Ok, he made his choice and that was breaking up with Jackie. It shouldn t be to hard but why did he feel funny? His breathing was UN natural and his steps were calm yet . Anxious? He had phoned Jackie and said he had to talk to her so she was on her way over to the basement now.
Stopping his pacing around couch he sighed when he heard footsteps coming to the basement door. Turning around to face Jackie, he was a little relieved to see Eric looking at him with sympathy. What the hell? Eric felt sorry for him! Donna must have told him about his conversation with Kelso so now he was here to "talk" about it, why wouldn t people leave him alone?
" What do you want Forman?"
Noticing Hyde sitting on his chair with his arms crossed and " I don t give a crap face" on, he knew getting him to talk was going to be hard. Sitting on the couch closes to Hyde, Eric took a deep breath.
" Hyde I heard about the breaking up with Jackie thing, are you really ok with that? I mean, when you were with her, you seemed happy? "
Slightly flinching in his seat, Hyde shrugged and averted his attention back to the TV which wasn t even on and gave an infamous "whatever"
Nodding his head, Eric decided to not press maters further, If Hyde didn t want to talk about it, then he didn t want to talk about it, there was nothing Eric could do. Why did he care anyway? He hated Jackie with Hyde, slowly turning him into one of her minions like she did Kelso. But then again, Hyde was no Kelso.
Looking to the side, he heard the basement door swing open and in walked Jackie Burkhart, perky as ever. Glancing back at Hyde, he saw him inhale and wondered if it was time to make his exit.
Jackie smiled as she spotted her boy friend on his set, and it looked like Zen was in mode. Walking over to him, she cupped his face and pulled him into a kiss, but was a little surprised as he put a lot more passion into it, ignoring the ewww coming from Eric.
Breaking away from the kiss, Hyde looked towards Eric and motioned him to leave while he talked with Jackie.
Getting the message, Eric stood up and gave Hyde and the cheerleader who was now on his lap a sad look and left the couple alone.
Pulling away from another kiss Jackie had planted on his lips, he gently moved her from his lap and stood up, inhaling again. He began to speak, not to certain on the words about to come from his mouth.
" Listen Jackie, these last few months have been great but..."
Not to sure were this was heading, Jackie looked him confused, what was he trying to tell her?
"But what Steven?"
Gulping the words in his throat he looked at her and remembered who he was, he didn t get attached to girls, he d love um and leave um, and Jackie was just like any other girl.
"What I m trying to say is Jackie, that um well, when we first started this thing we have, we agreed on no emotion, no strings attached and I think I've let this go on long enough"
Easy enough, but then again, actions speak louder then words, and the look on her face made him.. Hell he wasn t even to sure what it made him do!
Taking a step back, Jackie shook her head. Why was he doing this, what did she do wrong?
"Steven?"
It came as a sob, and she continued to shake her head, still not understanding. Taking another step back, her eyes begged him for an answer on what had gone wrong.
" Why are you saying this, what did I do? Are you bored of me or something?"
Hyde s heart was thumping louder then before, it was just Jackie Burkhart, same old bitchy, snobby princess who he hated. So what so different now, so what if they had some sort of relationship it still didn t really change anything did it?
" Look Jackie, I guess what I m trying to say is, I m ending this with you"
Tears were now coming down her pretty face, although she wished they wouldn t, she hated looking weak in front of Hyde, even though when ever she was crying she would go to him. Why? Because he had made her feel special again, but now he was hurting her more then even Michael had.
" Your breaking up with me?"
Shaking his head, he avoided looking into her eyes; they had always made him weak some how.
" No Jackie, Breaking up is what people with an actual relationship do, which is what we never had"
More tears began to come down her cheek as she was still in denial, why was he being so cruel to her? And if he was breaking up with her, then why did he wait 10 months?
"But why Steven? I don t understand"
She was begging him now, why couldn t she make it any easier on him and leave it like that? His heart still pounding and he was finding it to ignore.
" Look I told you, I let it go on to long, which I now regret, look ok, I m not a one women man, I m a one night stand man"
She couldn t believe the words that were coming out of his mouth, was that all she was to him to? Trying to hold back the crying she spoke with such bitterness in her voice it made him flinch.
" So that s it then? All this, all these 10 months meant nothing? Well I m sorry Hyde but I don t believe it!"
She was still asking questions! Why didn t she leave him alone! One side of him wanted to take it all back and pretend that him and Jackie had slit up so they could start sneaking around again, but Kelso would of found out eventually and again, there went their friendship.
"Why is that so hard to believe?"
" Because I m in love with you Steven!"
She just blurted it out, but the second they came she never regretted it, all the arguing had stopped and everything went dead silent.
Why? Why did she have to say that? Dammit why? She didn t mean it, she couldn t have meant it, no one loved him. He was Hyde the poor orphan burnout. Sure Mrs. Forman did and there was the possibility of Red but no, this was different, and he wasn t about to fall for it
"Really? Cause I don t love you"
Taking a deep breath, she felt her heart drop. He didn t love her. Looking into his eyes and beyond the shades, she saw something she couldn t figure out, was it hate? She didn t know. But she did know she had to get out of there.
Tears flying freely from her face, she ran. Ran out the door and right past Donna who was now on her way down, and stared after the cheerleaders form confused. Taking a step into the basement she saw Hyde staring right past her and to the door were Jackie had just run out.
That s it for Chapter 2, sorry if things seem a bit rushed, and once again sorry for any OOCness