Loving the Hard Times
Chapter 2
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters, or anything from Dawson's Creek…This is just my attempt to write about them…
I pull into her driveway as I have thousands of times before, but something feels a little different. My heart skips a beat when the door opens and she walks out. "Beautiful" I can't help but thinking. I fumble with my seatbelt, attempting to beat her to her side of the car. She can tell what I am doing, and slows her pace a bit.
"You know Pacey, I'm perfectly capable of opening my own door."
"I know Potter, but what can I say I just wanted to do it for you. You look great by the way."
A huge smile creeps across her face when I say this and I think to myself, "I will never get tired of looking at that." I bend down and give her a quick kiss before shutting her door and walking to my side of the car.
The ride to the doctors office is quiet, but in no way uncomfortable. That is one thing I love about us. We don't have to be talking to communicate. We can sit in silence for hours, and I can just feel the love and comfort in the room. Her hand is in mine, and I give it a reassuring squeeze when we reach the hospital. I can tell she is a little nervous, but I feel her relax when I do this.
"Ready to meet our baby?" I ask.
She nods with a genuine smile playing at the corners of her mouth. Together we walk into the hospital, and dive head first into our new life.
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We met with Dr. Anderson, who will be delivering our baby, and everything went well. We found out Joey is a little more than a month along, and will be meeting again in two months to check everything out. We got to see the baby, although it was hard to find
where it was. It was amazing though to think that this little thing growing inside of her will be our child. Tonight she is coming over for dinner. I was going to make chicken, but she got sick the moment she heard me say it. Apparently there won't be any more chicken for about 8 months. We decided spaghetti would be a better choice.
I am in the kitchen finishing the sauce when I feel her come up behind me and wrap her arms around my waist. God I love those arms. I turn around and kiss her gently before saying, "Dinner will be ready in a few minutes, why don't you go sit down while I finish."
"Are you sure you don't need any help Pace? Just because I'm pregnant doesn't mean I am incapable of doing anything but sit on my ass."
"Well Potter if it will make you happy you could bring the garlic bread to the table before you sit down."
She walks over to the garlic bread and smiles at me "See now I feel useful."
"Good Jo, now go sit"
"Fineeee" she says rolling her eyes at me. Why is she so cute when she rolls her eyes?
Finally the sauce is finished and I walk over to the table setting it in the middle next to the noodles.
"Dinner is served Madame" I say in my best French accent, which isn't very good.
"Looks great! Lets eat, you have no idea how hungry you get when you are pregnant."
"Don't worry Potter I made plenty. It's not like you didn't eat before you we're pregnant. I mean wow you have always given me a run for my money in that department."
"Bite me Pace."
"Any time any place sweetheart!" She rolls her eyes again, I love it when she does that! I could really do this forever.
When I look at her again her eyes are different. She looks serious, and even a little scared. Instinctively I reach for her hand, and ask, "What's wrong Jo?"
She shrugs and begins to speak, "I don't know Pace. I mean we are done with our senior year in a month, but we are so young. We don't have much for money. How are we going to go to college? I know this baby will be so loved, but is that enough? I guess I'm just scared. How is this all going to work out?"
"I know, I'm scared too, but I also know that we will work everything out. I love you so much, and I will make sure all of your dreams come true. We will get you to college, but maybe it would be best to take a year off first. Gretchen is going back to school, so we could live here. That way we can be around Bessie and everyone. You know she will help. I can get a job, and we can save for a while. Then when we are settled in, and the baby is a little older we'll get college worked out. I'm not saying it is going to be easy. It's going to be really hard, but I know we can do it together. We'll be ok."
She looked up at me with tears in her eyes, but then she smiled. At first I thought it was fake, maybe for my sake, but I know her real smiles and this was definitely one of them. It wasn't a huge smile, like the one when she decided to come with me on True Love but It was real, and looked to me like hope. Then she said, "I think we will be alright."
We always know what to say to each other. We find ways to make each other do things we never thought possible, and that is how I knew we would make it.
A/N I hope you like it so far! This is my first fan fiction so I'm kinda new at it. Let me know if you have any ideas….ok chapter three will come soon….
