A/N Here is the second to last chapter, please enjoy:)
Before Its Too Late
"Joey will you please slow down, you know I can't run in Jimmy Choos." I slowed so Jen could catch up to me. After getting lost coming back from the hotel, I was in a very big rush to get to Pacey. After seeing Renee, I knew that now was the time to finally stop running. Jen caught up to me visibly out of breath but managed, " Alright, just so I am up to speed with you. You realize its 9:46pm and all the flights to anywhere are all booked and that we probably will not get a flight out of here for at least a few hours." "Jen I have to find…" Just then my cell rang, I looked at the number and it was Bessie.
I picked it up, "Bess, is everything alright its 12am where you are?" I heard a heavy sign of relief on the other end of the phone, "Oh Joey I didn't think I would catch you, please tell me you are at the airport and that you are not getting on an airplane." I looked up at Jen and gave her a 'my sister is strange' look. "No, Bess I'm not on a plane but I am at the airport." I said it in a sarcastic tone but by the response she gave she didn't appreciate my comedy. "Joey, Pacey is on his way there." I almost dropped my phone when I heard the news she had. "What?! What are you talking about, Pacey is coming here?"
"Yes, he told Natalie he wasn't going to marry her, because he loved you and needed to know how you felt about him, I just wanted to tell you so you wouldn't try to come home and tell him yourself. So, little sister, are you finally ready to stop running?" I looked over to Jen and grabbed a hold of her hand, "Yes, I am." "Thank the Lord above, Joey. His flight number is 547 and should arrive at 9:55pm." "Bessie I will never be able to thank you enough." "Just go."
I hung up the phone and ran as fast as I could to the TelePrompter dragging Jen along behind me. "Joey, I'm really getting sick of this, let me sit for a second over here will ya." Jen went and sat in the group of waiting chairs near gate 12. I scanned the screen with my eyes as best I could, when finally I saw it flight 547 gate number 9. "Stay here I'm gonna go get…" I was interrupted by a loud booming noise. It was so loud that Jen jumped right out of her chair. We both looked at each other, then out the window in horror. People started rushing over to the window to see what was going on.
We wormed our way through the crowd and saw that a plane had exploded, the entire tail end of the aircraft was engulfed in flames. I looked down at my watch and suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous. 9:57pm. I wobbled out of the crowd with Jen trying to hold me up, my stomach started to turn and my vision was blurred. At that time my worst fears were confirmed. A voice over head came on, 'flight 547 has had an engine blow, and that there may be several if not all fatalities'. I sank to the floor, I couldn't believe what I was hearing, Pacey was on that flight, he was on the plane with fire billowing out of it. "Joey?" Jen sat down beside me and took my hand.
"Listen to me, you do not know if he is dead or even hurt. You need to believe that he is fine, just fine. He is a strong man, he has survived far worse then this." I couldn't even hear her, I couldn't hear anything but the sheer volume of my heart breaking inside my chest. Tears pooled their way from my eyes and I realized I hadn't taken a breath at all. "Uhhh, NO!" I sucked in a sharp breath, and put my head in my hands. I couldn't bear the thought of a life without Pacey, my best friend, my heart, my everything. My world was empty now, I had nothing to live for. I was moments away from getting everything I ever wanted and in an instant it was sucked out from my grasp. I sat there continuing to sob when I heard, "JOEY". I looked up at Jen, who was looking in shock down the airport corridor behind my head. "Oh my God," was all she could muster.