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Part 6

Joey's POV

I walk into the lounge hoping for a single moment of peace. The past two weeks had been awful I've never seen the county so packed before, it seemed like everybody decided to get sick these days. I see Pacey around the corridors, but we haven't talked yet, unless you count our timid hellos and good-nights. John asked me what had gone between us, and I told him we knew each other since diapers, but lost touch when we went to different schools, letting the little drama we went through in high school apart. After the initial shock of having him so hear, many things went through my mind, I wanted to ignore him, to beat him and sometimes I just wanted to hold him and other times…Joey, get over yourself, you have a boyfriend, you shouldn't have this kind of thoughts about Pacey Witter. I sigh loudly as I plop myself on the old couch, closing my eyes, tired. When in the past ten years I haven't had these thoughts about him? That guy had been labeled hot the day he was born. And now, older, with that mystery and sad looks, dressed in scrubs…Damn, think about Carter! I hear someone entering the room…Thinking about the devil…

"Hey, Potter. Hiding here?" He asks me.

"I should ask the same, Witter." I try to hide the emotions I always feel when he is around.

"I came to drink some coffee to keep me awake." He explains. "Is it always busy like this?"

"No, these past two weeks have been the worse in two years." And the usual awkward silence falls.

"Jo, I've been meaning to ask you something…" He starts, hesitantly.

"Say, it, Pacey."

"I don't wanna spend the next years here, working around you with both of us being uncomfortable around each other."

"That's really not my fault, Pacey… You are the one who disappeared for ten years…" I can't help the bitter words.

"Fair enough. But can we talk and maybe forget these past years and try to be friends again?"

"We were never really friends. We were more like sparring partners." I hear him laugh before he replies.

"Still the same, Ice Queen."

"Look who is talking, Jailbait." The nicknames help to ease the tension.

"So, what do you say, Potter?"

"I agree we should talk, Pacey. We can meet after work tonight at Ike's, that restaurant across the street."

"I can't, I'm working on the night shift too tonight. But I can go there tomorrow."

"Fine, tomorrow it is. Be prepared for Joey's Inquisition." I can't help smiling.

"Should I write my will?" He asks me, furrowing his brows.

"Maybe" I tease, but my pager starts its annoying concert of beeps, and I have to go. "I gotta go, we'll talk tomorrow." I leave the lounge, feeling that my problems were only starting. How am I going to be able to ignore the fact that I have a boyfriend that I really like and that I'm more attracted to Pacey Witter than I was when I was 17?

Pacey' POV

I watch Joey leaving, while I finally drink my coffee, asking myself what I had done. I don't know if I'm ready to talk to her after so long, what I am or not ready to tell her…How will she react if I tell her everything that happened these past years? But it's so good to have her around again, to have a familiar face to look at…And due the latest events in my life, I feel the need to reconnect with my past, at least the better parts of it, and she certainly is one of those. I'm still broken with everything that happened, that mad me leave NY, but I realized I have to go on, regardless how I feel, if not for me, for my baby daughter who depends too much on me. I chuckle sadly. What will Joey say when I tell her that I have a daughter named after her?