Knowing The Best Is Right Here
I slowly turned my head and down the hallway running as fast as possible was him. I started to get up whispering "Pacey," then I was yelling it. "PACEY!" I got up and started running toward him. He saw me and I started running faster then I thought was humanly possible. When I reached him I crushed myself against his chest as fresh new tears escaped my eyes and spilled onto his shirt. "Pacey, are you really here? Are you alright? They let you off the plane?"
I looked up at him and started swirling him around making sure he wasn't bleeding. He stopped me and took my face in his hands, "Joey stop. I am fine, I wasn't on that plane, I was on 457, we would have collided with that plane but we swirved out just in time before impact." I looked up at him and smiled. "So you are alright?" He looked down at me with tears in his eyes, "no, Jo I'm not all right, I haven't been alright for some time now."
I was starting to get worried, "Pacey what are you talking about?" "Jo, you are the only thing in my life that is worth fighting for, you are my best friend. You know me better then anyone could ever try. Jo, I love you more then you could ever imagine. I want your face to be the last thing i see at night and the first thing i see in the morning. I told Natalie I couldn't marry her. Joey she doesn't have my heart...you do. It has always belonged to you, its always been you Jo."
I couldn't do anything, say anything. I backed up just a second before he continued. "Jo do you remember when we were young and we were stupid, I know everything about you which is why I knew that you would run away and I knew that I needed to follow, Ill follow you anywhere Joey. I know that I have already said this to you, but I don't want to walk away not knowing if you feel the same way, I need to know."
I took a deep breath before looking into his ocean deep eyes. I could get lost in those eyes, drown myself in the magnitude of his soul. "You won't need to follow me Pace." I said with eyes filled with tears, he looked at me confused. "You won't have to follow me because I'm done running. I don't want to waste a single minute without you in it. Pacey, you are the one person in my life that knows me, truly KNOWS me. How could I have been so stupid as to walk away from that, turn my back on that."
As I looked down at the floor, he put his hand against my cheek. The warmth of his touch spread through my entire body. He forced me to look into his eyes again, "So what are trying to say?" "I'm saying I love you, in a way that makes me feel alive, I love your wit, your charm, the fact that you have to watch cartoons on saturdays when you have the day off. I love that you care about the people around you more then you care about yourself. I love that you eat all your jolly ranchers in twos. I love that you knew you had to come and get me because I was to scared to walk into my future alone. but what i realized Pacey is that we can walk together, I love you so much and your right I do run away but if I want to again someday ill be running straight to you."
With those last words escaping my lips he covered them with his own. Our first kiss ever was the one thing that made our love concrete. His kiss was more then a kiss, it was the entrance to my body, mind and soul. His kiss shut out every doubt I had about the future. It sealed every fear I ever had. From this day forward I would care about anything as much as I cared about him. He deepened the kiss as he wrapped his arms around me, giving me the security I needed. I was home. This is all I could ever need. Just him, his touch, his lips, his heart.
He broke the kiss and gently laid his forehead against mine. I smiled softly as did he before he spoke. "We should have done that a long time ago." I laughed at him and looked up at him as I laid my hand on his cheek, he covered my hand with his own. "Yeah, we really should have." Just then, in her usual tone Jen chimed in, "Oh for the love of all that is holy, thank you God!!! You guys are so cute, FINALLY you have done what everyone was hoping for, for YEARS."
She walked over to us and gave Pacey a quick hug, "See I told you he would be just fine." I smiled at her before swatting her arm, "Yeah Jen you did." "Well what do you say we get out of this foreign place, get back to the place we know and start our lives?" Pacey locked his fingers around mine and guided me through the airport. I grabbed a hold of his arm with my other hand, looked up at him and smiled, "Hmm guess you do know me as well as you think."
FIN
A/N Thats all folks, thanks to everyone who has read and enjoyed my first story, I plan on picking up where this one ended, so i can show how Pacey and Joey's life starts, from my imagination I think there are some conflicts that I can arrange, Natalie or Christopher, their reactions to the new couple. Perhaps there could be a proposal or perhaps a wedding somewhere down the line. The sky is the limit. Again thank you to everyone who decided to take a chance on me as a writer and check out my story so please sit tight for the next installment of The way it came to be!