A/N : This is kind of a shorter chapter… But it has vital information!

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Jackie was getting ready to meet Kitty and Red for lunch, when someone knocked on the bedroom door.

"Come in," she said, applying eyeliner.

"Oh, it's a beautiful goddess. Isn't this Jackie's room?" the voice asked. She turned, and Fez was there. She shrieked, and hugged her quasi ex.

"Oh my God, Fez!" she exclaimed. "How are you?"

"I'm fine. It has been so long, when Eric told me that you were upstairs I had to say hello to my ex girlfriend slash roommate," he said. She nodded, and smiled. "I heard that you were going out with Miss Kitty and Red for lunch."

"Yeah, they wanted to catch up," she said. "I heard that YOU own the salon now."

"Oh, yes, I do," he said. "And I heard that you and your friend Barry run a successful interior decorating business in New York City."

"Yeah, we do," she said. "Oh Fez, I'm sorry that I didn't keep up with you all these years."

"It's okay, Jackie," he said. "I understand. Now we can start over." She nodded, and pulled her hair back.

"How do I look?" she asked.

"You look good," he said. "You've barely aged a day."

"I've been getting that a lot lately," she said, and laughed slightly.

"Have you talked to Hyde?" Fez asked.

"Um, yes," she said. "Why?" Fez shrugged.

"I was just wondering," Fez said. "We're roommates, you know."

"Oh, no, I didn't know that."

"Yes, he has your old room," Fez said. "He moved in with me after Sam left him in a whirlwind. A whirlwind of anger."

"Sam left him?" Jackie asked.

"You didn't know?"

"I knew they were broken up, but she left him again? That's kind of weird, she wouldn't keep her paws off him when I was still here," Jackie said. She looked at the clock. 11:00. "Oh gosh, I have to go. We'll talk when I get back, Fez." She left the house in a hurry, took the rental car, and drove into the downtown.

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She walked into the Italian restaurant, and Red and Kitty were in a booth. She waved, and sat across from them.

"Hi, sorry I'm a little late," Jackie said.

"You're five minutes late, that's nothing," Kitty said.

"Oh. Well, see, I'm really neurotic about time," Jackie said. "I hate being late to anything. It's just something I've come to hate."

"That's fine, Jackie," Kitty said. "So tell us about you. How have you been?"

Jackie told them about her time at NYU, and how she and Barry started up their business, and made it clear that they weren't dating without talking about his orientation. Kitty looked very interested, and though Red acted apathetic, Jackie could tell that he was actually interested as well. By the time their food came, Jackie felt like it was all about her.

"What about you two?" she asked. "How have you been?"

"Well, as you know, we're grandparents now," Kitty said. "Which is just WONDERFUL, I love being the grandmother who spoils her grandchild."

"You do spoil him and he's not even three," Red said. "He's already walking all over you, like a mini dictator."

"Oh hush Red," Kitty said. "It's hard having our son in Madison, but we see him and Donna at least once a month, be it us making the drive or them doing it. We hear from Laurie too, every once in awhile. She's coming in for Christmas."

"Kitty is thrilled that Steven and that foreign kid are still in town, so she can continue to cook dinner for someone," Red said.

"I cook dinner for you too, Red," Kitty said. "And Steven is alone in his life, he needs me."

"Kitty, he's 31, he doesn't need anyone," Red said, and Jackie raised her eyebrows.

"Steven and I only talked a little bit," Jackie said, and decided to do some investigating. "Why did Sam leave him?"

"Oh, it was just awful," Kitty said, and Red rolled his eyes. He hated hearing them gossip, and now that Jackie was back it was going to happen all weekend. "Eric had a friend from Madison that came home with him at Thanksgiving." Jackie nodded, eating her pasta and leaning in.

"Well," Kitty continued, "one day, Steven came home from working at the record store, and Sam DIDN'T have a job, even then. So anyway, he comes home, and he walks in on Sam and this boy Todd, having, um, relations, in their bed!" Jackie gasped, and Red groaned.

"Are you serious?" Jackie asked. "Oh my God, that's awful."

"Steven was so angry! Though I don't see why, she was a stripper for crying out loud."

"My point exactly," Jackie said, sipping on her water.

"And Steven never found anyone else. He just immersed himself in work at the record store, and has had a few 'friends', but nothing serious," Kitty said. "So Samantha went back to Las Vegas, and I say that's where she belongs."

"You women are acting like a couple of hens!" Red said. "Gossiping about a man's ruined relationship. It's pretty disgusting."

"Oh Red, I'm catching Jackie up!" Kitty said.

"On gossip!"

"Well should I tell her about your health?" Kitty asked, in her scary voice. Red shook his head, and went back to eating his health food salad that Kitty made him order. "So anyway, Jackie, I think I know why he never went out with any other girls seriously."

"Why is that?"

"He was still in love with you," Kitty said. Jackie snorted, and shook her head.

"I have a hard time believing that, we parted ways in a really bad fashion," Jackie said.

"I say just let it alone," Red said. "If Steven wants to be alone, there's nothing wrong with it. Now Jackie, why is your friend Barry alone?"

"Yes, why don't you two date?" Kitty asked. Jackie sipped her water, and raised her eyebrows.

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Jackie got home, and Barry had been hoodwinked into watching a movie with Kelso on TV. Neither of them had much to say to each other. When Jackie walked in the door, Barry stood and walked briskly to her.

"Thank God you're home, if I had to watch any more of that movie I thought I was going to SHOOT myself," he said, pulling her up the stairs.

"What was it?" she asked, shutting the door to the bedroom.

"Some movie called 'The Wraith'."

"Ooh, isn't Charlie Sheen in that movie?"

"How was lunch with Ma and Pa Kettle?" Barry asked, as she began setting out her visitation outfit.

"Don't call them that," Jackie said. "But it was fine. BARRY, I have such good gossip."

"Well spill!" he said. So she told him everything that Kitty told her, and Barry listened intently. Once she had finished, he shook his head.

"That could have been better," he said. She rolled her eyes, and Donna walked into the room.

"Okay, everything is arranged with the funeral home," she said. "Oh, this is just exhausting." Jackie walked to her and they hugged.

"I bet," Jackie said. "I haven't dealt with this yet, but I can imagine it's very tiring." Barry stood, and hugged them both.

"What is that for?" Jackie asked.

"The moment seemed like it could use a group hug," he answered.

"This man is so good," Donna said. "If only he were straight, I'd leave Eric for him."

"You'd have to fight me for him," Jackie said. Barry snorted.

"I'm cat nip, why can't guys fight over me?" he mused. Donna and Jackie shrugged.