That Summer

--The summer wind, came blowin' in - from across the sea/It lingered there, so warm and fair - to walk with me/All summer long, we sang a song - and strolled on golden sand/Two sweethearts, and the summer wind/Like painted kites, those days and nights - went flyin' by/The world was new, beneath a blue - umbrella sky-- ("Summer Wind" --Micheal Buble)

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Hey all! this is my new story called 'That Summer'. Its basically a short story-- or more like, a few short stories that took place during the summer that Joey and Pacey spent on the 'True Love'. I thought I'd write some nice fluffy, dramatic and maybe a teensy bit angsty stuff for you to enjoy that probably took place. It takes place in five parts, each story from that summer with a song title for a name (and song lyrics included in the story) that have to do with the individual story. So here are the titles;

Chapter One-- It's about time, Chapter Two-- Promises, Chapter Three-- Girlfriend, Chapter Four--Anticipation, Chapter Five-- Help Me

So, lol.. hopefully ya'll will like this story. Please please please reply, so I can have some encouragement! I would really appreciate it. Thank ya. Enjoy the first chapter! ~*Amanda

DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the characters, unless you dont recognize them, then I probably made them up. I also do not own Dawson's creek, even though I wish I did. lol.

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Chapter One: It's about time

"I hate you, I love you/I just can't remember to forget you/Who are you, who needs you?/You make me feel alive, I die, so high/I'm crawling on the ground /I have found I can fly/One of these days it all comes together/One of those days that goes on forever/Think I sound crazy? Maybe, whatever/What's it all about?/It's about life, it's about fun/It's over before it has begun/It's about you, it's about me/It's about everything between and I say/I'm saying goodbye to you, I say hi to you with no clue/It's about time that I/Make up my mind /It's simple, confusing, the truth is I'm winning but I'm losing/And pulling and pushing, won't do me any good/It could, it should/I'm honest to myself that the truth is I lied /One of these days it all comes together/One of those days that goes on forever/Think I sound crazy? Maybe, whatever/What's it all about?/Time is creeping behind me, surrounding around me/Fading the words so desperately/Now give me a reason that I can believe in/Time is something you can't rewind/One of these days it all comes together/One of those days that goes on forever/Think I sound crazy? Maybe, whatever/What's it all about?" (It's about time by Lillix)

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A breeze blew by her face so softly and tickled her nose. There was a fresh salty smell that reminded her of summer, more then anything else. All of a sudden she sat up with a start. Wait, where was she? This wasn't her room in the B&B.. all of a sudden it flashed in front of her eyes like a slideshow. She remembered. She remembered leaving Dawson back in Capeside and following her heart.

With Pacey. Joey looked around for him, but didn't spot him anywhere. She got up from her blue polyester sleeping bag, which was placed by the window on the floor inside of the cabin. There was another sleeping bag a bit to the right of hers, which Joey figured must have been Pacey's. It certainly looked like someone had slept there, all messy and unkempt.. an extra blanket crumpled up on top of his green sleeping bag, and a flattened pillow lying several feet from it. Joey got up, and looking around for a change of clothes, remembered that she didn't have anything. She only had the clothes on her back.

She let out a frustrated sigh, and went outside of the cabin to look for Pacey. It was a chilly morning, especially for summer, and Joey shivered, wrapping her arms around herself. She guessed it must have been around 8 o'clock.

All of a sudden Joey heard a laugh coming from the front of the boat. She crept along, and spied around the corner of the cabin to see Pacey, with a grin from ear to ear, holding a nicely-sized fish, at the end of a hook.

"You." he said, chuckling to himself, "Are one nice fish. One of the better ones I've caught, I should think. You look like a nice fellow, and you did put up a good fight, and while I would like to set you free, my girl Joey needs to be fed. So you see my dilemna, and now I must sacrifice you." he then laughed some more.

Joey caught a laugh in her throat, but still ended up making a bit of a noise. Pacey quickly turned around to see her.

"It's not nice to spy, Josephine." he grinned.

Joey stepped out over to him, a coy smile on her face. "I wasn't spying, just observing. You seem awfully friendly with that fish."

"He's a good pal of mine, Mac is."

"Mac?!" Joey spat, now unable to hold her laughter. "You named your fish?"

"Sure." Pacey grinned. "Whats wrong with that." he wiped off his hands on a cloth, and walked over to Joey, wrapping his arms around her waist.

"I'm not even going to answer that." smirked Joey.

"You look cute today." Pacey mumbled into her neck.

Joey brushed his face away with a laugh and stepped out of his arms.

"Are you kidding?" she asked. "I wore this yesterday.. in fact, I haven't changed since yesterday or showered for that matter."

"You still look good to me." Pacey grinned.

Joey rolled her eyes with a trademark crooked smile, and looked away.

"So is that breakfast?" she asked after a minute.

"You betcha." Pacey said, going into the cabin. Joey followed him. "And lunch-- and dinner for that matter--"

"Pace." Joey stopped suddenly feeling not-so giddy. "You mean we're going to be on this boat without stopping for other food or clothing or anything for a whole day?"

"Nah." Pacey laughed. "I was just playing with you. We'll be docked by dinner time. OK with you your highness?" he looked up, eyebrows raised.

"Fine." Joey glared menacingly. "I do not know how I'm going to be able to stand being on a boat with you in the middle of water, with no escape for three whole months."

"Oh you'll survive." Pacey said, a smile twitching at the corners of his lips.

"No," Joey went on. "No I won't. Because you know what? This is doomed. Our whole relationship-on-a-boat thing is completely doomed."

"How so?" Pacey said, amused.

"Well, we'll argue one night, and you'll go off into a pub and meet some big-breasted bimbo, and have sex with her. Back on the boat, I'll drink myself drunk, and accidentily fall into the water almost dying. We'll decide that we still love each other, but the big-breasted bimbo turns out to be pregnant with your baby. So we are forever seperated."

"Oh yeah." Pacey nods, pretending to seriously consider it. "Sounds good to me. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go straighten up for that bimbo.. she seems like my kind of woman."

"Great, and I'll get started on that drinking." Joey said, trying not to laugh.

"Great." Pacey answered with a smirk.

"Great."

"Great."

"Great."

"Hey Jo?"

"Hmm?" they were standing, closer and closer together, with every word spoken.

"Can I kiss you now?"

"Did you even have to ask?"

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The sun was starting to set as Joey and Pacey pulled into a port. The place was absolutely magical with tall white mansions along a cliff, and what looked like a small town right in front of them.

"Wow," Joey commented breathlessly. "It's beautiful."

"Yes it is." Pacey was working on lowering the anchor. "And so are you." he walked over to her, and pulled her in for a quick kiss.

"You are way too charming for your own good, Witter."

"I've been told that many a time." he grinned.

"Ahem." said a voice from behind them. Pacey and Joey turned around, and seeing a middle-aged woman in a police uniform, quickly untangled themselves from their embrace.

"Who might you two be?" she asked, looking at them with distaste.

"Pacey Witter, ma'am." he said quickly, leaning forward to shake the woman's hand. "And this is my....girlf....well, uh...frie....um...this is Joey Potter." Pacey struggled over what to classify himself and Joey as. What were they anyhow?

"Nice to meet you." Joey shook the lady's hand also with a large smile, and reaching behind her back pinched Pacey.

"Ah!" Pacey yelped. The woman looked over at him, an eyebrow raised. "Ah, well.. what can I do the pleasure of your company? Any problems officer?"

"No, no problems at all." she said, with a slight smile. "Just wondering what you two are doing here. It's my job to welcome newcomers in boats to town, and make sure they're not here for any...illegal.. activities. You two aren't are you?"

"No." both Joey and Pacey said at the same time.

The officer looked them over again suspiciously.

"Well, alright then." she said. "Well, welcome to Riverbend. Hope to see you folks around for a while." She walked down the pier, and again stopped, and looked behind her at the two teenagers, again shaking her head and going along.

"What a crazy lady." Pacey laughed.

Joey elbowed him. "What was up with the whole stuttering over my name thing Pace? Now she's going to think you kidnapped me, and couldn't come up with a logical relationship for us to be together or something."

"Well excuse me, Ms. Potter." Pacey said, as the walked along the docks. "I wasn't quite sure what we were. What would you consider us to be?"

"Well, what would you consider us to be?" Joey asked.

"I do not know I asked you first."

"Then what would you like us to be?" Joey shot back.

"What would YOU like us to be?" said Pacey.

"I don't know." Joey admitted with a sigh. "Let's give it a bit of time, ok?"

"Sounds good to me." Pacey grinned, putting his arm around her. "Now let's get going, and get you some clothes, and maybe some munchies for me. I am so hungry."

"You're always hungry." Joey smirked, looking sideways at him.

He was silent for a moment. "True." he said. "Very true. But that's beside the point."

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Joey stared at her plastic one-sided menu, and thought for a moment. What would she like to eat? Well, certainly nothing with fish. Joey had ate enough fish for one day, and yet she still had a feeling that she would have to eat fish more during the summer with Pacey. A lot more.

"What are you getting?" she asked Pacey, as she rubbed his bare calve with her foot under the table. He looked up at her, with an eyebrow raised.

"Why, a cheese burger of course. You don't go to a greasy burger and fries place, and get a ceaser salad."

"Funny." Joey glared at him. "And that wasn't what I was planning on. Maybe some mozzarella sticks if they had some, or a sandwhich of sorts. But a burger? It's so greasy Pacey!"

"I know." he grinned, smacking some gum in his mouth. "Ain't it great."

Before Joey got a chance to answer that, a stereotypical diner-lady with grey hair, in a cafeteria-green dress and an apron, came up beside them with a notepad and pen, and with no feeling in her voice, not even looking up said;

"Can I get you anything."

"I will have one of your famous cheeseburgers, and some delicious fries." Pacey said, giving Joey a sly look.

"Anything to drink?"

"A rootbeer please. And my girlfriend will have any kind of garden salad you have--"

"We don't serve salads." the lady said with no tone to her voice, still not looking up from her notepad.

"Then do you have any sandwiches?" Pacey asked with a smirk.

"No sandwiches. Only whats on the menu."

Joey looked down to see four choices. A burger, a cheeseburger, fries and onion rings.

"I'll have a plain burger and an order of onion rings." she said slowly.

"What to drink?" the lady asked.

"Any sparkling beverages for the little lady?" Pacey asked, obviously amused. "Or perhaps some bottled water?"

"No. Just soda."

"Then I'll have a 7-up please." Joey mumbled, her eyes shooting daggers at Pacey.

"Coming up." the lady mumbled walking away.

"I hate you." Joey said, crossing her legs, and keeping them as far away from Pacey's legs under the table as possible.

"What?" Pacey said, reaching out and rubbing his foot against her knee. "No you don't."

"You are such a jerk."

"No I'm not." Pacey mumbled, sensing that something was wrong. "Wanna go back to the boat after supper Joey?"

"I guess." she said quietly.

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The rest of the walk back to the pier was in silence. Not that Pacey wanted it to be silent though. He had tried countless times to talk to her asking, "Nice weather we're having hey?" and "The stars are beautiful aren't they?" and occasionally, "The food was good right?" Joey would answer all these questions in a simple toneless "mmmm." Pacey was beginning to wonder if she had warped into the diner-lady.

"So." he said, trying to get nearer to her.

However, it was impossible without being bumped by the plastic k-mart bag Joey was swinging, right beside her.

"Having a good time so far?"

"Mmm." she answered, tucking a lock of hair behind her ear.

Pacey suspected that she had purposely put the k-mart bag on the side that he was walking next to her on. It certainly looked that way, because everytime he switched sides, to try to walk beside her, the bag would travel to that side also.

"Jo." Pacey tugged at her free hand, as they walked towards their boat. "Please don't be mad at me."

"I'm not mad." Joey said quietly.

"Yes you are!" Pacey exclaimed. "You've been cold with me since the whole diner incident. I'm sorry for teasing you or embarassing you."

"It isn't that."

"Then what is it?" he asked, as he sat down on the dock, letting his feet dangle over the edge.
Joey sat down beside him. "I'm just wondering if this was such a good idea..."

"What was?"

"Us. Me coming with you. I don't know if it's working. Maybe I made a mistake in coming with you."

"Well." Pacey croaked, looking away. "If thats the way you feel."

"Pace." Joey took his hand. "I just don't want Dawson to get mad at me."

"Dawson hmm?" Pacey spat. "Why does it keep coming back to that kid?"

"Relax Pacey. Remember, I chose you."

"Did you?" he asked. "Did you really, because it looks like your regretting this descision."

"I don't know. Maybe I just need time to adjust."

Pacey was silent, and looked away.

"Pacey?"

Silence.

"I'm sorry. I was just feeling a little bit unsure. But I don't want Dawson, Pacey. I want you."

He turned to look at her. "Really? Thats how you feel?"

"Yes." Joey whispered. She touched the side of his face with the palm of her hand, and looked into his eyes. "I was wondering if--you know.. I could maybe call myself your girlfriend?"

"What?!" Pacey straightened up startled. A smile broke onto his face. "Really? You mean it Jo? You want me to be your-- boyfriend???"

"Yes. If you'll accept me."

"I would be honoured." he grinned.

Joey could help but smiling widely at his face. He looked so adorable, and happy. Leaning forward she kissed his forehead.

"My boyfriend." she sighed, and snuggled into his chest.

And Joey knew that now, there, in his arms was right where she wanted to be.

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End of the First chapter.

Four more to go!

I hope you guys enjoyed that. Please remember to reply!!

Luv Amanda "My hopes are so high, that your kiss might kill me. So why don't you kiss me, so I die happy?" -- Dashboard Confessional

In the next chapter..

Entitled: Promises

Pacey faces his insecurities about Dawson and Joey and Dawson's relationship, and wonders, as usual if he's good enough for her, or if he'll ever mean as much as Dawson meant to her.