Hey guys! Thank you for all the nice messages welcoming me back, and all the beautiful reviews you guys left chapter 13. I'm so happy you like this story as much as I love writing it! Enough chatter though, here is chapter 143

"So our first date is almost over." Jackie was looking as beautiful as ever, perched on the trunk of her fathers car wearing her black curls half up and half down, wearing one of Stevens favorite dresses she wore from time to time.

"Mhm" Hyde looked over to his date and realized her face was inching closer and closer to his.

She wants me to kiss her.. well this date hasn't been THAT bad.. Here goes nothing.

Steven tucked his dry fingers behind her ear and connected their lips in one movement. Before he knew it, Jackie disconnected the kiss and sat with no words.

"Well..I didnt feel anything!" She let out a giggle, "Did you?"

Hydes fingertips were feeling the electricity that was staying on his lips from the aftermath of the kiss, "Uh..no..Wait, no I didnt."

You are lying to her, you idiot! Quick say something to distract her so she doesn't know.

"We could always do it." Hyde let out a playful laughter.

"Just get me home you idiot." Jackie returned the giggle.

The memory replayed in Steven Hydes thoughts as he still was on one knee, looking at the ring. He let the ring dangle on his finger tip, looking at the small diamond glow in the light from the desk lamp above him. Numb was all he felt, he didnt want to get up or go find what happened, he officially let a girl in and it broke him. The memory of their first date was all that was in his head, when she said she felt nothing he should have left her alone forever after that. Jackie Burkhart didn't love him, she used him. The realization hit him like knives everywhere, he finally got to his feet and looked one last time at the ring.

"Never again." Steven whispered as he threw the ring onto Jackies new bed. He found a piece of paper on the vanity and started scribbling his late note addressed to her.

Donna found a tear stained face Jackie sitting on the water towers lowest step.

"Jackie, what is going on? Hyde proposed and you said no? You have everyone else fooled but me, I know you love him."

"Of course you idiot!" Jackie shot back while continuing to cry back into her folded arms.

"Then what the hell are you doing?"

"I am going to ruin his life Donna, I've never put someone first in my entire life. This is killing me."

Jackie wrapped her arms around Donnas waist crying the hardest she has ever seen.

"Is there someone else Jackie?"

"What? No! Do you know how I would love to be Mrs. Jackie Hyde right now? To be dragging him all around the mall picking out center pieces, to be trying on a million wedding dresses a day and maybe getting him into a dress shirt, never mind a tux, and just know he is mine forever? That's all I dream about. But I'm not the rich, on top of the world Jackie Burkhart anymore. I'm the parent less, homeless, no future Jackie now and he shouldn't have to settle down with that. I love him so much Donna."

"Jackie, if that is true than you are throwing that out of the window. That is real love, putting someone before yourself. Hyde is putting you first, he just proposed to you knowing what you are now and it didnt bother him. You need to go fix this if you ever want to work things out again."

"Where is he?"

"I found this on your bed..along with the ring." Donna reached in her back pocket and took out the crumpled paper, inside the engagement ring fell into Jackies palms. She unfolded the stationary and read out loud.

Jackie,

I want to say I hate you. I would love to hate you right now. But if that was true than you wouldn't have had the chance to break my heart like this.

I need to get away from all of this, I'm taking the bus to the furthest place I can get with the rest of my money. Have the ring, throw it away, do whatever.

-Hyde

"I need to go, now!"

Still in his dress clothes, Steven Hyde sat on the cool bench waiting for the last bus to bring him to a new place, a new place without any sign of Jackie. His heart was heavy and his eyes were exhausted, he was so done with that entire day.

The bright lights filled the empty street as the bus neared the stop.

Finally.

He stood up and grabbed his warned bags, in the corner of his eye he saw a five foot shadow running towards him; he knew exactly who it was.

The bus had a lead to Steven and reached him a few seconds before she could get close enough, "Steven! Wait! Dont leave."

"I will never waste another second on you, Jackie." The words were loud enough to stop Jackie dead in her tracks. She saw him climb the stairs without even looking back. The engine started up and departed from the terminal.

Jackie fell to her knees, watching the absolute love of her life leave her. She looked down at her left hand and the engagement ring sparkled from her ring finger.

Just as she was about to take it off she heard the brake line squeak from the bus, she looked up and saw the curly hair afro run towards her; dropping his bags in the middle of his sprint.

"Steven?" Jackie got back to her feet and felt his body bump into her. They held each other just like that for the next hour, just crying into each other and whispering apology's.

"I need to say something Steven." She pulled away just enough to be able to look into his eyes, "I was stupid. I had a stupid dream and I was afraid to make you settle down with me. I learned something though.. about love today. You put me first no matter what I am, and because of that..if the offer is still on the table I mean.." She showed him her left hand with the ring still attached to her ring finger.

"Are you saying yes..?!" All the painful memories from that day vanished the minute Steven saw the ring.

"I am, 100% ready to spend the rest of my life with you."

Hyde pulled her face to his, getting the same electric shock he did all that time ago when they were sitting on her Daddys hood.

"Well lets go get married then Bitches!" Fez shouted from the Vista cruisers back window. Jackie and Hyde looked over together and saw all of their best friends pulling up.

"Ha! I'm having a big wedding, you should know that." Jackie still clutching Hydes torso, laughed while responding then got dead serious.

"Steven, everyone I love is right here. Lets go get married."

"Jackie.. what? Are you being serious?"

"This is my family now!" She let out a little laugh, "Lets go slow poke!" She yanked his arm towards the vista cruiser, "I'll be the one in white." She chimed.