Jackie sighed, sitting on the very edge of the bed. "Loneliness is brutal. But there's one thing that's even more brutal."

"What's that?"

"Knowing that the person that you think that you could love forever doesn't love you just as much." Jackie admitted.

"I guess you do understand." Eric said, looking at her strangely.

"Look, lets not get all sentimental or anything." Jackie said, breaking the moment by standing up. "There's fun to be had at Funland."

"Oh yes, I'm expecting all kinds of fun." Eric said, sarcastically.

"Me too." Jackie responded, equally as sarcastic. "I can't wait until Michael gets lost and I get to spend the whole day looking for him."

"Does that really happen?" Eric asked.

"Every time." Jackie said with a small laugh.