AN: OK to be honest I have it planned sort of in my head how this will all work out in the end, but then sometimes the characters get away from me. Some of this feels like an episode of Friends, 'I know that he knows but he doesn't know that I know' Friends fans will understand. Also Kelso has grown up, too many stories where he is still a stupid pervert. I don't have him and Brooke together, yet, but I feel like he had to face some cold hard facts if he cared about his daughter at all. With Eric in Africa, there had to be someone that knows Hyde to confront him.
Jackie woke up to see Donna packing her clothes up, "Donna what are you doing?"
Donna was sort of hoping Jackie would sleep till she was done, but should know luck wasn't much in their corner. "Randy called before he left, WB says the condo is ready and that if we could he would just help us get settled in today, then if there is more you need to add to your list of things you want from the house after seeing the condo you could add it before he leaves to go back to Point Place."
Jackie looked at her suspiciously, "What is really going on Donna?"
Donna didn't know what to say, she wasn't that great of a liar and Jackie was good at seeing through lies, she had been lied to enough that she had learned. She sat beside her on the bed, "Hyde for some reason went to your house last night and went to your old room, he found the pregnancy test"
Jackie sat their stunned, she leaned over and put her head on Donna's shoulder. "Well he was going to find out anyway, I didn't want him to find out like that. I sort of hope he saw I dated it on the back before I put it in the box." Jackie sat up "Crap! He opened my Steven box!" She slumped back down, "Maybe he took back his t-shirt I left on my bed, not like I don't need it anymore, maybe he can let his wife wear it."
"Well if anything you can put that on a list for things for Randy to give to Hyde."
"So when is Randy going to get here?"
Donna looked at her watch, "Probably about an hour, we are going to Grooves in Milwaukee and meet with Angie and she will take us to the condo. Do you want me to bring you some crackers and something to drink before you get up?"
"Yea, thanks. I'll eat some crackers and then get up and make some breakfast. I trust you to pack for me. I hope this is the last time of moving for a very long time."
"Well for you, but I am not sure about me, I mean I hope maybe Eric and I can finally get an apartment together or something down the line. I love you like a sister but I don't know if I am ready to live with you forever."
"Thanks Lumberjack, I am cake compared to what it will be like living with Eric and his dolls."
"He won't bring them with him to college" Donna said trying to convince herself more than Jackie.
"I have two words for you Millennium Falcon" Jackie looked straight at Donna.
"Why do I have to be in love with a geek with Star Wars toys and GI Joes?"
Jackie put a comforting hand on Donna, "Because at the end of the day he is what your heart wants, and despite the stupid stuff he does, you now he won't hurt you and he loves you and your lumberjack ways, and he is doing something to work towards a future he wants for the two of you." By the end of her speech Jackie was in tears.
Donna moved to pull the little midget into a hug, "Jackie things will work out however they should. You are going to have two beautiful babies to love and spoil and give the life that you didn't have."
Jackie popped up, "OK I am going to get breakfast, pancakes with peanut butter and pickles!"
Donna looked up at her friend, "Yea no crazy cravings here, I'll just take butter and syrup. And it will be amazing if I survive the next few months of your mood swings and cravings" She couldn't help but wonder if it was turned up because she was having twins, that it wouldn't be this bad if she was carrying just one.
Donna went on to finish packing she had already taken her stuff to Jackie's car, there would be room for Jackie's stuff, so she could have everything loaded hopefully by the time Randy got there, Jackie had a habit of setting out her clothes the night before, so just toiletries and her pajamas would be all that was left to pack.
Donna was putting the last suitcase in the trunk when Randy pulled into the driveway.
"Hey got much more left?" Randy asked as he got out.
"Actually that is the last one. Jackie is finishing up breakfast right now then she is going to take a shower and we will be ready."
"What did she fix?" Randy asked as they walked into the house.
"Pancakes, but I am going to warn you she has some odd cravings, and her mood swings are like a freaking pendulum on speed"
They walked into the kitchen to find Jackie sitting at the table with her peanut butter pancakes and a glass with something green they was afraid to ask.
"Donna did you tell him I know Steven knows?"
Randy shot a look to Donna, "You told her?"
"OK I am worse than Fez when keeping something a secret, I can't lie to Jackie, she sees right through me. Um, Jackie what are you drinking?"
"Oh pickle juice, we didn't have any orange and not a lot of pickles left so…"
Both Randy and Donna turned up their noses at the thought of drinking pickle juice. But helped themselves to pancakes and had breakfast, Jackie shared with Randy the news of the twins. After they finished and cleaned up, they got finished and got in the cars to head to Milwaukee.
Hyde was surprised to see that WB had joined Red and Kelso at the kitchen table.
Red stood up, "Why don't we go to the living room, this might take a while and I would much prefer to sit in my chair."
Red sat in his chair with WB on the couch closest to Red with Steven at the far end and Kelso had pulled the organ bench.
Steven pulled out the notes he had, "Does she even know that I am not really married?"
Kelso was the one to answer, "No, it will only hurt her more than you already have. Dude she did nothing wrong, aside from the ultimatum, but she was scared and you were so closed off at letting her know how you feel. And if you had actually read that letter after she left, or even stayed and found out that Randy was her cousin instead of jumping to conclusions, but no you wouldn't be you if you had done any of that." He didn't hide his bitter tone.
He didn't like Kelso answering that or his response, "So you are going to keep it from her that I am not married? That might change things between us."
Red felt his time, "Seriously, do you think she would forgive you and take you back after that? After the scene you created in my kitchen? Have you smoked whatever so much you have the same brain as Leo? I am sure you are going to end up like him, I thought after the talk we had when you turned eighteen you was going to grow up and work at not being like your family, you have WB here that has given you a great opportunity and yet you still find yourself drinking and getting high. I haven't kicked you out hoping that you would grow out of it. I hoped I had raised you well enough to do the right thing, but I guess I failed. At least Eric is doing something with his life right now, God knows where Laurie is."
"So I screwed up again and she won't even face me to talk to me? I mean she forgave Kelso who constantly cheated on her, and she still talks to him?"
"Man I need to get you the stupid helmet, yea I cheated on Jackie, you cheated on Jackie, but I cheated because I was a stupid horny teen while you cheated on her because of some delusion that you thought and set out to hurt her because you THOUGHT she did something to hurt you. Seriously, after everything that went down with the nurse you should have learned. I mean I don't get you. You tried to get her back right away, then she decides she is going to be by herself and not choose you. But as soon as you heard Jackie had made her decision to forgive you, you had another girl when you had spent months alone. Why should she forgive you this time? It doesn't matter that it was all a lie, you told her she might as well not matter that night in the kitchen. Hyde that night you might as well have put the final nail in your relationship with Jackie, she told you then if you stayed with Sam you would never see her again. Well you are getting your wish, you won't see Jackie again."
Red looked at Steven, "Kitty said that it was like you finally lost you soul the way that you talked to Jackie that night. Why do you think she didn't argue with me about kicking you and that slut out of my house?"
He looked down at the paper with his notes. "So I won't get to be part of any of the decisions with my own child? I mean how am I supposed to be a part of my child's life without talking to the mother?"
"Son that is part of what happens when you do things like sleep with girls without thinking about the consequences, that was what happened to me all those years ago when I didn't give Edna another thought after whatever it was ended. And then nineteen years later you know what happened."
"So now I get to see my kid, probably while its mother calls me every name in the book to my kid behind my back? She said something about getting a call when it's born and setting up visitation"
"What do you want to hold her hand when she's in labor? You know she would probably give you two black eyes that won't go away anytime soon if you were in the room with her when she's giving birth. I know when Betsey was born there was another father came out to tell his family in the waiting room that his wife just had a boy and he had a black eye. He told his family his wife had hit him and told him he was never touching her again. I mean if that is how they are in labor, I am glad I got to sit in the waiting room while Brooke's mom dealt with all that. It isn't like you would want to hold a baby, I mean you are Betsey's godfather and how often have you held her? You don't like babies, they go against your bad boy image." Kelso explained.
WB stepped in, "Look when it comes to seeing your child, myself and Angie or the Foreman's will bring you that baby, with strict understanding you have to be completely sober. As Kelso pointed out in a way, you know nothing of taking care of a baby, so we won't let you alone with the baby until you learn and prove that you can be trusted."
The thought of being alone with a baby or even a little kid terrified him, but he wasn't going to admit that out loud.
"Why couldn't she have told me she was pregnant?"
Kelso who knew and understood where Jackie was coming from having been close to Jackie and having overheard comments by Hyde, along with knowing what he had said to her that night stood up and faced his friend, "What because then your back was to the wall and you had to marry her? Hey it isn't a fake pregnancy, and she isn't forcing you to marry her. I don't know if you ever realized it, but she wanted you to be with her because she was enough for you, not because of some obligation to her. We talked one night when I was visiting Betsey and she was there. She said she was tired of never being enough, she tried to be the perfect daughter and it still wasn't enough to her parents, she tried to be the perfect cheerleader and it still wasn't enough. She had tried to be the perfect girlfriend and she still wasn't enough for me or you." Kelso sat back down on the bench, "That girl that got her heart broken time and time again that by me that finally moved on, she grew up. But she also had both her parents leave her, even if they were never really around to begin with unless it was for show. I mean from what I understand from Randy, his dad doesn't even think much of his own sister that didn't even bother to show up for her own mother's funeral. Man you have messed her up more than any girl deserves to be. And the sad part if it wasn't for the baby, or your 'wife' was still here you would probably be patting yourself on the back for what you did to her. Hell you might still be doing that. Kind of like what you said that one time, it's just Jackie who cares? Right?"
Red leaned forward, "And you wonder why she wants nothing to do with you? That girl loved you to distraction, even I saw it. But I have watched you keep her at a distance. You don't think someone is going to get tired of never being important in someone else's life as that other person is to them? The sad part is that little girl that wanted to hold on to the fairytale of ever after now may never let anyone else into their life."
Kelso piped in, "Yea and despite how hot she is, guys won't really have anything to do with her once they find out about the kid. I mean you know how hot Brooke is, guys ask her out but the moment they find out about Betsey they can't get away fast enough."
Hyde sat there, he was thinking about how Jackie was asking to look at his future, now everything about his future seemed blurry for once he wasn't seeing Jackie in the future, she wouldn't have anything to do with him. He would never find a girl like Jackie, or at least find a girl that would love him like Jackie did, and he knew he would never love another girl like he loved Jackie. He sat there and for the first time wondering why he thought it would be unmanly to admit he loved her? He looked at the man he respected most in the world, even after the years he had been married he had heard him tell Kitty he loved her. Heck there was back when Foreman's eighteenth birthday that she didn't plan a party because her and Red could have sex. Why did he say marriage would be crap? Yea Red may act like his life was hell, but he knew enough to know Red Foreman wouldn't change his life with Kitty for anything. That was what Jackie had probably wanted, not something like her parents or anyone else they knew but what Red and Kitty had, and at one time she had wanted that with him. Kelso was right, Jackie wanted him to choose a life with her not because he had to but because he wanted to. How would he be able to convince her now that was what he really wanted, baby or not? He looked at the three men in the living room, yea Kelso was proving he was more of a man than him. He was really growing up, he wondered if now that he had grown up if things between him and Jackie would work out.
"Kelso are you going to try things with Jackie again?"
"Man I have a kid with Brooke, and despite everything, we are trying to work things out. We are working on a relationship, but it is hard with me here and her in Chicago, I don't know that I would make it on the Chicago PD, so it is her deciding to move back to Point Place. She is seriously thinking about it, she feels safer here than in Chicago, and I don't like her living in the city."
"So do I ever find out where Jackie is living with my kid?"
"Nope, that is where you might have to earn to know. But those of us that know will keep it a secret as long as Jackie asks us to. We are not going to let you get the chance to confront her and upset her, especially while she is pregnant. She has been through enough the last few months" WB told his son.
"What do you mean? Is there something wrong?" He asked having a feeling there was more than a broken heart.
"Jackie has not been gaining the weight she should, she has had a time keeping food down at times. She was so dehydrated that she spent several days in the hospital, her doctors are very concerned that she has as little stress as possible. So for the sake of Jackie and my grandchild, I am not going to let you know where she is." WB explained as he had been told by Jackie's uncle.
Steven looked at WB, they all were protecting Jackie from him, not just emotionally but physically as well. Surely it couldn't be as bad as they were making it out to be, women had babies all the time, they had hospitals and all the medical advancements of the times. "You all act like if I talked to Jackie and upset her it would kill her or the baby" He sounded indignant, they were just trying to punish him, Jackie and the baby would be fine.
Kelso who knew Hyde's conspiracy tendencies understood where he was coming from, "Just because we have all this modern medicine, doesn't mean that a woman's life isn't still at risk, I remember classes with Brooke, and some of the pregnancy books I skimmed through, it is still a risk. I mean they wouldn't have put her in the hospital for something minor. A woman miscarrying is still happening. I'll be honest, if something happens and Jackie loses the baby, I don't know if she would be able to go on. That girl that sat in my apartment that night after you got back, was not the same girl I knew just a few months ago."
Red looked at the boy, "If you want Kitty can share the not so pretty parts of her job that she doesn't normally share, the mothers she has seen that has lost a baby or the families in the waiting room waiting for a birth only to go out with the doctor when he has to tell them the mother didn't make it. Why do you think Kitty is going to be so dead set against telling you where Jackie is? She knows the risk Jackie is facing more than anyone"
Hyde sat there defeated, and now worried. His actions got Jackie pregnant, along with now causing her the stress that has already landed her in the hospital once.
"I guess all I can do right now is work, eat and sleep?"
"Yea, why don't you come help me in the garage, I was going to build another cradle, I figure baby might need one here, already sent the one that was Laurie's and Eric's to Jackie."
Kelso stood up, "Look I need to get going, Brooke was taking Betsey to the doctor today and I need to call and find out how she is doing and what the doctor says."
Red looked at Kelso, the boy had grown up quite a bit in the last several months, "You better make sure to call Kitty tonight and let her know how she is"
"Will do" and Kelso left through the kitchen door.
"He just rubbing it in that he has relationship with his daughter's mother?" Hyde said as he watched Kelso leave.
"No he is just a father that hasn't hurt the mother of his child, and is concerned about his child." Red explained, he wondered what it would take for it to get through Steven's head that he screwed up, things wouldn't get fixed so easy, no matter what he wanted.
WB then stood up, "I need to get back to the office and check on some orders, Steven I'll be back in a few days and we will see about finding you an apartment or something."
Hyde just sat there, a million thoughts going through his head.
By the time the trio arrived at Grooves, Angie was already outside waiting for them to pull up. She went ahead and jumped in the car with Randy who was in front of Donna and Jackie.
"Did your dad tell you that your brother knows about the baby?" Randy asked as Angie put on her seatbelt.
"Yea, he told me this morning before he left. How is Jackie doing? She looks like she is asleep."
"This whole thing has been stressful I hope with her moved into the condo, she can finally relax. Donna is going to be a big help for her, and I know you and WB are going to look out for her. I believe her doctor in Chicago has set up an appointment with a doctor here for next week."
"I haven't been around babies much but I am looking forward to having a niece or nephew. I want to help Jackie however I can."
As Angie guided them to the condo, it was only 10 minutes from Grooves. Donna woke Jackie up as they pulled in, as the four got out, Angie gave Donna the garage door opener, "You don't have to worry about it now, but later you can pull the car in, there is another one as the garage can hold two cars. And here is keys for you both."
Angie walked them inside, "So dad has already set up things in the master bedroom for Jackie, and the room next to it will be for the nursery, he had everything cleaned out of there until you decide on furniture or whatever. Donna, your room is on the other side next to the guest bedroom. Dad said if you want anything changed, mattresses or furniture to let him know."
Jackie went to the master bedroom that Angie had pointed out, the furniture was oak, the bed was queen size, her heart sunk. The times of her and Steven making due with a small cot, and now she would have this bed all to herself. Her hand went to her small bump that wasn't even noticeable by anyone but her, maybe during storms or when her twins were scared they would crawl in and sleep with her, yea a big bed won't always be so lonely. The walls were a light purple, while the bedding and curtains were a more deep lavender. A bathroom was attached with a huge tub and shower. It was also decorated with a purple theme, she wondered how WB knew. Her bedroom in the mansion was done in pink, her mother's choice not hers. As she turned back into the room she saw a cradle beside the bed she had missed before. She remembered that cradle, she remembered seeing Red work on it to cheer Kitty up after he had stuck his foot in his own mouth when Kitty thought she was pregnant. Jackie sat on the bed entranced by the gift she knew Red Foreman had sent for her baby, and the meaning in him sending the gift.
Donna saw her best friend stare at the familiar cradle in her room. Donna quietly just went over and sat beside her on the bed putting her arm around her. Randy and Angie stood at the door way watching both girls, it seemed they both in their own little worlds, both eye on the brink of tears.
Donna was the first to speak, "That's Eric's cradle that Red fixed up back when Kitty thought she was pregnant?"
Jackie just looked and ran a finger along the top of it and shook her head, "Yea. I remember checking on Red to see if he needed any help on his Corvette and he was working on it. I thought it was so sweet that they had held on to it. I remember going home later and asking mom what baby stuff of mine she kept. She told me Burkhart's don't hold onto anything other than jewelry, Burkhart's don't get hand me downs, everything would be bought brand new when I had my own baby. I later remember finding Kitty crying over the news of her change of life in the garage looking at the cradle. In my usual way, I told her she could hold on and maybe in a few years or so she could use it for her grandbaby. Of course I might have said something about the chance of Laurie coming home with a baby at any time."
Donna was crying herself with Jackie by now, but couldn't help but laugh at the burn to Laurie. But Laurie didn't deserve to use this, and she hoped would never need to use it, she couldn't see Laurie as a mother. No this should be used by grandchildren of the Foreman's two sons. Maybe one day her and Eric will have need of it.
"So will both babies fit in there?" Donna said, not thinking about they hadn't told Angie.
"Two Babies!" Angie exclaimed.
Donna and Jackie turned to see Angie standing there, Donna gave a sheepish apology look to Jackie.
"I don't know much other than I am having twins, the doctor says they are fraternal so they won't be alike and could be a boy and girl, or two of the same." Turning to Donna, "I wonder if Red will be getting to work on a new one to match this one? You know he made this himself when Kitty was pregnant with Laurie?"
"I think I remember that. Do you remember when Kitty was still thinking she was pregnant, she pulled out some old baby clothes of Eric's?" Donna couldn't help but remember, "She pulled out the cutest pink sweater with matching bonnet and footies."
Jackie and the others were laughing, "Don't you mean Laurie's?"
"No we double checked, Eric was like 'mom you know I am a boy right?' and Kitty just went about her task of going through the clothes."
"You know it would be sweet to have something like that if I was to have at least one girl, but I don't know if I would want my daughter to wear a hand me down of their Uncle Eric." Jackie struggled to say through her laughter.
The girls were laughing and joking about Eric, Randy and Angie had found places to sit in the floor facing them. Both of them just happy to see the girls laughing. Randy wasn't sure the last time Jackie had laughed. It was a good thing to get them here. It would probably be even more laughter when he came with Bob and the guys to move her and Donna's things left in Point Place. He decided they might do good to make it an overnight trip to help the girls set up and not have to get back late.
"Hey Jackie, when we bring your stuff and Donna's car, do you think we could crash the night here? Maybe we could bring sleeping bags or something? Let Bob have the guest bedroom, and we crash in the nursery?"
Jackie thought about it and then looked at Donna, "Maybe we can get Fez to do our hair while he is here?"
"I like the sound of that, we just have to make sure our bedroom doors are locked to keep Kelso out from trying anything stupid" Jackie nodded in agreement with that.
Angie looked at Randy, "how are you all getting here and back? I mean you wouldn't fit in Michael's car."
Randy looked at Angie, he had forgotten that Angie had worked at Grooves, and had for a short time dated Kelso.
Jackie understanding, "Angie he sold that little car and bought another van, this one actually having seats than just the front like his other two he had."
"What made him buy the sports car to begin with?" Angie asked, "Seriously when I saw it I thought, 'isn't this a car that a guy like my dad going through a midlife crisis would buy, not a guy with a kid"
They all couldn't help but laugh at that, until Jackie started looking at Donna and Donna realized that stare and knowing what the stare meant, Donna got serious all of a sudden. "It wasn't my fault!"
"Donna you have known Eric how long? Was about to marry him and didn't think to remind him like a good girlfriend/fiancé to set the parking break? Sorry Donna but totally your fault, even more so than Eric, we all know and expect that from him."
Randy spoke up, "OK, tell the story"
Donna inhaled deeply, "Ok so Eric and I wasn't sure we were wanting to get married in a church. So we decided that well we would check out Mt. Hump during the day, only I didn't have a car at the time, and the Vista Cruiser was having work done to it. Dad of course wouldn't let us use his car when he found out we were looking for somewhere else besides a church to get married. Kelso has been one that would 'borrow' our things, so we 'borrowed' his van. Well as Jackie pointed out I didn't remind Eric to set the parking break, and well it rolled and crashed."
Angie and Randy both open mouth with wide eyes stared at Donna.
"We brought him back the steering wheel, and Brooke was one scary pregnant woman that day." She looked at Jackie, "Yea after that experience that day with Brooke, Eric will definitely stay in Africa until those kids pop out, I don't think he would want to be around a pregnant Jackie after dealing with a pregnant Brooke that day."
Jackie couldn't help but laugh, she remembered Eric relaying the story of how Brooke yelled at him to her and Steven, Donna was confirming that Eric wasn't exaggerating much.
Later that evening Jackie sat at the kitchen table making a list of things she wanted Randy and the boys to bring her from Point Place. There was no baby furniture but there was the wooden horse that she had kept in her room, even when she out grew it she couldn't let her parents throw it out. It would be the only thing from her childhood she would be able to pass on to her babies.
Randy sat down beside her, "So any jewelry you want me to go and get from Jack and Pam's room? You know I don't care to."
Jackie laughed, "Yea like there is anything left. Pam took it all when she left this last time, actually she pawned it. I saw a few recognizable pieces at the LOPP's Christmas party, over hearing conversations found out that most of them get their jewelry at the local pawn shop and was talking how a few weeks earlier a huge selection of jewelry was brought in."
Donna overhearing the conversation from where she was with Angie in the kitchen, "Hold up, I thought your mom said that jewelry was the only thing that you hold onto?"
"Well of course unless you need cash for your next trip out of town to find you next sugar daddy, forget pawning it to pay the bills for a house you and your daughter were living in." Jackie stated bitterly.
"I can't believe my dad and her are brother and sister, they are nothing alike. So do you have any of the jewelry? I know granny had gave you some of her things over the years."
"Actually, crap I hid the pearls from granny along with the earrings in the 'Steven Box', do you think he kept the box? I figured mom wouldn't look in it under all the notes, wrappers, and just stuff I kept from our dates and just stuff, along with the pregnancy test. Randy do you think if anything I can get my pearls back from him? You will have to ask him if the box is missing from my room. I also have jewelry he gave me, but really I just want granny's pearls." Jackie made sure to add her little pout as she looked at her cousin, this was going to be a big favor if the box was missing from her room. "I do want to know if he took the box, and there was another box beside it, it was all the stuff I decorated his room with a few months ago, twinkle lights, fluffy pillows and blankets, see if it is still there, don't say anything if it isn't. I am just curious what he might have taken out of my room."
Donna looked up, "Um what about missing underwear?"
"Donna that is one thing I made sure to pack all of, I have all my underwear and bras with me, I didn't leave any of that behind for Michael or Fez to go through and steal."
"Good thinking, I guess I should have thought of that. But at least Dad will be packing…UM I might call and see if Kitty can go over and pack up the rest of my clothes. Then tape up the boxes and not label them."
"Yea of anyone in Point Place, I would trust and feel better about Kitty touching my clothes over anyone else." Jackie agreed with Donna's plan.
Angie looked up at Jackie, "So Michael steals underwear?"
"It was pretty bad when I moved in with Donna, he stole a pair when they were moving me in, and then paraded them in front of Steven, I think Fez stole a pair too, but he was at least smart not to show them to Steven. When I moved back in with Pam, Steven made sure that he was the only one to help me pack and move my stuff, even if it meant he carried everything."
"Jackie why did you never tell me really anything about Michael when I was going out with him and Steven was trying to break us up? I would think you would have the strongest case against him." Angie asked.
"I had offered to talk to you about Michael, but Steven didn't want me to talk about back when I went out with him. Claimed that it was a time best forgot. Michael has grown up some when he was with you. But I think he did a lot more growing up when you broke up with him and especially after some things happened that caused Brooke to threaten his visitation with Betsey. I know I am going to have to have something drawn up for Steven, because I don't want him high or drunk when he is with my children. He claimed he never wanted to be like Bud and Edna, but I don't get it, he drinks just like them and has even kept Bud's name. I asked him once after he found out about WB if he thought of seeing about changing his last name, he got mad at me for even the suggestion. I think things started to change after that. Pam had left, he was acting like a kid. I tried to get him to notice I was alone again. He was refusing to grow up while I had no choice."
Donna leaned over and hugged her, "I know at times I felt the same way about Eric. Remember before the wedding that wasn't when he was just working and spending all his time at hotel working and goofing off, then sleeping all day making Kitty and I pamper him? I could have killed all of them when I went to check on him one night and they were playing poker."
"Steven was right there with him the whole time, but he didn't milk it like Eric did. At least Eric has finally cut the cord even if it took leaving the country to do it. Steven left…" Jackie couldn't continue for her Steven was now living with his new wife who probably from the looks of her made sure to bring him beers and his weed. "How do I keep his wife from having any contact with my children? I mean the woman looked like she was probably carrying several STDs, she reminded me of Laurie."
Donna and Randy exchanged looks, Angie hadn't heard much about her brother's marriage and hadn't heard that it wasn't real. Donna realized Angie was in the dark, and she needed to talk to Randy and decide if they should let her know. "Jackie why don't you and Angie go in the living room and make notes about any changes you want in there, Randy and I will clean up."
Once Angie and Jackie were out of ear shot Randy looked at Donna, "We have to tell her, it might be bad but she needs to know. But I swear if something happens I am going to kill Hyde."
"I'll help," she looked at Randy "You know you are going to have to be the one that tells her, it is better to come from you or even WB since you heard from Hyde directly."
"Yea I know. Let's get this over with"
Jackie and Angie were sitting on the couch while Jackie was making notes of the add-ons she wanted for the living room to her notebook, Donna took a seat beside her on the couch.
Randy moved to sit on the coffee table in front of Jackie.
"Jackie look I didn't know how to tell you, but I found out that Hyde wasn't really married, the chick was scamming him."