Fez stood there in the freezing, heavy rain that poured all over the Foreman drive way. He had never felt so much emotional pain; it felt like someone had ripped his heart out and stomped on it after all he did was spend night and day worshiping them and giving them all the love he had, then expected him to just get over it in an instant. He was sitting, legs crossed, on the ground leaning back on his hands to stare up at the rain that was falling over his face, covering his tears of heart-ache. Suddenly, Hyde came out to Fez and sat next to him. He was looking curious as to why Fez was sitting in the rain, but he already knew the answer, he had saw through the sliding door just an hour before the rain had started, Jackie and Fez standing there looking very awkward and upset. Jackie looked like she was trying to say something to Fez, but trying not to cry because she knew she was hurting the person she was speaking to. Fez had his head down, giving a pitiful understanding nod every once and a while. After a few minutes of this, Hyde saw Jackie slowly start to turn and walk away, with her head hanging down now. Fez, had just watched her walk away, trying to look very stern and strong, but you could easily indicate the sense of loneliness and depression. When Jackie finally walked out of sight, Fez stood there, still looking ahead of him like he was watching Jackie leave. After a few seconds he sat down on the ground and started to think very hard. Hyde didn't know if he should go out there just then, he turned around and walked into the living room quickly to make sure Fez didn't see him. He wanted to build up the courage to talk to Fez and try to figure out words to say to him to try and help him with his rejection first before he went to Fez. He knew that he just saw them break up, he did not know why, but he knew that Fez had been deeply in love with Jackie and she had just dumped him, obviously not in love with him. Hyde could understand how it felt to love someone so much and the person that you love just walks away from you. It was the worst feeling in the world to Hyde, he had had it happen to him many times.

A day before the break up…

The whole gang is sitting in the Foreman basement, in silence watching T.V. While, Fez and Jackie are on the couch, next to Donna and Eric, making out intensely. "My god, you guys have been at it forever now! Can you please take a break so we can all watch T.V. without having a gagging feeling for two minutes?" Hyde exclaimed, sitting in his usual chair, leaned back drinking a beer and not taking his eyes off the T.V. Fez and Jackie break apart and look very irritated at Hyde. "Hey, how come it isn't a big deal when Donna and Eric make out, but when we start some love in the room it's so disgusting!" Fez looked over at Hyde, waving his hands up in the air frantically. Hyde looked up at Fez, getting ready to say something but Kelso beat him to the words. "Because Eric and Donna don't go at it like they are trying to lip wrestle to death!" Kelso says, also as annoyed as Hyde. "What! Why are you guys getting so upset? I know it's weird because it's me and Fez, but we are a couple and we have the right to show our love to each other!" Jackie angrily lectures Hyde and Kelso, pointing her finger at them and looking back and fourth from one to the other with her eyebrows raised. "You guys are such jerks. I mean, when Jackie and Hyde first started going out we all thought it was gross and unnatural, but then we got used to it." Donna continued, backing Jackie up, while also looking back from Kelso to Hyde with her eyebrows raised. "Whatever." Hyde says sighing, upset at his defeat. "Well, I think I am going to go home now, it's getting late. See you tomorrow, Fez." Jackie says lifting up off the couch, leaning down to give a kiss on the cheek. "Bye you guys." She continued, waving while heading out the basement door. "Why do you guys always having to ruin the moment?" Fez pleads leaning forward to get a magazine off the coffee table. "Cause that's what we do Fez, if you don't like it then, well you are just going to have to leave," Kelso answers leaning back, looking satisfied. Fez gives a chuckle, getting over what happened a few seconds before. "Well, you know you guys, we have been going out for about two weeks now and I am falling in love with her. I mean, she is so wonderful. She is so kind to me and so beautiful. I want to spend the rest of my life with her…" Fez looks up dreamily leaning back against the sofa. "Well, Fez, does she feel the same way?" Donna asked looking guilty like she knew something. "Oh, we haven't talked about serious love. She doesn't know that I love her so much. I don't want to spoil what we have now, I can't live without her. What do you guys think if I ask her to marry me?" Fez asked suddenly, like he was so anxious to ask for a long time. "You haven't even talked about your feelings for each other yet. And you are just going to come right out and ask her, what if she says no?" Eric asks, looking at Fez like he was crazy. "Oh don't even say that to me, the thought would break my heart!" Fez said looking down at the floor, with disappointment at his friend's reaction. "Look, Fez, Eric is right. I really wouldn't if I were you. Just wait and take it a little slower. Trust me." Donna jumps in quickly. She is trying very hard to talk Fez down from the idea. "I know that we have been together for a very short time, but it's not like we are strangers that never met before this, then it wouldn't feel so right. We have been living together for almost a year, we have been really good friends for like four years… I have always loved her…" Fez explained trying to get his friends' approval. "That is true, why won't you let Fez go for it. I mean, they look in love to me." Kelso asks motioning towards Fez and looking at Donna. "I just think it would be better if they took it slower." Donna responds to Kelso. "Well, she is Jackie's best friend, so she probably talks to her a lot about stuff, so I would listen to Donna." Eric jumps in with a shrug. "But that's just me, hey you guys want to go out to The Hub and get something to eat?" Eric gets up and stands next to the couch. Kelso and Donna get up, leaving Fez and Hyde just sitting there where they were. Donna, Eric, and Kelso leave through the basement door, Hyde and Fez are alone. "So, you haven't said anything about this?" Fez, notices Hyde staring hard at the coffee table, thinking. "Oh, um… Why do you love her so much man?" Hyde said quickly responding to Fez's "hint" for an opinion. "I told you, she is so nice and so beautiful. She makes me feel so warm and smooth. I don't know, it's like a spell she has has over me." Fez shrugs, smiling with glee. Hyde nods in agreement, but Fez doesn't seem to notice. "So you are going to do it?" Hyde said taking a sip of his beer and staring at Fez for a response. "Ask her? I think I am… I am going to find her a ring tomorrow. I am going to do it!" Fez says, now really sure of himself, sitting up straight and smiling. "Fez, did you notice that Donna was trying to hint something to you? She was trying really hard to talk you out of it, maybe because Jackie doesn't feel the same way…" Hyde tells Fez, leaning towards him. "Why do you have to bring me down? I told you, I don't even wanna think about that! I am going to do it!" Fez gets up, angry and walks out the basement door, slamming it. Hyde sits there, still leaned forward, nodding his head.

Goes back to Hyde and Fez sitting in the rain. Fez is acting like he does not know Hyde is there, Hyde hasn't said anything yet. Fez is still leaning back on his hands looking at the rain pouring down. "Did you ask her?" Hyde finally looked up from the ground, speaking loudly trying to get over the noise of the rain hitting the garage door, and the ground. "No, I didn't even get a chance." Fez looks down, not making any effort to try to make his voice louder, Hyde could barely catch what he was saying. He looked shocked though, he did not expect for Jackie to break up with Fez first. "Come on, let's go inside." Hyde got up and motioned for Fez to come on while he walked towards the sliding door. Fez slowly got up off the ground and followed Hyde inside with his head hanging down. When they both got in the silent kitchen they sat down at the table. "I don't understand. She treated me so well, she looked like she was more in love with me then I was with her. I mean, we even talked about getting married and she looked so happy at the idea." Fez explained to Hyde once they both sat down. "It is because you rushed into it. But, then again, there is no way she could have known about it, so she didn't break up with you because of that." Hyde tried to figure out why Jackie had done such a thing. "But, why doesn't she love me? I mean, she fell in love with Kelso, and she fell in love with you, and I could have swore she loved me. What is wrong with me?" Fez pleaded. "That doesn't mean that she is going to love you Fez, and it doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with you. You don't have to be in love to have a good relationship. It just means that, that good relationship is not meant to last forever. Jackie is just not the girl for you, and you are not the guy for Jackie." Hyde tried to sound sincere, but he could not help but put a little roughness in his voice. "Thanks, but I just want to know why she thought we couldn't be together. All she said was that it didn't feel right and she didn't want to lead me on to anything," Fez squinted his eyes and started to think hard. Hyde and Fez sat in silence, both thinking of an answer to why Jackie seemed so uninterested all of a sudden.

Jackie sat on the couch, reading a magazine, while in the basement alone. Hyde came down from the stairs, pausing at the sight of Jackie. He walked over to his chair and sat down. Jackie was still looking at her magazine, and not saying anything to Hyde. He stared at her, trying to get her attention. Finally he broke the silence, "So, you and Fez broke up? That is weird; I thought you guys really liked each other." Hyde tried to sound careless about it, but he was really trying to get Jackie to tell him more. Jackie looked up from the magazine, ready to open up to Hyde. "Well, I was trying to stop it before it got too serious. I guess I wasn't ready." Jackie explained, looking down at the floor ahead and shaking her head.

A day before that break up…

Jackie and Donna sat on Donna's bed, Donna looking worried. "Jackie do you love Fez?" Donna blurted out to Jackie who looked up from the bed. "Love? Well, I like him a lot, but I can't say that I love him? I mean, he is a really great guy." Jackie quickly nodded her head up and down. "You know he really loves you. He thinks that you really love him." Donna calmed down a little. "I don't want to lead him on… I mean there were no feelings like there were with Steven. After Sam left him, I was still in love with him. Part of me wanted him to come back, and part of me wanted to get over him. When I realized that I had feelings for Fez, I thought there would still be hope, you know, to get over him. And now I am with Fez, and I feel like I am betraying him." Jackie suddenly poured out. "Jackie, Fez is going to ask you to marry him. You know that Fez has always loved you." Donna carried on further, now getting a nervous again. "Donna! What am I going to do! I just don't love Fez. I can't let things go any further!" Jackie demanded Donna give her an answer, now looking worried with her hands pulling at her hair.

Hyde and Jackie are in the basement again, sitting in silence. "How did you know that things were getting too serious?" Hyde was getting on to Jackie, a little more anxious. "Well, um, I could just tell. I mean, Fez always talks about marriage, I thought he was kidding at first but then I realized that maybe I was leading him on, and I couldn't do that." Jackie started quickly at first and then slowed down. "So you didn't break up with him for any other reason?" Hyde questioned with hope. Jackie looked at him blankly for a moment and then finally spoke, "Um… no…" Hyde gave a disappointed sigh. "Would you ever go back to him, if he settled down?" He asked. Jackie thought about it for a second and then gave a shrug. "Actually, I don't think that I ever liked Fez. I was just feeling lonely then, because I had lost my job, and didn't have anyone there for me. I don't think I can go with Fez now," she sighed in relief. "Well, you know Fez, he'll get over it, he always does." Hyde tried to comfort Jackie's guilt. "Yeah, I know," Jackie stated, curling up her lips.

Fez sat on the basement couch alone, staring at the open engagement ring box, with the ring inside. Jackie came down the stairs quietly, Fez did not notice. She stopped on the stairs when she saw Fez staring at the ring. "So, you bought me a ring?" She asked suddenly, startling Fez. He quickly closed the box, still keeping it in his hand. "Oh, hey Jackie. Yeah, it was just a little thing. Like a promise ring." He quickly tried to cover up his true story, not wanting to sound like a "heart-broken loser." Jackie knew what it really was though, but she did not want to crush him anymore so she played along. "Oh really, well that is nice. I am sure you can save it for another time, another girl. I am really sorry Fez. I hope that you can forgive me and we can be friends. That was really not right of me to lead you on." Jackie sounded desperate for Fez's forgiveness. She went over to Hyde's chair and sat down leaning towards Fez, with her hands on her chest where her heart was. "You know Jackie; it is not your fault. You just did the normal thing that couples do. I just took it one step further then it really was. You did not lead me on, but I was so in love with you that I did not notice that you didn't feel the same way." Fez tried to calm Jackie down. He had finally seen that it was his fault after hearing the reason that she broke up with him from Donna. He figured, after talking with Donna, that Jackie was right. It was going to fast, and maybe he really wasn't in love, but just so overwhelmed by finally getting to be with Jackie after years of chasing her. Fez kept that thought to himself though, since it was all over with, it didn't matter if he was in love or not. He and Jackie just weren't meant to be, and he had to accept that.

A few minutes before…

Donna had come down to the basement, looking for Fez and finally finding him on the couch all alone. "Hey Donna," Fez greeted her pitifully, still not over Jackie dumping him. Now he was more angry at her then he was sad. "Hey, Fez. I want to talk to you about Jackie. See, I don't want you being mad at her and never wanting to be friends with her again." Donna started off. "I can't help but be mad," is all Fez stated, leaving it up to Donna for an explanation. "Well, don't, please. She was just in a rough time when she started off with you. She likes you a lot and thinks you are a really great guy, but she didn't want things to go so fast for you two. You weren't going to settle for anything less then love! She wasn't ready for love after Hyde, because she had not gotten over him yet. You know, what she and Hyde had was really special. She felt really bad about that because she couldn't have that with you. The only choice she had was to break it off now before, twenty-five years later, you two are miserably married and have two dozen kids." Donna went on, starting to raise her voice at Fez. "Yeah, you're right. All those years, and I finally had her, then I just had to push my luck and it got me right back where I was four years ago." Fez had finally faced the fact that he had to move on, forget about it and move on for good. "Maybe that was the thing, the thing that made you rush. You were so excited that you just wanted to see if you could get better instead of being happy with what you got. In fact, maybe that is the thing that you were feeling, instead of love," Donna made Fez think with those final words. He didn't say anything again, and no one had to, to know that he got the message. Donna got up from the chair and patted Fez on the back, leaving the basement for Fez to think. When Donna had left, Fez pulled out the engagement ring in the box, and stared at it.

Jackie stared at Fez, looking very appreciative of what he just said. She knew that she could always count on Fez to never be cruel to her. She always felt bad about breaking Fez's heart, deep down inside, because all he was, was nice to her. "Fez, you are the best guy I have ever known. You are such a good friend to me. Someday, you are going to make a girl very, very happy. I just wasn't meant to enjoy what you have to give, that's all. There are tons of other girls out there, though. You will find one better than me. Friends?" Jackie was making a huge effort to put the whole thing behind them. "That is really nice thanks, and we are friends." Fez looked straight into Jackie's deep eyes. That was the most touching thing he had heard all day. It made him feel better more than Hyde's or Donna's speech did. "I owe you a lot more than that for all the times you have been there for me." Jackie got up and held her hands out for Fez to come and hug her. Fez got up and took Jackie's invite. Then they slowly pulled apart. "So, I think everyone is down at The Hub, come on!" Fez led Jackie towards the basement door, and they both left for The Hub.

Jackie and Fez came through the door of the gang's second favorite hang out. They were all sitting at a booth by the bathroom door, where they often sat. "Hey guys! Come on, we saved you guys seats." Eric called, spotting Jackie and Fez first. The rest of the gang quickly turned around, curious as to what was going on between Jackie and Fez now. "Thanks." Jackie and Fez smiled while walking over to the table. Jackie could see them all staring, with curiosity in their eyes. "Me and Fez are friends again. We realized that we have to good of a friendship to pass it up." Jackie continued, informing their wondering heads. "That's right! The gang is back together again!" Kelso called out, everyone laughing with relief. Everyone broke out into a conversation, minus Jackie and Hyde, who are just staring at the table. Jackie glances over at Hyde for a moment and Hyde glances over at Jackie meeting her eyes. They stay there looking into each other, as if they were having their own conversation with their eyes. Jackie broke the eye contact, afraid of anyone else noticing their communication. Hyde looked away after that, joining the gang in their conversation. Jackie is still staring at the table, all the noise is drowned out around her. After a few seconds she had shooken herself out of her train of thought, and casually started to join and laugh along with the gang, forgetting about her previous thoughts.