She hung up the phone and gave a huge sigh of tranquility. She couldn't help but think that her life was playing out just like a movie. Fade to black! Roll the credits! She was going to live happily ever after! After all, she had the love of her life beside her, and a childhood friend who had finally had all his dreams and aspirations realized. Not more than two seconds later, however, she came tumbling back into reality as she always seemed to right when things seemed to be perfect. Her life wasn't a perfectly scripted melodrama. She wasn't going to get off that easily. There would be no fading to black. Her life, in a way, had just begun. Sure, she had finally let go of all her fears, stopped running once and for all, and had given in to her desires. But what now?

"Hey Pace?" she said as she slowly drifted out of her daydreaming.

"Yeah, Joe?"

"Did you ever think things would end up this way?"

"And what way would that be?"

"Like this. You and me together. Dawson meeting Steven Spielberg and no doubt becoming a big Hollywood player?"

"It is sort of surreal isn't it? But.. I must admit I always hoped that it would." He pulled her close and gave her a soft, sweet kiss.

"Mmm...me too." She gave him an even longer and passionate kiss back. "But," she said, releasing her lips from his grip, "I can't help but feel like we're right back where we started."

"And where is that exactly?" He was kind of worried about where this conversation was going all of a sudden.

"The True Love."

"The True Love? Joe, its somewhere keeping the fish company by now."

"I know, but here we are once again. I mean we spent our whole lives at sea, but we haven't even come close to weathering the storm."

"Ah, I see where you're going with this."

"You do?"

"Yeah. You're wondering what we're going to do now seeing as I still have this little thing called a career in Capeside, and you have one here in New York. We can't have them both can we?"

"No, we can't Pacey, and I don't want to. I don't want to be away from you." She cuddles up closer to him, breathing in everything she can about him as if he could be taken away from her at any moment.

"I don't want to either. You know how long it took me to reign you in woman? You really are a fickle mistress, you know?" He said with a huge smile on his face. Joey could not get enough of that smile.

"Pace, you're just going to have to let that nickname go because I'm not going anywhere." She kisses him on the cheek. "And.. I suppose in turn I should stop calling you, Pacey Witter, friend to woman."

"Aw, really? I kind of like that one."

"Hey!" She slaps him playfully on the arm and he grabs her and gives her a kiss.

"In all seriousness Joe, we're going to have to work this out somehow. I'm willing to do just about anything to be with you... I love you."

"I love you too." She kisses him sweetly on the forehead as she had done so many times before.

"Just say the word, Joe, and I will sell the Icehouse and move out here with you."

"Pacey, don't even think about it! You love that place! I love that place."

"I know Joe, but what else can we do? You're not quitting your job."

"Well, I could..."

"No, you have worked too hard to get where you are today. You're not going to throw it all away by coming back to Capeside. I refuse to let you do that."

"Throwing it all away? Pacey you act like Capeside is the most horrible place in the world! I did live most of life there, you know, and the people that I care most about are there."

"But Joey, can you honestly tell me that you are willing to walk away from your life here right now?"

"Well, ...no. I don't know! I haven't thought about it before."

"There's our answer. You're not quitting."

"Well, neither are you Pace."

"Well, we're going to have to do something Joey. We cannot do the long distance thing. I love you too much and time is too precious, as we know, to be apart."

"I know....I know. Let's just give it a little time so we don't make any rash decisions and regret it."

"Alright Joey but soon..."

"I know, soon."