The Reunion

The Reunion

"Hi. How are you?" She said shyly with a shy smile on her face.
"I'm good. Really good. How about yourself?" He said smiling back at her. It was obvious to everyone standing around them that they were happy to see each other. Jen walked over to Drue.
"Hey. So fill me in on everything." He told her how 3 years ago he returned to Capeside to run the Yacht Club, how he and Pacey had become friends.
"So what you doing with you life Lindley?"
"I own a small clothes shop in Boston with Jack. We're doing really well actually." She said with a smile. "I can't believe I actually miss him," she thought to herself. They'd never gotten on that great in high school, well not before he saved her life on the night of the prom. That wasn't the best of nights thinking about it. She glanced around it was packed with most people from high school. Most of who they never really talked to. Mainly cheerleaders and people. "God I was a cheerleader!" She thought. By this time Joey was talking to Dawson. They were talking about what they were doing and why they'd grown apart. She completely understood that making movies was time consuming. After all they'd made quite a few when they were younger. She wandered over to talk to Andie. After a short time Pacey came over holding two glasses of wine. He handed one to Andie and one to Joey. He looked at Andie. She knew it meant he wanted to talk to Joey alone.
"I'm just going to catch up with Dawson. Talk to you soon Jo"
"So, Jo, what you doing with yourself?"
"Erm I'm a art teacher back in Boston. How about you?"
With a grin he said, "I'm a teacher here. I mainly teach english. Actually Lillian and Alexander are a couple of my students. He's a really smart kid. Just like his aunt is." Joey brushed her hair behind her ear. She could feel him looking at her.
"So erm why'd you move back to Capeside?"
"I don't know really, I guess I missed it in a strange kind of way."
"Yeah I know what you mean. When I was here all I wanted to do was leave but now I miss everything about it. Especially the bed and breakfast, Bessie and Bodie. I still keep in touch with them though"
"Yeah I see them every weekend. I go do odd jobs for them. But end up playing Playstation 4 games with Alex. What can I say I'm a big kid at heart." He grinned.
"You haven't changed then." She smiled back at him.
Only an hour later they're all sitting around a large round table, laughing and talking like they spoke and saw each other every day. A slow started playing. Everyone else was dancing. Drue stood up and held out his hand to Jen. "Care to dance?" Jen took his hand and let him lead them to the floor.
"Last time we were dancing like this was the night I saved you life if I remember correctly."
"Your never going to let me for get that are you?" she replied with a grin.
He pauses, "Nope." They both and carry on dancing. Jack, Andie, Joey, Dawson and Pacey are watching them. Jack gets up, "Come on Andie, we might as well dance too." Andie got up and followed him. Pacey got up and walked over to Joey. "Would you like to dance?" She smiled slightly. "Yeah." And followed him to the center of the dance floor.
He took one of her hands into his and put the other round her waist. She placed her free hand on his shoulder. A silver bracelet slipped down her wrist.
"You mom's bracelet."
"Yeah how'd you" She remember the night of the anti prom. "You remember everything," she said in an almost whisper.
"Even after all this time." He whispered back. They carried on down slowly, never losing eye contact.
Dawson was watching them from the table. If this was happening 10 years ago he would be so hurt right now. But having been away from her so long he'd managed to get over her. He glanced round everyone else.
"Dawson Leery? Is that you?" He heard a voice behind him. He turned to see Gretchen standing in the doorway.