"Huh, what do you think about this one?" Jackie asked her fiancé pointing to a set of silverware.
"Jackie," he says yawning. "Don't you think it may be a little early to be registering for wedding gifts?" Seeing the offense in her eyes he added, "I mean we've only been engaged for three weeks." Jackie rolled her eyes.
"Michael the perfect bride and groom plan ahead. We're just looking right now so we will know what we want when it comes the time to register." Michael looked at her in confusion. She through my hands up in the air. "Oh forget it. Where's Donna I'm sure she'll help me." Jackie looked around the store and spotted my friend and gestured for her to come over.
"Michael is no help he doesn't want to help me look for things we want to register." Donna glared at Michael.
"You know Eric was the same." She said annoyance in her voice. "All of you men, I mean I just don't understand why shopping for wedding gifts is so awful to do."
Michael looked at them as if they were insane. "Yeah okay, well I'm ganna go to the food court for awhile. I think I need a break from this." Without waiting from a response from Jackie he ran off.
"Well at least he's not like Eric and he purposefully chooses the worst thing so he won't have to go shopping with you." Donna laughed bitterly. "And then doesn't even bother to show up on your wedding day." Jackie patted her on the back.
"Donna you said yourself you weren't ready to get married." Jackie said glancing at the silverware again. "What do you think about that set?"
"I know, but I just can't believe he didn't even show up." Donna said sighing.
Jackie tore her eyes away from the silverware. "Yeah I'm sorry. Speaking of Eric have you talked to him lately?"
"Yeah I talked to him last night. I haven't told him about being the best man yet; I figured Kelso would want to tell him. But I think it would be better in person and Eric's not coming home for another five months." Donna seemed disappointed by this.
"Yeah, I know. Michael's ganna have to tell him over the phone." Jackie said. "And maybe Eric will be so thrilled he will come home early to participate in wedding plans."
Donna's face lit up. "Seriously? You really think he will?"
"No probably not." Jackie said. "I mean that's more of a girl thing to do. But hey Eric's kind of like a girl."
"Yeah I doubt it the only thing the best man has to plan out is the bachelor party."
Donna and Jackie both rolled their eyes. "Oh hey Jackie look at this one." Donna pointed out a set of silverware. "This ones really nice."
Donna, Jackie, and Kelso all walked into the basement. Hyde was sitting in front of the TV with a beer in his hand. Jackie was starting to notice that this was all Steven ever seemed to do. Kelso sat down on the coach and pulled Jackie onto his lap. She giggled and kissed him tenderly on the lips. Hyde looked disgusted.
"Get a room," he said.
Jackie glared at him. "You know Steven it would be nice if you didn't have to be such a asshole all the time."
"Burn." Kelso said snickering.
All of the sudden the kids heard a crash from upstairs. Fez came running down the stairs. He looked scared.
"Fez what's going on?" Donna said standing up from her chair.
"It's Mr. Forman." Fez panted. "He just fell, I think he is having another heart attack." Fez said hurriedly.
"Oh my god." Donna said getting up and running up the stairs. Hyde quickly followed in her footsteps.
"Michael we need to call an ambulance." Jackie said jumping up from his lap. She grabbed the phone nearby and started dialing.
It had been ten hours since Mr. Forman's heart attack and still no one had heard anything. Mrs. Forman was racing around the hospital in a panic. The rest of the kids had fallen asleep on the hospital waiting chairs, except for Donna who had been on the phone with Eric and arranging his immediate flight home to Wisconsin.
Jackie woke up to Donna poking her. She unwrapped herself from Kelso's arm and quietly followed her friend out into the lobby.
"Did you talk to Eric?" She asked.
"Yeah, he was really upset. His flight leaves at two in the morning, which is in about forty-five minutes. He'll arrive at about four in the afternoon tomorrow. He thinks it's his fault." Donna said rubbing her eyes she looked exhausted. But Jackie knew Donna couldn't sleep. They kept walking and found themselves in the cafeteria. They both ordered a cup of coffee and sat down at the nearest table.
"I can't believe this happened." Donna said looking as if she was about to cry.
Jackie squeezed Donna's hand. "Its ganna be okay." Just then a tiered looking Mrs. Forman wondered into the cafeteria. Jackie and Donna both stood up when they saw her. She walked over to the girls, and Donna and Jackie each gave her a hug.
"Any news?" Donna asked anxiously. Mrs. Forman shook her head, her eyes were red and puffy and it was obvious she had been crying.
"Well I talked to Eric." Donna said. "I arranged a flight for him to come home. He gets on the plane really soon. He'll be here by tomorrow."
A small smile formed on Mrs. Forman's lips. "Really? He's coming home." Donna smiled and nodded she was happy that she could bring Mrs. Forman even the least bit of happiness right now.
Hyde walked into the cafeteria and spotted the girls. He walked over and gave Mrs. Forman a hug. Jackie knew how upset he must have been right now. She knew he would never admit to it but Mr. Forman was a father figure to him. Even though he now had his own father, Mr. Forman had always been there for him and had supported him.
Donna leaned over and also gave Hyde a hug.
Jackie wasn't sure what to do. Should she give him a hug or would that be too weird? "I'm sorry Steven." She said quietly reaching over and patting his hand. For the shortest second she swore she felt his hand close over hers. But he quickly let it go.
The four of them must have sat there for at least two hours before a nurse came in. When she spotted Mrs. Forman she walked over.
"Hey Kitty," she smiled lightly touching Mrs. Forman's arm.
"Hey Marissa has anything changed?" The nurse shifted her feet uncomfortably. Kitty seemed to pick up that something was wrong. "What happened? Is Red okay?" Hyde nervously stood up from his seat.
"Kitty he is in critical shape. We are unable to tell right now if he's going to make it through the rest of the day." Kitty stood there in shock.
"What do you mean critical shape? Is there a big possibility that he could die?" Hyde asked.
"Right now it is a fifty fifty chance. We can't be sure but after a couple hours we might be able to get back to you." Kitty shrunk down in the seat, tears flowing out of her eyes. Donna leaned over and tried to comfort her.
"What do you mean a few hours. Why don't you know now? You should know by now we have been at this hell hole for twelve hours and you don't know how he's doing." Steven was screaming at the nurse with furry in his eyes.
"Steven," Jackie said trying to calm him.
"What the hell is wrong with this place? You should know by now." He yelled taking a step toward the nurse she stepped back looking frightened.
"Steven stop." Jackie said jumping in front of him. "You need to stop." She said grabbing his arm. He snatched his hand out of grip and stormed out of the cafeteria.
She looked up to see Michael staring at her; he looked at her strangely probably assuming something was going on with her and Hyde.
She ran over to him and into his arms. "Oh Michael," she sobbed. "This is so awful. Why did this have to happen?"
"Well Red is pretty old." Jackie looked up into her boyfriend's eyes and shook her head in disgust. How could he say such an awful thing?
"Michael that is an awful thing to say." She said slapping his arm away from her. She left him standing there wondering what he had said wrong and walked back over to Donna and the emotional Mrs. Forman.
"Where is my husband?" An irritated looking blonde girl was standing at the receptionist's area.
The nurse looked annoyed. "What's his name?"
"Steven Hyde," The nurse looked at some sort of list.
"Sorry, I don't see him on the list." The nurse said.
"Can you check again?" Sam said.
The nurse rolled her eyes and glanced at the list another time.
"Sam?" a small voice asked. Sam whipped her head around and was relieved to find a familiar face, even if the face was one she didn't really enjoy seeing.
"Jackie, oh my god what's going on?" Sam ran over to her.
"Mr. Forman had another heart attack." Jackie explained.
Sam sighed looking relieved. "Oh god, I thought it was Steven. I got a call from Fez and all I could make out was hospital because he was crying so hard and couldn't really talk. That is so relieving. I guess there was no need to rush down here then."
The slap was hard and sudden. Sam was too shocked to even look angry or hurt.
"Mr. Forman welcomed you into his house." She yelled. "He let you live there because Steven wanted you too. He has been so good to you and to your husband who I know considers him as a second father. He could die and you're relieved that it's not your husband. You need to shut the hell up because there is nothing to be relieved about." Sam still looked as if she had nothing to say. Jackie just shook her head and walked out of the hospital lobby. She walked outside where it was pouring rain but she didn't care it was a hell of a lot better then being stuck inside with that heartless bitch.
She stood under a little shade from the rain. She pulled a cigarette out of her pocket and lit it. She took a long drag. She didn't usually smoke but right now she was in such a bad mood she could care less about her lungs turning black.
She coughed feeling the disgust of how the cigarette tasted. She stepped on the cigarette putting it out immediately.
Jackie felt useless. Mr. Forman was inside dying. And they couldn't do anything about it. For the first time since she heard the news about Mr. Forman she broke down. It wasn't just a few tears she was sobbing. She sunk down to the ground. She didn't realize it for about a minute but she was sitting there in the pouring rain getting drenched. She couldn't move her body was shaking too much because of her sobs.
"Jackie," she heard a voice call out to her. Stupid Michael couldn't he just leave her alone. That was all she wanted for him to leave her alone for a few minutes. She heard footsteps coming closer towards her. "Jackie," the voice whispered again and this time she realized that it was not the voice of Michael but Steven. She tried to stop crying but she couldn't.
"Jackie it's pouring you must be freezing. Come on." He said but she didn't move. He took of his jacket and put it on her. "Jacks are you okay?" he asked sounding nervous.
Jackie closed her eyes. "I slapped your wife." Is what came out of her mouth. She regretted it almost instantly.
"Sam?" Hyde asked in confusion.
Jackie wiped away a few tears. "Yeah, she came in and said something's and I lost it and I slapped her." Jackie said realizing this probably made no sense to Steven.
"You should probably go find her." Jackie said.
"Right I can send Donna out to come get you." He said. Jackie nodded. She sat there waiting for him to go but he never did. Instead he sat down next to her. She shivered. "So," he hesitated. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." She said. "I just wish there was something we could do." She said.
He nodded agreeing. They sat there for a few minutes in silence.
"Jackie maybe we should go inside. It's cold out here and you are shivering a lot if we stay out any longer I'm afraid your going to catch something." He said.
She stood up with a little help from him. They walked inside both soaking wet. Sam spotted them immediately. She ran over to Hyde.
"Honey I heard about Red." She said then stopped and glared at Jackie when she saw her. "Um why is she wearing your jacket Hyde?"
"We were out in the rain." He shrugged. She looked furiously at him.
"What the hell were you doing out in the rain?" she asked.
"Here," Jackie said handing him the jacket.
Jackie walked away to find Michael.
"What was that?" Sam yelled.
"What was what?" Hyde asked in confusion.
"You and Jackie are all buddy buddy know." Sam was yelling so loud that everyone in the hospital was staring at them.
"Sam calm down." Hyde said.
"No. I will not calm down. Hyde I came down here because I thought it was you that got hurt. Then I run into Jackie and she tells me it is Mr. Forman and I say I'm relieved and she hits me. She told me I was a jerk because I was relieved it wasn't my husband who was hurt. I'm sorry but I think I have the right to be upset. Especially when you are giving that little bitch your jacket and hanging around with her all the time. I know you still have feelings for her Hyde. I'm not stupid. I don't know why you choose me over her but you did and doing that you have to deal with the fact that I am your wife and I am not going to let you treat me like crap. It's not fair. I'm not stupid Hyde, I know that you are in love with her." She said.
"Sam," he started.
"I have to go back to work." She said turning and leaving before he could say anything else.
He sighed and sat down in the nearest chair. Jackie had of course heard this whole thing. She felt sick was Sam telling the truth did Steven really still have feelings for her? She turned around and Michael and Fez walked up to her.
"Hey," she said. Kelso smiled at her. "I'm feeling kinda tiered and worn out plus I am soaking do you mind if we go home for a while?" she asked. Michael shook his head leading her out to the car. On the way they passed Hyde who was sitting there watching them go.
She got into the car and Michael started driving. She was glad it was dark so he wouldn't be able to see the tears that were slipping down her face.
Okay so that's it for today. Next time I will have Eric come home YAY. So I was confused if Sam called Hyde Steven or Hyde? I wasn't sure so I just called him Hyde. If you know please tell me. Oh please review this chapter I only got one review last time and I was really sad. So please review this time:)