Disclaimer: Of course, I don't own That 70's Show or the characters. Don't own Paramore, their songs, or lyrics. Gosh darn it.
A/N: Um. So, I LOVE YOUR REVIEWS! Wow. You guys were awesome on all of the other little short ones I've done so far! YAY! Especially sweetsouthernjerseygal and jackiehyde4eva. You guys are awesomely amazingly awesome! I cannot even say.
This is another one of those song-fic-things. "Let the Flames Begin" by Paramore. No Sam, no Fez/Jackie. Just Jackie and Hyde, after they break up. Please review! Oh, and this one will be longer, since I was told to write something longer, gosh darn it! LOL. :D So, this one will be longer! Oh, and I might update "CrushCrushCrush" some more, because I was given that suggestion by sweetsouthernjerseygal! Thanks again, you guys!
"What a shame we all became, such fragile broken things.
A memory remains, just a tiny spark.
I give it all my oxygen, so let the flames begin.
So let the flames begin. Oh, glory. Oh, glory.
This is how we'll dance when, when they try to take us down.
This is what we'll be. Oh, glory.
Somewhere, weakness is our strength, and I'll die searching for it.
I can't let myself regret such selfishness.
My pain and all the trouble caused, no matter how long.
I believe that there's hope, buried beneath it all and...
Hiding beneath it all and…Growing beneath it all and…
This is how we'll dance when, when they try to take us down.
This is how we'll sing out.
This is how we'll stand when, when they burn our houses down.
This is what we'll be. Oh, glory.
Reaching as I sink down into light. Reaching as I sink down into light.
This is how we dance when, when they try to take us down.
This is how we'll sing out.
This is how we'll stand when, when they burn our houses down.
This is what we'll be. Oh, glory."
-Paramore, "Let the Flames Begin"
Jackie's POV-
He's sitting there. I'm sitting here. What does it matter anymore?
We're not the same. I know I'm different, different without him.
He's different too, I can see it.
Does he miss me too? I can't tell when he sits there with those sunglasses on. I guess that's one thing that never changed. Him and those sunglasses. It was like those sunglasses were all he ever had.
He had me once too, but he never seemed to care about me as much as those stupid sunglasses. That's what mattered- those glasses, his stupid Zen, and staying cool.
We haven't talked in months. I've said "hello." He's said "hello." But we haven't talked in months.
Is that really the end, then?
How can it be the end, the end of us?
Well, maybe that's how he wants it. Maybe he wanted no reminder of me and him anymore. Maybe he wants to be done with it.
I'll give him no reminder of us. There is no us anymore, and it's time I start acting like it.
Steven's POV-
She's sitting there. I'm sitting here. Why do I still care so much?
Jackie was always supposed to be the strong one. She was the one that could keep her head through anything, even stupid Kelso, and now she's gone and lost it. I can see it when I look at her.
She's not the same anymore. I don't know how or exactly what, but something's changed, and it's just not Jackie anymore.
I see her glance over. I glance back, hiding behind my glasses. She hated them, she once told me in a fight, and all they were was a way to hide from people and keep them out.
She had been right, of course. She was always right about him.
He was hiding, from her, from what he could no longer have.
He needed to grow up and start acting properly. When he moped around, she would never get anywhere. They would never get anywhere.
It was time for him to move on.
Or at least, for her sake, pretend that that was even possible.
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