A Wonderful Beginning
I don't own these characters so don't sue me.
Author's Note: This takes place almost immediately after Finally
and The Absolute Truth. I reccomend reading those first because you
probably won't understand much if you don't. By the way, I am definitely
pro-Joey and Dawson.
A Wonderful Beginning
Finally Part 3
By: Nicole
"Yeah, well," Joey looked down and smiled, then looked up at Dawson,
"I'm gonna be seeing a lot more of my dad now, I'm going to visit him
this weekend." Dawson and Joey had walked home from school to Dawson's
house to wait until detention started at 5. They had intended to watch a
movie, but had ended up talking about anything and everything. They sat
indian-style and facing each other on Dawson's bed.
"I'm so glad for you, Joe." Dawson took both her hands in his and kissed
her lightly on the lips. Joey enjoyed everything about being Dawson's
girlfriend, but couldn't deny that there was an underlying akwardness to
every romantic thing they did. Joey knew that this was normal for any
starting couple. But I bet it's harder for two best friends that know
everything about each other.
"Uh, Dawson...I heard about your parents..." Joey felt terrible
about this and wanted to comfort him in any way possible. Dawson
squeezed his eyes shut and inhaled slowly. Joey was surprised to see a
single tear slide down his cheek. Oh Dawson, she thought. She
quickly leaned over, kissed away the tear, and hugged him.
"I don't know Joey, I don't know if I can handle them being apart...I
can't even imagine it."
"Hey, you know I'll be there whenever you need me, and the same with
Pacey and...Jen." She had said the last name with reluctance, she didn't
want to bring up this morning again, "I mean it's not like you have to
go through this alone."
"But, what if I have to choose? What if I have to choose between them, I
mean who to live with?" suddenly a thought occured to Dawson, "Joey,
what if I have to leave Capeside?"
Joey hadn't considered this before, but it scared her more than anything
ever had. "Oh Dawson, don't think like that, that isn't going to
happen." She sounded more convinced than she was.
He smiled at his girlfriend. "I love you so much, Joey, I just want you
to know that."
She kissed him gently on the lips, but Dawson turned it into a deeper
one. Joey felt his tongue slide into her mouth, but didn't mind it at
all. They started to fall back on his bed while continuing to kiss, all
akwardness gone. Dawson let his hand stray downward, and Joey tensed up
a little when she felt his fingers travel to the area underneath her
shirt. But she still didn't stop him. He's my boyfriend and I love
him, why not let him? In fact, I want him to. They continued to kiss
and Joey let out a gasp when she felt Dawson's hand reach it's final
destination, but decided she liked it. They continued on like this for
quite a while, and would've done it longer, but Joey caught a glimpse of
the clock and pushed Dawson away.
"Argh, Dawson, it's 5:05! We're late for detention!" Joey quickly
grabbed both their jackets and they ran down the stairs.
They were at the front door when Dawson yelled over his shoulder, "Mom,
I'm leaving, me and Joey are going to detention."
They heard a distracted voice from the living room, "OK, bye." Joey
looked up at his crestfallen face, she knew that the only reason Mrs.
Leery didn't ream them both for getting detention was because of the
divorce.
She gave Dawson's hand a little squeeze and he looked down, giving her a
preoccupied smile. Then they were out the door and running to the
school.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
When Gail Leery was sure she heard the kids shut the door she continued
talking to her husband, "Mitch, couldn't you just think this over? I
mean," she moved to sit down next to her husband and tried to put her
hand on his shoulder, "I love you, honey."
Mitch quickly jerked away from her touch, "Don't! Just don't do that
Gail, you think I don't know he still calls here? Well, I do!"
"Oh honey, Mitch, when he calls here it's strictly buisness, no more
romance! I swear sweetheart, please think this through!" Gail tried a
last ditch effort to win back her husband.
"Oh...so the kissing noises you make over the phone while hiding in the
laundry room are for research?! Because somehow I find that hard
to believe." Mitch's face softened, "Oh honey, just tell me you're not
seeing him, just tell me and I'll believe you, I really will. Just say
the word."
Gail started sobbing, she couldn't bring herself to lie to her husband
anymore, "Yeah," she sobbed, then cleared her throat, "Yes, Mitch, I'm
still seeing Bob, but I can't help it! I..I don't know."
For a second,Gail saw a look of pure hurt in his eyes before he covered
it up with hardness. He turned and walked out of the house, slamming the
door so hard it fell off of it's hinges.
Gail started to sob again, she walked over to the couch and crawled up
into a ball, letting the tears fall.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jen was on her way back to the school, she had gotten detention
for being late to class. I knew it was the wrong idea to help
Joey! She was dreading this one especially because she knew Joey and
Dawson would both be there. She didn't know how she was going to handle
it. Well, at least Pacey agreed with me on the kiss. Jen couldn't
imagine what she would do if Pacey had liked it. The school was only a
few steps away. Here goes nothing...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Joey and Dawson were running as fast as they could to the school.
Dawson was trying to figure out a way to explain their tardiness, I
can't use the truth, thats for sure. He laughed at this and looked
over at Joey. He saw she was looking at something and he followed
her gaze to a distant figure.
"Who is that Joey?" Dawson asked.
"Um, isn't that Pacey?" she called out to him and the figure turned. It
was Pacey.
"Hey you guys, where are you headed?" Pacey was careful not to look at
Joey, he wasn't sure if he was mad at her for this morning or not.
If Dawson noticed this, he didn't let on that he did, "We got detention
for, um, kissing in the cafeteria.." Dawson laughed, emmbarassed.
"Oh yeah, I saw that, and I've been meaning to shove it in your faces
about how right I was about your raging hormones." Pacey said this
matter-of-factly and smiled at them.
"Yeah, you were right," Dawson leaned over and kissed Joey on the cheek,
"I just regret waiting so long to realize it." Joey blushed slightly,
but still didn't say anything.
Dawson wondered about her quietness, "Joe, whats the matter?" Joey just
looked down and said, "Nothing, Dawson." He let it drop.
Pacey also looked down, but then he broke the tension by saying, "Hey,
I'm going to detention too."
"Uh oh, I don't even wanna know what you did this time Pace," Dawson
laughed and so did Pacey, but Joey could only manange a half smile.
"Nah, it's completely innocent, well as innocent as getting detention
could be..I was writing on the desk in school and Mr. Wall got all
pissed at me."
All of a sudden Joey spoke up, "Hey Dawson, could you keep walking
towards school, I have to talk to Pacey about...something." Pacey looked
at Joey, a questioning look in his eye.
"Uh, yeah, sure." He looked at Joey with a look that was a mixture of
hurt and curiosity, then walked away from the pair.
"Pacey...I'm really sorry about this morning, I don't know what got into
me."Joey was silently pleading with him to forgive her, for no matter
how much they teased each other she really valued their friendship.
Pacey had decided earlier to forgive her, "Hey Joey thats OK, I can see
you got it bad for our little Oompa Loompa." Pacey laughed.
"Watch it, thats my boyfriend your talking about!" Then they linked
hands in a friendly way, and walked toward the school once more.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
When Joey and Pacey reached the room where detention was held, they were
surprised at what they saw. It was Jen and Dawson off in a corner
talking. there was no teacher to be seen. Joey whispered to Pacey, "Why
am I feeling a strong sense of deja vu?" he laughed.
Dawson saw Joey and quickly jumped out of his seat, going to welcome
her. His face fell when he saw Joey and Pacey holding hands.I knew I
shouldn't have left them! "Hey, whats going on here?" He asked
testily.
Joey was going to ask what his problem was but them remembered that she
was still holding Pacey's hand. She dropped it, "Nothing we were just
talking."
Dawson still looked hurt but he accepted the excuse, "Well, Jen says
there wasn't a teacher when she got here, and she was on time."
"Well, then what the hell are we doing here?" Pacey asked
irritably.
"I don't know.." Jen called out from her seat across the room, "Hey
Pacey, did you have another rendezvous with your hand?"
"Very funny, Blondie. Actually, I was defacing school property, pretty
low-key for me, I know." Jen laughed. Wow, Pacey's really funny.
Pacey looked longingly at Jen, I wish she liked me back. I really
like her. I can't take another rejection. Suddenly, Jen's voice
broke into his reverie, "Pacey, come over here and talk to me will
ya?"
"What? Oh yeah you bet!" and he practically ran over.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
A little while later there was still no teacher in sight, and Joey and
Dawson were ah humming ( you know, making out) in the corner. But
Dawson broke apart when he saw Jen and Pacey, "Hey look at that, doesn't
it look like they're interested in each other?" Dawson didn't say this
in a jealous way, just curiously. And, although he was ashamed to admit
it, he was suprised he wasn't jealous when he saw Jen flirting with
another guy. Well, at least now I know my love for Joey is
complete... He leaned over and kissed hers lips once more...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Pacey's dream was coming true, Jen was so obviously flirting with him.
He wondered what he did to make her change her mind. But that isn't
whats important, she really likes me! He said one of his famous
funny lines and Jen laughed and put her hand on his arm. Oh
wow, I don't know how long I can take this without kissing her. He
actually felt like he was going to explode with anticipation.
He didn't have to wait long. Jen leaned over and whispered in his ear,
"I really don't know what I was thinking when I said I didn't like that
kiss, Pace, because I'm beginning to realize I loved it."
This is your chance Pacey, don't blow it! "Well, if you liked it
that much," he whispered back to Jen, we could...do it again."
"Mmm, I'd love to." Jen leaned over and their lips met.
No, Pacey's head was screaming, No! this isn't right. I'm the
rebound guy! I'm replacing Dawson. this realization made Pacey want
to cry.
He quickly pulled away, "Jen, I'm not going to be your toy, you come
back when you're over Dawson, OK?" This statement took all Pacey's
strength to say, he turned around to walk out of the room. But he soon
heard Jen's distressed call.
"Pacey..look, that isn't true! I thought it was at the beginning but, it
isn't! I really, really like you!"
Pacey wanted to give in, but he wouldn't allow himself to, "No, Jen not
this time.."
Jen didn't know what he was talking about. Not this time...what does
that mean? All she knew was how much she really did like Pacey. She
felt the tears come to her eyes and they fell silently.
"Hey, what's this?" Pacey asked when he spotted a white slip of paper on
the teacher's desk. He read it out loud:
Detentionees:
Detention is canceled for today. I am busy
with a previous engagement.
Detention will be postponed to
this Friday.
Ms. Tingle
"Oh man, this sucks." Pacey
sat down at a desk and banged his head against it, "A day in detention
when I didn't even have to be here!"
Jen secretly didn't mind wasting the day at detention. I found out
that I like Pacey..and he likes me I know it! Just a little scheming and
I've got him.
Dawson and Joey looked up from their ah humming, "I don't
mind at all.." they said together, then laughed.
The foursome walked out of detention together, maybe not all of them at
their happiest times, but still, together.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jen was in her bed, but found she couldn't sleep. Her thoughts kept
returning to one thing, Pacey. I always was sort of attracted to
him...ever since the beginning. She remembered their first kiss, at
the other detention. She laughed at the irony of it all. At that
detention she was still obsessed with Dawson, yet that was the day his
eyes were opened to Joey. And that was also the day Jen's eyes were
opened to Pacey. But she hadn't let the feelings into her mind. That
day of detention was like a look into the future. She knew she still
had to win Pacey over completely, but had no doubt in her mind that she
would one day soon. There isn't anything to keep me and Pacey from
becoming an us....
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Joey and Dawson were saying goodnight in front of his house.
They were having difficulty doing this.
"Oh I don't know how I can wait till I can see you tommorrow,"
Dawson smiled tenderly at Joey, half meaning what he had
said.
"Dawson, don't make me quote 'Romeo and Juliet' again, it's making me
think we might end up the same way!" Joey said jokingly.
"Joey, I can't help it, it's the truth," he kissed her deeply and she
responded.
Joey was only partly enjoying the kiss. This is perfect. But, how
long can this perfectness last?
The End
.....but to be continued...I have a few ideas for the
next one, but I'll take your suggestions..I promise to give you credit
if I use your idea! So if you have a suggestion as to what should happen
next...e-mail me! But E-MAIL ME anyway!! I love getting it from you
guys. It makes me want to keep writing.(NiXiE10@aol.com)
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