Jackie and Donna were out at the local bar at happy hour. Jackie was throwing the drinks back.

"Jackie you may want to slow down. Don't want a repeat of last time." Donna said.

"Yea you're right. But I am gonna catch a man! I'm thinking I just need a rebound to get over Steven and I mean completely get over him."

"You mean like a one night stand?" Donna asked.

"Yea sure!" Jackie said.

"What happened to the smart Jackie from earlier?"

"She's gone Donna! She's gone! She's clearly not that smart. She started to let Steven back in again and she shouldn't have done that."

"Jackie I really think you should give Hyde another chance at least to be friends again."

"Nope! Not this time Donna."

She looked so downtrodden then she looked across the bar. At the bar, there stood a six-foot dark handsome man dressed in nice slacks and button down shirt. He looked to be a bit old than her. He caught Jackie's eye and smiled.

Look at that smile! Nice outfit. He looks professional, successful! Those eyes. They are nice but not as nice as Steven's. Steven's are blue and I can just drown in them. Why am I thinking about Steven? I should be thinking about this new guy that's eyeing me. I wonder where he's from he can't be from Point Place I've never seen him before and I know everyone from Point Place, after all I am popular.

While Jackie was sitting there Donna had gotten up and called the Foreman's and got Fez on the phone. She got him to come down immediately. The cute bar guy came over to talk to Jackie. They sat there talking and Jackie was laying on the flirting.

Fez got there quickly and sat down next to the cute bar guy.

"Hi! I am Fez!" He told the cute bar guy.

"Hey I'm John."

"So John where do you work?" Fez asked.

"Oh you don't care where he works, do you Fez?" Jackie said giving Fez the stink eye.

"Sure I do. Any friend of Jackie is a friend of mine."

Jackie was about to lay into Fez when Donna spoke up. "Jackie, I need to go to the bathroom."

"Go yourself."

"Jackie you're the one that taught me that girls go to the bathroom together."

"Ugh fine." Jackie said standing up and following Donna into the bathroom.

Fez and John were talking and really hitting it off.

This guy is cute. Wait! What! I should not be having these thoughts about a guy! I do have these thought about Kelso and he's a guy. Am I gay? No, I couldn't possibly be. I've dated girls. Nothing but girls. I've done it with girls too. Maybe I like boys and girls. I dunno, I never hit it off with any of them. I have more in common with them than actually liking them. I mean even Jackie! We like hair and clothes and decorating and when we tried to date that lasted all of two weeks. Ayi! What do I do if I do like boys?

"So I think we should head back to you guys' place." Donna said to Fez and Jackie.

"No Donna I'm having a good time here!" Jackie said.

"No no we should go! We can watch TV and hangout." Fez said.

"We do that like every night Fez." Jackie said.

"Jackie, I really need to get back. I need to talk to Eric anyway. You know about your plans you gave me earlier."

"Ugh! Fine!" Jackie said grabbing her bag. "Oh wait! John would you like to join us?" Jackie asked.

Donna and Fez looked at each other with worried expressions.

"Jackie, I don't think John wants to join us do you John?" Donna asked.

"Actually, that sounds pretty good." John said getting up and grabbing his Jacket.

The four of them headed out the door.

Fez leaned over to Donna and whispered in her ear. "This is why we don't throw Jackie Surprise parties." Annoyed.

Fez drove his own car, John his own car and Jackie and Donna road together. Donna drove as slow as possible, annoying Jackie. Fez was able to get there first, just in time to finish up the decorations. Everyone was there and dressed up. Donna and Jackie opened the door, John in tow.

"Surprise!" Everyone yelled.

Jackie looked at Donna. "Donna did I miss your birthday or something?" Jackie asked.

"No this is for you!" Donna said.

"Oh my God really!?" Jackie asked placing a hand up to her heart. "You guys have never thrown me a party!"

"I know! And it was all Hyde's idea." Donna said with Hyde close enough for him to hear.

"Aww really?" Jackie asked.

"Really Jackie." Donna said.

Kitty and Red walked up to Jackie.

"Oh Jackie we are just so proud of you for getting that new job!" Kitty said.

"Thank you Mrs. Foreman."

Red leaned over and gave her a half hug and kissed her on the side of her forehead. Jackie's eyes teared up. She was really close to Kitty and Red but especially Red. They had bonded her sophomore year when she helped him with Red's car. Since then the two of them regularly worked on cars together. That was one main thing Hyde loved about being with Jackie she knew her way around a car.

Hyde was talking with Fez. "Who's the guy that came in with Jackie and Donna?" he asked Fez.

"Some guy Jackie picked up at the bar." He replied. "Something seems off with him though."

"Like what?" Hyde asked.

"I dunno but it's something." Fez said.

Eric's friend Buddy was there and he and John were really engaging in conversation. Hyde looked over, he understood what was 'off' about John now.

Fez walked off to talk to Buddy and John. Donna walked up to Hyde.

"Randy is here?" Donna asked.

"Yea, man you told me to invite him." Hyde said.

"Yea but I was hoping you would ask him in a way that would make him not want to come. Now it's just awkward."

"Randy loves to party man. What can I do?" Hyde said shrugging.

"Tell him to go."

"What? No way man! If you want him gone you should ask him to leave."

"Oh fine I'll deal with it. I just hope Eric can too." Donna said then walked off towards Randy who ironically was talking to Eric.

Jackie walked up to Hyde.

"Steven, I can't believe you did this for me." Jackie said.

"Yea well. You know. New job, good job, gotta have a party." Hyde said a bit nervous.

"It's just none of you have thrown me a party. You know like ever. It's very sweet." She said kissing Hyde on the cheek.

Hyde blushed a bit. "Yea well… you know." He coughed uncomfortably. "You know Jackie I just want you to know that the girl you saw earlier at Grooves, Debbie. I'm not dating her. She was the previous apartment owner's granddaughter. She was just handling my paperwork for the place."

Jackie stared at him for a bit.

"I'm not dating anyone." He continued.

"Oh umm." Jackie started. "Good to know." She smiled and looked directly at him. He smiled back. They were sharing a memory.

John walked up to them breaking their moment.

"Hey Jackie, is your friend Fez seeing anyone?" John asked.

"Ummm no. Why do you ask?" Jackie said.

"I was thinking of asking him out." John said.

"Oh so you're ahh… ahhh…ooohhhh." Jackie said now realizing all the signs.

"Yea. I'm gay." John said. Hyde was smiling behind Jackie.

"Well I don't think Fez is gay, I've seen him with a bunch of girls… although if he was gay that would explain a lot." Jackie said out loud thinking back on previous memories of Fez.

"I think you should go for it man, you never know." Hyde said giving John a pat on the shoulder. John walked off. Jackie turned back to Hyde to see him smiling.

"Steven why are you smiling?" Jackie asked. "Oh my god you knew John was gay didn't you?"

"Yea man, the signs are obvious."

"I guess I just didn't see it."

"Yea you really didn't see it." Hyde laughed.

The party went on for hours. Kitty, Red and W.B. ended up leaving around 10. Just in time for the real party to get started. Eric and Randy hung out and apparently had a lot in common. Both of them were fine with the situation which put Donna at ease. John ended up asking Fez out which confused him even more on his sexual orientation. Fez turned him down. John asked out Buddy and the two of them decided to make plans for later that week. Kelso was able to stay away from the old Cheerleaders despite them trying to get with him. Kelso just couldn't stop thinking about Brooke and Betsy. Randy ended up asking out a few of the cheerleaders on dates, they all said yes cause well it was Randy and every girl wanted to date him. Donna told Eric of the plans Jackie suggested and thought it was a great idea. Except Bob was moving next week to Florida. Hyde had offered his extra bedroom to her until she and Eric moved to Madison. Donna was skeptical until Jackie told her it was okay. Jackie knew Donna would never go after Steven. By midnight everyone was wasted from Flip cup, beer pong and some game Eric made up that involved spinning, running and drinking.

Around 2 am, everyone had left except the gang and Randy. Fez ended up passing out in his room with Kelso also passed out in Fez's bed. Both fully clothed and snoring. Randy passed out on the floor next to them. Donna and Eric were up talking for the longest time and ended passing out on the couch around 3 am. They had solidified their plans for the upcoming months, both excited and ready.

Jackie and Hyde were the last ones awake. Hyde always had a high tolerance for pretty much everything and Jackie never ended up drinking or smoking too much just enough to get her a good buzz. She had only been wasted a few times and she hated the feeling so she always watched herself. Her and Hyde were at the kitchen table talking.

"This was a great party Steven, thank you."

"Anything for you Doll."

Jackie blushed and smiled. It had been a long time since he called her that.

"So I heard your new apartment is totally bitchin."

"Yea it is but that's only because of W.B. His designer came in and completely revamped the whole thing."

"That's amazing. You deserve it. You work hard at your store"

"I'm not so sure I'd say I work hard…"

"You do. Even if you don't admit it." She said smiling at him.

Her eyes were twinkling. He loved that look she gave him. He leaned in and placed a soft kiss on her lips. She let him. But then sweetly pulled away.

"Steven, I thought we were trying to be friends?" Jackie asked sweetly.

"What friends don't kiss?" Hyde asked with a smirk.

"No, no they don't. You don't see me kissing Donna."

"I would not object if you wanted to." He said with a sarcastic smirk.

She rolled her eyes but smiled. "Okay you wouldn't see me kissing Eric."

Hyde shook at the thought. "Okay fair enough."

They sat there just looking at each other. Both not able to turn away.

"Jackie, I know we said we wanted to learn how to be friends for a few weeks and see what happens from there but I would like to speed up this process." Hyde said.

It was the first somewhat emotional thing that he had ever said to her without being coerced into saying it.

"I don't know Steven. I think there is just a few more things we need to discuss."

"Like what?" Hyde asked looking concerned.

"I don't want to get into it right now Steven. Especially after having such a great night."

"Fair enough." Hyde said looking down at his hands not particularly happy with her response.

I really want her back. Should I keep talking? She always wanted me to talk more about my feelings. Not that I really have feelings. I have thoughts though. Maybe I should share those with her. Be like Foreman. Look at her. I can't read her right now. She's so beautiful. I don't know how I ever got so lucky to be with her in the first place. I should tell her that!

"Jackie… Okay I can't believe I'm saying this but…" Hyde began as Jackie stared at him wide eyed with a bit of hope in her eyes. "Look I just can't believe we ever were together the first time. You are just so beautiful and ambitious. Even when you got knocked down you always got back up and now you have a great job you love and you are good at and making the money you always wanted some guy to make for you. I'm just so proud of you."

"Ohhh Steven!" She said lifting a hand to her heart.

Then all of a sudden, "I still love you." Hyde said. He stopped completely in shock that he said that to her.

"What?" Jackie replied not knowing what to say or how to feel.

"I can't believe I just said that… I… I"

"What about when you were with Sam?"

"I never loved her. I thought about you all the time."

"Okay, and what about after her? You said awful things to me." Jackie said confused and looking perplexed.

"I know I know man. I don't know why I was saying those things to you." Hyde said to her but Jackie looked like she didn't like that answer. "It's like… Okay remember when you were with Kelso and I'd burn you and say crappy shit to you." She was shaking her head yes. "Well I think I was saying those things to you because I was into you and didn't know it. After Sam and I was saying crappy things it was because I still loved you…"

Jackie stared at him for a second. "So, it's like the playground."

"Huh?"

"You know when you are like 8 and you pull a girl's hair because you like them."

"Yea, yea, man I guess." Hyde said sounding hopeful. He leaned over and placed his hands on the side of her waist.

"Huh." She said.

"That's all you have to say?" Hyde asked.

"Did I stutter?" Jackie said sarcastically smiling.

Hyde smiled back and then pulled her in for a kiss. This one was soft and sensual and their tongues tangled together in harmony. There was no uneven push or pull. Just a sweet, connecting kiss. Jackie pulled away.

"Steven, Steven wait. This is nice and all but I really think we should hold off on the sex and I want you to actually take me out on dates."

"Dates? Isn't that a bit unorthodox?"

"No Steven. We've grown up and you never really took me out on dates and I think that was a big thing we skipped before." Jackie said biting her lip.

Hyde sat there and thought about it for a bit, staring at Jackie's lips.

"Okay we can date. Take it slow but I still want this…" He leaned in and gave her another kiss.

"I can get on board with that." She said looking at him. Jackie stood up and grabbed Hyde's hand pulling him towards her room.

"Jackie…?" Hyde asked sounding hopeful.

"Chill, we are just going to sleep!" Jackie said as the went into her room and crashed on her bed.