Chapter 2: Missing
After Jackie walked out of the basement that morning she had been waiting for Hyde to come see her, to talk to her. She never saw him. She never went back to Point Place after that, it was too hard. Donna would come to Chicago every once in a while. They called and wrote each other. She pretty much stayed in contact with everyone she left behind in Point Place, except for him. After a year had gone by, about 3 days after Eric had returned from Africa, Jackie decided to give up. She would have left sooner if it weren't for Donna. Eric was gone, so she stayed for her. She waited on him for a year, and he never came through, which shouldn't have shocked her. She left Chicago, she didn't tell anyone where she had gone or why. She just disappeared. Another year went by. It seemed like just yesterday when he broke her heart, again, in the basement.
God, the music was so damn loud, Jackie could barely hear herself think. Which was okay by her because she always thought of HIM. She couldn't believe that it had already been 2 years since she had last seen him. Since then Jackie hasn't had one real relationship. She didn't want one. She had only had sex with a few guys, nothing serious, just passing faces. She didn't want anything real. And if things would start to get serious between her and a guy, she would break it off immediately, because she would get this guilty feeling, like she was cheating on him. She hated how even after two years he still had so much control over her. She was now living in Manhattan, she had a job as a dancer and she did another job on the side. (NO, I don't mean she's a stripper. She dances on stage at a club with a group of girls, think hip-hop dancing. And you'll find out about the job on the side later.) A lot has changed over the past two years. Jackie was no longer shallow about anything. You could say she was the female version of the old Hyde. Never getting to close to the opposite sex, always Zen, and she never took crap from anyone. Believe it or not Jackie was now feared. And not because she was powerful, but if you so much as look at her funny and she'll knock you out. Yep, life was okay for Jackie. She made decent money, she had a lot of crazy friends. They always had so much fun together. She lived in a two-bedroom apartment with one of her good friends. It was a pretty good size to, but she still felt like something was missing. He was missing.
Steven Hyde went back to his old ways. Being with different girls, about 4 a week, nothing serious. After Jackie he put his old wall back up, refusing to let anyone in again. He moved out of the basement a year after she left, he moved into an apartment by himself. Donna would always keep him posted on what was going on with Jackie, until one day she was gone. It was 4 days after Forman had just got back from his freaking safari. Him and Forman were sitting in the basement, watching TV, Donna had gone to visit Jackie. Suddenly Donna came bursting through the door in tears screaming at me saying I made her leave. I thought Donna had lost her freakin' mind. Forman calmed her down and she told us what happened. She said that she went to Jackie's apartment and the door was unlocked. She went inside and everything was gone. No magazines no clothes, nothing, all of it gone. She said there wasn't even a note, Jackie had vanished. Now I understood what she was talking about when she came in. It probably was my fault. I just moved to Manhattan, W.B (his real dad) gave me a bigger record shop to run, which meant more money, which was cool with me. Mrs. Forman didn't take it so well when I told I was leaving. The gang came with me when I moved. They wanted to help me get settled in, and they all needed a vacation. So it's our second night in Manhattan and all's well I guess. I mean I'm having a lot of fun. But I can't help but feel like something is missing. She was missing.
