Dawson and Joey
By: Sari
Summary: A strange one-shot featuring the pairings Laley and Naley. I wrote this while having minor writers block with my other story This Time Around. Laley's relationship is compared to Dawson's Creek.
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We used to watch Dawson's Creek every Wednesday at eight. Either at her house or my house it didn't matter as long as we were together, best friends forever. That's how it was in the beginning. A simple life built on simple pleasures. Growing up together we knew every detail about each other, like she was a talented sing and I was an avid writer, and in some strange way we could always relate ourselves to that show.
She was Joey the angst-ridden, best friend from the wrong side of the tracks. Smart and witty, the gem that no one discovered until it was too late. I was Dawson the loyal best friend who was a dreamer at best and a thinker at worst. The talented nobody who would someday get his big break. We were two halves of one whole.
Then school came into our perfect world and ruined everything. I got wrapped up in basketball, cheerleaders, and popularity and she became lost in the crowd. No matter how hurt she may have been, always giving me encouragement and words of support. We grew apart and as we did others swooped in and stole our glory. They stole our Wednesday nights.
She was the butt of a joke by my darling brother, but devious means turned into growing love and instead of coming out the star I was the loser watching from the sidelines as I lost the one person I had loved to the one person I had grown up hating, and even if later in life I would one day enjoy his presence. I would never be the hero in her eyes again; I was replaced by my brother.
Because life isn't a show, it's not a movie, and it certainly isn't like Dawson's Creek.
Or maybe it is.
Dawson didn't end up with Joey, the perfect match, in the end. The best friends who turn lovers who grow together and sit back and reminisce about the old days was only an illusion.
Dawson moved away and Joey moved on, struggling to live a life without him. Too late to realize what a special love they might have, Joey got Pacey and Dawson got no one.
That's how the story ends.