A/N: Well, chapter four is a little shorter and a bit fluffier but I like to do that sometimes. I hope everyone liked the previous chapters and please review I would love to hear what you have to say. For any of my readers also reading my other two stories I want to apologize for not updating in a while I just work on chapters as they come to me and this story is just where my mind is stuck right now but don't worry they aren't abandoned or finished yet in any way. Those of you who haven't read them please do and review those as well. I'd love to hear from you.

Quick thing about me, I'm a huge Disney fanatic and Beauty and the Beast is one of my absolute favorites (cause Belle is awesome and isn't just a damsel in distress) And with the live-action version having been released I reread the original story which I love. Jackie and Hyde to me are a bit like the Beauty and the Beast and I reflect on that in my chapter. I do not own Beauty and the Beast.

Also if you haven't seen the new version go see it in the theater it is absolutely worth it.

Alright I'll shut up now, Happy Reading!

Cold and alone in the invading darkness of the emptiness of the abandoned house, Jackie is hiding. Hiding from her friends, from Steven, from the fear and embarrassment, she didn't entirely know. Tears wouldn't quit tracing paths down her cheeks. She could hear footsteps approaching her.

"Jacqueline Beulah Burkhart!" She hears him call out to her, his voice sounded upset and she really didn't want to deal with this all now. But she couldn't hide from him for long. He came around the corner noticing her sitting on the floor like a scared child in the back of the closet. "Damn it Jacks! What the hell was that?!"

"Oh Steven, I'm so sorry." She's sobbing and Steven can't help but crawl over to wrap her in his arms.

He didn't say anything, he had no idea where to even to begin with her. He felt more hurt than he's ever felt in his shitty past of a life. Why did she have to do this?

"I screwed this all up, Puddin pop."

"Yeah."

"How'd everyone react."

"What do you mean? They've been expecting that outburst all week."

"I don't know about that. I thought we were doing well keeping our secret. I just can't believe they know now."

"Wait what? You said 'get off my boyfriend' to me?"

"Well Penny, but yeah, who else would I be screaming at?"

"Kelso!"

Jackie turns her head up to meet Steven's gaze. "Steven, you're my boyfriend, of course I was talking about you."

"Everyone thought you were talking about Kelso."

"Really, so no one knows?"

"Right."

"Thank god," she sighs in relief.

"Oh is someone embarrassed to be with me?'

"No not at all. I just like the way things are now."

"Me too, doll. So you were really talking about me?"

"Yes. I can't believe you'd think otherwise."

"Good, cause I was coming here to dump you."

"Steven!"

"Come on let's climb out of this closet and get something to eat."

"Yeah that's probably a good idea. You are not dumping me, okay?"

"Mrs. Forman made chili but she's being even more unbearably weepy than you are so let's go to the Hub."

The Hub

Steven and Jackie enter the Hub to find the two people they were both silently hoping to avoid. Kelso and Annette were sitting at the center table. Hyde thought to himself for just a moment that maybe they could ignore them but he knew it wouldn't work.

"Hey guys," Jackie greets as Hyde walks up to the counter to order.

"I hear a weird, piercing noise, but I don't know where it's coming from. Do you hear anything, Michael?"

"Yeah, it's just Jackie. Jackie I'm sorry you have to see me in this shirt. I know how it emphasizes my hunkalicious bod."

"Shut up Michael. I made a stupid slip. it meant nothing." She says playing along with the story.

"That's right, because Michael is my boyfriend."

"I know that, skankwad."

"Oh I'm a skankwad!?"

"Girl Fight! Let's get it on!" Michael screams jumping up and forcing his chair to topple over and out of the way.

"We are not going to fight." Jackie rolls her eyes at Michael and sees Steven sort of chuckle in the background.

"Well, maybe you should kiss and make up." Both girls roll their eyes and leave Michael alone at the table. "Ah, I'll go with the blond."

Jackie joins Steven who hands her a burger and fries before they go sit in their both all alone. He places soft kisses upon her lips so happy to know the truth.

Forman's Basement

10:00pm

"Night, Mrs Forman." Steven calls out as he heads to the basement knowing that Jackie had already snuck into his room at least an hour before.

He shuts off the basement lights and walks quietly into his room which is only lit up by the dim light of the lamp. Jackie is curled up under his blanket reading a book, mouthing the words silently as her eyes ran across the page.

She is so enveloped in the old book that he doesn't even notice he's entered.

"What are you reading?"

"Beauty and Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. It's like a two- hundred year old fairy tale, haven't you heard of it?"

"Nope."

"It's my favorite. It's about this wealthy merchant who was widowed years ago and left to raise his six children. His three sons are strong men but his two oldest daughters are cruel and vain but the youngest, Belle is a kind hearted intelligent beauty. The merchant though loses all his money and is forced to take his children to a small village and work as a farmhand."

Steven listens quietly as she spins the tale. He didn't know exactly why she was going into so much detail but with the way she spoke he knew it was important to her.

"Years later though the merchant had to travel to the market and asked if he could bring anything back for his children and while the others asked for jewels and weapons, Belle asked for a single rose.

"Upon returning, the merchant got caught in a snowstorm and seeks shelter in a forgotten castle. In the morning the merchant is about to leave through the rose garden and he remembers that Belle had asked only for a rose and upon picking the loveliest one he could find he's confronted by a hideous beast who owns the castle. The merchant is told that for taking one of the beast's most prized possessions he will have to die.

"The merchant begs to be set free, telling the beast that he only took the rose to give to his daughter Belle. The beast agrees to let him go and give the rose to Belle but only if he returns with one of his daughters or he will die.

"Belle goes to the castle and lives with the beast in order to save her father's life. And the beast graciously accepts her into his home. The beast gives gifts and lavish clothing to Belle and each and every night the beast would ask the girl to marry him and she would reply no.

"However, every night Belle would dream of a handsome prince who would ask why she wouldn't marry him and she'd always reply by saying I can't marry a beast.

"She eventually becomes homesick and the beast allows her to return home as long as she comes back. She agrees and the beast gives her a magic mirror so that she can see what's going on back at the castle. When she returned home her sisters grew jealous of Belle's happy life at the castle and convince her to stay home longer in hopes that the beast will get mad and eat her.

"Belle stays but misses the beast and uses the mirror to look in on what he's doing. She sees him lying half dead next to the rose bushes and she immediately returns to him and weeps over his lifeless body saying cries of I love you. Then as her tears touch his skin a curse is lifted off of the beast and the entire castle and the beast turns into the handsome prince and they live happily ever after."

"It sounds like you've read this a few times."

"My nanny used to read this to me every night. We had this huge library full of old books my parents never appreciated but I grew to love them. This is definitely my favorite."

"How come?"

"I don't really know. I like that she brings out the good in him and he sacrifices his happiness for hers."

That's a pretty good reason."

"Plus it reminds me of you and me now."

"You think I'm a beast!" He says jokingly.

"No no puddin, like lines like this, 'and although in the beginning they were barely even friends soon somebody bends, unexpectedly'."

"Yeah okay that's does sound familiar." He smiles down at her from his seat. Her head rests on the pillow and she looks blissful.

"Judge not by thine eyes, and, above all, abandon me not, but release me from the terrible torment which I endure." Jackie reads aloud before softly transitioning back into her own mind and imagination.

Hyde's Bedroom

2:00 am

Jackie awakes to stirring in the bed. Steven is tossing and turning as much as he possibly could in the restricted area of the cot that was left for him.

"Steven?"

"Hmm."

"Baby wake up."

"What do you want Jackie, it's late?"

"I want you to quit kicking me."

"Oh sorry."

"The Michael dream again?"

"Yeah it's getting really annoying, I didnt like watching you and kelso as a couple in real life but now I'm dreaming about it a lot and it's making me nauseous."

"I wonder why... Oh my god you're afraid of losing me. She exclaims upon happening on this realization."

"No I'm not." He replies defensively.

"Yes you are."

"No."

"Yes and shut up you're ruining it."

It is quiet for a moment or two as he thinks to himself about how important words really are to her. He was always more of an action person himself but if it'll her happy.

"Okay fine but I'm only going to say this once Jackie. You've worked your way into my melancholy soul and losing you would ensure you'd torment and haunt me and be with me forever. I'm not okay with that. So yes I'm afraid to lose you."

Valentine's Dance

8:15pm

"I can't believe Jackie Burkhart is at a school dance without a date."

"Shut it, Donna. I'm a cheerleader, I'm required to be here."

Jackie sits down at the table where Kelso and Annette were, hoping to appear less pathetic. It's times like this that she wishes she could just tell everyone that she's with Steven, and then the two of them could just dance the night away.

She craves the feeling of his strong arms around her waist, the way they could sway back and forth together in perfect unison. Nobody really knows this but Steven doesn't hate to dance he'd just prefer that people weren't watching plus he had a reputation to uphold and dancing wasn't included in that.

When they were alone though, he didn't mind so much. She remembers the last summer when he had driven her up to the lake and he played music loudly through his car speakers. Taking her hand, he led her barefoot in the rain to the waters edge and spun her around in the tide.

She wished he was here now.

The dance was a sea of pink and so he stood out like a sore thumb in a denim jacket. He saw her saddened face at the table being piqued by Kelso incessant chatter of his good looks and Jackie's outburst. He took little regard for Annette's growing anger.

"Steven! You came."

"Yeah well, Mrs. Forman won't stop crying so I thought I'd get out of the house and everyone worth hanging out with is here so, yeah." Jackie takes notice that Steven's hands aren't aren't empty or in his pockets. "Here, Jackie."

"Dude, you got the devil a rose?"

Jackie takes the single rose from Steven's fingers, smiling brightly at it.

"Well, I stole it from the rose gardens but yes, I figured Jackie's without a date and will probably ask me to dance and if she's unhappy, well she's going to talk a lot."

Steven takes Jackie's hand and leads her to the dance floor far from the others and their pestering questions. He knew he shouldn't have come but he really wanted to cheer Jackie up and it seems to have worked.

As they sway to the soft music, arms wrapped around each other, Steven whispers softly in her ear, "even after the last petal falls."

A/N: Aren't those two just too cute. Hope you liked even though it's a little short. Please Review!