Hi All,

Here is Chapter 2 - just to let you know, this fic kind of reveals itself - maybe that doesn't make sense. What I mean is that we don't get to see what happened when P &J watched Speed - we just know that they did - that their relationship is like that, that the ease is there. Please let me know if anything is unclear after this part and I will most certainly clarify. I tend to write without chapters and put them in afterwards which means I occaisionally get it wrong with where to end and where to start. Anyway, please, please, please enjoy and pretty please let me know if you do!

Tab xx

Chapter 2

'Why oh why does it have to be so damn hot?' Jen fanned herself.

'The air con is broken,' Joey glared at Pacey, clearly blaming him for the lack of cool air.

'I brought fans,' he defended.

'If I'd known my night off from study would be in a sauna I'd have stayed at home,' Jack grumbled.

'Grumpy pants,' Jen tweaked his ear.

'The B&B is empty, Bessie is away, we've got space. Go swim in the creek if you're that hot,' Joey grumped back.

'Go try and fix the air con again,' Jack beseeched turning his wide, pleading eyes on her. 'Please….'

'Oh ok fine,' Joey muttered and stood. 'Pacey,' she stated in irritation and he stood and followed her obediently.

'You know swimming could be fun…' Jack's bottom lip poked out.

'Let's just hope Pacey can fix the air con,' Dawson didn't fancy a swim, he wanted to finish watching Bring it On. He hadn't realised Jen and Joey could have such good taste in movies. Hell, cheer leading outfits were brilliant.

'Well at least I brought tequila,' Jack grinned at Jen. 'Maybe if we're drunk enough we won't care that it's hot.'

'I bet Andie threw a hissy fit when she saw you taking that,' Jen grinned eyeing the bottle.

'She didn't see. She had her nose in a book,' Jack shrugged.

'That girl will get burnout.'

'She's already burnt out if you ask me,' Jack frowned slightly.

'Joey and I will sort her, don't worry,' Jen reassured, kicking Dawson gently in the shoulder with her bare foot. He grunted and continued to stare at the movie. Jen caught Jack's eye and they laughed.

'Come on with the air con,' Jack shouted behind his shoulder and was rewarded with a loud thump and Pacey's irritated voice,

'I'm trying man.'

'Why is it we all think Pacey can fix anything?' Jen mused.

'That kind of guy,' Jack responded, a perfectly valid answer to him.

'I guess.'

'Give it up guys, we'll swim,' Jen shouted back.

'You tell us now?' Joey grumbled a few moments later looking hot and frustrated as she and Pacey came back from the air-con unit.

'Yeah… Jack showed me his tequila.'

'Why didn't you mention it earlier man,' Pacey huffed.

'We're playing truth and dare,' Jen announced hopefully but Joey pish poshed that,

'Nah, we're getting drunk,' and she poured herself a shot and downed it.

'Joey Potter,' Jack, Jen and Pacey stated in unison managing to grab Dawson's attention.

'What's going on?'

'We're getting drunk, chilling out and having fun,' Joey ordered. 'We'll have tomorrow morning to recover and revise the rest of the day.'

'Where's your class girl?' Pacey berated Joey. 'You gotta do salt, tequila, lemon, else there's no point. And a mug! Why do I bother?'

'I'm sorry Pace, I didn't realise you were so refined!' Joey arched her brows but disappeared to the kitchen to find the necessary requirements.

'Pacey… where the hell would Bessie keep lemons?' she yelled a few seconds later.

'Oy vey,' Pacey grumbled leaving his slumped position on the floor with reluctance.

'Potter, do you need me for everything?' he teased admiring her backside as she peered into the depths of the refrigerator. 'Try the fruit bowl,' he supplied helpfully, retrieving a couple of lemons from under apples and bananas.

'Fruit bowl, why didn't I think of that?' she rolled her eyes and then pursed her brow, 'salt?'

'Gees girl, don't you ever cook? What are you gonna do when you get to college?'

'Require catered accommodation,' she grinned and he chuckled.

'I suppose with all that studying to do you wouldn't really have time for fine cuisine.'

'I don't suppose I would,' she rummaged behind the standard glasses and located five shot glasses.

'Now that is somewhat classier than the mug you used for your first shot,' Pacey teased with arched brows.

'Class is my middle name Pace,' Joey announced rather smugly.

'Sure it is Josephine,' he jabbed a finger in her ribs.

'Be careful Pacey J Witter…' she warned teasingly.

'Salt and lemon,' Jack and Jen chorused from the other room.

'And a stun gun to distract Dawson from girls in cheerleader outfits,' Pacey whispered making Joey giggle as they entered the lounge.

'Hey guys, what say we switch off the tv, head to the creek, dip our feet in?' Joey asked.

'Yay from me,' Jen nodded.

'Me too,' Jack gave her a mock salute.

'You haven't got a 4.0 for no reason,' Pacey agreed.

'What's the point in starting the movie if we're not going to finish?' Dawson asked.

'But Dawson we've only got 6 weeks left, lets make the most of it,' Joey teased.

'Oh fine,' he could never resist her big brown eyes.

'This is so much better,' Jack groaned as he lay back in the water.

'Yes siree,' Jen agreed.

'Who needs air conditioning hey?' Pacey dived and then resurfaced.

'I'm pretty sure the guests would prefer to crank up the air con rather than dive in the creek whenever they're a little warm,' Joey grinned floating on the surface.

'You're all crazy,' Dawson reminded them from the shore.

'No, we're cool,' Jen argued back enjoying her double entendre.

'It's not safe to swim when you're drunk.'

'We're not drunk - we're only very slightly inebriated,' Joey clarified before swimming over to Pacey, resting a hand on his shoulder and whispering in his ear, something that seemed entirely too intimate Dawson watching from the shore, especially considering his friends were all swimming in their underwear. He was thinking up some way to protest when Pacey swam towards him.

'Hey man, um… I need a hand out…' Pacey reached up a hand which Dawson took without thinking, allowing Pacey the opportunity to tug his friend into the creek fully clothed. Dawson spluttered to the surface and launched an attack on Pacey.

'Ok...ok…this is better…' Dawson conceded after he and Pacey had finished play wrestling.

'But I'll bet you wish you were in your underwear,' Joey teased.

'Do you wish I was?' Dawson asked without thinking and then dived into the water in embarrassment, cringing at his big mouth. Joey shifted her eyes from side to side, from friend to friend awkwardly and then decided to mention nothing of it when Dawson resurfaced.

'Race you to the other side,' Pacey said to Joey to help her escape the situation.

'So long as I get a head start,' she battered her lashes.

'Bat those lashes all you want Potter but you aint getting a head start,' Pacey stretched his arms behind his back.

'Fine,' Joey growled and dove into the water before Pacey said anything more. Within an instant he was swimming beside her away from the others until they reached the bank on the other side panting slightly.

'Those comments are steadily increasing,' he acknowledged with a wry smile. 'I think he's getting another Joey Potter crush.'

'Seems to be that time again, I tell him and I tell him but it never sinks in,' she sighed. 'He started to try and have a deep and meaningful on movie night but I nipped it. Why can't he just leave it? Am I giving off some sign that I don't know about?' she lay back in the water, she and Pacey floating side by side, their fingers brushing together every now and then, a leg occasionally skimming another leg fleetingly.

'Dawson doesn't need signs, he's got faith!' Pacey informed her.

'Faith in what?' she humphed.

'Faith in the old soulmates thing,' he explained.

'That again,' she turned to look at him with disdain. 'I don't even know if I believe in soulmates. Do you?' she asked.

'Yes and no,' he answered after a beat. 'Not in the way he does. Soulmates is kind of like being best friends I guess. To me anyway. I suppose I think you can have more than one, why not?… more than one somebody you just can't help but be friends with, someone you were just always gonna be friends with… you know what I mean?'

'I think so… I guess you and Dawson have always been my best friends right? In different ways but through it all…' she nodded slightly in the water. 'But you don't believe in the whole romantic, ownership soulmate stuff?'

'The ownership stuff - no,' Pacey frowned slightly thinking it through, 'the romantic soulmate stuff - I guess so. I mean that best friend stuff can turn to romance. I mean isn't the person you're with romantically also your best friend? Or shouldn't they be? I guess I just don't hold stock in the whole soulmate has to equal romance,' he looked at her as she stared at the moon.

'So was Andie your best friend when you were together?' she asked turning to look at him.

'I suppose I thought she might be…' he answered honestly. 'But I don't think she could have been… I was never quite right for her. We always had to try a bit too hard… and of course the whole sleeping with someone else.'

'Not really a symptom of being romantic soulmates?' Joey arched a brow and Pacey chuckled.

'No,' he agreed. 'Now I think about it you cheated on Dawson with Jack,' he looked at her a teasing glint in his eye.

'Mmmmm I suppose I did,' she agreed, a smile tugging the corner of her mouth.

'We aught to get back,' Pacey looked over his shoulders at the others who were pulling themselves from the water.

'I suppose,' Joey didn't really have the energy to face another round of destined to be with Dawson.

'Why don't you just tell him you're seeing someone?' Pacey asked at length.

'And who exactly shall I say I'm seeing?' Joey looked at him.

'I…I…' Pacey began but Joey interrupted,

'It'll wear off. When we're away he'll get the picture,' she rolled over and dived under the water heading for the opposite bank, Pacey following.

Reaching the bank before Joey he waited for her to catch up.

'They've all headed in,' he told her.

'Oh,' she looked at his eyes glinting in the moonlight.

'I don't suppose we have to follow,' he shrugged.

'No,' she shook her head. 'It's cooler here.'

'Much,' he agreed as they continued to float in the water. Turning his head he looked at her in the moonlight, stretching his hand until his fingers touched her face.