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This chapter isn't really based on an episode.
Hyde watched as his friend walked up the stairs to the kitchen. He knew his friend wasn't in the mood to talk and would go up another set of stairs to his room. He glanced at Kelso and Fez who were grinning excitingly. He had forgotten they were even there. They probably didn't even hear a word he said to Eric.
"Are you two going stand there looking stupid or are you going home?" Hyde asked with annoyance. He sighed and sat down himself.
His friend ignored him, "Man, prison is so cool!" Kelso exclaimed.
"I feel like the word that Hyde always says," Fez jumped up and down.
"The word's badass," Hyde told the foreigner with an eye roll.
"Yes!" Fez's smile widened.
"Why don't you two, I don't know, get out?" His frustration grew with each word the idiots spoke.
"But Hyde, how come you can stay but we have to go? You don't live here," Kelso stated. Hyde shook his head and put his head in his hands in frustration towards the two morons and the friend upstairs.
Hyde looked up at Kelso with an idea. "Hey Kelso, did you know girls like it when you just get out of prison? It makes them think you have a bad side." Kelso's eyes widened and he jumped up and down with excitement once more. He ran out the door excitingly much like a cheerleader would do. Hyde glanced at Fez. "Don't you have a curfew?" Fez looked at his friend confusingly. What was a curfew? "You know, a time you gotta be home by."
"Oh no! Now my host parents will read me the big book again!" he yelled out.
"You mean The Bible?" Hyde asked with a raised eyebrow. Fez looked at him once more, confusingly like before, and decided to nod in fake agreement. He ran out the door, just like Kelso. Hyde sighed and put his hand to his forehead. Where was Jackie? As soon as the thought came to his head Jackie opened the door and bounced in. He didn't need to look up to know it was her.
"Hey," she smiled.
He remained in the same position and spoke quietly, "Hey." Her eyes examined his position carefully. She stood by the door trying to get a good look of his face, but no. She knew it would be full of frustration with the way he looked.
"Donna went home." Hyde didn't say a single word."Something wrong?" She went to sit down on the couch in the seat closest to his chair. Hyde looked up at her but said nothing. "Come on, if you don't tell me I'll just find out later. Something happen in prison?" She was curious, she had to admit.
"Jacks, your brother knows," he informed her.
"What do you mean he knows? What does he know?" She had known exactly what he meant but nonetheless she had to get an exact answer. She faked confusion.
"He figured it," Hyde ignored her. "I don't really know how. But Jacks he knows what's going on." She didn't get what the big deal was. So Eric knew, so what? So Eric probably had a panic attack; that was bound to happen. She was ready for them all to know.
Jackie raised an eyebrow at him and found it a good time to ask the question she's been dying to know the answer to for weeks, "And what exactly is going on, Steven?" She was good he had to admit; changing topics from Eric to them.
He took off his sunglasses and stared her right in the eye. The way he would look at her, it was like she was the only person in the world, the only one he could ever care for. "You know what's going on." She did but she wanted to hear him say it.
She smirked, "You'll have to explain it to me."
"You're my… my…" he trailed off unsure of what to say.
She leaned in closer, "I'm your what, Steven?" He had never called her his girlfriend; it had made herself confused on whether or not to refer to him as her boyfriend in her mind. Yes, he admitted he liked her but he had never claimed to be in a relationship with her. And she just had to know.
"Doll, you know what you are," he stalled. God, she loved it when he called her doll.
"I don't believe I do because I don't what we are. Mutual crushes? Just say it Steven, that's all I want," she whispered.
He stuttered, now that was a first, "Y-You're my… girlfriend. My chick." It has been so quiet it was heard to be sure that was what he had said. She smiled at him and sat on his lap. "Mine," he said more confidently. She giggled and pecked him on the lips. She gave a big smile that had made him smile in response. He loved it when she would smile like that; he knew he was the only one that got it.
"Now was that so hard?" she asked.
"There's no way in hell I'm saying it again." She grinned at his words.
"Sure let's go with that." She kissed his lips softly once more and he grinned at her. She pulled and went back to the couch. "Now, about Eric."
"Oh come one Jackie! You can't do that," Hyde complained.
"Do what?" she asked innocently.
"Change topics from Forman to getting me to call you mine then kissing me and then going back to Forman," he told her.
She ignored him, "Steven, what are we going to do?"
He shrugged, "Jacks, he was mad. And I've know your brother a long time he gets mad easy but it's a stupid mad not like the kind of mad he was."
She propped an eyebrow, "I didn't know he had different types of mad."
"Me neither," he admitted.
She stared at him for a few seconds before responding, "Steven…. We've been somewhat together for over three months, if you haven't realized."
"I've realized." She smiled at him.
She spoke quiet nervously, obviously unsure of her next words, "I think we're at the point where we should at least tell our friends. They're gonna be angry for waiting three months. But if we don't, Eric will." He sighed and agreed with her. To be honest he had enjoyed hiding their secret relationship; it gave sexy a new meaning. The way it was just between the two of them and no one else knowing had turned him on just at the thought. He pulled her down to kiss her. And she kissed him back, feeling his soft lips. She pulled back and glanced at the clock.
"Steven, I should go to sleep, my parents probably think I'm already in bed," she told him before getting up leave. He kissed her softly on the lips.
"Night Jacks," he whispered in her ear, sending chills up her spine. He walked out the door, leaving her blushing.
The next morning Jackie awaited her brother. Her father was out in the garage, working on the Toyota. Kitty was making breakfast for her daughter as she sang an upbeat, happy tune.
Jackie glanced at her mother as she put pancakes on her plate and muttered a quiet "Thank you". Kitty looked at her daughter; Jackie had often started the conversation in the morning and if she didn't she would be adding comments when Red yelled at Eric.
"Jackie, is there something wrong?" Kitty asked her daughter with a worried look.
She reassured her mother, "Nothing, mom," Jackie paused, "I'm fine really."
"Well you're tapping your foot and it's getting on my nerves," her mother let out a laugh. Jackie glanced at her foot, when did she start tapping? "But honey, if you have any problems you know you can come to me." Jackie nodded.
"Mom, what do you think about Steven?" Jackie asked her mother nervously after staring at her for a few seconds.
Kitty looked up from the bacon she was making and smiled at her daughter. "Well he's a fine boy… why do you like him?" her mother let out a giggle, "Oh! You do! Let me tell you something, he's a sweet boy, although he doesn't like to admit it." She continued to speak highly of Hyde, definitely happy for her daughter. She had always liked Steven; he was the most respectful towards her out of her son's friends.
"Mom –" Jackie started but was cut off by her mother's excited voice.
"You know, you two would make just the cutest pair! Oh, are you going to give me grandchildren?" Kitty jumped up and clapped.
"Mom, I'm sixteen," Jackie exclaimed.
"Oh so what? I know you two would last!" Jackie shook her head in amusement.
And for a while her mother continued like this. It was eight and her brother wasn't guaranteed to get up until at least ten or eleven. But then again they came home after eleven. And so she spent the entire morning with her mother. It had been a while since she had been alone with her mother. Jackie and Kitty shared laughs and made lunch together. Kitty Forman made sure her daughter could cook.
At 12:30 exactly, Eric winced at his mother's signature laugh; he entered through the door to the kitchen and frowned at the sight of his sister. He knew he shouldn't be annoyed with her though, she's young she doesn't know what's going on, right?
"Hey mom, little sister," he greeted, sitting down at the kitchen table. He emphasized the word 'little', making sure his sister knew that he knew about her and Hyde. His mother put a sandwich in front of him, lunch.
"Oh Eric I have the best news! Just guess who Jackie likes –" Kitty was interrupted by her daughter.
"It doesn't matter mom," Jackie said quickly. She really didn't want to discuss this with brother while her mother was in the room.
"Oh you mean she likes her boyfriend," Eric smirked, obviously happy with himself. Finally, he knew something everyone didn't. Yeah, he was ahead of the program.
"Boyfriend? Oh! Steven's your boyfriend?" Kitty shouted out with glee. Jackie put her head in her hands.
"Mom, how could you be happy about this? Jackie's little –"
"Eric I'm a year younger than you, that's not a lot."
Eric ignored his sister's words, "And Hyde's my best friend! Best friends don't date best friends' siblings, it's a rule."
Kitty's face scrunched up in confusion, "Then why are you allowed to date Donna?" Jackie raised an eyebrow, she was right, so maybe Donna wasn't
Eric's faced fell and he whined, "But mom."
"Oh Eric, can't you tell he likes her by the way he looks at her?" Kitty asked her son. Eric looked at her confusingly. "Sweetie, Steven likes Jackie. So she's your sister. That doesn't mean anything! You should be happy, Steven's a good boy, and don't you want your sister to be happy?" Eric sat repeating Kitty's words over and over in his mind 'don't you want your sister to be happy?' It was true he did want Jackie to be happy, but Hyde was his friend. Couldn't he stick to dating sluts that meant nothing to him and her to idiots she dumps a week later?
Jackie stared at her brother, watching his expression change from annoyance to confusion.
"But…" he began.
"No buts. Steven's good for Jackie, they've been friends for a long time just like you and Donna have." Kitty soon ran to the phone and began dialing.
"Mom, who are you calling?" Jackie asked, speaking for the first time in a while.
"Everyone! My little baby's got a boyfriend!" Kitty shouted with excitement, jumping up and down. Eric stared at his little sister, was she even his little sister anymore? She was sixteen, she had boyfriends before but he knew they didn't mean much to her.
"Jackie," Eric acknowledged her. Jackie looked back to her brother.
"Eric." He wanted to know her side. Why she wanted to be with Hyde, he had Hyde say it last night. And as much as he didn't want to admit it, he liked what he heard. It was better than anything else he would ever hear from any other guy.
He hesitated to ask such a direct question,"Jackie, why are you with Hyde?"
Jackie closed her eyes to think of a way to put all her thoughts into an answer, "Eric, you know those people you depend on?" He nodded. "Those people you trust?" He nodded again. "Steven's the only person I can trust with all my secrets, the only one I can truly depend on when I need him. He listens to what I say, stupid or not. He understands me in a way I didn't know was humanly possible," she paused to think of a better way to simplify it all, "he makes me laugh, more than anyone; he makes me smile when I feel like crap. He's sweet when no one's around, you'd be surprised."
Eric stared carefully at his sister as she explained it all to him. The way her eyes would get a look in them made Eric know why she was with him.
"He makes me feel like I'm the only person in the room when he looks at me," she told him.
"You really like him, huh?" She stopped talking to smile. Eric nodded at his sister, he'd accept her answer.
Eric walked downstairs after finishing his breakfast. His mother was still talking to his sister with excitement. He wondered why she wasn't like that when she found out about him and Donna. He shook it off; everyone knew anyways that he and Donna would end up together. He looked to see Hyde alone, sitting in his chair.
"Hey Hyde," he greeted with less anger than the night before.
Hyde opened his mind to speak with less zen than usual, "Forman, look. I know you're pissed and all but –"
"I'm not pissed," Eric told him.
"Oh damn, what's past pissed? Red Forman furious?" Eric shook his head.
"No, man. It's whatever, so you're going out with my sister, that's great. You break her heart; I'll get my dad to kick your ass," Eric half-threatened.
"Forman, are you trying to threaten me? 'Cause man you're really bad at it," Hyde commented.
"I'm just telling you….if you want to date my sister….then I guess it could be OK. I mean that's if you don't hurt her, or kiss her in front of me 'cause man that's my sister," Eric told Hyde awkwardly.
Hyde grinned at his friend, "Thanks man." Eric nodded. He was doing the right thing, Hyde must obviously make his sister happy and his sister must make him happy. It would work out in the end because Hyde isn't happy often, he doesn't even call it happy just 'less pissed off'. And maybe Hyde's less pissed off when Jackie's with him, he'd find out later. He got up to leave, he had to tell Donna. She'd freak.
Jackie walked down to see Steven alone; she had sworn Eric had come down half an hour ago. She went to go sit on his lap and smiled at him. "Hey," she whispered in his ear.
"Hey," he smirked and set his hand on her thigh comfortably.
"Didn't Eric just come down here?" she questioned.
"Yeah, he left a few minutes ago," he replied. "Guess what he did."
She raised an eyebrow, "What?"
He grinned at her, "He tried to threaten me," she let out a laugh, "then said everything was fine."
"That's good," she smiled. He nodded. "You know we're all alone." He was on top of her on the couch in less than a second. His lips tasted her cherry lip gloss and soon his tongue was reaching new ground in her mouth. Her hand went to his hair and played with his curls as he began to kiss her neck.
"Oooh kinky," Fez commented as he walked through the door as Kelso followed closely behind
"Oh God!" Kelso shouted. The two jumped into the air and landed on their feet on the ground. "Man, you said nothing was going on between you and Jackie yesterday! You so dogged me! She was supposed to be mine!" Jackie made a sound of disgust at Kelso's words.
"Kelso, I didn't dog you. We went over this yesterday, she's not yours, she never was and never will be –" Hyde told his friend.
"You don't know that!"
"No, I do. Kelso, Jackie's with me, get over it," Hyde informed his friend. Jackie smirked at Hyde. He rolled his eyes at her and put his arm around her.
"But…man! Red's gonna freak. Eric's gonna have a panic attack!" Kelso paused, "Call me over when it happens will ya?" Hyde shook his head.
"Forman already knows." At the mention of his name Eric and Donna came through the door.
"Oh thank God!" Kelso shouted. He pointed his finger at Jackie and Hyde, "Those two were making out on the couch." Eric made a look of disgust.
"Don't soil the couch," Eric complained.
"So it's true!" Donna yelled, glaring at Jackie but it soon turned into a frown. "Jackie, you told me nothing was going on."
Jackie shrugged," I lied."
"Can someone explain to Fez what is happening?" Fez shouted over everyone else.
Hyde sighed and watched as everyone, including Jackie, stared at him, "Look, me and Jackie are a thing. Got it?" They all opened their mouths to speak but Hyde repeated himself, "Got it?" They nodded obediently. Eric stared at his friends as they went to sit down. Donna calmed down and seemed just fine, Fez grinned at the two, probably thinking about watching the two of them. While Kelso just looked annoyed, not angry but annoyed he couldn't be with Jackie. But soon as the moments passed his face morphed into neutrality.
"Wait, just a second," Eric started. "How are you alright with this? It's Jackie and Hyde!" Yes Eric was over it, but it took an entire conversation with his mother, his sister, and a lot of thinking to get over it. But Donna, Fez, and Kelso shrugged it off after only a few seconds.
"That's why we're okay with it Eric. It's Jackie and Hyde, they've always been friends," Donna explained as Jackie and Hyde listened curiously.
Fez nodded and spoke with his thick accent, "They are like you and Donna."
"Yeah, I kinda figured they'd shack up eventually. I just wanted to get on the Jackie ride before he stole it," Kelso said. Hyde looked at Kelso in disgust, hitting him in the arm. "Ow! Hyde!"
"She's not some slut, Kelso," Hyde yelled in annoyance. Eric raised an eyebrow at Hyde and smiled.
"You know my dad's not gonna be happy," Eric informed Hyde. Hyde shrugged; he'd figure it out later.
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