The Unseen Obstacle CH.32

I Disclaim

"It's nauseating." Jack looked at his blonde friend and laughed, as they watched Joey and Pacey walk down the hall. "You don't find that just sickening, the hand holding, the looks." "Any time now they'll be calling each other disgusting little nick names like snookums or pookie."

Jack drops his book and falls down on his knees laughing in front of his locker." Please that's a bit too far." He picks them back up and glares at a group of underclassmen that stare at him." If Josephine Potter ever calls anyone Pookie, I'll go straight."

Joey stopped just behind him and smiles." Really Jack, cause I think I'd lowered myself to the role of stereotypical girlfriend just for that reward."

Jen smiled and then frowned, before she hit Joey in the arm and pointed." Just as long as you know that you not getting benefits of turning him back, I have first dibs on straight Jack."

"Why I had him first?"

"And you turned him gay, obviously you don't handle straight Jack, so you keep Pacey, I take Jack."

"Well then I'm not going to do it, if I don't get Jack you shouldn't either."

"If you don't get Jack, hello don't you have a boyfriend." Pacey says glaring at her.

"Pacey, its straight Jack no one gives up an opportunity with Straight Jack, hell I don't know anyone that would give up an opportunity with Gay Jack."

"Then let me go, leave you to your pursuit." Pacey shoves her books into her arms, and storms off toward his class.

Joey looks after him startled, and turns back to look at Jack and Jen and asks the question with her eyes. Jack merely shakes his head, but Jen pats her friends shoulder." What's sad is that I saw this coming."

"So did you and Pacey make up?" Jack said as he took a seat next to Joey in the library computer lab for their free period.

"No he has been avoiding me since this morning, I don't understand the anger, but I think if I beg enough he'll forgive me."

"Ah Jo, you really don't get guys at all, do you?"

"Considering my past history of a gay guy, a man that can't commit, and the one needs to be committed, does it look like I get them?"

"Joey, you are hot really hot, and smart, funny, nice, and really hot, and you have promise and people expect thing from you."

"Okay, thank you and that means what?"

Jack sighs it really is strange how someone so smart in some many different areas can be so blind in others." People don't really expect things from Pacey, so Pacey doesn't really expect things from himself or for himself, getting you is really hard to handle for him, cause he never expected it, now he wanted it, but he never thought he'd get it, and now that it's happening he's constantly on guard he's already got Tool and Doug as competition, and this morning you added me to the mix, now I know you were joking, but Pacey's insecure and maybe you should make sure he knows that he's the one the you want."

Joey fell back against the chair and sighed." How did I not know that, I know I'm pretty much a wash with the other stuff, but with Pacey I usually get that one right away."

"It's not your fault, you're happy and for once things are going your way , but you got to remember that for Pacey that's when things start going south."

"You're right." Joey turned back to the computer and began too login into her email." So begging wise, should I go gifts, flattery, or pull out the big guns, and go seduction"

"Well Pacey loves flattery and gifts, but I'll go straight boy for a minute and suggest that a teenage boy prefer seduction from his hot girlfriend."

"That's a relief, because I'm broke, and I'd think….. Oh god."

Jack looked over at Joey with concern." What?"

"I've got mail." Joey pointed to her inbox which showed that it had reached the 5MB capacity, and all the emails were from one person. DLeery KMA.GOV. "I can't believe this, what he could he possibly say in 300 emails."

"I hate to say this but read one and let's find out." Jack said as he moved closer." Read the first, chances are he just keeps resending it because you didn't reply right away."

Dear Joey

Well I'm here in Boston, and even thought I'm suppose to be focusing on my films to submit for my colleges applications, I wondering how what happened in Capeside.

Gosh Joey how did we get here?

At what point did we stop moving toward our future and started moving away from each other. Was it your affair with Jack, your Dad's arrest, what happened? It can't be that we fell out of love, because I love you now more then ever and I know you feel the same. It's impossible that you not, how can you, we've known each other since forever, and just I know that you feel the same way.

I can't help thinking that Pacey is using your insecurities to his advantage. I know you Joey, I know that you just want to be normal, not little Joey Potter from the wrong side with the dead mother and father in jail, and Pacey's using that to his advantage.

Being normal doesn't mean throwing us and your future away to be some typical high school girlfriend, especially not with Pacey. I know him Joey, and what you see is what you get Pacey's never going anywhere but to the other side of town. I know you don't want to hear this right now because you're 'normal', and like everyone else, except you're not.

You're Joey Potter, the love of my life, my soul mate, and because of that you can't ever be normal or typical.

I'll write again soon.

A love that last an Eternity

Dawson

"Wow." Jack said as he finished reading." Is it just me or did that come off as creepy? "

"No that came off as creepy." Joey opened another email and read it quickly, closing it to open another." There love scenes." She points to another opened email and motions for Jack to look." That's the 'you had me at Hello' love scene from Jerry Maguire."" Dawson needs therapy."

"No Tool needs a can of whoop ass." Jack presses the button to print out some of the emails." And you need to take this to the Sheriff, this is stalking." Joey tries to get the print outs first, but Jacks quicker. "Look on the bright side Joey, when you show these to Pacey he forget all about his insecurities and start focusing on ways to kick Tool's ass."

"No it won't cause what I'm going to do it delete all these, block his email, and ignore him." Jack narrows his eyes, and shakes his head, but she just rips the pages out of his hand and rips them to shred." Trust me Jack, by drawing attention to it, I encourage it, I say something to the Sheriff or his parents, and he start sending emails telling me how he knows I'm just giving into Pacey's demands or something else equally stupid."

"Joey this isn't a good idea."

"Jack I've known Dawson since he was seven, playing into this is what he wants it makes him right." The first bell for classes' rings and Joey grabs her books before shutting down her email." I have to go; I think I'll start out by plying him with kisses."

"So you are going the seduction route."

"No, that seems too cliché, I'm going to by his some Hershey chocolate it's his favorite."

"Good luck with that." Jack gives her a wave as he she runs out before he goes back to her computer, and opens the printer queue and reprinting the last few jobs. "Sorry Joey, Tool needs more help then you can provide." He looks over the print out and sees that he included a scene from 'Titanic' and shakes his head." He needs more help then drugs can properly provide."

Knocking on the door, Joey shuts prays that the Sheriff is out on patrol somewhere, she likes dealing with Pacey's mother even if she does call her Josie, but when she sees the blue eyes she just gives a weak smile." Hello Sheriff Witter, is Pacey in?"

"Hello Joey." John steps back and motions for her to come in, before shutting the door." Yeah he's in his room, it's…" He laughs and shakes his head." Silly me, you know where it is."

Joey nods and walks toward the stairs, sure that for the rest of her life she was going to embarrassed every time she speaks to the man. "Thanks."

"Uh huh." John says already moving back to sit in his recliner a smirk on his face that Joey suddenly notices is a genetic trait of all the Witter men.

Once she reaches his door she knocks softly, and hears him say come in. She pushes open the door and sees him laid back on his bed staring up at the ceiling throwing a small foam basketball in the air. "Hey Sexy."

"Joey."

She walks in and shuts the door behind her." Okay so I didn't really understand what happened today until Jack explained it to me, ad then I felt like an idiot cause I've know you forever I should have seen that, but then I thought no I shouldn't have cause Pacey should my feelings by now, and then I went back to the low self –esteem thing and it started a whole bunch of questions and so I've come to this conclusion." "I won't be mad at you for not trusting my feelings if, you're not made at me for not showing you my feelings."

Pacey sat up on his bed, and stared at her, he couldn't really be that mad at her over something as stupid as her and Jen fighting over Jack, they really only did it to make Jack uncomfortable. It was just thought that Jack really had been perfect for Joey if not for the fact that he was gay, and that again, there was someone out there with more to offer Joey Potter then him. "You're right, we've both being silly."

"Good." Joey gave his a small devious smile, before she joined him on the bed, and lifted his hand kissing his palm." Seal it with a kiss?"

"Okay." Pacey turned and leaned into her only to find a small foiled chocolate." Hershey Kiss?" Joey nodded laughing quietly." Nice one is that payback for my tantrum?"

"Yeah." He took the kiss unwrapping it and popped in into his mouth. She waited until he swallowed before she swooped down and kissed him, still able to taste the chocolate on his lips, but leaving them before he could deepen it." That was just because you're really are very sexy, and the only man I want." That said Joey dropped back on his pillow and gave him a sultry look." Now what did you have to say?"

Pacey just gazed at the goddess lying back on his bed, and all thoughts fled from his mind." I can't remember."

He said as he tossed the ball away and fell to side pulling her to him.

John thought about going up and checking on his son and Joey, but thought better of it, he was pretty sure he had shamed Joey into being on her best behavior while under his roof, the girl blushed as red as a tomato whenever he looked at her.

Just as he was about to pat himself on the back for some good parenting, he heard the knock on the door, he answered and frowned when he saw one of their other little friends." Jake, right?"

"Actually it's Jack, Jack McPhee." He stuck out his hand nervously, not sure about his welcome considering the strange relationship going on around town. But considering the only other cop he knew was Doug, and he was out for several reasons, he only other option was Pacey's dad." We went fishing together once, with the Leery's."

"Oh, you're girl's brother." John shook his head, and steeped back letting him in." Uh Pacey and Joey are in his room, it's …"

"No I'm actually here to see you sir."

"Oh." John retook his seat and pointed to the couch in the corner." Take a seat son." Jack did as he was told and then stared nervously at the sheriff. "How can I help you?"

"Uh well, it's about Joey and Tool, I mean Dawson."

"Uh huh, I thought Leery was in some boot camp or something."

"He is, but uh." Jack took the emails out of his pocket and handed them to the sheriff, but at the last moment just as John reached for them he slightly pulled back. "Can we keep this between us for now?"

"Sure." The boy handed over the papers, and John opened them up and read them the first email, and then glanced at the others, before raising an eyebrow and look at the teen across from him." How long has this been going on?"

" Well I know that this seem to be the first emails he has sent to her, but before he left he had been bothering Joey, and she seems to think that by telling someone that'd she be encouraging him, so her plan seems to be to ignore it , she's not even going to tell Pacey about it." " I'm just kind of worried about her you know, she's known him for a long time and I think she may be letting her past history blind her to the fact that…"

"Leery's a tool." John said while he nodded and looked over the rest of emails. "Okay Jack, you did well." He folded the emails and put them in his pocket." I'll handle and make sure this is nipped in the bud."

Jack stood and rushed over to shake John hands a huge smile on his face." Thank you sir, I just don't want my friends to get hurt."

John nodded and led the boy to the door, and patted his shoulder when the youth stepped over the threshold." Don't worry like I said Jack, I'm on it."

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Well I'm back thoughts and the muse seems to be slower to recover then my strength, but I'm back and writing again.

Hope you guys enjoy it.

XOXO

Cole