Chapter 15 Thursday Night Jackie paced the driveway outside her parents' old house, they still owned it but no one lived there now. She had just gone for a walk ending up here but not really sure why. Ahh, screw it she was going back home. Home-now Donna's was home and Donna's room was her room even if it had the ugly Led Zeplin posters. Ten minutes later she was back at her other home, trying to walk by the Foreman's house without anyone seeing or trying to talk to her.

"Hey, Loud one" Jackie heard Red call to her. Great, just great, now she had to talk Red and listen to him, this sucked.

"Hi Mr. Foreman," politely as she kept walking towards Donna's driveway.

"So, you're still mad huh? About the whole lying thing?" Red asked casually as he leaned on the hood of his corvette. Steven had been moping around the house all week, he hadn't come home on Tuesday night and Red didn't ask where he was. From the looks of him Wednesday morning, Red hadn't wanted to know.

"Mr. Foreman, you all lied to me. A lot. About important things." Jackie tried to explain. "Plus it's none of your business if I don't talk to anyone, aren't you always telling me to shut up?"

"Since when do you listen to me?" Red asked. He felt bad for Jackie but not too bad. There were worse things in life then having a group of people who loved you so much they would do anything for you. "So when are you going to talk to Steven?"

"I'm not; I'm tired of being lied too."

"So why are you taking to me?" Red asked. "People lied to you Jackie but they did it because it was the best thing to do. If you are expecting that no one will ever lie to you again if you avoid the people who do then you are going to live a very lonely life."

Jackie stared at Red. "It's not like you lied to me about how my shirt looked. You all lied about me and Steven breaking up. Like it wasn't important."

"Jackie, it was important but not as important as you needing to get better. How would you have felt if Steven hadn't been there, if we had left you by yourself on that first night? You can't say people don't care for you; everyone was there until you woke up and were there every day." Red looked at Jackie, "Only a dumbass would think your friends don't care for you or were laughing at you. At the time it was the best action and do you regret being with Steven again."

Jackie stared at Red. She didn't regret being with Steven, she could never that but she was so tired of being lied to and made to feel like she wasn't worth the truth.

"Steven loves you Jackie," she looked up at Kitty who had walked out of the house. "You really shouldn't give that up. Not because life didn't go as you planned. Is it worth giving up Steven and what you have together?"

Jackie didn't say anything but walked towards Donna's house, not sure what to do. Just before she crossed to the other side of the hedge she turned back "Where's Steven?"

"I think he and the boys went to the bar his dad worked at. Why they feel the need to drink I don't know. It's not like their experiencing lady problems." Red rolled his eyes at Kitty and the two walked back into their house.

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Steven sat in the bar nursing his beer, with Fez babbling to him. He wasn't really listening; actually he wasn't listening at all.

"So then I said to Pam Macy, you haven't really slept with everyone at school because you haven't slept with me" Fez was going on, "I mean if you are going to be the town slut then it should be for everyone. It's only fair. Don't you think Hyde, Hyde!"

Steven looked up at him, "Fez, Pam Macy isn't going to sleep with you."

"You don't know that-"

"Hey Guys," Kelso said pulling up a chair, "how's it going. So I was talking to Jackie the yesterday and she agreed to go to dinner with me. I knew I'd be getting her back once she got her memory back." He smiled at them. Neither smiled back.

"Shut up, Kelso," Steven growled. "Don't you have some random beach trash to go sleep with?"

"Oh, burn" Fez smiled. Steven didn't say anything as the two kept talking. He was sick of Kelso and his mouth. He caught a part of the conversation ". . . so then Jackie and I will have sex again and she'll remember how great I am at it. Then she'll forget any short and kosher guys she might have slept with" Kelso smiled at Steven. "Right Hyde?" Steven said nothing.

"So, let's talk about my sex life," Fez interrupted. "I lost my virginity with Nina and now I'm not having any sex. This needs to be fixed. Now lets think of sluts who will sleep with me until I get better at it."

"Well, Pam Macy was always good for me. I haven't slept with her lately so she'll be easy. Plus when Jackie and I start doing it again I won't be sleeping with her for a couple weeks at least."

"You are such an ass" Steven said. "Jackie got her memory back, Kelso, she didn't lose her mind. The only way she's going to sleep with you is if you turn into Donny Osmond."

"You're just jealous because you know she's never going to take you back. Remember, she couldn't pick between us before, tanning was better then either of us. She's not going to be able to decide now 'cause my amazing good looks blind her so much. Plus she's going to remember how great the sex was."

"Kelso," Steven warned but he continued, "I heard about these new positions in this cool porn movie I saw the other day, where the girl-"before he could continue Steven's fist connected with his jaw.

Steven's fist connected with the side of Kelso's face before he even saw it coming and not in one of their "you made me mad and I'm going to smack you way" but in a "I'm really going to hurt you" way. Kelso's head snapped back at the impact with a cracking nose. "What the fuck, my eye!!!" he stared at Steven.

"Shut up Kelso. Just shut up about Jackie. I am so sick of listening to you go on about Jackie. I never did anything before but not know. Jackie and I are together-" before he could finish yelling, Kelso grabbed him across the table and punched with the two of them falling backwards over the table. Steven wasn't sure what surprised him more the fist or Kelso fighting back. The table flew towards the bar with the chairs scattering. The punches flew between the two, both yelling curses at the other and Fez alternating between cheering and trying to separate the two. Suddenly they were separate as two hulks lifter them up by their shirts and away from each other. They were carried to the door and thrown out like garbage bags.

"Don't come back" the one hulk said as they closed the door behind them. Steven and Kelso looked at each other, not speaking as Fez ran out the door.

"Well, that was stupid" Fez yelled. "In my country we don't waste perfectly good beer by fighting over a girl; even one as gorgeous as Jackie. You both sicken me. Good Day." With that he turned and walked away as they stared at Fez's back from the ground. Both were silent.

"Why do you have to have her Hyde? She wasn't supposed to get on with her life, least of all with you. I can't compete with you." Kelso whined at Steven, revealing the true problem he had with their relationship.

"Kelso it's not about competing. I love Jackie and I want to be with her. If it wasn't for me wanting to be with her you wouldn't want her. You just want what you can't have." Steven turned to him, "Do you think I want to ruin my relationship with one of my best friends because of a girl?"

"So don't. Remember the grade 3 pack?"

"It's not that simple Kelso, I want to be with Jackie."

"More then you want to be my friend?" Kelso stood up and stared at Steven. The realization came to Kelso that that bothered him the most, now he wasn't the most important person in either of their lives. They were. What if no one ever felt the way Jackie had about him again. What if he was alone for the rest of his life, Jackie had been his fall back and he had never thought Hyde would not be there. Hell, Hyde had more emotional problems then all of them put together. "That's going to be a big black eye and I gave it to you" Kelso smiled.

"Yeah well, at least your nose has stopped bleeding."

"I'm not going to be handsome anymore!!! What if I can't get chicks after I become a policeman? That'll be all your fault Hyde" Kelso stomped off in the other direction.

"Kelso, Kelso" Steven yelled after him then sighed. The guy had an attention span of a nat. He went from being madly in love to worrying about who he was going to sleep with next. Steven turned to walk to his car groaning, god, his head hurt. Considering Kelso hadn't landed a good punch in, well, ever really and when he had it had given him a black eye. He could feel the swelling start by tomorrow it would be almost closed and black and blue. Steven got in his car to head home. Man, he hadn't even had more then one beer. The entire night had been bad, just like his life.