A/N: Again, you guys have been amazing with all the reviews! Many, many thanks to all those reading and reviewing! I think I have a better idea of where this story is headed now, so that should help. Anyway, sorry it's been a little longer than normal for an update – I was gone for the weekend, but I'm back now! So thanks again for the feedback, and please enjoy this next installment!

The rest of the gathering watched Fez leave and, though they had missed the exact reason, they knew something bad had happened. An awkward silence permeated the living room, broken suddenly by Kitty's signature laugh. All eyes turned to her, and her face flushed crimson.

"Well, it's getting late," she said hurriedly. "Red, I think we should go up to bed now." She glanced around at her guests and gave them a tiny, embarrassed smile. "Happy New Year, everybody!" Then she quickly raced up the stairs.

Red stared after her and then turned to face the intruders of his home. "You heard the lady, everybody out!" And with that, he followed his wife.

Bob reached up and plucked the top hat from his head, placing it on the banister and fluffing his wilting Afro. He walked past Donna and Jackie and glanced sideways at them. "I'm going to bed, too. You girls don't stay out too late." Then he too, left.

Donna turned toward Jackie, a frown on her face. "Jackie, stoop."

Jackie glanced back at Hyde. "Actually, I was…"

"Jackie, now," Donna said dangerously, grabbing the cheerleader's arm and dragging her to the door. She practically shoved Jackie outside and closed the door behind them, seating herself on the Forman's front stoop, the place where she and Jackie had had many long talks.

"Look, Donna, I know what you're going to say," Jackie began as she sat down next to her friend.

"Break up with Fez."

Jackie sighed. "I know, but I never stopped loving Steven and…wait, what did you say?" She stared at her friend in disbelief, watching the smile slowly creep over Donna's face.

"Jackie, as creepy and unnatural as I used to think your relationship with Hyde was, I have realized over the years that you two are good for each other." She shrugged. "But for the record, I'm mad at you for doing that to Fez. And now you have no choice but to break up with him."

Nodding, Jackie took a deep breath. "I know, but Donna, I don't want to hurt him."

Donna placed a hand on her friend's shoulder. "I know you don't, Jackie, but staying with him because you don't want to hurt him is just going to end up hurting him, you know?" Seeing the confused look on Jackie's face, she elaborated, "Look, Fez really likes you, and he has for a long time, but leading him on when you can't give him what he really wants from you is only going to make things worse. And I'm not going to say that it's not going to hurt him, but he'll understand. Although, you probably could've saved yourself a lot of trouble by not kissing Hyde." She gave Jackie a pointed look, and then laughed when the smaller girl hit her on the arm.

Jackie shook her head, smiling at Donna's jest. Then, with another loud sigh, she glanced up at the sky. "This is going to be so hard." She glanced at Donna, a hopeful look on her face. "Donna, could you…"

"No."

"But…"

"No."

"Donna, would you just listen?" Jackie practically shouted, exasperated.

Donna shook her head. "Jackie, I'm not going to break up with Fez for you. This is your mess, and you have to clean it up."

"Donna, rich people don't clean up their messes. We hire people to do that for us," Jackie explained, as if Donna should have learned that by now.

Standing, Donna sighed. Her friend would never completely change, but oddly, it was part of what made Jackie who she was, and despite that, she had grown on all of them, even Eric, though he would die before he admitted he actually liked the spawn of Satan. "I think you've got a foreigner to speak to," she said. With that, she reentered the Forman's house, leaving Jackie alone on the stoop to think of what she could say to Fez.

Meanwhile, in the basement, the three guys were sitting around the circle, smoke filtering around them.

Eric shook his head. "I can't believe this. I thought you were cured of your freakish obsession with Jackie. How many times have I told you she's the devil?"

"Yeah, didn't your stripper wife distract you enough?" Kelso agreed, laughing at his own joke.

"Look, man," Hyde began, ignoring his giggling friend, "I don't know how or why, but Jackie's got like this hold on me, and no matter what I do, I can't break it."

Kelso grinned. "I think it's 'cause you loooove her," he mocked, turning his head to make kissing noises at Fez, but finding the foreigner conspicuously missing. "Hey, where's Fez?"

"He ran off when he saw Hyde molesting his girlfriend, remember?" Eric said, grinning across the table at his friend, who scowled at him in return.

It took a moment for Kelso to replay the scene in his head, but then he laughed. "Oh yeah! That was a good burn!"

Hyde sighed. "Kelso, it wasn't meant to be a burn. It just kind of…happened."

"So, are you guys getting back together now or what?" Eric asked, and then exclaimed, "Alright! Twizzlers!" as he discovered the long-forgotten bag of candy next to Fez's chair.

Hyde sighed. "I don't know, man, she seemed upset when Fez found out."

Snatching the bag of Twizzlers from Eric, Kelso stuck one in his mouth and said, "Maybe she was upset because Fez found out."

"No, she was upset because she's dating Fez, you moron," Hyde retorted. He grabbed the bag of Twizzlers and bit the end off one, contemplating as he chewed. "Man, this whole thing was a big mistake." He spread his arms wide and continued, "I can't believe after everything that happened she still makes me stupid."

Eric placed a hand over his heart and batted his eyelashes at Hyde as he cooed, "Aw, you really do love her, you big softie." Then the entire contents of the Twizzlers bag was dumped into his lap, but he just shrugged and popped one in his mouth.