Chapter 8
The Perfect Prom Part 1
Everything is the same as before
I am so sorry it took me so long to update. I have been so busy the past week I could barely check my mail. But I hope that I will be able to update more frequently. I juts have a question, should Joey have a boy or a girl, I really want to have it be a girl but I don't know. If anyone has any ideas let me know. On to the story, sorry if it seems unrealistic.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* In the last chapter: Pacey asks Joey if she wants to have a special prom for just the two of them. She agrees Pacey has a surprise for Joey. Joey has a surprise for Pacey
In Joey's bedroom "Bess, what if he doesn't like it? I mean it seemed liked a good idea but when you think about it, this could turn out bad. We really have to start saving our money and this is just going to be another cost." Joey is getting ready for "her prom" the one that she and Pacey planned so that they would not have to go through the costs of a real prom. She is talking to Bessie about the surprise that she had for Pacey.
"Listen Joey, he is going to love it. I'm sure he is going to see it as you did at first, a symbol that your relationship might go through some rough times, but in the end you two will still be strong." Bessie is trying to calm her sister down. " I know that tonight is making you really nervous, but don't worry it will be fine." Bessie says as she heads towards the door to get Alexander, who is now crying. On an afterthought she turns around to say one last thing. "Oh, and by the way, I talked to Gretchen, she's going to stay here tonight so that you and Pacey can have the entire night to yourselves with no fear of interruption."
"Bessie, you do realize that I'm three months pregnant, fat, and sick to my stomach most of the time, I really can't do any of that." Joey blushes at the thought that comes into her head.
"Hey Jo, there is no rule against that. In fact it's perfectly safe." Bessie calls out behind her as she finally goes to get Alexander.
Joey finishes getting ready and waits in the living room for Pacey to pick her up.
That same time at the beach house "Hey Doug, thanks for bringing over the cd's, they are going to be great." Pacey says as he finishes tying his tie.
"No problem little brother. Do you have everything ready?" Doug emphasizes the everything.
"Yeah, and I just got the letter's from some Boston Colleges today. I figure that we will open them together tonight, right after I do the other thing." Pacey seems to get nervous at the thought of college acceptance and his surprise.
"You know Pace, Mom told me what Dad said to you when you told him the news." Doug says this with a grim look on his face.
Pacey figures that Doug is going to yell at him so he cuts him off before Doug has a chance. "Doug, listen I already got it from Dad, and if you came here, let me borrow your cd's, and helped me be able to use the docks tonight just so that you felt better about yelling at me I really don't care to hear it. But I know you and I realize that you won't be satisfied until you yell at me so why don't you just do it now because Joey already went through that hell once and I really don't feel like making her go through it again. So go ahead, tell me what a screw up I am and how I have once again shamed the family."
"Pacey, I wasn't going to yell at you. Actually I wanted to let you know that I think that Dad is a son of a bitch for the way he treated you and for what he said to Joey. Now no parent wants their child to end up a father at 18 and a parent who is in Dad's position in this town sees girls like Joey as bad. She comes from a family that doesn't have a great background and it looks really bad that his son got a "girl like her" pregnant. But you see that's the difference between Dad, and me while we both might come down on you, I do it to help you, well most of the time. But dad, he does it for his own good. But Pace, you have to understand that we both love you, just in different ways, and in time Dad will come around and see how much you have matured. I also wanted to tell you how proud I am of you. I know that this year couldn't have been all that easy for you. You went through so many tough things this year and you really came through shining. While I would like to take responsibility for that I know it was Joey who helped you. I hope you realize how much she loves you." Doug finishes, he is smiling and Pacey knows that he is being genuine.
" I do Doug, believe me I do. I gotta go to pick her up, but um thanks, for everything." Pacey gives Doug a "manly hug" and leaves to go pick up Joey.
At the B&B Ding Dong
Bessie runs to get the door and lets Pacey in. "Wow, Pacey, you really clean up nicely. Joey is in the living room, why don't you go get her. Then I want to take some pictures."
Pacey walks into the other room and stops when he sees his girlfriend. Joey was wearing an off the shoulder, floor length, pink dress that had sparkles all over it. He could see that her pregnancy was starting to show, but even that couldn't make her any less beautiful.
When Joey stood up to come and greet Pacey he got nervous all of a sudden. "Well I guess Dougie was right, you never lose the butterflies." Pacey thought of this silently.
Joey comes up to him and gives her boyfriend a deep kiss. After a few minutes they break it.
"Hi" Joey says quietly, partially out of breath.
"You look absolutely amazing" Pacey is equally out of breath.
"You don't look so bad yourself." Joey replies through a smile.
"Okay that's enough cuteness, time for pictures." Bessie hated to break them up but they would have plenty of time for that later.
After Bessie had taken two rolls of film, which she justified by saying that she wouldn't let anyone take pictures of her for prom and she regretted it later, they were able to leave. They drove down to the docks and Pacey made Joey close her eyes while they walked down to their spot.
"Okay, you can look now" Pacey whispers into Joey's ear while gently kissing her neck.
Joey opens her eyes and prepares to say something, but the sight in front of her throws her completely off guard. The entire length of the dock is lined with twinkle lights. There are candles placed on a table set for two with white rose petals scattered on and around it. But by far the most stunning sight is the little archway that they are standing in front of. It is an iron archway that Joey knows she has seen at the Witter's house covered in ivy with white roses stuck in it and twinkle lights on it. It is even better than the picture background that they would have had at the school prom.
"Pacey, this is perfect. I love it. You didn't have to do all of this, it's so much more than I was expecting." Joey gushes.
"So I guess you like it." Pacey begins buts is interrupted by Joey's lips rushing towards his that results in a passionate kiss that lasts quite a while.
Finally when they stop Pacey leads Joey to the table. "We have all night for that, this chicken, however will not stay warm for too long. Would you like to eat now?"
"Absolutely, I'm starving." Joey says as she sits down at the table.
They share a wonderful dinner with only a few interruptions when one of them got an urge to kiss the other.
Once dinner was over Pacey discreetly reaches into his pocket and begins to talk. "Joey, I know that you getting pregnant was not what either one of us planned, but there is one thing that I have known was planned for me for a very long time. I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I have known this for quite a while, even if I wasn't able to even admit it to myself. I remember once when I was 12 and Gretchen was watching me. We were talking, she was the only one I ever got along with in that house, and she asked me who I had a crush on. I told her I liked Kate Jones but she told me I was lying. I asked her who she thought I liked and she said that I was meant for Joey Potter. I dismissed it as girl talk, but I always carried that thought in the back of my head. Then one night, do you remember that weekend when I invited the critic to the B&B?" Pacey pauses, when Joey nods her head he continues. "Well that night I stayed up for a while just watching you sleep. That was when I realized that Gretchen was right, I loved you. So basically the whole reason for this speech is because I wanted to ask you something. Josephine Potter, I have loved you since I was 12 and probably even before that. You have brought meaning to my life and showed me my potential. Without you I would probably, at best be repeating my senior year, but you wouldn't allow that. Joey you're not my soul mate, I really don't believe in that. You are my one true love. Will you marry me?"
Pacey opens the box and looks up at Joey for her reaction. All of a sudden there is a huge grin on her face. "Pacey that was the most touching thing that I have ever heard. I have a confession to make too. When I was about 13 I was in my Dawson Leery days. I'm sure you remember that. Well one day I was talking to Bessie and complaining that Dawson would never think of me in a romantic way. She just gave me this look and told me that Dawson was a twit and that I shouldn't bother wasting my time on him. She said that we had no chemistry and that rather than spending all my time trying to get the attention of a boy with whom I had no apparent chemistry with I should look in other directions. Most specifically she said that I should towards Pacey Witter because she could tell that underneath all of our fighting we were meant for each other. I though she was crazy but I never forgot what she said. I also have to tell you something about that night you watched me sleep. I woke up around 5 and I saw you, sleeping on the chair and I couldn't help, I watched you sleep too. I knew then that Bessie was right. So my answer to your question is yes, I will marry you."
They share a quick kiss and then Pacey stands up. "May I have this dance."
With that Joey and Pacey dance for quite some time, enjoying each other's company. Around 10 they sit down.
"I got some scholarship letters today." Joey says with a smile on her face "I wanted to open them with you but Bessie didn't know so she opened them and read them to me."
"Well what did they say?" Pacey asks eagerly. "I got a couple scholarships that would be pretty good and I could use them this year." Joey says.
"I sense a but coming." Pacey wonders if it is good or bad.
"Your right, but it's a good but. There is this program that gives scholarships to girls who are pregnant but have good grades and are going to good colleges. It's the Lindsai Curtis Scholarship program and they offered me a full scholarship. The only thing is that they gave all their scholarships away for this year and I would have to wait for a year for it to be available. But they said that if I could wait I would be guaranteed a full scholarship to Worthington." Joey takes a breath and then continues. "At first I was really upset but the more I thought about it, this would be really good. The baby is due in November so I would have almost a year where the only thing I would be doing is working. I would have basically the whole year with the baby before I had to start school. What do you think?"
"I think that is great. You're going to take it right? "Pacey asks.
"I want to as long as you're okay with it." Joey says getting more and more excited.
"Of course its fine with me." Pacey says with a full smile on his face. "Now I have some news for you. I got letters from some colleges today. I want to open them with you."
"Okay lets do it." Joey says, although she is worried that if he doesn't get in it will really spoil the night.
Together they open the three envelopes but do not read any of the letters. Pacey asks Joey to read them for him. She does this but does not give anything away with her facial expressions.
Finally Joey lets Pacey know what they say. "You got into Boston Community College and Boston Bay College."
After they finished jumping up and down and celebrating Joey says that she has one more surprise for him. She leads him down the dock quite a ways. When she finally lets him look Pacey cannot believe what he sees in front of him.
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Okay s that's it for now. Sorry to end it so abruptly but it was getting kind of long so I'm going to do the rest of the night in the next chapter, which I hope to have up sooner than the last. Let me know what you thought of it, please review!!!!!!!!!!
The Perfect Prom Part 1
Everything is the same as before
I am so sorry it took me so long to update. I have been so busy the past week I could barely check my mail. But I hope that I will be able to update more frequently. I juts have a question, should Joey have a boy or a girl, I really want to have it be a girl but I don't know. If anyone has any ideas let me know. On to the story, sorry if it seems unrealistic.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* In the last chapter: Pacey asks Joey if she wants to have a special prom for just the two of them. She agrees Pacey has a surprise for Joey. Joey has a surprise for Pacey
In Joey's bedroom "Bess, what if he doesn't like it? I mean it seemed liked a good idea but when you think about it, this could turn out bad. We really have to start saving our money and this is just going to be another cost." Joey is getting ready for "her prom" the one that she and Pacey planned so that they would not have to go through the costs of a real prom. She is talking to Bessie about the surprise that she had for Pacey.
"Listen Joey, he is going to love it. I'm sure he is going to see it as you did at first, a symbol that your relationship might go through some rough times, but in the end you two will still be strong." Bessie is trying to calm her sister down. " I know that tonight is making you really nervous, but don't worry it will be fine." Bessie says as she heads towards the door to get Alexander, who is now crying. On an afterthought she turns around to say one last thing. "Oh, and by the way, I talked to Gretchen, she's going to stay here tonight so that you and Pacey can have the entire night to yourselves with no fear of interruption."
"Bessie, you do realize that I'm three months pregnant, fat, and sick to my stomach most of the time, I really can't do any of that." Joey blushes at the thought that comes into her head.
"Hey Jo, there is no rule against that. In fact it's perfectly safe." Bessie calls out behind her as she finally goes to get Alexander.
Joey finishes getting ready and waits in the living room for Pacey to pick her up.
That same time at the beach house "Hey Doug, thanks for bringing over the cd's, they are going to be great." Pacey says as he finishes tying his tie.
"No problem little brother. Do you have everything ready?" Doug emphasizes the everything.
"Yeah, and I just got the letter's from some Boston Colleges today. I figure that we will open them together tonight, right after I do the other thing." Pacey seems to get nervous at the thought of college acceptance and his surprise.
"You know Pace, Mom told me what Dad said to you when you told him the news." Doug says this with a grim look on his face.
Pacey figures that Doug is going to yell at him so he cuts him off before Doug has a chance. "Doug, listen I already got it from Dad, and if you came here, let me borrow your cd's, and helped me be able to use the docks tonight just so that you felt better about yelling at me I really don't care to hear it. But I know you and I realize that you won't be satisfied until you yell at me so why don't you just do it now because Joey already went through that hell once and I really don't feel like making her go through it again. So go ahead, tell me what a screw up I am and how I have once again shamed the family."
"Pacey, I wasn't going to yell at you. Actually I wanted to let you know that I think that Dad is a son of a bitch for the way he treated you and for what he said to Joey. Now no parent wants their child to end up a father at 18 and a parent who is in Dad's position in this town sees girls like Joey as bad. She comes from a family that doesn't have a great background and it looks really bad that his son got a "girl like her" pregnant. But you see that's the difference between Dad, and me while we both might come down on you, I do it to help you, well most of the time. But dad, he does it for his own good. But Pace, you have to understand that we both love you, just in different ways, and in time Dad will come around and see how much you have matured. I also wanted to tell you how proud I am of you. I know that this year couldn't have been all that easy for you. You went through so many tough things this year and you really came through shining. While I would like to take responsibility for that I know it was Joey who helped you. I hope you realize how much she loves you." Doug finishes, he is smiling and Pacey knows that he is being genuine.
" I do Doug, believe me I do. I gotta go to pick her up, but um thanks, for everything." Pacey gives Doug a "manly hug" and leaves to go pick up Joey.
At the B&B Ding Dong
Bessie runs to get the door and lets Pacey in. "Wow, Pacey, you really clean up nicely. Joey is in the living room, why don't you go get her. Then I want to take some pictures."
Pacey walks into the other room and stops when he sees his girlfriend. Joey was wearing an off the shoulder, floor length, pink dress that had sparkles all over it. He could see that her pregnancy was starting to show, but even that couldn't make her any less beautiful.
When Joey stood up to come and greet Pacey he got nervous all of a sudden. "Well I guess Dougie was right, you never lose the butterflies." Pacey thought of this silently.
Joey comes up to him and gives her boyfriend a deep kiss. After a few minutes they break it.
"Hi" Joey says quietly, partially out of breath.
"You look absolutely amazing" Pacey is equally out of breath.
"You don't look so bad yourself." Joey replies through a smile.
"Okay that's enough cuteness, time for pictures." Bessie hated to break them up but they would have plenty of time for that later.
After Bessie had taken two rolls of film, which she justified by saying that she wouldn't let anyone take pictures of her for prom and she regretted it later, they were able to leave. They drove down to the docks and Pacey made Joey close her eyes while they walked down to their spot.
"Okay, you can look now" Pacey whispers into Joey's ear while gently kissing her neck.
Joey opens her eyes and prepares to say something, but the sight in front of her throws her completely off guard. The entire length of the dock is lined with twinkle lights. There are candles placed on a table set for two with white rose petals scattered on and around it. But by far the most stunning sight is the little archway that they are standing in front of. It is an iron archway that Joey knows she has seen at the Witter's house covered in ivy with white roses stuck in it and twinkle lights on it. It is even better than the picture background that they would have had at the school prom.
"Pacey, this is perfect. I love it. You didn't have to do all of this, it's so much more than I was expecting." Joey gushes.
"So I guess you like it." Pacey begins buts is interrupted by Joey's lips rushing towards his that results in a passionate kiss that lasts quite a while.
Finally when they stop Pacey leads Joey to the table. "We have all night for that, this chicken, however will not stay warm for too long. Would you like to eat now?"
"Absolutely, I'm starving." Joey says as she sits down at the table.
They share a wonderful dinner with only a few interruptions when one of them got an urge to kiss the other.
Once dinner was over Pacey discreetly reaches into his pocket and begins to talk. "Joey, I know that you getting pregnant was not what either one of us planned, but there is one thing that I have known was planned for me for a very long time. I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I have known this for quite a while, even if I wasn't able to even admit it to myself. I remember once when I was 12 and Gretchen was watching me. We were talking, she was the only one I ever got along with in that house, and she asked me who I had a crush on. I told her I liked Kate Jones but she told me I was lying. I asked her who she thought I liked and she said that I was meant for Joey Potter. I dismissed it as girl talk, but I always carried that thought in the back of my head. Then one night, do you remember that weekend when I invited the critic to the B&B?" Pacey pauses, when Joey nods her head he continues. "Well that night I stayed up for a while just watching you sleep. That was when I realized that Gretchen was right, I loved you. So basically the whole reason for this speech is because I wanted to ask you something. Josephine Potter, I have loved you since I was 12 and probably even before that. You have brought meaning to my life and showed me my potential. Without you I would probably, at best be repeating my senior year, but you wouldn't allow that. Joey you're not my soul mate, I really don't believe in that. You are my one true love. Will you marry me?"
Pacey opens the box and looks up at Joey for her reaction. All of a sudden there is a huge grin on her face. "Pacey that was the most touching thing that I have ever heard. I have a confession to make too. When I was about 13 I was in my Dawson Leery days. I'm sure you remember that. Well one day I was talking to Bessie and complaining that Dawson would never think of me in a romantic way. She just gave me this look and told me that Dawson was a twit and that I shouldn't bother wasting my time on him. She said that we had no chemistry and that rather than spending all my time trying to get the attention of a boy with whom I had no apparent chemistry with I should look in other directions. Most specifically she said that I should towards Pacey Witter because she could tell that underneath all of our fighting we were meant for each other. I though she was crazy but I never forgot what she said. I also have to tell you something about that night you watched me sleep. I woke up around 5 and I saw you, sleeping on the chair and I couldn't help, I watched you sleep too. I knew then that Bessie was right. So my answer to your question is yes, I will marry you."
They share a quick kiss and then Pacey stands up. "May I have this dance."
With that Joey and Pacey dance for quite some time, enjoying each other's company. Around 10 they sit down.
"I got some scholarship letters today." Joey says with a smile on her face "I wanted to open them with you but Bessie didn't know so she opened them and read them to me."
"Well what did they say?" Pacey asks eagerly. "I got a couple scholarships that would be pretty good and I could use them this year." Joey says.
"I sense a but coming." Pacey wonders if it is good or bad.
"Your right, but it's a good but. There is this program that gives scholarships to girls who are pregnant but have good grades and are going to good colleges. It's the Lindsai Curtis Scholarship program and they offered me a full scholarship. The only thing is that they gave all their scholarships away for this year and I would have to wait for a year for it to be available. But they said that if I could wait I would be guaranteed a full scholarship to Worthington." Joey takes a breath and then continues. "At first I was really upset but the more I thought about it, this would be really good. The baby is due in November so I would have almost a year where the only thing I would be doing is working. I would have basically the whole year with the baby before I had to start school. What do you think?"
"I think that is great. You're going to take it right? "Pacey asks.
"I want to as long as you're okay with it." Joey says getting more and more excited.
"Of course its fine with me." Pacey says with a full smile on his face. "Now I have some news for you. I got letters from some colleges today. I want to open them with you."
"Okay lets do it." Joey says, although she is worried that if he doesn't get in it will really spoil the night.
Together they open the three envelopes but do not read any of the letters. Pacey asks Joey to read them for him. She does this but does not give anything away with her facial expressions.
Finally Joey lets Pacey know what they say. "You got into Boston Community College and Boston Bay College."
After they finished jumping up and down and celebrating Joey says that she has one more surprise for him. She leads him down the dock quite a ways. When she finally lets him look Pacey cannot believe what he sees in front of him.
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Okay s that's it for now. Sorry to end it so abruptly but it was getting kind of long so I'm going to do the rest of the night in the next chapter, which I hope to have up sooner than the last. Let me know what you thought of it, please review!!!!!!!!!!