Chapter 18.

9:00am
Sunday, October 1st.
The Forman's Kitchen.

Jackie had what she considered to be the best dream ever last night, she was Sandy and Steven was Danny and they were singing 'You're the One That I Want' to each-other just like in the movie Grease. Unfortunately, her dream was cut short by an angry Red Forman, who had woken Jackie up by banging loudly at her door before ordering her to come down stairs.

She was now sitting on one of the dining room chairs, situated in the middle of the kitchen with Steven seated directly beside her. Their friends, Eric, Donna, Fez and Kelso were watching the scene play out, safely from the opposite side of the sliding doors.

Red and Kitty Forman stood sternly in front of both Jackie and Hyde. Red had his arms crossed over his chest with a permanent frown plastered across his face, while Kitty stood next to him trying to mask her smile with a concerned expression but failing at it pretty miserably.

Jackie already knew what this was about and had prepared herself for the up and coming lecture as she made the walk from her bedroom down to the kitchen. Mrs. Forman had obviously told Mr. Forman about what she'd seen in the kitchen last night, and now her and Steven were going to pay the consequences Red Forman style.

"Kitty's informed me that the two of you are…" Red began but looked like he was already struggling for the right words.

She couldn't imagine he would have given these kinds of talks before and judging by the look on his face, it was clear that he'd rather be anywhere else but in this kitchen right now.

"going steady," Kitty filled in for him, a burst of excitement crossing her face as she did.

Jackie frowned, not liking the phrase. "Dating," she corrected from her seated spot in front of the older couple.

"Going out," Hyde added from beside her with a grin. "Hooking up… pick one man," he continued on and Jackie had to turn her face away to hide the laugh threatening to escape her lips.

Red looked less than impressed as he stared back at Hyde.

"Keep going funny boy and you'll be laughing all the way to the hospital with my boot up your ass," Red warned. "Is that what you want?" He questioned a second later.

"… No sir," Hyde responded.

"Alright… Now whatever it is you two are doing, I don't care. But so long as the both of you are living under my roof, you'll be living by my rules and there's gonna be some new ones from now on." Red informed the two, looking back and forth from both kids as if waiting for some big reaction.

Jackie had anticipated changes, so she was less than shocked by the older man's plans and by the looks of it, Steven didn't seem to care much either.

"Red, I'm sure we can trust the kids to do the right thing…" Kitty suddenly expressed, getting the attention of the room.

Red looked at her as if she were speaking Chinese. "And I was sure I'd never see my son having sex on our kitchen table with the neighbor girl but I was wrong about that too."

Jackie gasped at the knowledge of Eric and Donna being caught doing it on the kitchen table, it was news to her but even she couldn't deny the image would have been scaring for all parties.

Kitty looked horrified by the mere mention of the events, while Steven chuckled quietly from next to her. Jackie watched as Red turned his glare towards Hyde, the look got him to shut up without even having to threaten a foot up the ass.

"You gotta admit Red… It's kinda funny," Hyde pointed out and Jackie let a small giggle out before quickly covering her mouth to muffle the sound.

Red turned his cold look onto her, his expression making it clear he didn't in-fact find anything about the situation funny.

"Red, just tell them what the new rules are so we can all get out of here," Kitty sighed and instructed her husband.

"Fine… Now firstly and most importantly, there's no hanky panky in my house," Red started off strong.

Jackie turned her nose up at the term 'hanky panky' being used, but allowed Red to continue without interrupting her this time.

"Jackie's not allowed in the basement after midnight, no exceptions," Red continued the countdown to his unnecessary rules.

Jackie's mouth dropped open in shock, feeling slightly victimised by the older mans second rule. It was normal for the group of friends to be hanging out in the basement past midnight, especially during the weekends. If she wasn't allowed in the basement after midnight she would be missing out on so much and to her the rule was completely unfair, but she could tell Red wasn't opening these rules to a debate or even a discussion, so there was nothing she could do about it now.

She closed her mouth and Red continued.

"Stevens not allowed upstairs at all, unless its to use the bathroom," he said.

Jackie looked over at Steven, expecting him to argue but he barely reacted. She supposed he was hardly ever upstairs anyway, so the rule held no real effect towards him or the way he lived his life here at the Forman's.

"and if you get her pregnant, so help me God-"

"Red!" Kitty cut him off quickly, flashing him a stern look.

Jackie felt her cheeks turn red at the implications behind Red's latest statement. Steven hardly moved, his shades covering his true emotions perfectly.

"Don't have to worry about that Red," Hyde responded coolly, and Jackie suddenly wished she could be swallowed up into some other dimension where the embarrassment of discussing her non-exist sex life couldn't follow her.

"Is that all?" Kitty prodded Red on impatiently.

"No… Curfew's need to be put in place," Red responded quickly, putting the cherry on the cake.

Jackie and Hyde both groaned. Since she'd moved in, she'd been able to stay out as late as she liked, it hadn't mattered too much anyway, seeing as all her friends tended to hang out inside their basement. But now that she had started school and her and Steven had started dating, she was finally enjoying the advantages of having no curfew, only to have it taken away…

Well, it was good while it lasted.

"Red man, I'm 19, you can't give me a curfew," Hyde pointed out quickly.

Red paused for a moment before responding. "Maybe I can't give you a curfew, but I can still give Jackie one," he turned his attention to a sullen looking Jackie. "School nights you're home by 11, weekends home by 1."

Jackie sighed but nodded, it could have been a lot worse and she'd take what she could get.

"Well," Kitty clapped her hands together and smiled down at both of the kids. "That's that. Now I know these rules might seem a little unfair, but we only have your best interests at heart and I'd just like to say, that I think the two of you make an adorable couple and I'm happy you're happy… God knows you both needed something good to happen in your poor lives," she rambled on, a sad expression crossed her face and for a second it looked as if she were about to cry.

"Kitty," Red mumbled, standing uncomfortably next to his wife.

"Oh, I'm sorry but it's true!" Kitty exclaimed, reaching into the pocket of her apron to pull out some tissues.

"Uh… can we go now?" Hyde wondered as Mrs. Forman began blowing her nose loudly into the tissue.

"Alright, get out of here," Red waved his hand at the both of them.

With the Red's permission, Jackie and Hyde jumped up from their chairs and headed towards the sliding doors. Jackie followed Hyde out quickly, eager to get as far away from this conversation as possible. As the two of them stepped onto the patio by the kitchen door they were instantly ambushed by their eavesdropping friends, who all looked determined to question them about what they no doubt had just over-heard.

It was clear by the looks on their faces that they already knew all about her and Steven's little secret.

Donna and Fez were both grinning at Jackie and Hyde, while Kelso had his arms crossed and was looking at her as if she'd grown two heads and Eric was staring at Hyde with a look of disgust on his face.

"Hey guys," Jackie broke the silence, pushing past the crowd that had formed in front of her to step off the patio and onto the driveway.

The rest of the group followed after her.

"So, did Red give it to you?" Eric wondered, directing his question at Hyde, who was moving to lean against the front of the Vista Cruiser.

Jackie watched as Steven shrugged, she walked over to the cruiser and pushed herself up so that she was sitting on the hood of the car, directly next to Steven.

"No worse then when he found out about you and Donna getting hitched," Hyde responded, and Jackie badly wished she could have been there to see Red's reaction to the news of Donna and Eric's engagement.

"No way man," Kelso chimed in, moving to stand in front of Jackie and Hyde. "That was way worse, Red got all red and veiny when he was yelling at you two," he looked over at Donna and Eric. "This time he was barely pink."

"Up close he looked purple," Donna muttered, staring off into the distance as if reliving the scene all over again.

"I just can't believe you guys are actually dating," Eric scrunched up his face in disgust as he looked back and forth from Jackie to Hyde. "It's just wrong."

Jackie frowned. "Shut up, Eric!" She exclaimed, sick of all the crap he was constantly giving her and also slightly worried that his opinion on their relationship meant more to Steven then he was letting on.

Eric was his best-friend after all, and after everything they had been through recently, she would hate for his comments of disdain for her to turn into just another obstacle for them to get around, just when they had worked their issues out and she was happier then she had been in a long time.

"Jackie… I don't get you man. You could have had me, but you chose Hyde?" Kelso added suddenly, pulling her back down to reality. "I mean, no offence to Hyde or anything but he's no me!"

Jackie rolled her eyes, but Hyde responded first.

"You mean I'm not a womanizing man-whore?" Hyde retaliated.

Kelso looked at him with a confused expression. "Okay I only know what one of those words mean, and I'm not a man-whore. I'm just an incredibly good-looking guy who attracts a lot of horny chicks and then does it with them!"

"Wait... Is that not the definition of man-whore…" Fez said, looking just as confused as Kelso.

"Jackie, I'm not apposed to doing it on the side… You know, when you get bored of Hy-" Kelso's words were cut off mid-sentence as Hyde leaned forward to frog him hard in the arm.

"Owe Hyde!... Okay I guess I deserved that one," Kelso muttered as he rubbed his sore arm.

"Look… Jackie and I are going out now, so you're all just gonna have to get over it," Hyde told the group and Jackie couldn't help the smile from forming on her face, she just loved hearing him say that they were dating.

"I'll try… But I can't make any promises," Eric responded.

"Me too," Kelso nodded his head in agreement.

Donna rolled her eyes at her fiancé and their friend. "You two know I'm cool with this. I'm just glad you're finally done being idiots and stopped lying."

"Thanks Donna…" Jackie smiled over at her friend, feeling a sudden surge of guilt shoot through her body.

Steven had told her the night before that Donna had worked out their secret over a week ago now and that she had been the one who convinced him to go after Jackie and show up at the dance. Donna had always been so supportive of her and Steven's feelings towards each other and Jackie had repaid her by lying to her face.

She owed her an apology.

"Fez?" Hyde prompted their last friend.

"Well I think you and Jackie make a sexy couple," Fez responded with a smile, creeping Jackie out slightly but she knew it was meant as a compliment.

"uh, thanks Fez," she said.

"I for one, cannot wait to watch the two of you make out in the basement," he added.

"Fez, if I catch you spying on me and Jackie, I'll kick your ass," Hyde threatened coolly.

In response, Fez inched further away from Hyde as Kelso chuckled from in-between the both of them.

"Man, this is gonna be fun," Kelso laughed.

5:20pm.
Thursday, October 5th.
Jackie's bedroom.

"Wow," Donna commented after following Jackie into her bedroom. "The last time I was in this room, it looked a whole lot different," she added, walking deeper into the room.

Jackie passed Donna to take a seat on her bed. When she moved in with the Forman's, this room had belonged to Laurie Forman and was full of her things. She'd redecorated a few weeks in, removing Laurie's personal items (they now lived in the Forman's attic) and replacing them with the few items she managed to bring from her old home in Manhattan.

Posters of Abba, Donny Osmond, Andy Gibb and the Captain and Tennille hung on the walls, tiger beat, and vogue magazines stacked on-top of the nightstand by the bed and clothes were spilling out of the small wardrobe.

Jackie had repurposed a desk, left over from Laurie's high school days, into a makeup station, adding an old mirror she'd found in the attic, to the wall behind in. She had also changed the bed lining as soon as she possibly could (not wanting to catch anything from Laurie's old ones), opting for a cute velvet blush-pink bed spread and matching fluffy cushions.

She'd been living with the Forman's now for over 2 months and this was the first time Donna had entered into her bedroom.

"I think it looks better this way," Jackie responded with a shrug as Donna continued looking around the room.

"Well it definitely smells better… It used to smell like rubbers," Donna screwed her nose up at the memory. Jackie knew exactly what she was talking about, as she'd noticed the smell the very day she moved in, luckily her perfume had masked the gross stench by now.

"Don't remind me, it took weeks to get rid of that smell," Jackie informed her and Donna laughed.

The red head moved to sit down on the bed next to her. "So, what's up Jackie… You said you needed my help with something?" She questioned.

Jackie nodded. There was something she needed help with, but first they needed to have a conversation that Jackie had been putting off all week.

"We'll get to that…" Jackie began, unsure of how to start the conversation. "There's something we need to talk about first"

She'd been feeling guilty for weeks about how she dealt with the beginning of her and Steven's relationship. Lying to Donna had affected their friendship, whether the two had admitted it or not and she valued their relationship too much to just let it slide.

"Are you okay Jackie, you look weird," Donna pointed out after a moment of silence between the two.

"No, I don't," Jackie took offence, but Donna just shrugged back, unapologetic.

That was another thing Jackie appreciated about Donna. Back in New York, her friends would always tip-toe around her, they were never real with her, too worried to say something that would upset her and ruin there social standing.

Donna didn't give a crap about that stuff, she actually said what she was thinking and called Jackie out on her dramatic, crazy behaviours.

"I just wanted to… Apologize for lying to you about Steven and I," Jackie finally got it out, feeling uncomfortable under Donna's gaze. "It was just really complicated to begin with and I felt like we needed to keep it just between us for a while until we worked things out, but I feel really guilty about it."

Donna nodded. "I guess I was a little confused, especially since I already knew how you guys felt about each-other and then all of a sudden you just stopped talking to me about it. But, I get why you did what you did and you don't need to apologize."

Jackie shook her head quickly. "No, I do… Donna, you're like the most genuine person I've ever met and I care about our friendship so I don't want this coming between us," she said before reaching her hand out to place on-top of Donna's, which was resting on the bed between the two of them.

"You know... You were the first person I wanted to tell when Steven kissed me for the first time," she informed her with a smile.

Donna instantly rolled her eyes, but the smile on her face told Jackie how she really felt about the sentiment.

"Okay ew," she laughed. "Apology forgiven midget… Now what did you need help with? I gotta tell you, if it's like sex advice or something, I'm out of here."

"Uh, no… Definitely not," Jackie shook her head. Her and Hyde had only just gotten to second base, she still wasn't ready to have sex and he'd been incredibly patient with her so far.

"Steven asked me if I wanted to go to the drive in's tomorrow night to see 'Halloween'," she informed Donna with a smile. He'd mentioned it casually, after he'd picked her up from school earlier that day as if it were no big deal, but Jackie had been in panic mode ever since.

She wished it was just the movie choice that made her nervous. Scary movies had never been her genre of choice, but she'd watch the grass grow if he asked her to. It was something much more concerning, that had her stressing.

"It's our first official date and I have no idea what I'm going to wear!" She exclaimed.

"And you're coming to me with this?" Donna questioned, a confused look on her face. "Even Fez would have been a better choice."

Jackie groaned before jumping off her bed and walking towards the closet that contained most of her clothes. "Donna, you've known Steven almost your whole life. I don't know what he likes on girls and you do so you have to help me!" She said as she began sifting through different dresses and blouses.

"Hyde won't care what you're wearing Jackie," Donna pointed out from her spot on the queen bed.

Jackie rolled her eyes from inside the closet. That was such a Donna thing to say.

"Okay but, Jeans or a skirt?" She questioned, coming out of the closet with a pair of Levi's in one hand and a denim maxi skirt in the other.

"Um… I don't know. But I do know he likes those short shorts, have any of those?" Donna questioned, trying to be helpful.

Jackie sighed and dropped the items of clothes onto the floor. "Of-course he likes short shorts Donna, every teenage boy living does but that doesn't mean I'm going to go on our first date with my butt cheeks exposed!"

Donna fell back onto the bed, exasperated. "Jackie, just wear whatever you'd normally wear on a date. Hyde likes you for you, you have nothing to worry about you're already dating him!"

"Argh, you were right. Fez would have been more helpful, I'm going to go get him."

9:05pm.
Friday, October 6th.
The Drive-ins.

The drive-ins were busy, always were on Friday nights but the horror movie had drawn in a bigger crowd then usual. Teenagers looking for a thrill, or a chance to get closer to their date, filled the car park.

When Jackie and Hyde had arrived, the movie had already started. They had planned to arrive 10 minutes early, but Jackie had been 20 minutes late. She was always at least 10 minutes late when it came to dates – keep them waiting and wanting more. But tonight's tardiness had been un-intentional, her hair refused to curl right, and she'd tried on at-least five different outfits before finding the perfect one.

She settled on a dark long-sleeved patterned midi dress pairing it with knee high boots, as it was a chilly night. If you asked her, she'd say she looked pretty damn good, even Steven had commented on how nice she looked – something he rarely bothered to do.

Now that they were finally here, on their first official date, she didn't get what she was so nervous about. It was their first official date, but they'd been sneaking around and seeing each-other for weeks now and he seemed to like her in whatever she was wearing.

Donna had been right and Jackie hated to admit it.

"I don't get it," Hyde began, pointing a finger towards the large screen at the front of the lot. "Why would you run up the stairs if there was some crazy killer with a knife coming at you?... Get out of the house man!"

The pair were seated in the back of his Camino, his arm around her shoulder and her body curled into his. She really hated scary movies and this one was no exception, she'd spent most of the movie so far, hiding behind the blanket they'd brought with them or in the crook of his neck.

"That's what you're so concerned about? That guy isn't human, it wouldn't matter where they ran he'd find them anyway, it's totally unfair!" Jackie pointed out, pulling the blanket higher over her eyes as Michael Myers found Jamie Lee Curtis hiding in the closet and she began to scream.

"You okay there, man?" He wondered with a smirk on his face as he looked down at Jackie hiding beneath their blanket.

Jackie nodded her head quickly. "Yeah, I'm fine... Just a little cold," she told him, lowering the blanket slowly.

Telling Steven that horror movies were her favourite kind when he had asked her out the other day, may have been a mistake. He had mentioned to her how he loved the thrill of a scary movie and she had wanted him to think that she was a cool girl, but that decision was back firing on her now.

Hyde chuckled back at her. "You hate this, don't you?" He asked her.

Jackie sighed, giving up the weak façade she'd been attempting to fool him with. "Yes, it's so scary!" She exclaimed, looking back to the screen right as another jump scare happened.

Screaming, she pulled the blanket back over her eyes.

"Alright, how about we go get something to eat?" Hyde questioned, pulling the blanket off the both of them and hoping down from the tray of the Camino.

"God yes," Jackie agreed quickly as Hyde reached out to help her down. When her feet were safely on the ground, Steven began leading them towards the concession stand, keeping her hand in his the whole way.

"Wanna tell me why you said you loved scary movies when clearly you don't?" He questioned her.

"I don't know, I guess I wanted us to have something in common?" She told him as they neared the concession stand.

She'd always thought the best relationships were good because those two people shared common interests. Her and Steven had no common interests, the only thing they shared were bad parents.

"I mean, everything you love I hate and everything I love you hate… That's not normal is it?" She added quickly.

Hyde shrugged. "I don't know… All I know is, my parents had tons of stuff in common and look how great that turned out," he pointed out and Jackie frowned, his parents weren't exactly the best example of a healthy relationship.

"Besides, normal's kinda boring anyway," he added.

Jackie smiled. "I guess so," she agreed as they reached the back of the long line that lead to the front of the concession stand, the smell of popcorn and sugar filled the air and her stomach made a low rumbling noise in response.

"You don't have to pretend to like shit just cause I do, Okay?" Hyde told her.

Jackie nodded her head, feeling slightly ridiculous for even bringing it up. She liked how different they were to each-other, it was part of the reason she'd been attracted to him in the first place.

"Okay," she responded.

"Good. Cause I kinda like you the way you are… Tell anyone I said that and I'll deny it till the day I die."

Jackie laughed, knowing he was joking with her. "You're such a softy," she pointed out with a smile on her face.

"I'm not a softy, Jackie," he denied with a blank look but he couldn't take back what he had just said to her.

His words had betrayed his cool - 'couldn't care less' persona.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone," she assured him, placing her hands on his chest and leaning up to peck him on the lips.

Hyde looked down at her with the same sullen expression, but he wrapped his arms around her anyway. "Fine," he began but his voice trailed off as he turned his head towards the couple standing in the line in front of them.

His arms dropped from around her and he turned his body in their direction to get a better look. Jackie frowned, upset that his attention was now on someone else instead of her. As she looked over to get a better look at the couple in front of them, Hyde reached out to place his hand on the man's shoulder.

"Kelso, that you man?" He wondered as the figure turned to them.

Jackie hadn't noticed, but surely enough the man standing in line in front of them had been their friend Kelso this whole time.

"Hey Hyde, Jackie!" Kelso's mouth stretched into a wide smile as he pulled Hyde into a hug, earning him a rough smack across the arm in response. "What are you guys doing here?" He questioned a moment later.

Jackie didn't bother responding, to busy looking over the girl that was with Michael. She looked familiar, but she couldn't quite put her finger on just how she knew her.

"Watching the movie, you moron," Hyde responded for the both of them, clearly frustrated.

Kelso just laughed. "Oh yeah."

"Uh, Michael… Want to introduce us to your date?" Jackie asked a moment later, eyeing the tall brunette who stood in front of her.

Kelso smiled brightly and wrapped his arm around the girl. "This is Brooke,"
he introduced her.

Jackie couldn't help but gasp at the revelation. "No way," she muttered. So, this was Brooke. Last she had heard, Brooke still couldn't stand Michael. She wondered how he had gotten her to agree to going on a date with him.

"Do I know you?" Brooke wondered, probably confused by Jackie's shocked reaction.

"No sorry," Jackie quickly corrected her. "I'm Jackie Burkhart and this is Steven J Hyde… The third."

"The first two are in jail," Hyde responded coolly and Brooke stared back at the two with a concerned expression.

Jackie laughed. "He's joking."

"No, I'm not," Hyde responded.

Brookes eyes darted between Hyde and Jackies. "Um okay… We'll it's nice meeting you both," she said uncomfortably.

"So, the big guy finally wore you down huh?" Hyde changed the subject, looking over at Kelso who still had the same cocky look on his face.

Brooke sighed in response. "Well he wouldn't stop coming to my work, I had to agree to a date to get him to stop… He was making some of the older women uncomfortable," she told the couple.

Jackie had to hold in the laughter that was fighting to escape her lips.

Kelso stepped forward. "She means horny," he added with a grin.

"Ew Michael, she so does not," Jackie scrunched her nose up, grossed out by the aspect of horny older women.

"Does too Jackie," Kelso fought back as the line began moving forward.

Jackie rolled her eyes at Kelso as Brooke spoke up again.

"So how do you guys know each-other?" She wondered, looking at Kelso for the answer.

"Oh well, me and Hyde have been buddies forever. He lives in our other friends basement and Jackie just moved into the same house a few months ago," he made short of a complicated story.

Brooke looked at Hyde and Jackie with a confused expression. "You both live with this other friends family? What happened?" She questioned and Jackie assumed she had really meant to ask what happened to their own families.

"We're children of abandonment," Hyde answered first with a blank look on his face.

Jackie nodded back. "He's not kidding."

Brooke looked mortified by their response. Jackie guessed she wasn't used to people being so blunt about things as serious as abandonment.

"Um, Okay…" The brunette responded right as they reached the front of the line, giving her the perfect excuse to end the conversation.

As both Kelso and Brooke turned away from them to order their food, Jackie turned to face Hyde with a smile on her face.

"I think we freaked her out," she pointed out and laughed.

Hyde chuckled along with her. "What do you say I tell her about the time my mum got so loaded on mouthwash, she lost our rent money at the track."

12:55am.
Later than night.
The Forman's.

Hyde stood at the foot of the stairs, facing Jackie who stood on the first step. She had her arms wrapped around his neck and he had his around her waist. They'd been here for about 5 minutes, neither wanting to say goodnight yet.

If it were up to Hyde they'd still be on their date, but Red's new rules were officially in place and Jackie now had a curfew of 1:00am on the weekends so he had to take her home, cutting their night short.

After the drive-ins they went to Mount Hump, seeing as Jackie was no longer allowed in the basement past midnight and he wasn't allowed upstairs at all. Mount Hump was quickly becoming a regular spot for the couple since their first kiss there all those weeks ago.

"I wish we could have stayed out just a little bit longer," Jackie sighed, and Hyde agreed.

They'd gotten pretty hot and heavy in the back of the Camino before realizing they had to get home if they wanted Jackie to be back before curfew. He'd driven home with a painfully hard erection.

"Red's rules kinda ruined the moment," he responded.

"Kinda… But I still had a great night," she told him with a smile and Hyde grinned back, happy she'd had a good time despite the movie choice.

"You're pretty good at this whole dating thing…"

Hyde nodded, his eyes drifting down to her plumb lips, still slightly swollen from their time at Mount Hump.

"It's not as bad as I thought," he admitted to her quietly before pulling her towards him and crashing his lips on to hers.

Red said there was no 'hanky-panky' in his house, but he didn't say anything about kissing and thank God for that because Hyde wouldn't have lasted an hour.

He'd kissed a lot of chicks in his time but kissing her was something else entirely, no one came close.

She was leaning against him now, trying to get as close as possible while her fingers laced through his hair. His hands trailed lower down her body before grabbing at her ass as their kiss deepened and her tongue slipped over his own.

She moaned into his mouth when his grip tightened over her backside.

He was close to saying 'fuck it' to Red's rule and carrying her downstairs to the basement, when a light turned on from the top of the staircase and loud footsteps broke the two apart.

Red Forman stood at the top of the stairs, glaring down at the couple who jumped away from each-other quickly. Hyde wasn't sure how the older man had heard them from all the way in his room, considering they'd been pretty quiet this whole time.

Red had probably been waiting up to catch them breaking one of his rules.

"What the hell is this?" Red commented angrily as Hyde ran a hand down his face, trying to control his breathing.

"It's not 1 yet Red," Hyde informed him a moment later.

"It's, 1:05 smart ass," Red responded. "Next time I catch the two of you breaking one of the rules, there's gonna be consequences."

"Technically I had her home before 1… That was the rule man," Hyde pointed out and Jackie nodded along in agreement.

Red glared down at him. "Fine, new rule… Jackie has to be in her room by 1 on the weekends and 11 on the weeknights."

Hyde sighed and looked over at Jackie, who had the same sullen expression on her face. It looked like Red wasn't going to ease up on these rules in any shape or form.

"What are you waiting for? Get to your room young lady!" Red yelled, startling Jackie.

"Night, Steven," she quickly leaned forward to kiss him on the cheek before flashing him a smile and running up the stairs.

Hyde watched after her from the bottom of the stairs, briefly contemplating whether it would be worth waiting for Red to go back to bed so that he could sneak up to her room and they could finish that kiss.

Once she disappeared around the corner his eyes shifted towards the older Forman, who was still standing at the top of the stairs with his arms crossed, obviously onto him.

"Why are you still standing there? Unless you want another kiss goodnight, you'll get your ass down to the basement," the older man ordered.

"Yes sir," Hyde muttered, turning and leaving the foot of the stairs to head towards the basement. Now he knew what Forman had been complaining about all these years, Red could be scary when he wanted to be.

If Hyde ever wanted to get up the stairs and into Jackie's room, he'd need to be some sort of magician to pull it off without Red finding out. He'd work it out eventually, but until then they'd have to work with Red's rules the best they could.

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