School was over hours ago but Joey was still lurking the halls of Capeside High. She could not go home. She was not up to it. Bessie has noticed the drastic change to Joey's behavior. Joey was afraid that Bessie would find out that she was pregnant. She just wanted to stay in the hallways for some peace and quiet.

However, there was another reason why Joey was prowling around the school late at night. She was waiting for someone. She had decided to talk about this to someone who needed to know.

Pacey walked out of a classroom with a stack of library books. He had stayed late at the school so he could work on his semester's project. Since he was done, he was ready to go home. Unfortunately, he walked right pass Joey who was hiding in a dark corner.

"Hey." Joey broke the dead silence scaring Pacey.

"God! Damn Joey!…" Pacey said dropping all of his books.

"Sorry." Joey said helping him pick up his items.

"Do you always wait in the night to stalk your ex-boyfriends?" Pacey said standing back up.

"All this week I thought about coming up to you. I wanted to talk to you, but I could not do it at school. I thought about going to your home, last weekend, but I chickened out. Then I saw you here, so I've been waiting all this time trying to talk to you.. But every time I tried to open the door, I got cold feet. So I did not know if I should knock or leave a note." Joey mumbled her notions.

"Last I check, Deputy Doug's phone still works." Pacey reminded.

"I know. I know." Joey said.

"Did we not just have a conversation about us needing space?" Pacey started to get irritated.

"I'm sorry Pacey I just needed to talk to you." Joey defended.

"Why! What is so important that you have to prowl in the school trying to find me? Can you explain that to me? Because it's starting to become annoyingly hurtful and awkward." Pacey clarified as his voice rose louder.

"Please no! We can't do this now." Joey begged.

"YES WE DO!" Pacey said.

"No!" Joey said trying to stay calm without having an emotional breakdown.

"Yes. Don't you listen! GOD!" Pacey said following a long uncomfortable pause, "What is the matter with you?" Pacey said turning his back and walking off.

"Did you use… Were we safe?" Joey muttered.

Pacey faced her, not understanding her question and asked, "What?"

"Did you use… you know… the first time we had… You know." Joey said and Pacey eyes widen.

Pacey filled in the blanks, "Ummm Joey. I thought you said it was okay.. and I thought that it meant that you know..? You were on the pill or you did some kind of female math in your head… or something like that."

"…It was my first time so I meant that I wanted you to be…" Joey trailed off.

He started to panic even more. Starting to get irrationally frightened, Pacey began to laugh nervously... probably out of uneasiness. "Well, you're okay. Aren't you?"

Joey put her hand on her forehead signing that she was serious.

"Oh my god." Pacey uttered in shock.

"Yeah Pacey thanks for being really supportive." Joey said.

Pacey still did not say anything on the fact that he was in total shock and frustration.

"Look. I don't want anything from you." Joey walked up to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "I just want you to know."

She walked off confused, aggravated, and superfluously sad. She wanted Pacey to take control and tell her that everything was going to be okay. She want him to say don't panic, I'll be on your side. That was obviously not going to happened, because there he was about to have a panic attack.

Pacey was sitting on his stoop. He could not move since he was still in shock. Joey might have been pregnant. This is not what he wanted. This was actually the opposite from what he wanted. What was he going to do? Was he going to be man and take responsibility? Was he going hide and deny? He wanted to help but he did not know if he could be a good decent father. Joey did not deserve Pacey.

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