Chapter 5

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"Why? Because then I would actually know that I have a two year daughter?"

Jackie sat there unable to speak it was one of the very few times that she couldn't find her voice. It was Donna that finally spoke up.

"Wait! Hyde, you know? How do you know?"

"Forman told me 3 months after I left." After he said it he knew it was the wrong thing cause at that moment Jackie turned round to face him with anger in her eyes.

"You have known about Penny for three years. Why haven't you come home to see her? Why didn't you even contact me when you found out? Did you know how alone I was? I was 17 and pregnant and you didn't even care. And you! You made me feel guilty for not telling him about this when after all this time he already knew because you told him." It was with that, that Jackie left the Hub sobbing she couldn't believe that Steven could be so heartless and selfish that he couldn't even come home to see his daughter. Donna had followed Jackie out of the Hub but not after frogging both Eric and Hyde and calling them "Dumbasses". She found her friend standing outside sitting on the curb crying, she had no clue what to say so she guided Jackie from the ground to standing position. Wrapping a friendly arm around her shoulder and started heading back to the Forman's house silently the only noise being Jackie's sobs.

I was headed to church

The next morning Jackie was awoken by Penny throwing teddy bears at her to get her attention, it was when she started to scream that Jackie thought she better get up before she wakes up the whole house. She went over to Penny'sbed and picked her up to take her down stairs for some breakfast. Jackie was hoping Kitty wasn't awake yet as she didn't want to explain why she was so upset when she came home last night. When she entered the kitchen it wasn't Kitty there cooking breakfast, it was Steven.

"What are you doing?" she snapped

"I'm making breakfast what does it look like I'm doing." He replied back calmly

"No, I mean what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be somewhere else? Like I don't know, somewhere that isn't here?"

"When Forman and I came back last night Kitty and Red suggested that I stay in my old room instead of wasting my money on a hotel room… so I accepted. Do you want some breakfast?" during explaining himself to Jackie, he couldn't help but stare at Penny she was shyly hiding into her mother's neck and sneaking peeks and him then hiding again. He couldn't help but smile, that was his little girl, she was so cute and happy, Jackie had did an amazing job and as he thought this he suddenly began to feel even more guilty. He had missed out on so much and a lot of that was his fault do to the fact he let his pride and anger take control of him instead of doing the right thing, for the first time in his life Hyde felt truly ashamed of himself. He only could hope that both Penny and Jackie could forgive him for being such a dumbass.

"Um… sure we'll have some breakfast but we'll have the stuff that isn't burning on the stove." Even though she was still angry with him she couldn't help but smile at how stupid he was. In all truth she wasn't just angry at Steven, she was also angry at Eric and herself of course, maybe if she had told him instead of Eric then he might of came home and he wouldn't have missed so much of their baby's life. Jackie felt the guilt build up inside her again but didn't have time to dwell on it as Penny started to struggle and pull her hair to get her attention.

"Penny stop pulling mommy's hair that's bad." At these word Penny started crying and saying "saw-eh mommy" Jackie could help but smile and kiss the tot on the head "it's ok baby. Just don't do that to mommy's hair cause it hurts mommy. Ok?" "Ok"

"Alright breakfast is served ladies" Hyde put two plates down on the table and motion for Jackie to sit her and Penny down. Jackie sat at the table and put Penny in her highchair. Jackie looked down at the plates and saw scrambled eggs and toast, at that moment Jackie started to feel really bad as she knew that Penny hated eggs.