Romance: Joey/Dawson, Andie/Pacey, you won’t find any other type of romances here. I am severely biased!! No offense!

Spoilers: Everything. Takes place the day after the breakup between Dawson and Joey at the Homecoming Dance.

The Day After Part 1

Joey sat up in bed replaying the events of the previous night in Dawson’s bedroom. She saw the pain in his eyes before she left. The way his eyes softened when he said he loved her. She was so tempted to not end their relationship. She had told herself walking home last night what she was doing was right for her. She needed to find herself to find her something. But could she find it without Dawson? He was the one person who knew her completely in the whole world. To be without him, she didn’t even want to think about it.

She dried the tears that swelled in her eyes and got up and dressed for school. She walked downstairs to the kitchen and found her nephew banging his hands against the table turning his face to avoid the spoon her sister pointed at his mouth.

“Alexander, please cooperate with me.”

Joey goes to the refrigerator to get some juice. Bessie looked up and smiled curiously “So how was the dance last night. Did you have fun?”

Joey turned to Bessie, her eyes still red and swollen, her voice sad, “It was a dream Bessie, a perfect setting for any movie. The girl and the man of her dreams having the time of their lives. But unfortunately for the girl, the man of her dreams no longer exists. I ended it with Dawson last night.”

Bessie stood up and her eyes narrowed. “You told him about kissing Jack, didn’t you? I told you as long as you didn’t kiss back, he didn’t have to know.”

“No, I didn’t tell him about the kiss. He found that out on his own. He overheard Jack and I talking about it.”

“You were talking about it!” She raised her voice. “Joey you should have just left it alone. What are doing to do now?”

Joey could feel the tears brimming in her eyes. She looked away finished her juice and reached for her backpack. She stopped at the door. “I’m going to school, Bess. Life goes on, with or without Dawson in it.”

(Pacey walking up to Andie’s house)

Pacey walked up the stairs of Andie’s porch and rings the doorbell. Mrs. McPhee answers the door. She smiles.

“Well, hello there, Pacey is it? How are you?”

“Just fine, Mrs. McPhee. I’m here to pick up Andie.” He grinned, remembering what happened last night. The dance they shared, and the kiss…… His grin became even broader.

“Oh, just a second then. Won’t you come in?” she asked happily. “I’m sure Tim is awake by now, he’d love to meet you. You didn’t meet him last time you were here.”

“Ah, that’s okay, I’ll just wait here, but thank you. We don’t want to be late.” Pacey said calmly, knowing what was wrong with Mrs. McPhee made things much clearer now. But he wasn’t sure whether to acknowledge Tim or not, better to wait and see.

Andie showed up in the doorway behind her mother. She looked to Pacey with a slightly worried look then back to her mother. “Bye, Mom see ya later,” she said giving her a kiss on the cheek.

They started off to school for a few moments in silence. Pacey look at her sweetly. “So, McPhee how was your date last night?” he asked, smiling. “Was it all you wanted and more?”

Andie looked at him side ways. “You know Pace, my date last night wasn’t a date at all. He left me alone. Wouldn’t dance with me once, poor excuse. He says he can’t dance. Then had the gall to slow dance with another girl! In my book the guy was just a clown.” Her voice raised a little.

Suddenly Pacey’s face fell. A lump formed in his throat. He couldn’t believe what she was saying. He stopped walking and said sadly. “Wait, I thought we cleared this up. What about liking me, and dancing and…..” his voice trailed off.

Andie turned to face him and stared blankly. She is serious, he thought. “Well, you were soo wrong.” He looked down at his hands.

Then Andie wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him. Pacey stood frozen for a second, then kissed her back, pulling her close to him. When they broke away she laughed softly. “GOT you, Pacey.”

“Oh, McPhee you are so dead.” He leaned it for another kiss.

(Capeside High School hallways)

“Tearin up my heart” by N’Sync is playing in the background.

It’s tearin up my heart with I’m with you
Cause when we are apart I feel too
And no matter what I do I feel the pain
With or Without you.

Dawson walked quickly through the halls. After destroying much of his bedroom, he decided things were not over between him and Joey. He would explain that to her get her to realize everything would be fine. It was killing him inside. He already had the script written, now to find her. He found Joey at her locker, putting books into her backpack.

“Joey, we need to talk.” She looked up at him.

Okay this is my part fanfic. Please be extremely critical and honest! All comments good/bad are fine.

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