Sorry to keep you guys waiting, I had more work shifts this week, as well as a typing without a index finger is kind of impossible. But nothing can stop me, oh and I went to Corpus with my boyfriend. I felt kinda spoiled. We spent our one year together, anyway enough about me. On to the story.
If you haven't figured out Jackie's "way of foods" is actually how I eat :P
so, knowing that you should know I am like the Mayor from the Power puff girls, I absolutely love pickles. I don't know why I can have them on anything, sometimes that the only thing I will eat. So they will come up a lot :D
OK, OK now I'm done ranting. I promise.
-P.C
Jackie...
He couldn't get her out of his head.
She looked so much in pain, those bruises.
He tried to shake that image, but it was impossible.
It was Jackie for crying out loud.
The girl who cried in his lap just so he could take her to prom.
She wouldn't hurt anyone.
She's Jackie.
She's annoying
but he wouldn't expect less.
She's a princess after all.
She didn't come down for days.
Which worried Hyde, Kitty and Red.
Kitty always tried to get the girl to eat, she wouldn't.
It worried her.
They wouldn't tell Donna or Eric about it.
They figured she would tell them when she was ready.
Red just wanted to see her be the old Jackie, even if it was to boss him around. She goes to sleep in the bed but ends up in the couch, she cries in her sleep. He never expected to see Jackie like that, he just puts a blanket over her. If she won't eat the best next thing she needs is her sleep.
Hyde was a mess, he couldn't think straight.
Princess Jackie was hurt, when she was new to the group he would have paid some good bucks to see her be hurt, but not like she was.
Was there even an inch that wasn't bruised?
He give anything to just smile the way she did back then, and just say Steven.
He had to try and talk to her again.
"Steven..." Red fiercely said.
"Look red, I know you guys said to give her time, but can I at least try, maybe it'll help her. I won't push her that much"
"well stubborn ass, at least take a plate of food with you"
he headed for the Kitchen.
He knew that she hasn't eaten since the day that he found out her secret.
There was one slice of pizza left, and some Spaghetti. He questioned what to grab, the picked the Spaghetti it would fill her up more, heated it up and put some cheese on it, extra cheese. Did that girl love cheese, she grabbed a pop, and a pickle on the side.
What did that girl have with Pickles?
He knocked, no answer.
Again.
No luck.
He would have knocked one more time but
he thought no luck would bring her to open the door.
He walked right in, and saw her there.
He didn't see Jackie at all.
What he saw, was a broken girl,
wanting nothing more but to survive these hard times.
He just wanted to hold her while she tell him the evils of
life outside Point Place but he knew, she wouldn't
"Hi.." he said at the doorstep. " I know you don't want anyone to see you, and I can't blame you, but Jackie i'm not just anyone" He paused, he didn't know what to say from there, so it was just quiet I'm Steven. I do combos with you. I spend the holidays and take you to a dance, one I don't want to be with. Okay, you can tell me anything. The hard stuff as well as the easy stuff." he sighed, and sat in the foot of the bed.
Jackie didn't move.
" Look, Jacks. I know that you don't want me in this room, but I don't care. Okay? You can throw me out." he just wanted her to say one word, anything. Even if it was hatred words, he needed to hear her say, something, anything.
" I'm tired of being alone, you can stay. Just do me a favor and get off my foot" he chuckled a little, that part was the Jackie he knew.
"is that for me?" he nodded, and handed her the food, she was starving. "if your that hungry why do you not eat?" she laughed, he didn't see the funny part. "It hurts to walk down the stairs, and back up. I barely managed to get up here in the first place, Thank you for bringing me this plate." she saw the pickle, and her eyes widened. She finished every bite and sip of that meal. She placed the plate in the night stand.
"So Hyde.. tell me about yourself, what have you been up to these past 5 years"
"after Samantha, you know. I kinda lost it. Not, that she meant anything to me, but I lost it because she really didn't"
Jackie just stared, she didn't want to ask many questions especially to the whole skanky Sam thing. But, if she didn't she would always be left to wonder.
Hyde wasn't shutting off his feelings, maybe he actually wanted her to know, or he was changing, he didn't know. He just wanted her to know.
" I changed because, well you weren't in my life. And I didn't know what to do. It took me some time but I realized, that I needed you in my life, that you made me better, in a way. So you disappeared and I just ate beer"
"you chose her though, before you even knew that she was just using you, you chose her"
she didn't want to sound defensive, or hurt. But she was, did he think that not choosing her was the right thing to do?
He sighed.
"what was I suppose to do, Jackie?"
"Steven, you should have told me, made a mistake, and we could have gotten though it. You were the most important person in my life, I gave up a lot just to be with you. I loved you" she sighed. This was gonna be hard, but it was her time to share, it was suppose.
"Look after I left, I was determined to not ever step foot in Point Place again, and the reason was you. After the Sam stuff happened, I could have come back and been all I told you so, and eventually fall into your arms again, but do you know what I would have felt, like I was a second choice to you. So, I stayed away"
Did she really think that she was second compared to Sam? How was that even possible. She's like Cinderella, a princess. And Sam, was the ugly step sister.
" you still don't get it do you?" Hyde sighed
"She was the rebound, the second choice. But, it's always been you"
she was now sitting up, she couldn't believe it. It was like a dream.
"Wha-"
He moved closer, closing any gap that was between them, he leaned in, and whispered " it's always been you, princess"
with not much space between them, and they're faces just inches apart.
He tucked the hair that was blocking her hair back, and he kissed her. Not just a simple one, but he let the kiss tell her what he wouldn't be able to. He was always bad with words.
She didn't expect it, but she didn't mind, which is why she ended up deepening it, and before long, it was like they were back to being kids in love, no Trevor, no Sam, and 5 years haven't passed. It was just Jackie and Hyde. Where she'd talk him into marrying him, and if he was smart, he would have said yes, and none of it would have happened.
She eventually pulled away. She shyly smiled, she had forgotten how good they were together. He smiled back, and to her, that meant more than he would ever know. Right now, she couldn't focus just on what that could mean, Trevor will eventually realize that she isn't there, and that her stuff is gone, he would come looking for her.
She sighed. She hated how her life had become, if she was the old Jackie she wouldn't be fearing the boy that would come looking for her once he'd realize she was never going back, but she would be bursting with excitement that Hyde was showing some emotion towards her.
Hyde got up
"I'll let you rest"
She pulled him back.
"no, stay with me, please"
and like that.
They were in bed, with his arm around her.
She felt safe, like nothing could hurt her.