PART 4
If Pacey thought burying his physical desire for Joey the last few weeks was torture, he didn't know what torture was. Because this was far, far worse. Now that he'd given in and allowed himself to have a taste of her, he wanted it all. The only problem were the seven people who wouldn't vacate the premises. Jen, Jack, Audrey, C.J and David brought dinner and a surprise: Andie. While Pacey was happy to see Andie, who was home from Italy permanently as she geared up to start Harvard in fall, he cursed her timing. Everyone wanted stories of her travels, Joey included, and she wanted to hear what everyone was doing now. And then, about halfway through dinner, an occasion in which Pacey forced himself to sit as far away from Joey as possible to lessen the temptation to ravage her right there, Dawson showed up. He should have known the guy wouldn't be able to take no for an answer. Dawson was currently sitting next to Joey, more than happy to reminisce about times Pacey would be more than happy to forget. Since Audrey, C.J. and David were newbies to the Capeside Six, they lapped it all up.
When he couldn't take it anymore, Pacey excused himself to get a beer. He'd need it to get through the rest of this dinner. When he popped his head back out of the fridge, he felt her behind him. Right behind him. "Potter. Distance," he pleaded.
She shifted to squeeze between his side and the open fridge, which left their bodies touching from shoulder to foot. She smirked. "Naw, this is better."
"Would you like a drink?" he offered in an attempt to mask his discomfort at her closeness.
"Yeah, but I'll get it." Just then, she bent down and pulled a soda off the bottom shelf, which coincidentally pressed her behind into his groin.
He sat his beer down on the counter and then used his hand to pull her tight against him. He then leaned down under the pretext of helping her, which is how it would appear to anyone in the living room, and murmured. "You're gonna pay for this."
She turned her head slightly to whisper in his ear. "I'll hold you to that, Pace."
When she pushed against him to stand upright again, soda in hand, it brought their bodies in full contact and he involuntarily shuddered. "I hate you," he ground out through clenched teeth.
She simply stepped away and turned to face him. "No, you don't," she said as she cupped him with her free hand and winked before walking away.
After that, Pacey spent nearly an hour in the kitchen baking an impromptu dessert of chocolate cake just to get his hard-on go away. Thanks to the open floor plan, however, he could still socialize with his friends using the island as a barrier and a cover. Of course that only delayed their leaving that much longer because now they wanted to hang around to actually eat the cake.
~zzzzzzz~
After her stunt at the fridge, Pacey barricaded himself in the kitchen under the pretext of baking. She used that as an excuse to move away from Dawson's side and sit at the island. Andie and Jen followed her. Jack, of course, became Pacey's helper, having missed his cooking, and the others stood around chatting behind the three of them. As Dawson hovered by her, Joey took every spare moment she could to eye flirt with Pacey. She ventured to guess he wasn't having much luck ridding himself of his erection anymore than she was calming herself down. Now that she was so close to getting what she'd been waiting for over the last few weeks, this delay was a special form of torture.
Once everyone had cake and coffee, they still lingered. Jack, of course, wasn't going anywhere because it was his place too. Neither was David. Andie was staying in Emma's old room for the weekend. Jen and C.J. lingered because of Jack. Audrey wasn't about to leave the party and be left out and Dawson wasn't going to budge unless he was physically kicked or dragged out now that Pacey's big mouth had given him false hope.
By 11:00 pm it dawned on her that she and Pacey could just go upstairs whenever they wanted. Everyone with the exception of Andie knew they were trying again, so what did it matter? And Andie probably knew anyway because of Jack. Tomorrow was Friday. She didn't have any classes tomorrow and Pacey didn't have to work. So they would have all night. All fucking night.
In that moment, Joey stood up. She carried her cake plate and empty mug to the kitchen. When she returned, she stopped by Pacey, who was conversing with C.J. about sports. She reached down and grabbed his hand to pull him to his feet, causing him to look at her quizzically and the rest of the group to go silent.
She pulled Pacey with her toward the steps as she announced to the group. "Thanks for coming to celebrate Pacey's freedom, but it's been a really long day. We're gonna head to bed. Feel free to stay as long as you like. Just don't break the TV."
Everyone who'd been at the previous party chuckled at that. And everyone who wasn't looked to Jack to explain.
As the group was enraptured by Jack's story of Betha's destruction, Joey caught Jen's wink as she pulled Pacey up the steps behind her.
~zzzzzzz~
The second Joey pulled Pacey into the bedroom with her, he slammed the door shut and she pushed him against it. "Where were we?" she panted.
"About here," he said just before crushing his lips down onto hers. They stood there devouring each other until Pacey took control and shifted them so that she was plastered between the door and his body. As he peppered her neck with kisses, Joey snaked her arms around his neck and wrapped her legs around his waist. She pulled him into her and ground against him, "I need you now."
He reciprocated the action with his hips as his hands blazed a trail of fire under her shirt to graze the underside of her breasts. The jolt of desire caused her to throw her head back and she banged it against the back of the door. "Ow!"
Pacey stopped what he was doing and let her down slowly. Once her feet were on the ground, he looked concernedly in her eyes, where she was holding back tears. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, it just surprised me. I'll be fine."
"Maybe we should slow this down a bit." When she was going to protest, he added, "We have all the time in the world."
"Does that mean what I think it means?" Joey asked hopefully.
When he smiled and nodded, she forgot all about her injured head and jumped happily into his arms, which unfortunately caused him to lose his balance and step backward into the dresser behind him, making a loud bang.
~zzzzzzz~
Downstairs the group was sitting in the living room chatting when they heard a loud bang above them.
"What was that?" Dawson asked.
At that, Jen gave him the side eye, Jack rolled his eyes, and Andie smirked.
Audrey, never shy, simply said, "That was Pacey's dresser." Then she sighed. "Some of our best sex was on that dresser. It's just the perfect height for…"
When Dawson went slack-jawed, Audrey asked, "What?" Then she looked at him curiously. "Oh, you thought they were actually going up there to sleep, didn't you?"
"Um, yeah." Dawson commented.
"Bunny has been eyeing him like he's the last bottle of water in the Sahara all night. No way would she have practically dislocated his arm dragging him upstairs just to sleep."
"And he was eyeing her the same way." Andie chimed in. "That look used to melt me like," she snapped her fingers, "that".
At Andie's admission, it was Jack who gasped.
"What?" she asked.
"I don't need to hear that, Andie."
"It's not like it was a secret."
He shuddered. "Just knowing the two of you did it once upon a time is already too much information. I don't need details."
At this Audrey piped up. Looking at Andie, she asked. "The tongue thing. Was that new? I tried asking Bunny, but she refused to talk about their sex life with me."
Andie blushed. "No. That was a skill he acquired with Ms. Jacobs."
As Jen interjected with "What tongue thing? We never got that far." Jack hung his head in his hands in defeat, Dawson looked like he was about to puke, and C.J. and David observed with smirks on their faces.
Just as Audrey was about to explain the tongue thing to Jen, there was another crash above them.
"What do you all say we call it a night?" C.J. asked hopefully.
When Joey screamed, David suggested heading to Hell's Kitchen for a nightcap and a game of pool.
Everyone readily agreed. Dawson was the first one out the door.