A.N. Oh my gosh a new chapter! Can you belive it? It's been so long, people have prolly forgotten about it lol... I actually wrote like a month ago and just came back to it today.
Okay, I'm kinda getting a little questionable about the direction of this story now... it's pretty different from what is actually going on in the show. And like, when I first started it, I had a pretty good idea of what would happen but now I'm not sure if I wanna do it anymore. So if anybody has ideas of what I can do with the rest of the story, please toss 'em at me & if I use them, I'll give ya credit for it.
Anyway I hope you like this chappy, I used one of my all time favorite quotes from Friends,maybe someone will catch it. And plz review & have a sweet day :)
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It's another day. Eric, Donna, and Hyde are chillin' in Eric's basement as usual. Eric's flicking pennies into an old coffee can. And Donna's just sitting there smiling meekly at him, as he keeps on missing.
"Foreman, you flick like a girl." Hyde says.
"Hey man, it's harder than it looks." he defends himself.
Hyde rolls his eyes, and picks up a penny. He flicks it and it makes it in the first time.
"Yeah, a real neckbraker." he says sarcastically, as Donna laughs slightly at Eric, when Fez comes in with a plate of hot cookies.
"Oh cookies!" Eric says, gleefully. "Did my mom makes these?" he grabs on and puts in his mouth, and Hyde and Donna get some too.
"Nope. You're looking at a master chef." Fez smiles proudly.
"You made these?" Eric says.
"Yep."
"That's great Fez, but baking some cookies doesn't make you a master chef." Donna says.
Fez face immediately drops. "Way to spoil my day, Donna. It's bad enough that Ms. Valentino doesn't teach the class anymore…"
"So I guess you little crush on this teacher has to end, huh Fez?" Hyde says.
"What are you kidding? I can still see her every Wednesdays when see picks up her dry-cleaning, and I have noticed that she always gets her groceries on Mondays. I saw her just last Monday at the store picking out some peaches." He smiles, "Ahh, peaches. What an elegant fruit."
"So you're just gonna be following her around?" Donna asks.
"Have you noticed peaches are the few kinds of fruit with hair." Fez didn't seem to hear her, and continues.
"Um, yeah. No, but Fez you just go around following her." she says.
"But I'm gonna have to be more careful. I think Ms. Valentino may have seen me in to dairy aisle behind her the other day. Luckily I hid behind the frozen pizzas."
"Fez! Listen to me, do you realize what you're doing?" Donna practically yells at him.
"What?" he says.
"You're stalking this lady!"
"No I'm not!"
"Yeah, you are."
"But Donna, all I am doing is enjoying the pleasure of observing her great beauty…" he pleads.
She raises her eyebrow at him.
"…and her amazing jugs." Fez continues.
"Yeah, and that's considered illegal in the state of Wisconsin."
"Really?" He gets semi-serious. "Oh well then I should probably stop I mean if this could get me in trouble wit tha law then… Oh wat da hell! Who cares, I'm not American anyway; I don't follow American laws." Fez looks at his watch, "Ooh I better go, my little peach usually takes the commune around this time." He leaves.
Hyde shrugs and gets up. "Yeah, I'm gonna go too. Leo waiting for me at the fotohut. I tell ya, these new Polaroid's are a bitch."
As he leaves, Eric & Donna notice that there's all alone, so they take this opportunity to fool around. But a few minutes later, Kelso comes down the stairs. "Hey guys." he sits down, "So what ya'll doin'?"
Eric gets off Donna and sighs slightly annoyed, "Nothing. You?"
"Not much. But oh yeah, today's the day I set the launch of my highly elaborate plan to get Jackie back."
Eric & Donna look at him, like what the hell? "Um… okay. What's your plan?" Donna says.
"Well I was thinking I'd hide road kill in his car, and put rotten eggs in his bed. And I took a dump in his room, so that whenever she's around him, he'll reek!" Kelso laughs, "…And she'll have to run back to me!"
"That's your 'highly elaborate' plan to get Jackie back?" Eric says.
"Yeah."
"Wow, um… yeah with a plan like that it's like … foolproof." Donna says.
Kelso nods along, "I know!"
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Later that day, Jackie comes over to see Hyde
"Hey."
"Uh-- hey."
"I think we need to talk."
"Yeah."
She comes in and takes a whiff of the air "Oh my God, it really stinks in here."
"Oh, yeah. I don't know why, though."
"Okay so let's talk…" she lingers on for awhile.
"You know, why don't we just get right to the point. Look what happened the other day, it's okay, no big deal. I was ready to forget all about it. But then, I have to hear from Eric your stretched version of it and how you're all creeped out."
"What? Eric told you." she says.
"Don't act surprised, I mean you did tell Donna."
"Oh. Well yeah I told her about it."
"Why? Why would you tell her that." He asks.
"Well, I'm sor-ry. I wasn't aware that you wanted it a secret or something."
"Its not that I wanted a secret or anything, but I also didn't want broadcasted to the whole world. Some things are just between us now, okay? You cannot go telling Donna every personal thing that goes on."
"Why not? Donna's my friend, that what girls do, tell each other stuff you know the whole female bonding thing. I like knowing that I'm not the only one going through something. Like she told me that when she & Eric first started dating, he would do the same thing you did. And then she would do the same thing as me. So I mean, don't you see that talking with a friend helps me feel better about us."
"That's not the point…" Hyde sighs, he's getting nowhere.
Jackie looks down on the floor & notices something. "Um Steven? Is uh, that a piece of poop?"
Hyde turns around and looks, "Aw shit. Yeah, it's a piece of shit. It was probably Kelso, that shithead. Remind me to kick his ass for that." He turns back around and looks at her, "Okay, but just answer me this… why did you tell Donna that I creeped you out?"
Jackie slightly winces, "Well maybe you kinda did, a little."
"How?" he asks.
"I don't know, you just… I dunno. " she sighs, "It wasn't just you, it was me also, just the whole situation in general that kinda left me feeling a little uncomfortable."
Hyde thinks for a moment, "Well then I'm sorry for making you feel uncomfortable, but the thing is Jackie, I don't see what the big deal is. I mean its just sex."
Jackie just stares at him for awhile. "For you maybe. But to me it's more than that." Jackie looks up at the ceiling then back down, and pauses for a second. "Okay, maybe I can help you understand me better. Answer me this, Steven… how many people have you been with?"
"Hehe…" he scratches the back of his head & smiles slyly, "Well, you want like an exact number, or rough estimate. Cuz' I'm not sure that I can reme…"
She stops him, "It's okay. You don't have to tell me. The point is, it's more than me. I've only been with Michael. That's one person." Jackie hesitates for a second, "And we were in love."
"Oh." Hyde coughs and clears his throat, "I get it."
"I dunno, maybe I was a little more than him, but you understand. The thing is, you already know that you have my heart. But until I know that I have yours, we can't go there yet."
"Yeah. Um… yeah, whatever."
Jackie grabs & holds his hands tightly, "Steven, I want you to know, I do love being with you. I really like what we have." she assures him." And I know you do too."
He just shrugs.
"You don't have to act all cool in front of me."
"I'm not acting."
"Yeah, okay." she says. "But I guess I don't really mind. Its how you are. It's hard for you to admit your true feelings for me."
"Yep-- not wait, what?"
"Yeah." she nods, "You like me so much, it scares you, so you can't admit it."
"No, I don't." he says.
"Yes, you do. And I also know that maybe you don't love me now. But one day you will."
"C'mon Jackie, lets not get ahead of ourselves…"
"Really, you will. You can't fight it. I'm just too irresistibly cute." she flashes a million-dollar smile at him, and he can't help but smile slightly. "See?" she says.
He shakes his head, "Nah. You wish."
"No I don't wish, I know. One day we'll just be hanging in Eric's basement and you'll just look at me, & you'll love me. You'll just feel it right then and there… And it'll freak you out cuz' you're Hyde, and your not the type to get all hung up on a girl, especially not one like me. It'll freak you out because it's real. It's really real, and its really happening." Jackie looks at him intently, as he stays quiet.
"And you know it. You just don't know that you know it."
Hyde still doesn't say anything, just sits there and dwells on it.
Finally he turns at looks right into her eyes, her deep blue eyes, and says…
"Whatever."
