Chapter 9

She couldn't breathe. She should but she couldn't. How did he manage to make her forget about everything?

"So what do you think about my apartment?" He smiled that beautiful smile of his.

"It needs a bed" Joey giggled.

Pacey grinned and caressed her cheek.

"I'll get one as soon as I can, I prommise…"

They kissed passionatly. Boy, the guy sure could kiss…

"I'm glad you decided to stop by" he whispered.

"I'm not very sorry either"

"Well I'm glad you're not…"

He had such beautiful eyes… Joey could lose herself in those eyes. She'd never seen anything like it.

"So…"

"So…" he smiled.

"I just remembered I don't even know your last name…"

Pacey chuckled: "Witter"

"Witter? Wow… talk about misfit… I mean, you and wit are like in parallel universes…"

He raised an eyebrow: "You're just saying that cause you're envious of my extraordinary intelligence"

"I wouldn't brag about it to too many people, Pace… they might choke of laughter…"

"Pace?"

"Yeah… I'm doing the best I can… I mean, with a name like Pacey…" she winked.

A comfortable silence took over while he was absently carresing her arm. Suddenly he lifts his head.

"So what's yours?"

"You don't remember my name? That's really good for my ego…"

He chuckled again: "Your last name. You never told me yours either."

"Potter"

"Potter? You got many pots back home?"

"Yeah like you got many wits in your brain…"

"I'll have you know my brain is full of wits, Potter."

"I somehow doubt it, Witter. You're so full of it."

"That's why you like me so much."

"Oh, so now I like you"

"You know you do" he winked and kissed her neck tenderly.

She actually felt electric. She'd read those trashy novels about electric sex but never did she believe that to actually be true. Cause she'd never experienced it. But he was electric. The way he was tender and wild at the same time. The way he kissed and bit at the same time.

"Potter"

"Uhm?"

"Don't fall asleep on me here. That might hurt MY ego"

Joey gigled. "What can I say, you wore me out"

Pacey raised his head and looked at her playfully: "Well when you put it that way…"

He just laid down next to her again. They were lying on a matress that was placed in the living room, until Pacey would manage to find some furniture.

"So…" she said in a sleepy voice. "Tell me something about you."

"What do you wanna know?"

"Whatever you want to tell me…" She smiled.

"I'm a very good cook…"

"Really?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah. I even worked as a cook once."

"I thought you were a stockbroker."

Pacey's browse were raised in surprise:

"Did you do research on me, Potter?"

"No" she blushed. "Jen mentioned it once"

"I was a cook before I was a stockbroker. And before being a cook I was a sailor. And before that I was a video store clerk…"

"Wow, you can't say you didn't have variety…"

"Yeah well I couldn't decide on what I wanted to do… so I just tried on different stuff…"

"And now?"

"Now? I don't know… I still don't know… How did you know you wanted to be an architect?"

"I don't know…" she smiled. "I liked drawing but you can't really make a career out of that…"

"You can if you're talented…"

"Well I'm not."

"I'm sure you're just too hard on yourself…"

"No I really am not… I mean, Jen liked my drawings, but Jen's my best friend, she's supposed to like them. But Dawson, for example, thought it was inpractical of me to expect to make a career out of drawing" She saw him frown at the mention of Dawson but she let it slip. What did he expect? "I just took the practical way out I suppose"

"OK, being practical is recommended, as long as you don't totally give up on the inpractical…"

"What do you mean by that?"

"I mean, you are practical and you have a job, you're doing well, I think, so you can try drawing as a hobby… in your free time… and try to do something with it… otherwise you'll probably just wonder for the rest of your life… I mean, there are so many people like me who have no idea what to do, that when you actually know what you want it's a shame to waste it…"

God, that actually made sense. Joey extatically kissed him: "You know, you're right"

"Aren't I always?"

"Do you have a piece of paper?"

-------------------------------------------------------

"Are you done sending me into immortality?"

Joey chuckled: "It's done in crayon, Pace, in a few years no-one will be able to tell what it is… but yeah I'm done"

"Can I see it?"

"Sure. Actually it's yours."

She lied down next to him again and gave him the piece of paper.

"Wow, Jo, this is really good."

"You're just saying that" she blushed.

"No, this is actually good. If you don't do any more of these I will personally come and hunt you down. It would be a loss for the human race to have such a talent go to waste"

He seemed to know exactly what to say to make her feel good.

"I suppose I did have a good model" she smiled.

"You suppose, Potter? Where could you find a better looking guy to model for you?"

"Oh, I could think of a few guys… Ewan McGregor is quite handsome… but he's busy at the moment so I suppose I should settle for you"

"Lucky me" Pacey whispered and kissed her.

"Lucky you, indeed"

Then there was a knock on the door. They both froze.

"I… I'll go to the bathroom…" Joey got up and ran off.

She heard Pacey go to the door and then she heard Jen's voice.

"Hey Pace, up for some going out?"

"Going out?" he mumbled.

"Yeah, it's Friday night, come on, get dressed… did we catch you in the shower?"

"No… uhm…"

"You got a girl in here?" Joey suddenly remembered that she was naked and all her clothes were in the living room.

"You see…" Pacey seemed at a loss.

"Come on, Jen, let's go, it's obvious we don't have good timing" Joey heard Jack's voice.

"OK… but if you've got a girlfriend, I wanna meet her. And if you feel like having some fun, we'll be in 'Backstage'".

"Sure, I'll remember that."

She heard the door close, waited a few seconds, then got out. Pacey just stared at her wide-eyed.

"You do realize that Jack knows, don't you?" She was the first to speak.

"Jack always knows."

"Excuse me?"

"I don't even have to tell him anything anymore. And I didn't this time either. He just looks at me and knows…"

Joey got closer to him and just took his hand in hers.