'Breathless kisses
Burning touches
Soft-spoken words of love
Urgently spoken words of passion.
A man and a woman
One complete love
Since time began
Predestined to be as one.
We've been together before
In other lifetimes
We've fought dragons
And have been torn from each others arms
Yet our love prevailed.
We've walked on this earth many times together
Perhaps for a moment
Perhaps for years
But our heart is one heart
And we were meant to be.
So when our time on earth
Once again comes to a close
Have no worries my dear
For we will find each other again
And again
And again.
For our love is ageless
Eternal
A love for all time.'

Joey placed the book down and took her seat.

"Dawn Choike" Mr Wilder said, standing in front of the class.

Joey blushed, was it just her or was the entire universe involved in a conspiracy to make her remember Pacey?

"Well read Ms. Potter" Mr. Wilder walked towards her desk, standing before her, but not looking down at her.

"Care to share you're thoughts on what she was trying to say?" he asked.

Joey whisked a piece of loose hair behind her ear, a sign that she was nervous- why? Of all days, and of all the poems- did she have to decode this particular one, which seemed to embody everything she and Pacey had gone through?

"Love" she blurted out, knowing it was a hapless answer.

Mr Wilder chuckled "perceptive today, aren't we Ms. Potter?" he said sarcastically, and the rest of the class joined in his chuckle.

"Care to take that analogy further?" he added once the laughter had died down.

Joey tucked another piece of invisible hair behind her ear, and felt her face going red "love is our destiny. It is an invisible plague that will forever prevail." Joey answered him quietly.

"Better-" he said, nodding slightly "but I expect it to be polished, lengthened, given more depth and handed into me as a one thousand word essay next Tuesday" he said, walking back to his desk "excused" he added, while packing up his brief case.

Joey slung her backpack over one shoulder and gathered her books, pressing them against her chest as she walked towards Mr. Wilder.

"Coming?" Audrey asked, as she swept by her, handbag in one hand.

"Meet you later" Joey replied, and Audrey walked out the door with the rest of the bustling class, leaving Joey and Mr. Wilder to be alone.

"Something tells me you have a question," he said, not looking up while he flipped through the pages of a textbook.

Joey stopped, a few steps away from his desk, and stood awkwardly "I do- but nothing to do with class" she said, smiling slightly.

He looked up and returned the smile "good, that saves me from making an excuse about an appointment I'm running late for in order to avoid mind-numbing questions about school work" he said, smiling at her.

"It's about you're book" Joey said, clutching her books tighter to her chest.

Mr. Wilder stuffed his hands into the pockets of his brown chord pants, and looked at her suspiciously "ah, my book" he said, nodding "what about my book?" he asked.

Joey looked up and met his gaze "I'd love to read it," she said, a little nervously.

Mr. Wilder chuckled and gazed at her strangely "what's this really about?" he asked, and Joey shot him a curious, innocent expression, causing him to laugh again; "Joey, I think you know that when I finish my master-piece, you will be one of the first people to read it. So that begs the question- why ask a question you already know the answer to?"

Joey blushed a little, and then gave an innocent smile "I have a question about school work" she said sweetly.

Mr Wilder smiled suspiciously, and then looked around the empty room anxiously "I don't suppose I can get away with a dentist appointment?" he asked, and Joey replied with a small shake of her head.

"Ok, so lay it on me" he said, giving up and crashing down in his chair.

Joey smiled and swung her back pack off of her shoulder and plonked it on his desk, and began rummaging through, looking for her paper.

While she sifted through all the junk accumulated in her bag, Mr Wilder couldn't help but smile as she pulled out a few books, a jumper, and hairbrush.

"I don't have all day Ms. Potter," he said, seriously, but when Joey looked up she broke into a smile at the sight of his grin.

"Here!" she said, and pulled out a hefty load of paper's, bound together by string woven through one side.

"What's this?" Mr. Wilder asked, slipping on his reading glasses as he took the load of papers from her hands.

"At the beginning of the year you said that we should have all handed in at least 20 pieces of our own writing-" she began

"You've handed in 17" he added, and looked at her.

"Well I was hoping this could count as 2 pieces of writing, seeming as it is practically a book!" she said, not sure whether she should smile or put on a serious stone face.

Mr Wilder looked at the piece of paper on top; it read 'Love Triangle'

"You wrote a book?" he said, not quite believing his own words.

Joey nodded slightly, beginning to feel nervous "It only took me 2 weeks" she said. And then the she thought back, it had been 2 weeks since her last encounter with Pacey- the only way to keep her mind off of him was to write, and she did! In between classes, early in the morning and late at night, she slaved away at her laptop.

Audrey hadn't really noticed, as she was still cooing over Pacey, ringing him whenever she could but flirting with other men to keep her mind off him when it all became too much.

"I'll- look at it" he said, flipping through the pages.

Joey nodded and excused herself, walking towards the door.

"You never cease to amaze me" she heard Mr. Wilder mutter as she walked out of the room, smiling to herself.

"Joey!" Audrey stood in front of Joey, and began flinging different tops in her face.

"This one?" she said, stuffing an orange shirt in her face "maybe this one?" a bright purple long sleeved shirt "or this one?" finally showing her a floral off the shoulder shirt.

Joey sighed, "Err, the second one" she said, trying to get around Audrey who was blocking her.

"Are you sure? Purple hasn't been in- for like- decades!" she said, and examined the floral top again.

"Fine, borrow one of my tops then" Joey said, and instantly cringed as she saw Audrey fling herself at Joey's wardrobe and begin sorting through her neatly hanging clothes.

Joey sighed and rubbed her neck, walking over to her bed and collapsing in a heap- "going somewhere special?" she asked, without looking at Audrey.

"Err yeah" Audrey said, as she tore off one of Joey's tops from its hanger "out with this guy" she said, and then trailed off into compliments about Joey's fabulous dress sense.

Joey shook her head, sat up and turned around to face Audrey who was holding a baby pink singlet top to her body "what guy?" Joey asked.

Audrey stopped preening herself and looked at Joey seriously "Just this guy I met at Star Bucks" she said, and went back to adjusting her hair in different styles while one hand held the baby pink top to her chest.

"What about-" Joey paused before she said his name, but Audrey cut in "Pacey?" Audrey said, and Joey's face crinkled into a small frown.

"Yeah, Pacey" she said, staring at Audrey.

"God- is it at all possible to get over Pacey Witter?" Audrey asked, flinging the top across to her side of the room and plonking herself down on the bed next to Joey.

Without thinking Joey said "never", causing Audrey to glance over at her wistful face while she thought of how much she'd been thinking about him.

"Thanks- that is exactly what I need to hear!" Audrey said, and punched Joey lightly on the arm.

Joey snapped back, and suddenly realized what she had said, "I mean- yeah, and besides- you guys are still together!" Joey said, smiling at Audrey.

Audrey sighed and rolled over onto her stomach, Joey did the same "I think we are definitely over" Audrey said while playing with the large, plastic red ring on her finger "and I don't even know what I did! God, it has been 2 weeks, and I have called the guy, like, 10 times a day! Gone over to his place twice a day, and he will not see me!" Audrey said in one breath, and she felt the tears begin to swell in her eyes.

"Well, that's just stupid! He isn't the kind of guy who would ignore a girl as his way of dumping her!" Joey exclaimed.

"Yeah, well- there's a first time and person for everything" Audrey said, and managed a small smile.

"No- no way" Joey said, feeling the anger rise within her, "I'll go over there and talk to him!"- She said it before she had a moment to think, and she felt her heart sink as she saw the hope in Audrey's eyes, and the huge smile creep onto her face.

"Would you?" Audrey asked, and wrapped her arms around Joey, hugging her tightly "you are the bestest friend in the whole wide world!" Audrey said, and a pang of guilt hit Joey as she remembered all that she'd done- - -