Author Note: Sorry I haven updated as fluent as I used to. I try to post 2-3 chapters per week. But either than, I hope you like my addition.
"Why on earth did you drag us here?" Jen complained.
Jen, Jack, and Andie had join Dawson who desperately wanted to go see a movie.
Therefore, they were waiting in the line at the concession stand.
"Because unlike regular teenagers, all we do is sit around in my room to nag and complain. I thought if we went out like regular people, our lives would become more normal." Dawson theorized.
Jen knew Dawson's life was not going to get any easier in the near future. It probably would get worse.
"I think Dawson has a point." Andie assented.
"But I don't see why we could have gone somewhere where the candy isn't three times as much as the gas station." Jack noted.
"Why didn't you invite Joey?" Jen wondered.
"She's still grounded. I think that is what she said. When I asked after school, she was in hurry. I thought she was trying to get home." Dawson said.
"We're going to get our seats." Jen changed the subject. Jen on the other hand knew Joey lied. She knew the truth. Jen imagined that she was with Pacey.
Jen and Dawson walked into the theater and took their seats. Jen felt guilty ever since she found out about Pacey and Joey. She knew she could not keep quiet anymore.
"Umm. So how are things between Joey and you?" Jen mentioned.
"What?" Dawson said awed.
"I mean are you friends, more than friends?" She asked.
"I would doubt that we're friends. I mean we were never just friends." He stated.
"What are you then?" Jen wondered.
"My heart. My soul mate. My motivation. I guess I am glad to have her in my life. I'd be lost without her." He announced proudly.
After a long pause, Jen speculated, "Can you trust her?"
"With all that's happened, most people would assume that it'll take a miracle for me to trust Joey. But I don't know. Something deep down inside of me tells me that I can't not trust her. I can look into her eyes and I can tell if she lying. And there nothing in the world that would make her lie again. Not after last spring." Dawson conjectured.
At that point, Jen's face clouded over. She could not be the one who ruins his life. Life has it own routes and she figured that sometimes you have to let people choose their own way. She would not tell Dawson anything. She would not tell him the truth.
"Hey guys." Andie and Jack came back from the concession stand and handed them their snacks: popcorn, candy, and pop.
The lights dimmed down and all four of them prepared for the movie. Dawson wasn't really paying attention to the movie. He was thinking about what Jen had asked him. He was thinking about his budding relationship with Joey. Did Dawson trust Joey? Dawson wanted to trust her but something deep down prevented him to believe in her again.
Jen, like Dawson, had a hard time focusing on the movie. She felt remorseful that she was lying to Dawson. Why was she lying for Pacey and Joey? Was it because they were such a good couple? Or was it because she didn't want to deliver such bad news? All last spring, everyone's friendships were shattered into thousand of pieces. It took such a long time for them to rebuild it. Did she want to be the one who broke their friendships again?
"I'll be right back." Dawson got up and left the studio so he could get a break of silence.
After a long hiatus of a conversation, Jack said, "Do you think we should leave? I mean this movie is not worth my seven fifty."
"No. No this movie is pretty interesting." Andie stated.
"And Dawson really wants us to start to get back on track." Jen backed up.
"But this movie isn't interesting. It's boring. I mean no one ever goes to the movie to watch the movie. Making out is really what the movie theater if for. I mean that couple down there is having real fun." Jack points to a teenage couple twenty seats down from them. The mysterious couple was making out intensely. Everyone around them was completely disgusted and awed.
"That's appreciative. For them of course. It only makes me feel even more alone." Jen opinionated.
"You have us." Jack joked.
"You know they're really appalling. Some people actually want to go to the movie without witnessing a public x-rated scene." Andie justified.
The couple stopped kissing to look deeply into one another's eyes. Though once they stopped kissing, Jack, Andie, and Jen noticed that they recognized the couple. It was Joey and Pacey!