Chapter 5

 

 “Well, Jen, we can say that there wasn’t much sleep that night,” Pacey answers her, grinning.

 

“Pacey! Sometimes I still wonder why I married you...”Joey blushes. “Yes, I slept with this jerk that night, had too much to drink I guess...”

 

“Jo, is that something I should worry about? Should I send you to rehab?” Pacey asks her in faint concern.

 

“See what you’ve done, Jen? They won’t stop and I will never know how they got back together,” Andie complains.

 

Dawson is still looking at them, he remembers that night too. He decided to talk to Joey after Pacey left,  trying to tell her he still loved her, but she never listened. The first words he spoke, she told him that he would always be her best friend, but they were not supposed to be more than that, every time they tried to be more than just friends, they would end up hurting themselves. Now it is crystal clear, her heart was where it always had been. With Pacey.

 

“And I thought you were back together that summer you came back home after one year in London.” Jen is still surprised.

 

“We really got back together that summer, Lindley, but if we hadn’t had that talk that day, I don’t know how long would take to Potter to come to her senses and realize how much she loves me.”

 

“Me, come to my senses? Bite me, Pacey.”

 

“Whenever you ask me, darling,” he brings her hand to his mouth, playfully biting her fingers.

 

“You guys are infuriating...I’m curious here,” Andie pouts.

 

“All right, Andie. These McPhee’s,” Joey smiles. “We had a long talk that night, about the past, about our mistakes in our previous relationship, but I was still going to travel in two weeks, and Pacey would never ask me to stay, he knew that was important to me, and I needed that too, I needed to figure out many things in me.”

 

“Yep, it was that or sending her to a therapist, London seemed cheaper.”

 

“Pacey John Witter, would you please stop?”

 

“I know, I gotta sleep on the couch tonight, isn’t it?” He gives her his best puppy dog eyes.

 

All their friends, even Dawson are laughing. Those two still acted like two teenagers.

 

“God, I couldn’t write this, even if I tried,” Dawson laughs.

 

“Can I please finish this?” Joey rolls her eyes, in her typical way, causing everybody to laugh even more.

 

“Ok, Jo, I will stop, I’ll be a good boy, I promise” Pacey kisses her hand.

 

“Fine. Where was I? So, I went to London as planned, knowing that my life would always be different when I got back. It was scary, for the first time I was really all by myself, I couldn’t simply come back home if anything was wrong. I believe I really grew up that year. I used to talk to Pacey from time to time, inconsequent babbling about nothings. We never mentioned that night, but somehow I knew it would be the first thing we would have to talk about the minute I got back home.”