Chapter 7: Mistakes
Jackie woke up the next morning full of regret. How could she have let this happen? Sleeping with Steven? God, she had to have been high. But this was his damn fault! Why did he have to be so sexy! He never should have showed up last night! 5 minutes! It only took 5 damn minutes of them in a room alone together for them to end up screwing each other. Gosh, this was so damn ridiculous!
She had been sitting up for about 10 minutes when she felt someone's eyes on her. Then she heard Steven clear his throat to let her know that he was awake. She turned around to see his smart-ass smirk on his face. She couldn't help but smile.
J: Hey…
H: "Hey," he felt a twinge of pain on his right shoulder/ He looked down and saw the bite mark. She had broken the skin. He didn't remember her biting him, but he was so caught up in the moment last night it was hard to tell. "Well you've never done that before," he smirked, nodding to the bite mark.
J: "I'm sorry. Does it hurt?" She reached over and touched the skin just below it. She felt him flinch a little, and she tried not to laugh.
Hyde saw her about the laugh, and smirked.
H: "You think biting me is funny?" He asked, being a smart-ass.
J: "Well it's your own fault." She stated simply.
H: What? How is it my fault?
J: "Why do you think I bit you?" She asked. Rhetorically. She half smiled, remembering last night. 'So Eric was right, make-up sex is better then regular sex' she thought to herself.
Hyde grinned. She was right. But if love marks was his consequence he's like to repeat last night. They sat there in silence, when Jackie figured she should tell him.
J: We need to talk…
H: Oh God… about what?
J: About last night. Listen Steven, I don't think we were really thinking clearly last night. I mean, everything just happened so fast, and…
H: And what? What exactly are you trying to say?
Jackie grabbed her robe, wrapped it around her and got out of bed. She had her back to Hyde. He heard he take in a deep, straggled breathe, like she was preparing for war.
She turned around to face him.
J: I think that maybe it was a mistake…
H: What! Jesus Jackie!
Hyde found his boxers and got out of bed. He walked around the bed so that he was standing about 5 feet in front of her.
J: What? Why are you yelling? I'm just trying to tell you how I feel.
H: You're telling me that you think having sex with me was a mistake! What the hell did you think was gonna happen? That I was gonna be happy?
J: No, I just… this can't happen, okay?
H: Then what the hell was last night, huh? You're messing with me… AGAIN! This is bullshit Jackie, and you know it!
H: What! I'm messing with you! You have to be kidding! Do you remember why we broke up? You said that you didn't want to be with me, remember? I told you that I wanted to spend my life with you and you rejected me! And then two years later you come over here and YOU kissed ME! Not the other way around! So stop acting like I seduced you, like this was my plan! I didn't want to come back because I knew this was going to be hard. Having to see you again, when I saw you yesterday, at Donna's, do you know how hard it was for me not to just break down. Just being in the same room with you after two years was killing me… it still is.
H: Jackie you're not the only one who lost something that day in the basement! Do you know how hard it was for me to tell you that I didn't want the same things you did! I did, I still do, but I knew that you wanted to make something of yourself and that you couldn't do that with me. I had to let you go! That's how much I love you!
J: Obviously not enough! You just shut me out, like you always do! You didn't even talk to me! I didn't even have a say in it, you just made the decision for both of us all by yourself! And you don't love ME! You love who I used to be… I'm not the Jackie that you fell in love with, she died the day I walked out of that basement. I'm not her anymore, things have changed. I'm not just gonna swoon at your feet like I used to. If anyone is messing with anybody it's YOU, not me!
H: Oh please Jackie! You're still the same Jackie from two years ago, I know you! You want to get married to some rich guy and live happily ever after and ride off into the sunset on your stupid unicorn Fluffycakes!
J: Nope, sorry, you're wrong. I don't want to get married to some rich guy, as a matter of fact I don't want to get married at all! And I threw Fluffycakes away! I don't like unicorns or pink fluffy stuff, and I don't want to ride off into the sunset with any guy. The only reason I've ever even spoken to the male species in the last to years was just for sex! That's right, sex! Other than that, I see no use for men. They all follow me around and I just pick the ones that I want. So how's it feel not to be the last person who ever slept with me! God, I bet you just thought that I became celibate after you broke up with me! Well, guess again! You weren't the fist and you sure as hell won't be the last! I told you Jackie, the rich, shallow, preppy little girl from Point Place, Wisconsin is dead! Now GET OUT!
Hyde couldn't believe what he just heard. She really wasn't his Jackie anymore. She reminded him of himself. He didn't say anything else, there wasn't a response for what he just heard. He grabbed his clothes, walked out of the hotel room, got in his El Camino, drove off, and didn't look back.
