Jackie rolled over, wrapping the sheet around her and attempting to sit up, but Hyde had other ideas.
"Steven!" she squealed, as he hooked an arm around her waist and dragged her back onto the bed. She turned to see him looking at her, something new and unrecognizable in his eyes. They had been hooking up for a few weeks now, and Jackie was surprised at how quickly they had fallen into an easy familiarity. She gave him a lopsided smile and sat back up again.
"Steven, I gotta go home," she ran a hand through her hair as his hand traveled up her bare back, trying to get her back in the bed for round...four? Yeah, four.
"Why?"
"Because I do!" Jackie smiled at him as he rolled over and buried his face in the pillow, letting out a loud groan. She stood up, the sheet still wrapped around her, and started searching for her underwear. Hyde always threw her clothes around like she would never need them again.
God, where is my underwear? Jackie was shifting the piles of junk around Hyde's room. That was one of my good pairs, too!
She turned around to see Steven staring at her again, with that same inscrutable look on his face.
"What?" she said self-defensively.
"Stay over," he replied. Jackie was speechless. Hyde wanted her to….stay over? Sleep all night with him?
"We can just sleep," he said quickly, reading the look on her face. "Just….stay over tonight."
Jackie felt her heartbeat quicken. There was something about Hyde that made her feel...safe. Looked after. Cared about. Even before they started fooling around, she knew that the safest place was right next to him.
Even now, as they kept their relationship a secret from everyone around them, Jackie felt like it was the most real relationship she had ever had. There were no games with Steven, no worrying about if he was messing around on her. And feeling his arms around her?
So that's why she decided to stay. But not without a little fun (at Hyde's expense, of course). Taking in the way he was looking at her, that hunger for her body next to his, she grinned wickedly, dropping the sheet covering her body. "Do we just have to sleep?"
Jackie would never forget the stunned look on Hyde's face, or the way he laughed as soon as he recovered from the shock. Best chick I ever had, he whispered to her later that night. And as Jackie shifted in his arms, she knew that this is where she was happiest: in Eric's basement, laying in bed with Steven Hyde, and knowing that she was right where she was meant to be.
