Tuesday July 15, 1986

Hyde walked into his apartment, tired and hot. He looked around his living room, there were dresses, suits, clothes, napkins, you name it and it was probably in his apartment. The little things were samples. The dresses had to be tailored and cleaned; the suits the same thing. The only thing left was Jackie's dress. That he wasn't allowed to see until the wedding day. He didn't know if she had gotten it, or it was still in a store "undiscovered."

"Steven?" He turned around and looked at Jackie who looked like a wreck.

"What's wrong?" He went straight into caring boyfriend mode.

"I'm not feeling that great." Jackie said stepping back from him. "I have a fever, my head aches, my body is sore, and I don't want you to get sick."

"I can't get sick." Hyde shook his head. "You're talking to the guy that stood in a middle of a snow storm and survived with barely a sniffle."

"Whatever." Jackie said walking back into their bedroom.

The phone rang and Hyde picked it up quickly.

"Hello?"

"I'm not coming." He heard Kelso say.

"Kelso… the r.s.v.p date was two weeks ago. And you said yes. So you are on the list." Hyde shook his head. How did he put up with this idiot for so long?

"Fine. I'll come!" Kelso hung up the phone. Hyde shook his head. He let Jackie call him later and straighten this out. She'd kill Kelso if anything.

The phone rang again. Hyde shook his head and grabbed it.

"Kelso you are coming, end of story."

"Hyde?" A new voice asked.

"Oh, oh hi Laurie."

"Where's Jackie?"

"Sick in bed." Hyde said.

"Aw! The poor thing." Hyde nodded. Laurie and Jackie had become friends after the twins were born. Much like Luke, Tyler would stop crying when Jackie played with him. Kari never stopped crying. Laurie declared herself best friends with Jackie after that.

"Yeah."

"I wanted to see when she wanted me to come down for dress fitting."

"Donna would know." Hyde shrugged.

"Oh, I guess I'll call her then." Laurie said.

"Ok." Hyde smiled.

"Ok, bye Hyde!" Laurie said chirpily and then promptly hung up.

Hyde hung up the phone and head toward the bedroom. "Bye Laurie."

*

Donna watched as Luke crawled around on his stomach. He flopped down and pushed himself up again, and continued with his crawling.

"I need a job." Donna said looking at her son. Luke stopped and turned to his mother. He looked up at her with his big green eyes. "I really do. I mean, don't you get bored hanging on the floor all the time?"

Luke gurgled a bit.

"Exactly. I mean, people like us, need jobs. They need to keep active."

Gurgle.

"We should go look for a job for mommy."

Gurgle.

"And we'll find you a damn good nanny. Or… I'll get a job with a day care!" Donna said looking off into her own world.

Luke looked at his mother and gurgled. Donna shook her head and looked down at her son.

"You like the idea!" Donna said excitedly.

Luke shook his head, gurgled a bit, and then quickly crawled over to his Star Wars plush of Luke Skywalker. "I swear… I'll kill Eric… and his damn Star Wars obsessions."

*

"Yes, yes... Kelso… If you're on the… ok… ok… I'm nodding… ok… no… no… I'm nodding! I'm not lying!... How do you want me to prove something like that too you?... Good god man!... No… no… I'm nodding!"  Eric shook his head and put his head down. "I have to go… I have work… I'm not lying!" Eric quickly hung up the phone.

Eric shook his head and then took an Advil and then some water. He then put his head down.

"Why am I friends with these people?" He mumbled into his shirt.

*

Thursday July 17, 1986

Sneeze.

Hyde shook his head. Jackie was still sick. And it was becoming a tension filled house. Hyde couldn't go in the bedroom, because Jackie, in fear, he would catch her cold, denied him coming into the room.

Jackie's job was at arms with her, because she was never at work. She had given them four years of her life and they wanted to boot her? Dill holes.

And Hyde, granted he liked his job, would give any thing to take a few days off. Though Jackie wouldn't have it. Hyde was left in charge to get the suits delivered to the guys and have them tailored and cleaned. He had to call the priest and confirm the day of the wedding. He had to call the florist and confirm the order. Hyde thought it was all senseless because the "damn thing" wasn't until December.

Jackie told him that he just had to call and confirm it. Everything else was done. She then patted him on the head and said the sooner everything is done, the more time they'll have to relax and just look forward to it.

Hyde was not bought. It took Jackie telling him they could stay an extra few days in Hawaii if he'd just do what he was told, and didn't begin coming up with a government conspiracy.

Hyde nodded and Jackie sent him out of the room.

And now Hyde stood against the wall, the phone up to his ear, on hold.

"God-Dammit… it's been thirty minutes… you would *think* someone would have come back now." Hyde mumbled angrily to himself. He heard Jackie coughing viciously in the bed

"Hello? Mr. Hyde?" Hyde stood up straight.

"Yes, this is Mr. Hyde." Hyde cringed slightly.

"Yes, you wanted to confirm the Burkhardt order?"

"Yes." Hyde said, all he was doing was repeating himself.

"Ok, and you would like them delivered to St. Baptist Church on the tenth of December?"

"Yes." Hyde said.

"Thank you Mr. Hyde. Have a nice Day." And then the woman promptly hung up the phone. Hyde looked at the phone and shook his head. Next was the tux store's number. He dialed.

"Formal Suits for men." Came a clear male voice.

"I'd like to confirm the Burkhardt order." Hyde said dryly.

"Yes, ok, hold on." Hyde dropped his head as Bryan Adam's "Summer of 69" came on. Hyde shook his head.

-Ten minutes later-

"Those were the best days of my life." Hyde sang with the telephone music.

*

Friday July 18, 1986

 "What's wrong with you?" Donna asked coming into the bedroom. Eric laid in the bed with the covers over his head.

"There's this really big bully at work!" Donna heard Eric whined through the covers. She looked at the ceiling and then back at Eric.

"Eric… you have to be a man… stand up to the bully!" Donna said, encouragingly.

"No!" Eric said from the covers.

"Eric…"

"No!"

"Eric, you're a big boy now, I can't keep running to your job every time a bully picks on you… one day I won't be there."

"But Donna…"

"No Eric…" Donna said in a tone, used by mothers. "That one day is today. Now I want you to be a big boy and face the bully."

"Yes, ma'am."  Eric took the covers his head and walked to the bathroom.

"And I packed your lunch… I gave you a dollar to get a soda." Eric stuck his head from the bathroom.

"A whole dollar?"

"Yep." He smiled and went back into the bathroom. Donna smirked and then frowned. She looked at the bed and the bathroom.

"How many kids do I have?" She asked the empty room.

*

Eric walked into his house. The ice pack covering his right eye. Donna walked from the study into the hall to see him.

"Oh my god! What happened?" Donna said; dropping the book she was holding. Eric took the ice off his ice. He had a black, swollen eye.

"I stood up to Mr. Hopkins." Eric put the ice over his eye once again. "Just like you said. And Mr. Hopkins wasn't that pleased with me standing up to him. All I said was, "Yo! Learn to count!" And POP! Right in the face. So… yeah. Thanks Donna." Eric marched up the stairs.

"Eric!" Donna said at the bottom of the stairs.

"No more advice!" Eric shouted down the stairs. Donna turned away, a confused look on her face.

*

"Shut up!"

"Jackie!"

"Shut up! Let me just pin… there we go!" Jackie smiled in her bath robe. "Don't we look pretty.

Hyde stood in the middle of the bedroom wearing a periwinkle bride maid's dress. His hair had a pink bow in it and he was holding the matching purse to the dress.

"Jackie… this looks ridiculous."

"Steven… you and Laurie are about the same height with her heels. She can't get down here so we're improvising." She turned her head and coughed.

"Jackie…"

"You said you would do anything I wanted…" Jackie stated, measuring the bottom.

"When I said that… I meant more along the lines of… anything you want while lying up… or if we really want to get kinky…"

"Steven! You still said it." Jackie smiled and then left the bedroom.

"Where are you going?" Hyde asked.

"Just stay there I want to write these measurements down." Hyde stood in the room and shook his head. What he wouldn't do for this girl.

Jackie walked back into the bedroom and gave her fiancé a quick smile. She then turned around. When she turned back around, she had a camera and did a quick flash. Hyde stood still for a long time as Jackie rushed out of the room.

"JACKIE!" Hyde screamed. Jackie raced back into the bedroom.

"I hid it and you'll never find it. Now, take off the dress and let's relax." Jackie smirked as she unzipped Hyde.

"I will seriously kill you." Hyde said.

"Uh huh."

"No wedding." Hyde threatened. Jackie smiled and kissed Hyde.

"They'll be a wedding. And either you'll be standing there, or Thomas will be. What would you rather want?" Jackie smirked and walked towards the bathroom.

"Damn you woman!"

"Love you too."

*

Monday July 21, 1986

Eric played with the baby as he stood in the kitchen in his dress pants and tee-shirt, button down shirt.

"Who's my little Jedi fighter? Are you using the force to your advantage?" Eric cooed. Luke let out a screech of happiness.

"I will regret naming that child Luke till the day I die." Donna said as she finished washing the dishes in the sink.

"You also said that you would never do dishes… but look at that."

"You leave spots." Donna shrugged. Eric looked at her shocked.

"I do NOT leave spots on the dishes! My dishes shine!"

"Uh huh, keep telling yourself that." Donna through the dish towel by the sink and took Luke from Eric. She began to head out of the kitchen.

"They shine! Your dishes have spots!" Eric continued shouting after his wife.

*

"I want a baby." Jackie said.

"No." Hyde said through the phone.

"Why?"

"We're not married yet." Hyde said. Jackie groaned and leaned back in her comfortable chair.

"Steven."

"No."

"We'll name the girl Elise… and the boy Steven, after you!"

"No."

"You are no fun."

"I know."

"I hate you."

"I know."

"Shut up!"

"Ok." He hung up the phone. Jackie glared into her office and pressed the phone button. She then dialed her boyfriend's work number.

"Yes?"

"I hate you."

"I know."

"Mrs. Hyde?" Lilly said opening the door. Jackie looked at her and gave a finger indicating one minute.

"I have to go. I'll see you tonight." Jackie said.

"I'm working late."

"You are so not getting anything tonight." Jackie said.

"Jackie… no."

"Yes." Jackie hung up the phone and looked over at Lilly. "Yes?"

"Your three o'clock is here."

"Ok." Jackie sat up straighter. Kelso walked in and sat down across from Jackie. "Michael?"

"I want to be a model." Kelso said leaning back in his seat. Jackie stared at him.

"Ok… do you have any previous work?" Jackie asked, slightly confused.

"Well duh Jackie!" Kelso shook his head. "I modeled underpants! You were there!"

"…I know Michael… but I have to ask these questions. They're mandatory."

"Oh, so this place is sexist?" Kelso said, angrily.

"Sexist? What?" Jackie asked confused.

"The questions are *man*datory! That's just unfair Jackie!"

"Michael…" Jackie looked at him and then dropped her head into her hands. "Just sit down and answer the damn questions."

"Fine!" Kelso put his hands up and sat down. Jackie looked at him and then at the form in front of her.

"Full name?"

"Well god Jackie. What kind of questions is that? And they think I'm stupid, at least I'm not sexist. *Man*datory, sheesh." Jackie stared at him and then began to bang her head on her desk.

*

Jackie laid on her couch with a small towel on her head. She had her eyes closes and she was still in her work clothes.

"What's wrong?" Hyde said, upon seeing her.

"Michael dropped in for a visit… he wants to be a *model*." Jackie shook her head. "If I had a gun… I don't know if I would have killed him or shot myself first."

Hyde began to laugh. "Where is he staying?"

"With Casey… two Kelso's in New York… Is that wrong or what?"

"It's wrong." Hyde kissed the top of her head softly. "Go take a hot bath and when you get out I would have ordered Chinese and we'll watch Gone with the wind." Hyde smiled. Jackie perked up a bit.

"You are the best!"

"I know." Hyde smiled as Jackie skipped into the master bath. Hyde smirked to himself.

"I still want a baby!" Jackie shouted from the bathroom. Hyde's shoulders fell and he began to mumble to himself.

*

Donna laid on the bed. She was in a pair of jeans and a tee-shirt. She stared at the ceiling. Eric came out of the bedroom and looked at her.

"Rough day?"

"I just got the baby to sleep." Donna rolled over to her side of the bed.

"So we have about… five or six hours till he wakes." Eric said, raising his eyebrows suggestively.  Donna looked at him.

"No." Donna looked at him, anger for even hinting at it.

"Why?" Eric said flopping on the bed.

"Because I'm tired." Donna said changing into her pajamas.

"But we are of one mind!" Eric said looking at her innocently.

"Yes, and we have a headache tonight." Donna smirked, crawled into the bed and turned off the light.

"…You are just… a bad person… and it's not just like in this… it's an over all statement." Eric said through the darkness.

"And we're going to have a headache for the rest of the week."

*

Thursday July 31, 1986

Jackie sat down in one of the many stores of 5th Avenue. She took her pumps off and slightly swore to herself. A young woman came over and smiled.

"May I get you anything?"

"Yes… a glass of white wine, and…" Jackie looked around the store. "I would like to try on the pale pink dress, size six."

"Of course ma'am." The woman smiled and then walked towards the counter. Jackie looked at her. She had labeled clothes in labeled bags at her feet. Her favorite pumps were almost too nothing, and she was so angry at Hyde. "Here you go ma'am."

Jackie took the glass and smiled as the woman handed her the pink dress. "Thanks." Jackie got up, with her shoes off and went into the dressing room.

She tried on the dress; which fitted perfectly. She spun around and then shrugged. She changed back to her normal clothes and then bought the pale pink dress.

"You must have over five hundred dollars worth of things." The woman at the register commented. Jackie shrugged.

"I'm sure it's more."

"What's wrong?" The elderly woman said. Jackie looked at her and then sighed.

"My fiancé is being a…" Jackie thought for a second. "Dill hole." The woman smirked.

"Been there, done that. What he do?"

"We… had a disagreement that's all." Jackie shrugged and took the bag.

A disagreement indeed, it had started so simply. Just a comment about parenthood on Jackie's part, and a snide remark from Hyde. Jackie hadn't known that Hyde really was that excited about children. She was shocked, and slightly appalled. And from a simply statement, to a horrible fight. Jackie in tears grabbed her shoes, her purse, and the credit cards. Who cared in a month she would die paying off the long credit bills, or that she would probably have to not buy food. She took the credit cards.

Jackie just couldn't understand how someone couldn't want children. She hailed a cab and then went home. Home… what an understatement.

She got to her apartment, walked in, and her eyes landed on Hyde.

"I see you went on a binge." Hyde said, no emotion, nothing.

"So?" Jackie said, her voice full of venom.

"I didn't say I didn't want kids." Hyde said, still no emotion. Jackie sat on the couch and looked at Hyde.

"You said that you couldn't see yourself as a father and that it might be better if we didn't have kids." Jackie said, her heavy glare over him.

"Jackie… this is so stupid, you can't even listen can you?" Hyde got up.

"That's exactly what you said Steven Hyde. You *don't want kids.*"

"Why do I put up with this?"

"I don't know." Jackie threw her arms in the air. Hyde began walking towards the door. "Where are you going?"

"Out!" Hyde said.

"Going to drink your problems away!" Jackie accused.

"It's better then listening to this!" Hyde grabbed his jacket.

"Why are you so mad about this?" Jackie said.

"I'm mad? I'm mad? You went on a shopping binge, you must have spent half of your life savings."

"Well when the man I'm going to marrying says he's unsure about having kids, when I know I want one." Jackie looked at him. Tears forming in her eyes.

"Then marrying someone else!" Hyde said. Jackie was now ten feet from him.

"What?" She asked, confused.

"Marry someone else. I'm done with this."

"This?"

"Yes, this. I'm obviously not who you want to marry."

"Steven."

"No. Screw the wedding."

"You can't mean that." Jackie said, now clinging to the wall.

"I can't?" He shrugged and was out the door. Jackie watched him and slid against the wall.

"I just wanted a family." Jackie mumbled through her sobs.

*

The phone rang through the air of the Foreman household. Donna groggily picked it up.

"Hello." Donna said putting her head back on Eric's bare chest. "Hey Jackie… slow down… what?... no… calm do—… Ok……… Ok… ok… yeah… bye." Donna hung up the phone and looked at Eric who was looking at her with one eye.

"What?" He asked Donna began getting up.

"Get up, come on. We're going to New York… now."

((You guys are going to kill me huh? Before you guys freak… DON'T freak… you know me… come on…. It's me… a true blue happy ending little writer :). Obviously I wouldn't let Jackie and Hyde break up… would I? ::ducks object:: OF COURSE I WOULDN'T!!! I'm sorry this story need some kind of damn conflict… it'll all makes sense in the next chapter. I swear to you!!! There are two more chapters to the story. Obviously the last chapter is… the wedding… duh. The second to last chapter… I swear, will be so full of J/H E/D goodness you'll want to shoot yourself. But I need a lil angst, a conflict. And the fight will make more sense in the next chapter. Hyde and/or Jackie will apologize, make up happy go lucky once again… how many people know a couple that haven't had some huge kind of fight that you thought would jeopardize their relationship. Come on. Of course my story would have a confusing conflict, but… still… Ok, here's the breaking point though. This story is GOING TO HAVE A HAPPY ENDING!!! Don't worry about it. But I'm sorry, every couple goes through some type of fight that gets blown way out of proportion. So please, please, please, don't get turned off… there will be a happy ending… and next chapter… there will be happiness again :) trust me ;) please))