Chapter 1-
By Dannette Lawrence
Summary: When Bessie goes out of town with Alex and Bodie and Pacey and Gretchen are also out of town on a road trip Joey and Dawson get together and old feelings might resurface.
Joey's intense brown eyes jumped back and forth scanning the pages
of 'Jurassic Park'. Joey turned a page of the book, not seeing Bessie,
her older sister, standing in front of her with Alex in her arms and two
bags in tow.
"Jurassic Park? Is a certain little sister of mine missing a certain
blonde boy that lives across the creek?"
Upon hearing Bessie's voice, Joey snapped her head up which was
followed by her usual rolling of the eyes showing her aggravation.
"I was bored. Pacey is on some road trip with his sister, Jen is
doing the bonding thing with Grams and Jack is doing some wilderness thing
where he has to stay out in the woods by himself without any of his friends
to prove he can survive and then I saw this lying around. Are you ready
to leave?"
Bessie nodded looking over the book and tossed it on the couch snorting
out a little laugh.
"Well Bodie's waiting outside for me so I better go. Jo, you shouldn't
just hang around the house all three days I'm gone, maybe you should go
over to Dawson's"
Joey rolled her eyes pushing herself up from the couch; she walked
over to the kitchen and stared to search through the refrigerator.
"You forget me and Dawson don't do the hanging out thing anymore,
we haven't really hung out since the whole me and Pacey thing."
Bessie walked over to the door and pushed it open but turned to
Joey before leaving.
"Maybe he's just waiting for you to come to him"
With that Bessie left the house. Joey stared out the window and
watched Bodie's truck speed off; she stared after them for a minute before
turning back to the refrigerator. She stared at the food for a minute and
then after much absently staring at nothing she grabbed a Pepsi and shut
the refrigerator door and leaned over the kitchen counter. Joey popped
the soda can open and took a sip letting her mind wander off. Maybe Bessie
was right; maybe she should try to hang out with Dawson. Joey shook her
head, he doesn't want to hang out with me of all people, and he has made
that pretty clear. Joey took another sip of her soda and continued to think;
or maybe he's just waiting for me to make the first move, to set the example.
Joey absently walked over to the phone and picked the receiver up and dialed
Dawson's phone number without even thinking.
Dawson sat on his bed flipping through pages of his photos; he stopped
at a picture of Gretchen and smiled. Dawson glanced to his desk and stared
at his video camera and went to grab for it but he was stopped when his
phone rang. Dawson grabbed his phone wondering who would was calling him.
"Hello?"
Joey nervously fidgeted on the other side of the phone, why was
this so hard? She has known Dawson forever after all.
"Hello?"
Dawson's voice repeated when he got no response from the person
on the other side of the phone.
"Dawson? Hey it's me Joey"
Dawson stared at the phone incredulously, Joey was calling him?
And out of the blue like this? Say something Dawson yelled at himself mentally.
"Hey Jo. What's up?"
"Nothing really. Bessie just left with Alex and Bodie for some romantic
trip and Pacey is on that road trip with Gretchen and Jen and Jack have
their own agendas and I thought I would give you a call"
Dawson relaxed on his bed.
"Well I feel so special Joey"
Joey rolled her eyes.
"Shut up Dawson you know what I mean"
"Don't I always? Well it sounds to me you wanted to ask me something,
so ask away"
Joey stared at the phone clearing her throat.
"Well I was wondering if I could like come over and hang out you
know? Like old times"
Dawson stared at the phone.
"Um I don't think so Joey. I'm kind of busy, sorry"
Joey closed her eyes.
"No I'm sorry, bye"
Joey clicked end on the phone quickly regretting the whole conversation.
Dawson clicked end of his phone and went to put the phone back on the cradle
and forget Joey ever called him but all of a sudden he turned to a page
of his book and saw a picture of Joey he took, he sighed and clicked talk
on the phone and dialed Joey's number. Joey heard her phone ring and hesitated
for a second but then picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Jo? Hey"
Joey stared at the phone in shock.
"What do you want Dawson? I thought you were busy"
"Well my agenda suddenly cleared up so if you still want to come
on over."
Joey smiled.
"Really? Should I bring the movies?"
"Nah. I got the movies, you bring the snacks and of course you.
See you in a few Joey"
"Okay bye Dawson, just like old times huh?"
"Just like old times."
"Okay bye Dawson"
"Bye Jo"
They both clicked end on their phones. Joey smiled and opened the
cupboards and pulled out some popcorn and candy and threw them in her backpack
and grabbed her keys and went to go but stopped when her phone rung again.
"Dawson, is that you again? I'm on my way, hold your horses"
Pacey stared at the pay phone weirdly.
"Um no Joey, it's me Pacey"
"Oh hey Pace! How's the road trip going?"
Pacey played around with the pay phone's cord.
"Good. Thought I would give you a call, since Bessie left with Alex
and Bodie, I thought you would be bored"
"Oh I was, I was so bored I was reading Jurassic Park but then something
came up"
"A Dawson something. Since when do you guys hang out on a regular
basis?"
Joey noticed the jealousy in Pacey's voice.
"We don't hang out on a regular basis Pacey you should know that
of all people. I called him and asked him if we could hang out and he said
yes. Pacey don't be jealous. I really got to go though Pacey"
Pacey shook his head.
"Okay Joey. I was also calling you to tell you that we're on our
way home, so I'll come by your house early in the morning, you don't mind
if I wake you do you?"
"Not at all. Love you bye"
"Love you bye"
Pacey sighed when he heard Joey hang up the phone; Pacey rested
his head against the glass.
"She's going to Dawson's, great"
Pacey turned around and walked towards the truck.
"Let's get going, Gretchen"
"Wait I have to make a call"
Dawson searched through his movies trying to pick the perfect movies;
Dawson glanced at his phone when it started ringing; He walked over to
the phone and picked it up.
"Joey is that you again? Just come over here"
Gretchen stared at the pay phone oddly.
"No it's me Gretchen"
Dawson shook his head hitting himself mentally.
"Oh hey Gretchen. How's the road trip going?"
"Good. So Joey is coming over to your house?"
Dawson picked some movies out and threw them on his bed.
"Oh yeah she is. We're going to have a movie night; weird I know
but oh well. So what did you want? Not that I'm not happy to hear your
voice"
Gretchen smiled big; Dawson always knew how to make her blush.
"To tell you that we're on our way home now. So I'll be at your
house early in the morning, you don't mind me waking you up do you?"
"Not at all. I really have to go though Gretchen, I think Joey's
climbing up the ladder"
"Well okay bye"
"Bye"
Gretchen stared at the phone a little hurt when Dawson quickly hung
up. Gretchen shook her head and walked back to the truck and hopped in
and started the car.
"Let's go"
Joey climbed up the last steps of the ladder and stared into Dawson's
bedroom window not being able to do this for a long time.
"Are you coming in or not?"
Joey looked at Dawson and rolled her eyes.
"Hold your horses"
"I'll try"
Dawson laughed and helped Joey in.
"What kind of snacks did you bring?"
Joey walked over to Dawson's bed and handed him her backpack and
looked at the movies.
"E.T., Jurassic Park, I know what you did last summer, and all 3
Screams. Are we making a night out of this?"
Dawson pulled out the chips and candy.
"Why not? Put E.T. in?"
Joey nodded and walked over to the VCR and popped E.T. in and walked
back over to the bed sitting down next to Dawson.
::::Later that night:::
Dawson reached over to his desk and grabbed his video camera and
turned it on silently and started recording Joey for some reason; she was
lying on her stomach and was so busy watching Scream 2 that she didn't
even notice Dawson taping her.
"Ahh!"
Joey screamed and turned away and saw Dawson taping her.
"What are you doing? I thought you didn't film anymore"
Dawson did a close up of Joey.
"I got some inspiration."
Dawson turned off the camera and put it back on his desk and went
back to watching the movie, as did Joey.
The credits of "Scream 3" finished rolling and the tv screen went
black; no one got up to turn the television off because Joey and Dawson
laid sprawled out on the bed lying closely to each other dead asleep.