Sorry I havent updated in a while, I was with my boyfriend a lot, so I didn't have time to.
"Hey, Donna" Hyde said as he walked into her room, "have you noticed anything odd about Jackie lately?"
"Yea, I mean, she quit the cheerleading squad, something's wrong there, and she broke up with Kelso."
"And she's now listening to Zeppelin."
"Jackie? Jackie Burkhart listening to Led Zeppelin? The girl who though Led was 'hot'?"
"I'm glad I'm not the only one who's freaked out about it."
"I think I'm gonna talk to her, she seems totally out of it, like, she's there, but she's not paying attention. And she's talking about herself less."
"She's not acting like her annoying self."
"O my God, Hyde, are you, worried about her?"
"What? No, it's just, before it was easy to burn her, now she's just sitting there, doing nothing. Plus, I don't want her borrowing my albums, especially the Zeppelin ones."
"Whatever."
A few hours later
"Hey Donna, you said you wanted to go to the Hub, so let's go."
"Jackie, hold on a second. Sit down." Jackie sat down on Donna's bed. "Are you ok? You're not acting like yourself."
"Donna, I'm fine, why does everyone keep asking me that?"
"Jackie, you're not being yourself, you haven't been yourself for a while. What's going on?"
"Nothing! God, just because someone matures doesn't mean there's something wrong." Jackie said as she started pacing the room.
"Why did you dump Kelso?"
"Donna, I've dumped him before, you never made a big deal out of it then."
"Fine. Why did you quit the squad?"
"Because they're all superficial whores. I didn't want to be thought of that way, ok?"
"That's not true. You never cared before, you wanted that to be your life, a cheerleader, you wanted to be a Texas Cowboy Cheerleader Jackie, that doesn't change in one day."
"Maybe it wasn't one day! Maybe I felt like that for a long time."
"How long then? Why?"
"Because of—something that happened ok?"
"What? What happened Jackie?"
"That's none of your business."
"Jackie, we're worried about you, we care about you, we want to help, but you won't let us."
"I don't need your help, I'm fine, I've been fine. Why can't you just accept that?"
"Look at you! You're an ex-cheerleader, wearing black, listening to Led Zeppelin, dumping Kelso for no reason, you're not fine! Just talk to me, let me help you, you're my best friend and I'm worried about you."
"I really don't want to hear this, and I'm not going to."
Jackie slammed the door and went home, crying while she was walking.
The next day
"Eric, I'm really worried about her, she's not herself."
"Yea, she's been quieter, eating less, she looks tired."
"I don't know what to do."
"Have you tried talking to her since the argument?"
"No, she was really mad. She was so defense, like, she was afraid of something. I'm really scared that something's really wrong with her, she just won't talk to anyone."
"Maybe someone else should try to talk to her."
"Who? It can't be you, she'll know I sent you. Kelso's out, Fez is too horny all the time, that leaves Hyde."
"Hyde won't do it, he's with me on the whole 'Jackie's the she-devil' theory."
"Actually, Hyde came to me and said he was worried about her, I don't think he hates her all that much."
"Hyde? Not hating Jackie? O my God, we're all gonna die, it's the apocalypse."
"Haha, very funny. So what if Hyde's starting to like Jackie, he's known her for a while, they were gonna become friends eventually."
"Yeah, I guess you're right, but it'll be weird, no more Jackie-Hyde burns."
"There still might be some, it's not like they're dating."
Eric started laughing. "Jackie? And Hyde? Dating each other?"
"So, we should try to get Hyde to talk to her. He'll do it, I hope."
A few hours later
Hyde was nervous about talking to Jackie, he actually felt sorry for her, and was worried, which was very un-Hyde like. When he got to her house, he pulled up to the driveway and put on his glasses, he knew he would need them for this talk.