*I'm sooo sorry it's taking me so long between updates, especially for this one. School is taking over my life and I have finals next week, but after that I should have a lot more free time. R&R! Thanks!*
-Kim
Kiss, Cry, or Dream
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Chapter 5
"I got a call saying my boyfriend was in a car accident and is here, his name is Pacey Witter." I'm barely holding back my tears as I try to find Pacey. I need him to be okay.
"Yes, Witter, he's in room 204. I believe he just got out of surgery. Visiting hours are until 5pm."
Surgery?! I don't even want to think about it, so I thank the woman and practically run up the stairs to find room 204, too impatient to wait for an elevator.
"Oh, Pacey!"
There he is, lying on a hospital bed with tubes attached to him and monitors all around, his left arm in a cast, his right eye swollen shut. But he's alive and breathing, even sitting up in the bed.
He smiles when he sees me. I run over to him to hug him but hesitate, not sure if it will hurt him or not. But he seems to be in good enough condition for that, so I hug him carefully and put a light kiss on his cheek.
"Jo. You get an urgent call from the hospital about me and it takes you an hour to get here? Haha, gee thanks."
"Oh Pacey, I'm so sorry I couldn't get here sooner, I got stuck at the office. But don't worry about that, we can talk about it later. What on earth happened to you??"
"Damn teenager on his cell phone ran a red light. Banged up my baby real good with his huge-ass SUV. I hate SUVs. My poor car, there's no way it'll ever drive again!"
"That is so like you to worry more about your freaking car than yourself! How hurt are you?? Are you gonna be alright?"
"I'll be fine, Jo. I broke my left arm and had to go get it wrapped up, so that will take a while to heal. But besides that it's just cuts and bruises. I'm alright."
"Thank God. You don't know how worried I was! The thought of you in a car accident…and the voice mail didn't give me any details! You could have been dead! Oh Pacey, I couldn't live without you."
"Well good thing you won't have to. I'll always be here Joey, and I'll try not to make you worry about me again like you had to today. I can't imagine if it had been you in the hospital and me having to see you like this. I would have been a mess! Now enough about me. What happened at work?"
"Well I don't think I'll be keeping my job when we move."
"Aw Jo, I'm so sorry, I never meant for you to have to give that up for me. I know how much you love it there."
"No it's fine Pace, after today there is nothing anyone could do to make me want to work there again."
"What do you mean?? Did something happen?"
"Well…Mr. Dodd kind of…came onto me."
"WHAT!!! What the hell?!"
"Oh Pace, I'm already embarrassed about it, I don't want to make it into a big deal. Let's just say I asked him for the favor to relocate and he wanted a favor in return. And he wasn't going to take "no" for an answer. But I'm fine Pace, I got away and I'm fine."
"Did he hurt you?? That damn bastard, as soon as I'm out of this hospital I will take care of him. I promise Jo, I will – "
"No! Pacey, please. I'm fine, can we just leave it at that? I'm not going back there, and we're moving anyway. We can just let it be. I don't want you to do anything."
"You want to just let that asshole walk free? You know he'll do it again to some other poor innocent girl. And he'll get away with it! Jo, this is sexual harassment, we can press charges against him."
"Pacey, please. I just want to move on and forget about it. Please?"
"Fine. But I wish you would let me do something about it."
"I know. But I just want to forget it even happened. Let's just get you healed up and out of here so we can get back to Capeside, kay?"
"And you're sure you're okay going back to Capeside? After doing everything you could to get out?"
"I'd be happy anywhere as long as I was with you, Pacey. I just wish I knew what was going to happen with my editing and my career and just my life in general. I feel like after losing my job I don't know what to do next, or how to move forward."
"I can't see what the future holds for you, Jo, or for us, but some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream. I don't know what's gonna happen to us, but I know whatever it is will be great. Because I know we'll be together, and anything we do together will be amazing. Anything you do always turns out to be amazing. You're such an incredible person, Joey. I still don't know how a guy like me ended up with the most wonderful and extraordinary woman in the world. But I know that the love we share will take us anywhere we want it to. And I know you can do anything you set your mind to. I love you so much Jo."
"Oh Pacey, I love you too. So much. Thank you for being such an amazing person. And you're wrong you know. You're the extraordinary one. Now get some rest so you can heal and we can get out of here. I'll be here as long as you are. I won't leave your side."
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*Thanks for reading guys, and as long as you still like the story I'll keep writing it. So I have finals next week and will be done with those on May 1st, so hopefully I can get another update out soon after that. I have a little bit more free time now so I may go ahead and write another chapter to make up for the lack of updates / how short my chapters have been. But if I don't update again today then don't expect another one until may, haha. Thanks!! R&R!*
-Kim