"Donna! Donna!" Jackie screeched from her dressing room.

"Donna!" She called yet again, exasperated as she opened the door to her dressing room, not expecting to be face to face with Steven Hyde. "Oh..." She said, her face falling, and she added flatly, "It's you."

"Jackie, I-"

"What are you doing here?"

"I forgot my wallet." He said.

"Fine." She snapped, and let him come in the dressing room to grab it. "While you're add it, zip me up. I can't seem to find Donna. She's probably getting fresh air or something. Too much girly stuff in one room for her."

Hyde, not wanting to get her mad, followed her command without any backtalk. Jackie pulled her glossy brown hair to one side so he could zip her more easily. He zipped her slowly, and could feel his fingers trembling. He was breathing slowly, and was so close to Jackie she could feel his warm breath against her skin, making the hairs on the back of her neck stick up. Once he finished, his hand lingered on her back for a moment, before he let go quickly as if she burned him.

"Well," Jackie said, walking out of the dressing room and doing a three-sixty turn, "What do you think?"

The dress was a vibrant red, bringing out her tan olive skin and silkily dark hair. It pinched in at the waist and then flared out, skimming just above the knees. It accented her petite body and tiny waist. She looked absolutely stunning.

"I...umm...well..." Hyde couldn't even string two words together. Jackie looked at him skeptically. "You look absolutely beautiful. I hope Donna picked out a nice dress, because right now you look like the prettiest girl in all of Wisconsin."

Jackie blushed as red as her dress, and said, "Steven, I, I know your just saying this because, um, because you want to get back on my good side." She was so flattered with his remark, she didn't know how to respond. And especially for Hyde, who was not good with showing his emotions or putting them to words, this was a big deal.

"I'm not." Hyde said truthfully. "But if I was...is it working?"

Jackie laughed and playfully hit him. "Stop it. You know I'm a sucker for compliments, but I'm still horribly mad at you."

"It sure doesn't seem like it." Hyde grinned.

"Don't think you're off easy, Steven Hyde. You think you can just-" Instead of listening to her rant, Hyde took a risk by shoving her in her changing room and closing the door.

"Yeah, yeah," He said.

"Hey!" Jackie said when she opened it to his turned back. "Don't think you can just walk out on me!"

"Gotta catch a movie with the guys!" Hyde yelled across the store.

Jackie sighed, exasperated, but caught herself letting a smile pass through. Damn, she hated that Steven Hyde.

"So, what was that whole fight about, exactly?" Eric said through a puff of smoke later that night.

"Eh, nothing, just your regular old Jackie stuff." Hyde said calmly. Not exactly, there seemed to be a lot of hidden feelings and deeper meanings in that argument, but how could you express that in the Circle?

"Yeah, just Jackie stuff, ya know?" Kelso said. "Oh wait, you don't know! Hey, Eric, did you know you're the only one who hasn't done it with Jackie in this circle?"

"Aye..." Fez said guiltily.

"You never slept with Jackie?" All of the guys said in disbelief.

"No...She said she wasn't ready." Fez admitted.

"Wasn't ready? That girl's as loose as a goose!" Kelso scoffed.

"Hey!" Hyde yelled.

"Maybe she wasn't ready to make the transition from FEZ, random pervy foreign exchange student to FEZ, boyfriend in her bedroom." Eric suggested between cackles.

"Or, what if she wasn't over Hyde yet?" Kelso said seriously, then all the boys burst out laughing, except for Hyde.

"Yeah," Fez said, "Maybe she was still in love with Hyde, and knew if she did it with me, she'd have to completely move on."

"I still think it's the disgusted-by-doing-it -with-you-thing, Fez." Eric said, "What do you think, Hyde?"

"I, uh, I dunno, man. I don't have time to think, I gotta go." He said, getting up abruptly.

"Ok..." The boys said suspiciously, but then Kelso started chuckling at his 'loose as a goose' comment and they all burst out laughing. Hyde could've slapped every one of them, but since they were in the Circle, it seemed risky. Hyde had to get out of their, he had too many thoughts racing through his head for the juvenile Circle at the moment. Wait...did he just call the sacred Circle juvenile? Whoa, this must be a big deal. Jackie Burkhart was really changing him, whether he liked it or not.