"Bessie, I am really starting to freak out, I mean every morning he is here to pick me up for school at the same time and today he is not here."
"Joey, I am sure that you are freaking out for no reason. Maybe he overslept or he is sick and not going."
"He would have called, I am telling you something is wrong."
"Well this is what we are going to do I am going to take you to school since now you are going to be late anyway and…"
"But Bessie, "
"And we'll stop by the Witter's on the way."
"Thanks Bes."
On the way over Joey is very nervous and her stomach was all twisted up in knots. He better be okay.
Knock Knock.
"Hi Joey. What are you doing here."
"Hi Mrs. Witter, um Pacey didn't come and pick me up today for school so I just wanted to make sure he was okay."
"Oh honey, he is fine. He feeling sick today and is not going to go."
"oh okay…"
"Bullshit he is not going." John Witter's angry voice came out as he walked behind his wife who had gone a shade paler when he spoke.
"Pacey get your ass down here right now, you are going to school." He screamed upstairs as Joey flinched from imagining Pacey having to wake up to that loud voice.
"Dad, I can't go today, I don't feel good." Pacey said from upstairs in his room.
"oh that will really raise your pathetic grades up, now you get down here or I will come up there and I don't think you want that do ya?"
"No, I will be right down."
Ten minutes later Pacey walked downstairs painfully and dejected looking with a black eye and a split lip.
When Joey saw how he looked she gasped for it looked like every step was painful and he was holding his back weird. "Pacey, what happened to you?"
"Jo, what are you doing here?"
"You didn't pick me up for school and I got worried."
"Oh well last night I fell down my stairs, come on let's go."And he grabbed her hand and dragged her to the car.
"Pacey what happened to you?" Bessie asked once she saw his face.
"Nothin Bessie I fell down the stairs."
"Right, I haven't seen a bruise on you since you were eleven and you except me to believe that shit!" Then she did a u turn and started heading the other direction.
"Bessie!" Both Pacey and Joey yelled out.
"Bessie where are we going, school is the other direction?" Joey asked totally confused.
"Somewhere I haven't been in a long time."
"No, not there he will tell my dad."
"somehow I don't think so."