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"Is there a problem?" Hyde asked quizzically while glancing at Jackie and Kitty.
"Problem? No! Why would there be a problem? No problems here!" Kitty laughed nervously. "Well isn't this awkward. You see Steven I kind of already told Jackie she could stay in the basement since she doesn't really have anyplace else to go."
Well this was an interesting turn of events Hyde thought and it also explained the odd conversation he had overhead between Jackie and Red. "Oh, well that's cool. I'll just…"
"No! No, we'll figure something out." Kitty let go of his hands, stood up and started to pace the kitchen. "Well you two certainly can't share the basement. Not after… well you know." Kitty whispered.
Red threw his hands up in frustration. "Kitty, no. We're not going to have the both of them here. We just got rid of our own kids. What do you want to turn our house into the shelter for people who won't get off their asses and go to college? Why don't you just hand a sign "Dumbasses Welcome Here'! Before you know it the foreign kid and the idiot will be sleeping in our bed!"
"Oh, Red come on now. It's not that big of a deal. It's not like its forever either. They'll both stay here but I just have to figure out where." Kitty pursed her lips and resumed her pacing.
Red just shook his head and walked into the living room muttering something about losing control.
"Oh, I know! Jackie, you'll stay in Laurie's room. It's not like she's coming back anytime soon. And Steven, you can move back into the basement. Well good, that's finally settled. I'm going to run to the store and pick up a few things for dinner. See you!" Kitty hurried out of the kitchen wanting to get away from the tension that had been building in the room. Serves them right she thought. They had had almost a year to patch things up or at least try and play nice with each other and now fate was going to step in and take over.
Jackie watched Kitty run out of the room. Great she thought. Now what? She wasn't ready for this situation. She looked down and groaned. Son of a … she was still in her freaking cheese maiden uniform. Wonderful, that's just how she had wanted to greet Steven the next time she saw him.
Hyde's head popped up when he heard Jackie groan. How the hell had this happened he wondered? His day was going from bad to horrible. First he found out that Grooves was in debt or rather he was as the new owner and now he had to live with Jackie. When they were together he hadn't thought he could live with her and now they were further part then they had been even when she was a complete nuisance dating Kelso. Man, the only thing that could make this worse was for someone to tell him that Andy Gibb smoked pot.
Hyde dropped his head into his hands and started to massage his temples. Okay, he could deal with this. They had barely talked since he found out he was married to Sam. Well he thought he had been married. But that was beside the point. What could he have said to her? The only thing he could think of was "I hate you for sleeping with Kelso and destroying the one thing I had in my life that mattered to me." But that just wasn't him. He didn't have a way with words and he sure wasn't going to let her think that he gave a crap about what she had done.
"Steven?" Hyde looked up at the sound of Jackie's voice. He grabbed his shades off his shirt and settled them on his face. "Yea?"
Jackie walked over to him and he looked at her for the first time. What the hell was she wearing? That outfit looked familiar. It took him a few seconds to place it. She was pimping cheese again? "Is that the cheese pimp outfit?" Hyde smirked looking her up and down.
Jackie frowned. "It doesn't matter. And I'm not pimping cheese! I needed a job and this was the only thing I could find. Oh, you know what it doesn't matter." Jackie swore. "Look, Steven we need to talk, you know about things that happened. I…"
Hyde cut her off. "Jackie we don't need to talk about anything. What is in the past is in the past. It's probably better that it ended up that way. I mean… me married to you... yea that would have never worked." Hyde swore to himself. Crap why did he even say the word marriage? He knew her; she was going to latch on to that like a leech. He stood up and started to walk out of the room hoping he could make a clean exit.
"Steven, wait!" Jackie jumped up and rushed over to him. "Why did you say that? No, I am not going to believe that you came to Chicago to propose, that doesn't make any sense. Instead of talking to me you spent the night getting drunk in a beer warehouse. A beer warehouse Steven!" Jackie shouted.
Hyde slowly turned around spoke roughly "We are not going to have this conversation. The past is done with. You can believe whatever you want to believe. I could care less. I'm done playing the what if game. I stopped the day Sam showed up. I suggest you do the same."
Hyde spun back around and walked out of the room. Jackie stumbled back reaching for the kitchen counter. She grabbed it and steadied herself. No, she thought. She couldn't have made that big of a mistake. She was sure he was going to say no and that would be the end of them. When he didn't come after her within the first few days she had been sure of it. Now he was telling her something completely different and she wasn't sure if she could handle this new reality.