Saturday October 26, 1985

Jackie was staring at the sleeping form of her fiancé. She gently stroked his cheek and then kissed him lightly on his lips.

"Mmm…" Hyde moaned and opened his eyes. There was a blurred vision of Jackie. He closed his eyes once again. "Hi." He said; eyes still closed.

"Hi." Jackie said softly back.

"When did you get up?" Hyde said, opening his eyes to look at her.

"Hour ago." She said, still propped up on an elbow. Hyde pushed back the black hair that had spilled over her face.

"Why?" Hyde said leaving his hands in her hair.

"Don't know." Jackie smiled. Hyde pulled her down and began to kiss her passionately.

"I love you in the morning." Hyde whispered as he leaned his forehead against hers.

"Yeah, me too." Jackie smiled. Hyde leaned in and kissed her again.

Suddenly there was a loud noise from the guest bedroom. And then a slamming of a door.

"What the hell?" Hyde said sitting up.

"It's Donna and Eric." Jackie said laying back down and stealing the blankets from her unsuspecting fiancé.

"They're up?" Hyde asked, slowly losing the warmth of his quilt.

"For a good twenty minutes." Jackie said, her petite body getting lost in the quilts.

"Have they been throwing things?" Hyde got up and went towards the door, only in his shorts.

"Not many things, that's like, only the third thing." Jackie cuddled in the blankets. Hyde looked at her and then opened the door. Eric was sitting on the couch and flipping through channels.

"Eric?"

"Oh, yeah, she kicked me out of the room." Eric said nodding his head and turning back to the TV.

Hyde shook his head and turned back to Jackie who had fallen into a light sleep under the covers.

"That's just… super." Hyde said going into the master bath.

*

"You are being too hard on him." Jackie said as she and Donna cruised down the mall.

"Jackie, the man says the stupidest things." Donna argued.

"Donna, he's Eric, did you think he be saying smart stuff?" Jackie asked skeptically.

"No, I just… I don't know… I'm pregnant…"

"I know." Jackie said, looking confused at her friend.

"It was ok for Eric to act like a kid when it was just me and him, and now… now we're gonna have a kid. I'm having a kid with my high school sweetheart." Donna said sitting on one of the benches provided at the vast mall.

"So?" Jackie asked sitting next to her.

"It's just weird…" Donna said leaning back on the bench. "I can't explain it."

"You love Eric, right?" Jackie asked looking at Donna.

"Oh god yes. I love Eric more then anything. I do anything for him. But now… I'm going to be a mom… Eric wants to move near his parents. I have no job. Everything is… so… not what I expected."

"Donna… life isn't always what you expect. I mean, look at me, I thought, long, long ago, that I would marry Michael… I mean Steven wasn't even a choice. And now I can't ever see myself without him."

"I'm not ready for a kid… it's so… final."

"What do you mean final?" Jackie asked. "Don't tell me I'm gonna have to be in the delivery room with you clutching onto your arm so you can't run away when the doctor tries to pull the kid out of you?"

Donna laughed and wiped some stray tears in her eyes. "No, I don't think I'll be able to run. I don't know… I'm not gonna get to travel to Paris and write a novel about Jean-Claude and Vivian and the love affair."

"One… you were never gonna write a romance novel, you feminist freak. And two, there's still time, after the kid is born, to make a dream come true, as corny as that sounds."

"I know…" Donna said.

"You're just having pre-mother jitters, some shopping and ice cream will fix ya right up." Jackie smiled and helped Donna off the bench.

"You gave me that exact speech on my wedding day, with a few minor changes."

"Yeah, like how I was shoving alcohol down your throat instead of ice cream."

*

Eric sat upside down on the couch staring at the TV. Hyde walked through the door holding his mail and stared at Eric's feet.

"You know, if I was Jackie… there'd be a gun wound in your foot about now." Eric fixed himself and stood up.

"Sorry."

"Like I said, if I were Jackie… pow." Hyde made a gun with his hand and shot it towards the TV.

"She called from the mall. She and Donna are doing ok." Hyde nodded and placed the mail on the coffee table.

"Enlighten me." Hyde said staring at Eric who was sitting on the couch, regularly. "Why are you still in my house?"

"It's an apartment." Eric corrected, after receiving a look he continued. "Donna didn't want me to leave early… she called my job… something about pregnancy issues, and now I don't have to go back till Tuesday."

"I couldn't tell that Donna still cared."

"She does. You know, she's just nervous about having the kid, and getting fired, and you know, Donna issues." Eric shrugged.

"Too bad it's not like high school,. Some beer and oregano would have taken those Donna issues away fast…" Hyde said, shaking his head sadly.

"Yeah, luckily we live in the adult world…" Eric sulked.

*

"We're home!" Jackie announced.

"Hi." Eric said kissing Jackie on the cheek and then kissing Donna on the lips.

"Where's Steven?"

"I think sleeping." Eric said. Jackie smiled and took her bags to her bedroom.

Donna and Eric stood awkwardly in the hall.

"So… what you get?" Eric asked helping move the bags into the guest room.

"Oh a few baby stuff… Jackie bought a lot of stuff. Presents. You know her."

"Yep." Eric smiled.

"I'm sorry." Donna said.

"For?"

"Being myself." Eric kissed her.

"It's ok, I like you being yourself." Donna smiled and pushed Eric down on the bed. "I thought naps weren't part of the new pregnant Donna."

"What can I say? I'm very tired." Donna giggled as Eric began to kiss her.

"I love you."

"Yeah, I love you too."

"Oh my god, call the newspapers! She said too!"

"Oh shut up." Donna laughed kissing him. "I guess you have a brand new pregnant secretary."

"I know." Eric chuckled. "I'm such a bad boss."

"Or an extremely good one." Donna kissed him again.

*

Sunday October 27, 1985

"You sure you don't want us to drive you?" Hyde asked.

"Positive." Eric said.

"Don't forget this!" Jackie gave a wrapped box to Eric.

"What is it?" Eric asked.

"A present. Open it when you get home." Jackie kissed Eric and Donna's cheeks.

"We'll call you guys when we get home." Donna smiled.

"We'll pick up… unless we're busy." Hyde said looking down at Jackie who giggled.

"Ok, ew." Donna said quickly turning away.

"Talk to you later." Eric laughed, following Donna. Hyde closed the door and looked at Jackie.

"We have our house back."

"It's an apartment." Jackie corrected. She got a look, which she simply shrugged off and then kissed Hyde. "You know what's really sexy."

"What?" Hyde smirked.

"Whip cream." Jackie smirked pulling down on Hyde's shirt.

"Some mid morning dessert?" Hyde smiled.

"Oh yeah."

"Cherries?"

"Oh yeah."

"Let's go!" Hyde said running into the kitchen and the bedroom with a giggling Jackie on his heels.

*

"Dessert? Ok, whatever you say. Talk to you later. Bye Jackie." Donna hung up the phone.

"You told them we didn't die?" Eric said sitting upside down on his own couch.

"Yep… they were eating dessert of something…"

"Sure they weren't busy." Eric smirked.

"I hate you."

"You wish." Eric laughed.

"Come on Mr. Foreman… let's go get cleaned up." Donna smirked.

"Shower fun!" Eric jumped up, falling in the process.

"Sure." Donna smiled.

"Yay!" Eric jumped up and spread his arms out. Donna laughed and then gave a serious look.

"Don't ever do that again." She then went into the bedroom to use the master bath.

"Ok, let me just open Jackie's present." Eric grabbed the gift off the table and began unwrapping it. When he was finished he stared at the gift. "She bought me a PINK tablecloth!"

((Ok, from now on  it's longer chapters… with a fast forward plan! Okie dokie... btw if I at one point ever said Jackie and Hyde had a one bedroom apartment… I lied and/or changed my mind. Kz? :) R&R))