A/N--I don't own anything
"Eric, it's a tiny little scratch. Red is never going to notice." Hyde said casually as he surveyed the scratch he and Kelso had inadvertently helped Eric put in the Vista Cruiser.
"This is Red!" Eric exclaimed. "He sees when I put cheap gas in the car! He's going to notice."
Kelso came up with the brilliant idea of putting a profane sticker over the scratch but Hyde and Eric chose to ignore him.
"Well, whatever happens we'll stick around." Kelso finally said calmly. Hyde nodded his agreement. Except when Red came outside and noticed the scratch two minutes later Kelso quickly yelled good bye and ran away. Hyde attempted to do the same but Red caught him by the shirt.
"You aren't getting away!" he snarled at his son's best friend. "Whatever dumbass thing he did I know you were doing it too. Now how'd you scratch the car Eric?" he demanded to know.
Eric slowly spoke, "Well, uh, sir, I was, uh, pulling out—no more like creeping out of a parking space and—
"You were screwing around and you backed into a hydrant. I can see the paint marks!" Red corrected his son with a yell.
"No! And by no I men exactly but it wasn't my fault! Hyde surprised me by announcing that he's in love with Jackie and she's—
"Shut up, man! I'm going to kill you!" Hyde yelled at his friend, punching him in the arm.
Eric winced. "She's the devil," he quickly said as Hyde punched him again. "And then Kelso decided to make it worse by giving me a purple nurple—
"A what?" Red asked.
"A purple nurple. It's when you grab someone's nipple through their shirt and twist it really hard and then it becomes purple!"
Red stared at his son in disgusted amazement before demanding Eric hand over the keys to the Vista Cruiser. "Your driving privileges are suspended until you learn some responsibility."
Eric protested that he was a very responsible person but Red only replied with, "No, no you're not. Responsible people don't go around getting their nipples twisted!"
As he walked away Eric and Hyde glanced at each other. "When he says it, it just sounds weird."
Hyde nodded his agreement before punching Eric in the arm again. "What the hell?" Eric cried indignantly.
"You told Red about Jackie, you moron!" Hyde was glaring angrily at his best friend.
Eric crossed his arms over his chest. "Yeah and I'm not sorry! You tried to run and let me take all the blame for something that was partially your fault!"
Hyde started to yell back but stopped, shrugged and said, "True. Whatever, I'm over it."
Donna and Jackie sat in the basement looking over the newest Cosmopolitan together. "Oh my god: 'Hair dos and don'ts of Olympic gold medalists.'"
Jackie looked down and wrinkled her nose. "Is that Dorothy Hamel? She's a virgin!" she said with a laugh.
Donna laughed too before becoming slightly serious and uncomfortably. "Speaking of…um, you know all those girls at school who do it like all the time?" Jackie nodded. "Alright, well is it just me or do they seem more relaxed?"
Jackie opened her mouth to answer but before she could the door opened and Hyde, Eric, and Fez walked in.
"Hi!" the girls yelled together. Eric asked them suspiciously what they had been doing.
Fez grinned smugly. "They were talking about sex!" he accused.
Hyde laughed loudly. "Fez, chicks don't talk about sex, man! It's dirty!"
Jackie rolled her eyes and glared haughtily at her boyfriend. "Yes we do! Donna and I tell each other every little detail about our sex lives!"
Eric looked worried while Hyde grumpily muttered, "Or lack thereof."
Jackie and Donna both glared at him. "Before you guys got here we were actually having a good time."
The guys seemed skeptical as the girls giggled to each other. "I know! I was surprised too!" Donna cried.
"Hey Donna, do you want to go to my house?" Jackie asked suddenly.
Donna said she did and the two girls left.
Jackie stopped next to Hyde to kiss him on the cheek. Hyde stared down at her and didn't say anything. Things had been more than a little strained between them since the night at her cabin last weekend but neither knew how to bring up the subject to the other. Hyde knew it was only a matter of time before Jackie demanded to talk about it again. In fact he was surprised that she hadn't yet. It worried him a little.
"Uh…can we talk later?" she whispered. Hyde smiled at her and kissed her quickly before it got even more awkward.
"Yeah, I'll come over around eight."
After the girls left and the guys had all settled in Eric attempted to bring up their conversation earlier and Hyde's confession.
"Shut up. I don't want to talk about it." Eric tried for five more minutes before Hyde hit him so hard in the arm he shut up.
"So what do we want to do?" Hyde asked as he settled back into his chair.
"We could walk to the Hub." Eric offered. "Too far." Eric tried to throw out another suggestion that had to do with walking and once again Hyde yelled that it was too far to walk.
Eric started yelling about how much the situation sucked and Hyde replied sarcastically.
"I thought Red would overreact!" Fez cried. "He is a real hard-ass!"
Kelso ran into the basement with a set of car keys. "Hey look! My cousin Sully loaned me his wheels. So where to?"
The guys were silent for a moment before Eric said, "You just want to hang?"
"Yeah." Kelso replied.
"Okay man. It's time to fess up! What's going on with Jackie? Do you honestly love her?" Eric tried again.
Hyde growled at his friend but seemed too tired to continue yelling. "I don't know, man. I think so. I mean she's everything I should hate but I can't. There is just something about her. She's different from other girls and she's not as shallow as she was when we first started dating. Not as peppy either."
The guys all nodded in agreement. The four of them continued to talk about Jackie, not paying attention to Erick's sister Laurie when she walked into the room.
"Plus, maybe if you tell her you love her, she'll finally have sex with you!" Kelso yelled.
Laurie suddenly spoke up, "Why would anyone have sex with Hyde?" she asked with a sneer.
Hyde glared at her. "Laurie, I think I hear your pimp calling. You better hurry!"
Laurie smiled faux sweetly and shook her head. "Oh you must be hearing things. He's busy with your mom right now."
The two of them continued on each getting more and more angry before Hyde finally said, "Hey did you hear Casey's home? Man he's a legend. Maybe if you ask real nice he'll take you back. He probably won't cheat so much this time. I mean not many guys can manage to screw the entire cheerleading squad behind their girlfriend's back without her ever noticing. So tell me Laurie, which was worse—finding out that your boyfriend had fucked all the entire cheerleading squad or your best friend?"
Laurie refused to answer. She simply glared at him and walked away.
Hyde tried to be happy that he had finally shut her up but instead he just felt guilty. Not even he could deny that what Casey had done to Laurie sucked. She had been a sweet, naïve girl when the two of them started dating but that all changed when she finally found out he'd been cheating on her their entire relationship. No one quite knew the total number of people he had cheated with but it was rumored to be between ten and twenty. After finding out Laurie had changed. She finally lost her virginity to him but then turned around and had sex with his two of his older brothers and his best friend. As legendary as both Casey and Laurie were; their relationship and their break up was even more so.
"You took that too far, Hyde!" Eric suddenly said quietly. "My sister is a slutty bitch but she didn't deserve what he did to her."
Even Kelso wouldn't defend his brother. "I know." Hyde simply said.
Jackie and Donna sat in Jackie's bedroom sipping margaritas. They had learned a lesson the last time they drank them but neither girl could deny that they loved how they tasted.
"Okay, Jackie I've got to ask. Why are you making Hyde wait so long? You said ages ago that you thought you were ready to have sex with him." Donna said.
Jackie looked down at her bedspread and sighed. "I just…I want it to be really, really special. I'm scared. What if…what if he doesn't love me and all this time we've only been together because he wants to have sex?"
Donna laughed at that. "Trust me. Hyde could have sex. He's with you because he wants to be with you."
Jackie still seemed uncertain but shrugged. "I just…I really care about him and I don't want to get hurt."
The two girls continued talking about Hyde and sex for a while before Donna decided she needed to get home for supper. Jackie couldn't help but smile as she thought of her afternoon. Being friends with Donna, although she would never admit to that out loud, was really great. Donna was really nice and funny and Jackie liked having a friend that talked about more than just how great they looked and gossip all the time. It was nice.
Jackie's doorbell rang but she didn't move. The maid would get it and whoever was at the door probably wouldn't be there for her anyway. "Miss Jackie?" Jackie glanced up in confusion and stared at her maid, Lucy.
"Um…there is a Miss Laurie Forman here to see you?" Jackie's eyebrows creased into more confusion but she told Lucy to show Laurie into the room.
"Hi…um so this is really awkward." Laurie said quietly.
Jackie nodded but said nothing.
"I uh…I'm home for the weekend and I just…well I heard the guys talking about you and I wanted to come talk to you. I don't know if you've ever heard the story but…when I was your age I started dating Casey Kelso. He was the most popular guy in school; the star quarterback, captain of the wrestling team, and a State Champion track runner. When he was interested in me I couldn't believe my luck. All my friends tried to warn me but I didn't listen. I dated him anyway. It was great. He was a year older than me and so cool. I loved being his girlfriend and after a while, I loved him."
Laurie stopped talking and took a deep, calming breath. Jackie took that time to interrupt.
"Uh what does this have to do with me?" she asked. Laurie glared at her.
"I'm getting there!" she cried. "Casey and I dated for a really long time. He had just graduated from school and was taking classes in Madison. I thought everything was perfect. One weekend my best friend Janey and I went to visit him and we all got really drunk. After a little bit the two of them disappeared; I looked for a really long time and when I finally found them they didn't see me. They were having sex in the girl's bathroom. I was so numb I didn't even cry. When one of the boys on Casey's football team found me I told him what I saw. He didn't realize who I was and he laughed. He started talking about how great Casey was. How he had a different girl every weekend. He even mentioned the girlfriend that Casey 'loved' but couldn't help cheating on because I wanted to wait until marriage to have sex. He called me a stupid prude."
Jackie watched helplessly as Laurie wiped tears from her eyes.
"I left then. Just got up and drove away. The next day Janey called me and yelled at me for leaving her. When I told her what I saw she didn't even apologize. 'Casey screwed half the school in high school and you were just too stupid to see it! He'll screw anyone!' she said meanly. I told her she could find her own ride home and just lay in the dark for a while…then I snapped. I drove back up to Madison and pretended that nothing had happened. When he asked me where I went I told him that I couldn't find him so I just drove home. He didn't even blink; he just lied to me like it was nothing. So I shoved him down and made him take my virginity. The next day before I left I found the asshole that had called me a stupid prude and had sex with him too. I can't explain why I did it. I just…wanted to show him how it felt. Later that week I screwed two of his brothers. The oldest two that didn't even know who I was and by the end of the school year everything I had worked towards for my entire left was gone. No one remembered how smart I used to be, how sweet. People only knew that Laurie Forman was a whore. It took Casey longer to get it. I kept dating him and when I moved in for freshman orientation I let him catch me with his roommate. He hit the guy and then screamed at me for a while. I screamed back. I forced him to admit everyone he had cheated on me with. It was the worst moment of my life. He called me a whore. I told him he'd made me that way. He actually threw a ring at me. Told me he was going to propose. He hadn't been with anyone else since I gave him my virginity; probably lied about that too."
Laurie was staring at her vacant ring finger.
"I'm really sorry that Casey did that to you, Laurie but I don't understand what this has to do with me." Jackie whispered.
Laurie stared at the younger girl and shook her head. "Hyde may care about you. He may want to be faithful but he's Steven Hyde! He doesn't have a decent bone in his body! He never learned how to love! If you only saw the way his mother treats him! His dad was out with a different slut every night. He's going to break you and I can't let that happen! Please, please I am begging you. Do not have sex with him. He doesn't love you. He can't. He's just like Casey. In the end all he will do is hurt you. I don't want you to end up like me."
Jackie couldn't speak. She wanted to defend Steven but found she could not. Everything that Laurie had said was true. His parents had irreparably damaged him. He had never been taught to love. Laurie's story and her words about Steven had amplified all of Jackie's fears.
"I…I told him I loved him once when I was drunk. He—he wouldn't let anyone tell me about it when I forgot what I said. He didn't want me to know. Then he told me he loved me."
Laurie smiled sadly. "Hyde cares about you, even I will admit that, but Casey loved me too and just look at what he's turned me into—a cheap whore."
Jackie looked away.
"Just…just think about it. Hyde doesn't trust anyone. He is never going to trust you. It will only lead to heart break."
Without another word, Laurie got up and walked from the room. Jackie fell back onto her bed and sighed. Her heart was aching for Laurie Forman. She never thought she would feel sorry for that girl but she did.
Jackie knew that Hyde cared about her but she also knew that he had a hard time trusting her. He focused on the physical part of their relationship a little too much and that worried her. Maybe he did just want sex. Had he ever cheated on her? She turned and glanced at her clock. It was 6:30. She still had a little while before he stopped over. She had a lot to think about.
The four boys sat in a police interrogation room after being arrested for driving a stolen car.
"This is great! I'm dead. Red is going to kill me." Eric cried. He then pointed out that when he was the driver the four of them had never gotten arrested.
"True." Hyde said, glaring at Kelso.
"Relax! You aren't the only one in trouble here!" Kelso yelled.
"Oh no, no, no! No, no, no! We are not all in trouble! Your parents have seven kids; they won't even notice you're gone! And Fez your parents don't even live in this country! Hyde, don't even get me started on you! Edna's probably one cell over! So that just leaves me. I'm the only one that's really in trouble."
Hyde glared at his friend. "I'll be in just as much trouble as you are as soon as Edna sobers up. Besides if I don't get out of here by eight Jackie's going to kill me!"
Fez began moaning about being deported but was interrupted when a police officer walked into the room and gave them a dime to make a phone call.
Hyde finally told the guys that he would call Jackie. "Her dad's a lawyer and she's got a check book!" After two rings Jackie answered the phone. "Hey, what's wrong? You sound funny." Hyde said quietly.
"Focus man!" Eric yelled angrily.
"It's nothing. What's going on?" Hyde took a deep breath. "Kelso borrowed his stupid cousin's car and we were driving around in it but it was stolen so I'm in jail—
Hyde hadn't finished talking when Jackie started to yell. "Typical! You don't want to have our stupid talk so you call me and make up a lame story about being in jail? I'm not stupid Hyde!" she snarled his last name and even though he was mad at her for not believing him, the use of his surname really hurt.
She always called him Steven, even when he told her not to. "Damn it Jackie I'm not making up a freaking excuse! I'm in a fucking jail cell! I need you to come bail me out!"
Jackie continued to yell for a while before hanging up on him. "She fucking didn't believe me!" Hyde yelled angrily.
Fez muttered something rude under his breath. Hyde punched him in the arm. "We're having problems, man. It's not her fault!" he said. He would never admit that as soon as he got out of the stupid cell he was going to kill her.
Twenty minutes later the boys convinced Erick to go out and talk to the police. Before he could, the door opened and an officer strode in.
"The car was not stolen. Your cousin's grandma forgot she let him borrow it. You are free to go. And uh by the way a loud little girl is out there waiting for you."
Hyde ran out before the other guys and couldn't help but grin widely as he saw Jackie standing in the waiting area. He ran up to her and in a move very uncharacteristic of him, picked her up and twirled her around before kissing her.
"I'm sorry I didn't believe you, Steven." She whispered sweetly.
Hyde simply smiled at her and arched an eyebrow when he noticed that not only had she been crying but that her eyes held a haunted look.
"What's going on?" he asked quietly.
Jackie gave him a small smile and shook her head.
"It's nothing," she said softly. After making sure the other guys were on their way, Jackie drove the two of them back to her house.
As Hyde settled comfortably on her bed Jackie paced the room nervously.
"I shouldn't have kept what you said from you. It wasn't fair and I'm sorry. I also shouldn't have yelled at you the way I did..." Hyde started. Jackie stopped moving. "Jackie I lo—"
"No!" Jackie cried, cutting him off. He stopped and looked at her in confusion.
"Just…just don't say it. We don't need to say it. We know how we feel. We—we aren't ready."
Hyde opened his mouth to argue that unlike her, he was ready but stopped when Jackie grabbed the bottom of her shirt and pulled it over her head. He bra quickly followed.
"What are you doing?" Hyde asked hoarsely.
Jackie yanked her pants and underwear off before moving to straddle him. "I'm done making you wait. I…I want to have sex."
As Hyde let his girlfriend remove his clothing, a voice in his head protested. Jackie didn't call it sex. She called it making love. Hyde ignored the voice and kept kissing her. That same voice continued to protest that she was kissing him all wrong. Why was she so urgent? Why did it feel like she was trying to forget something? Why did it feel like she was trying to convince herself of something? He continued to ignore the voice in his head. As the two of them lay back on the bed and Hyde finally felt the hot, wetness that was his girlfriend enclose around him he could not ignore the voice. As he had pushed fully into her, her eyes had opened in shock. There was no denying the look in those eyes. At first they were pained and then slowly they slid closed in pleasure but before that had happened he had seen uncertainty.
Why would Jackie have sex with him if she wasn't 100% positive it was what she wanted? As he allowed himself to turn off his thoughts and give in to the pleasure, he tried to hold onto that single question. Yet it, like all the others, slipped away as her lips came up to meet his.
Wow it's been a while! I'm not sure if anyone is even interested in reading this anymore but I finally finished the next chapter. Thank you SO, SO much to all the people that have reviewed over the past...two? Three? Years and told me they liked my story. It was those reviews that pushed me to write another chapter!
That said, I apologize if this is at all different from the rest of the story. Obviously my opinion on things has changed quite a bit. It was a little hard to get back into this but hopefully the story will get better. I struggled a lot between deciding to break Jackie and Hyde up for a while and having them lose their virginity. The idea of Laurie and Casey Kelso came to me a while back. The way I see it every girl that has ended up like Laurie (for the most part) either has Daddy issues or someone has hurt them. Why not Casey? I like reading stories where Laurie is a slightly nicer character and wanted to dig further into her past. It's totally not plausible but I wanted to have someone make Jackie think. Laurie is going to stick around and her conversation with Jackie is going to keep causing problems. Well, please review and keep read reading! I am hoping to continue posting!