I like the idea of Jackie as a fashion designer. She has to have some skills for drawing in that, imagine if Jackie knew how to draw and makes sketches of her friends without them noticing until one day one of them finds them or something and they are really nice :3
When she moves with Donna, her friend notices how much Jackie uses a small, yellow notebook. It’s not her diary, it looks more like a moleskine or something, and she knows Jackie isn’t writing.
She doesn’t say anything at first, Donna asks first Hyde about it and he looks at her as if asking what is she talking about, and only says that “Jackie has lots of notebooks, man”. Which isn’t a lie, but still…
Finally, she asks and Jackie hugs the thing to her chest, says it’s her diary and “it’s nothing” at the same time, then leaves the room.
Donna searched the notebook next time, but finds nothing. It must be at the basement, probably with Hyde (who obviously know what notebook is and what Jackie does there), so she tells Eric and he tells Fez, and now the three of them are only waiting for Hyde to go away, so they can sneek around his room and see if they can find the thing.
Finally, Eric thinks of asking Kelso but he knows shit about it and when Jackie happily announces she and her Steven are going on a date (”Ugh”, “Yummy”, “Eww”, *giggles*), the four of them only wait for the sound of El Camino driving away for all to ran into Hyde’s room and search.
Defeated, Donna goes back to her house and knows she may be woke by Jackie when she gets home, so tries her best to enjoy her hours alone when holy fuck, the notebook is peeking out Jackie’s bagpack for school. She takes it, excitment making her smile, knowing she may find something embarrassing when–
The first half of it is filled with fashion designs that are– they are actually good. And Donna blinks, and then smiles but gets a little bit offended at titles like “lumberjack style fashion for Donnas” and “sluty yet nice for Lauries”, and so on. The thing is– she would wear that, if done with the right material and the right size for her.
Her friend does know what she’s talking about when mentions clothes, she realizes. And she keeps looking until–
(art by @doodlebugdebz here)
The next half of the notebook suddenly becomes the basement and school, and other every day scenes between them. She also has the cheer squad with little notes about them, she has professors, her [Jackie], her stuffed animals, them, Mrs. Forman and Red, her [Donna’s] dad, even her mom…
And slowly, it starts changing again, Hyde starts appearing more often. There’s more fashion designs, now for men and the model looks like Hyde a lot. She later has a drawing of the old dude that was her boss at the Cheese Palace, some other of her co-worker and superior, one of Joanne, and more Hyde.
There’s a page that has a girl curled in herself in the corner, nothing else. She understands the girl is crying. The next page, has Hyde with his summer beard, followed by details of his hands, and his eyes, his sunglasses and his belt buckles…
Jackie yells at her to give back her notebook. Donna laughs and rans from her, saying that she is a sensitive artist and whatnot. She doesn’t stop until she sees Jackie’s face all read and about to cry. For some reason, it embarrasses her and Donna gives back her notebook.
“You had no right to look at it!”
The next day, Hyde is looking weird at her and Donna swallows. When he finally talks to her, he explains, voice covered in his coolest demeanor, “That thing is like her diary, she doesn’t want anyone to look at it. You should had left it when I told you, man.”
“You said you didn’t know.”
“Come on. She’s is so good. Why isn’t she telling this to everyone?”
“She is, right? Well, she knows too and doesn’t want those things out. You know the ones.”
Donna doesn’t explain she didn’t saw the rest of the notebook but remembers the sketch of the girl curled in the corner. “It’s like her diary”, the details of Hyde’s body are from the summer, and she shouldn’t had look at that.
Before she can apologize to Jackie, she gets into the basement and slams the door closed. She is carrying tons of paper sheets and throws them all in front of Donna.
“I over reacted.” She says and goes to sit down on Hyde’s lap. “Don’t touch my notebook again, please. You can look at those.”
Donna does it. There are more fashion designs and an unfinished drawing of Donna reading on her bed. She recognizes the clothes as the ones she was wearing the first night Jackie spend in her house.
Not knowing what else to say, she apologizes and soon starts telling Jackie how good she thinks she is and if she is planning on going to fashion school. They start talking about it, when the others come in, Jackie looks a little nervous that Eric grabs her drawings and Fez looks at the others, but when she looks down at Hyde, he smiles and her and Donna smiles seeing how that quickly calms Jackie.
“Wow, Donna! Who did this for you?” Eric asks when he recognizes his girlfriend in the drawing. Donna looks at Jackie and she only nods.
The same questions are repeated, Donna has to also tell a small lie, that she found these and not the notebook. Soon Kelso starts saying she should draw him and that he would pose for her naked for future references, which wins him a, “Jackie, stand up, I need to punch a moron”.
Fez wants a drawing of him and Nina, while Eric says he will be truly impressed only if she can draw the Death Star. Jackie rolls her eyes at all of them, but smiles at the fact that– it wasn’t so bad, uh?
