Pacey was moving today. Everyone knew about it, but no one knew how to acknowledge it. Pacey had lived in Capeside for his entire life. Moving somewhere different would be a huge revelation for him. Pacey moving out of Capeside would be a huge revelation for everyone.

Dawson and Pacey had been best friends ever since they could talk. Being best friends with each other meant a lot. Furthermore, when they started high school, problems arrived. The problems surrounded situation such as girls, grades, and trust. When the problems escalated to the climax, they stopped being friends, but being best friends was still in their blood. They could not erase the sixteen years of friendships.

Andie could not believe that Pacey was moving. Pacey had been in her life since the first day she had moved into Capeside. At first, she thought he was a jerk, but the more she has gotten to know him, the closer they became. Yes, Andie and Pacey were not dating anymore, but Andie could not picture Pacey out of her life.

Pacey was one of Jack's first friends. Jack used to be shy and people ignored him. However, since Pacey was Andie's boyfriend, Pacey helped Jack make a good transition here in Capeside. Pacey and Jack were not best friends, but they were good friends. If Pacey were not around, it would be strange for Jack.

Jen and Pacey were always the 'side kicks'. Jen was Joey's sidekick and Pacey was Dawson's sidekick. In addition, when Pacey and Dawson were no longer best friends anymore, it seemed that it was always about Dawson and Joey. However, Jen and Pacey were really good friends. Pacey had been friends with Pacey ever since she arrived to Capeside. Jen had imagined that Pacey would be here until they graduate high school.

With Joey, it was completely different. Pacey had known Joey ever since they were little. They have been through a lot. They hated each other as kids. They loved each other as teenagers. Now they had ignored each other. However, the most important thing was that Pacey had always been there for Joey or at least he had tried his personal best to be there for Joey. Joey had loved Pacey. Pacey had loved Joey. It just seemed that the world had not liked them together. Pacey did not care about the world, but somehow Joey did. Now, Joey had wished that she had ignored the world because Pacey was leaving and Joey could not stop him from moving. If she just listened to her heart, things would be different.


That afternoon before Pacey was moving, he was in his room looking at a picture. The picture was of his five friends and himself. Everyone would miss Pacey, but no one knew how much Pacey would miss them too. He wished that he could have stayed in Capeside but things were just too complex. He needed to move on. He needed to move forward.

Pacey was in his own zone. However, someone unexpectedly knocked on his bedroom door. Pacey turned around to see it was his brother, Doug.

"Hey little brother, we're leaving at seven tonight, so that'll be in a few hours or so." Doug instructed.

"I know that Doug. I had known that a week ago. I had known that a month ago when we announced that we were moving." Pacey said slyly.

"I know I just want to make sure you were ready." Doug clarified.

"I'm ready." Pacey declared.

"I mean, you'll probably be busy with the visitors you have." Doug announced.

"Visitors?" Pacey question his curiosity.

Doug took him outside, and there he found his friends on the front porch waiting for him. Pacey had not expected this. This was so shocking.

"You know you are a pretty good hider because well we haven't had any time to say goodbye." Dawson said with a smile

"Hey." Pacey said.

"You one hard guy to track down." Jack said.

"You didn't think we were about to let you leave without a goodbye." Jen stated.

"No actually I didn't." Pacey said still shocked that his friends were there.

"I'll just be in the house." Doug said heading inside.

"Hey come here." Andie gave him a hug.

That hug had led everyone else wanting a hug. Pacey liked that his friends were here. The only problem was that Joey was not here. Pacey did not want to ask because if he did, it would seem that he cared more about Joey than about them. He did not want to seem rude.


For the rest of the afternoon, Pacey and his friends hung out at the pier. They did not think about the problems from the past or problems in the future. They rather forget about the problems because they just wanted that time with Pacey to be trouble-free.

"So do you think you will like New York?" Andie asked.

"I know I did." Jen said.

"I don't know, I mean I grew up here. It's going to be my senior year. It'll just seem hard to adjust." Pacey said.

"Trust me, Pacey Witter can face anything. New York will be a snap." Dawson said.

"I hope so. I mean I know I'll miss it here." Pacey said.

"Hey we'll miss you too." Jen stated.

"But you can visit us anytime you want." Jack pondered.

"Yea, I mean I can just steal a car if my dad won't let me." Pacey joked.

"Yeah, I mean New York has plenty of cars. Thousands of cars." Jen teased.

"And we can come visit you too." Dawson said.

"New York isn't that far." Andie stated.

"It'll take a few hours if the traffic is good." Jen noted.

"We'll make some kind of schedule or something." Pacey said.

As the time past, everyone was remembering stories that evolved Pacey. Everyone just laugh and expressed amusement. Even though Pacey was moving, no one cried at all. They did not want to make this a sad moment.


Pacey had his small moments with everyone. He had a talk to Jack about having fun. He had a talk about Jen about staying strong. He had a talk about Andie to stay determined. Now he was having his talk with Dawson. It predictably was about Joey.

"Hey so, why didn't Joey come?" Pacey wondered.

"She uh… couldn't make it. She had some family thing." Dawson lounged.

"You know we haven't been good liars when it revolved around Joey." Pacey knew that Dawson was lying.

"Okay the straight forward truth is that she wouldn't come. She had no justification or no explanation. She just stuck herself in her room, but she's been doing that lately." Dawson came forward.

"Yea, I'm going to be really worried about her." Pacey knew he said that in a wrong way, "I mean I'm going to be worried about all of you but she you know… I… uh…"

"It's okay Pacey. If I was you, I would be really worried about her too." Dawson said.

"Yea." Pacey responded not knowing what to say. He did not want to bring up past memories about them fighting over her.

"Because she uh… If it's any consolation to you, out of all of us, she is really going to miss you the most… because out of all of us, she loves you the most." Dawson confronted.

"Yea, but now that I'm out of your way, you can just steal her from no one." Pacey, who had a huge smile, said sarcastically.

Dawson laughed, "Leave it to you to make a funny comment at a time like this."

"Yea, I'm always going to be the jokers." Pacey labeled.

"But to be frank, I don't think I'll be able to steal her because, well she only wants one thing and that is you." Dawson declared.

"I know… God, I'm going to really, really miss her. I wish that she was here so she would know that." Pacey pleaded.

"I wish she was here too, because you both deserve a proper goodbye." Dawson said.

"Hey, if I'm not able to see her by tonight, can you said goodbye to her and can you tell her that I won't ever forget her." Pacey said.

"I will." Dawson agreed.

"And can you, uh… But most importantly, can you watch over her? Make sure she'll be okay because I want to make sure she has some to lean on too." Pacey asked.

"I will." Dawson promised.


Author's Note: I want to thank you all for your great review as you read my story. I am glad that you loved my story. We have one more chapter to cover and its about the true goodbye that Pacey needs. I hope that you will like it and don't worry I am making a sequel to this story. We still have more to endure!