Why was she with Dawson? Did she love him? Was she afraid that she might loose him as a friend? Right at the moment, she felt as if Dawson had changed. The new Dawson Leery was harder to accept. Joey did not feel as if she was supposed be with Dawson.
Joey was at the wall that Pacey had rented for her last spring. She technically does not owned it anymore since no one renewed the lease. Unfortunately, she has not walked passed the wall since the summer began. She always looked the other way, crossed the street, or even took another way home. Even though she has not seen the words visually, the words still were in her mind. Ask me to Stay. Why didn't she ask him to stay?
Joey heard some footsteps behind her and saw that it was Pacey. A huge comfort came towards her heart. Was she supposed to feel comfortable?
"Hey." He greeted her kindly.
"Hey." She said shyly.
"Seems like a lifetime ago since I wrote that." He sat down next to her.
"Yeah, it did. Now I only wish it was really a lifetime ago." She said still looking at the ground.
Pacey awkwardly looked at the ground too, "You know if you want me to go, I will go. Because I kind of disturbed you when you were alone and…"
Joey interrupted, "No. I want you to stay."
Pacey, shocked by her answer, said "Okay."
Before they started to talk, there was a fifteen minutes of complete silence. The silence consoled Joey. It made her feel as though Pacey would be there forever. Pacey felt a nice warm soothing feeling too. Joey filled in the missing piece he had in his heart.
"Hey, look I know." Pacey said just as Joey said, "Listen Pace." They both stopped and smiled ineptly.
"Go ahead." Joey insisted.
"Look I know… I know it will be hard for us but I really want us to stay friends Jo because I cannot picture you not being in my life." He explained.
"And what about Dawson?" Joey would love if things could go back to normal.
"I know that things between Dawson and I are pretty much unfixable. And I wouldn't believe that everything can be solve in a conversation, cause, that's just not the way it work." He stated.
Joey looked down at the ground disappointed. She felt as though her dreams were completely destroyed. She assumed her life would dismayed.
"But I can tell you this," Pacey knew that Joey did not want the three of them (Dawson, Joey, and Pacey) to be separated, "I can tell you that I would do anything to fix it so we could be friends."
"Are you planning on fixing it?" Joey searched for hope.
"Its was implied." He said.
Joey was relieved as she smiled.
"Do you want me to walk you home?" Pacey asked.
"You know what. I think we should stay here for a while." She suggested.
"No problem." He pleased.