A/N: Sorry it took forever for an update…I have been UBER buy with end of the year school projects and studying for finals. But I have so much free time in the summer, so I will be able to write more.

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Chapter 4: …But Always Here

Joey opens her eyes and sits up. She feels cold and notices there is an icepack on her forehead. Looking around, she notices she must me in Amy's room due to the massive amounts of pink and baby supplies

"What happened?" She asked.

Jen puts Amy in her crib and turns to Joey who is sitting in a rocking chair.

"Well, you fainted when you saw Dawson and his bimbo fiancée." Jen responds.

Joey glances with a scowl at Jen. "So that wasn't a dream.

Joey gets up and walks to the window. Looking outside, she sees everyone is talking. Dawson is standing next to the porch, his arm around Lucy. Jack is on the porch swing, talking to Doug who is sitting on the porch railing. Pacey is sitting on the ground. He looks up at the window and sees Joey. They make eye contact. Joey smiles and waves. Dawson sees where Pacey is looking and looks at Joey too. Joey then glances away as she walks back to the chair,

"I can't believe he is engaged!" Joey says, glancing at Jen.

Jen holds Joey's hand. They all knew in the back of their mind that Joey fainting reconfirmed her feelings for Dawson. Jen always knew she like Pacey too, but both him and Joey always seemed to be permanently rebounded.

"I'm here if you need to talk," Jen said, breaking the uncomfortable silence.

Joey nodded. "Why don't we go outside? I haven't talked to you guys in forever."

Joey sits up, and begins to walk out of the room. She walks through the door, places her hand on the wall, and turns to Jen. A tear rolls down her face. She finally turns around and walks down the stairs.

Jen looks at Amy. She grabs one of the baby monitors, and turns the other one on and puts it next to her daughter's crib. She sighs and leaves the room to let Amy nap.

Once outside, Jen sits next to Doug and Jack on the porch swing. She notices Joey is sitting next to Pacey on the grass.

Dawson looks at Joey. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Joey responds, leaning in closer to Pacey. She seemed to be giving Dawson the impression she has a man to take care of her.

No one is talking anymore, but Pacey breaks the silence.

"So when are you guys getting married?"

Dawson takes a sip from his coffee. "Well, in about a month or so. W wanted to set a date once we got here."

Another silence. Everyone looked at each other. They couldn't believe that one of there own was getting married.

Jack stood up, brushing the dirt form the swing off his back.

"Well, I think its time…don't you…?" He said as he looked at Doug.

Doug nodded and stood up. Everyone else looked at him at began to go inside the house. Pacey and Joey.

"What's going on?" she asked.

"Just a little surprise we planned for you, Pacey said. He took Joeys hand and they walked up the porch. He stopped before they entered the door.

"Look," he said, "Are you ok?"

Joey looked into his eyes. She saw concern and love. She new that nobody loved her more than he did and she didn't want to hurt him.

"I'm just tired," she said. "I have been really busy lately with college and stuff and…"

"Ok," Pacey said, cutting her off. "Then I guess this isn't a good time to ask you…"

"Ask me what?" she said.

Pacey looked at her again.

"I love you, Joey Potter. More than anything and you know that. And obviously you love me too because you left Worthington to move to come back here and end up going to a local community college. I know you loved Worthington. And the apartment you live in is right down the street from my house so you can be with me. But I bought the house…for us. So maybe…"

"Maybe what?" she asked.

"Maybe you can move in with me?"

She smiled. "I'd love that," she said. She put her arms around Pacey and kissed.

"So was that my surprise?" She said after letting go

"Nope."

Pacey opened the door to show the whole gang in the front room. There were balloons and streamers everywhere. Jack came through the kitchen door holding a cake. Everyone began to sing happy birthday when Jack tripped on the hall rug and the cake went all over.

"Oh my gosh!" Jen said going to help Jack up. She grabbed his arm and he tried to wipe the cake off of himself.

"Joey, I'm so sorry. I mean…"

"It's ok," Joey said. "It was an accident."

Everyone began to clean up the cake. Once it was all cleaned up, Pacey stood up.

"Well, I'm not going to let this night be ruined. I'm sure there is a bar open somewhere."

They all agreed. Pacey and Joey drove with Dawson and Lucy. Doug and Jack took his police car. Jen stayed home to be with Amy.

Jen took the baby monitor into the living room as she sat on the couch and turned on the TV.

"Well, I guess it just me and you," she said, glancing at the baby monitor.