Joe was now eight and half months into her pregnancy and with Joey's age, the baby would come any day now. As the days went by, Joey had gotten more and more nervous. She watched when Bessie was in labor with Alexander. She remembered Bessie being in so much pain. Joey could not wait for the baby to be born. She just was not ready for the labor pains.
One Friday afternoon, in her History Class, Joey was looking at the clock. It was thirty minutes until school was over. She knew she should have been paying attention to class, but she felt too tired.
"Okay, now since were done with the Great Depression, we can move on two World War II." Mrs. Kingston declared.
Mrs. Kingston went on into her introduction about the section, but Joey still was not paying attention. She was thinking about the baby. Her father said it was inappropriate for her to think about the baby. Nonetheless, Joey could not help it. Just a couple of months ago, the baby starting kicking and Joey then realized she was carrying a real life. Sometimes it was scary knowing she was pregnant, but other time it was exhilarating.
"Okay, now you will be in groups of two and I would want your group to give a five minute speech on World War II. In your speech, I want you to give your opinions on why World War II happened. In addition, I want you to compare the contrast of World War II to today's society…. You're assignment will be due Tuesday. Now I have picked your partners." Mrs. Kingston recognized.
"Nooooo!" The majority of the class moaned.
"I know…. I know, but it is just one assignment and it's not that hard. It can take you no more than an hour and half… Okay the groups are Dawson Leery and Jen Lindley; Joshua James and Katie Fields, Zachary Jackson and Julia Holmes, Andie McPhee and Meredith Bradley, Jack McPhee and Angela Tessa." as Mrs. Kingston continued, Joey looked around the class and noticed that all the good people were already partnered up. Joey wondered who would be her partner.
"And Lastly Joey Potter and…… Pacey Witter." Mrs. Kingston paired up the forbidden ex-couple. Joey had totally forgotten that Pacey was in her class. He always sat in the back of the classroom. He was so quiet that Joey unintentionally forgot about him.
Everyone starting exploit his or her thoughts. They started to jabber their unwanted gossip. Joey did not even look at Dawson. He was probably was ticked. Joey did look across room and caught a glance at Pacey. He looked confused, but he was still relaxed.
After five minutes had passed, the class was over. Dawson then snatched Joey's hand. Joey knew by his body behavior that Mrs. Kingston's pairing made Dawson agitated.
"We're going to take care of this." He said as everyone started to leave the room.
"How?" Joey asked, but Dawson did not answer.
By the time their peers were out of the room, Dawson had dragged Joey to Mrs. Kingston's desk, "Mrs. Kingston is it possible that Joey and I can become partners?"
"Dawson, if I let you switch partners, I have to let everyone switch partners." Mrs. Kingston responded.
"But no one has to know. You can just say it was a mistake." Dawson ordered.
"Dawson, I can not do that because I did not make a mistake." Mrs. Kingston declared.
"Mrs. Kingston," Dawson said in a personally tone, "You must know the situation between Joey and Pacey. They cannot work together because of a previous incident. They would not be able to work together."
Joey started to get annoyed. Dawson was talking about Joey as if she was not in the room. Even though he probably was not trying to offend her, Joey took the things he was saying personal.
"Look, Dawson," Mrs. Kingston went on her personal note, "I did not make a mistake. I hand assigned the partners. I looked at both Joey's work and Pacey's work. I rationalized that they would make perfect partners for this assignment."
"Mrs. Kingston, Pacey is an idiot and Joey is a genius. There is nothing to compare but that." Dawson debated.
"Mr. Leery," Mrs. Kingston said in a mean tone, "Mr. Witter has shown a great improvement in the past couple of months. He has turned his grade up two-letter grade. He's been more involved with the class. He has been doing his homework very well. And Dawson this is not only my class but he has improved in other class. Other teachers has notice his improvement… Now Joey Potter and Pacey Witter are partners and that is final!
Author's note: I would like to thank Liz and PJ4eva for their great reviews. If you review too, I'll send you the next chapter. So feel encourage to review. Good news, my exams are over, so I'll be more efficent with my updating.
Next time on my Fanfic: Dawson confronts Pacey about the partner situation. Will Joey stand up for herself or will she cowered like usual?
