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Joey picked the next story off the tall stack of fan fiction. Just then Mrs.Tringle walked in."Well, I see you started." , she said, "Good. Because If you don't finish the entire stack, you will be in detention next Saturday." She gave them a look then walked out the door. They all looked down at story and reluctantly began to read.
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Can't Hardly Wait
By Rose7Angel@aol.com
(Starts where "Breaking Off" left off, Dawson and Joey kissing shown in the window. Jen is sitting on the
dock, hands around her knees, looking miserable. She gets up and walks away. )
(Dawsons room, Dawson and Joey looking at each other, amazed)
Joey: Dawson?
Dawson: Joey, I love you.
Joey: I love you too Dawson.
Pacey: Such wonderful prose.
(Dawson and Joey kiss again)
Dawson: Wanna go for a walk?
Jen: That was a quick change of subject!
Joey: Sure
Joey: I'd rather keep kissing.
(They climb on to the roof and go down the ladder, and walk on the beach, holding hands)
Dawson: Why don't they both just use the door?
Joey: I guess we are ready for honesty.
Dawson: Yeah. Even if it is a big wor...
Joey: What?
(Dawson points a finger to their right. Jen is huddled up and crying. She doesn't notice Dawson and Joey.
Joey and Dawson walk up to her)
Pacey: Why would they go over to her? She almost messed everything up! (In Breaking Away)
Joey: Are you all right Jen?
Pacey: I don't think Joey would talk to her.
(Jen looks up, surprised)
Jen: Oh! I was just... I... My Gramps died today. (She doesn't say the other reason she is crying)
Dawson: I'm so sorry Jen...
Joey: Me too, I know how much he meant to you.
Joey: Sure she's sorry!
Jen: Yeah, um I better go, see you guys later.
(She gets up and walks home. Dawson and Joey walk back to the dock. Joey and Dawson kiss, and she gets in her boat, and rows back to her house. Dawson walks home.)
(Dawson is sitting on his bed, thinking about Joey. Cut to Joey, sitting on her bed, thinking about Dawson. The two scenes are put together, and they lie down and close their eyes at the same time, a smile on their faces.)
(Cut to Jen, in her room, hanging up the phone. Gram walks in)
Jen: That was my mom. She's sending me a ticket to New York for a week, but then I'll be back
Pacey: Uh oh, she's going back to be corrupted.
Joey: Shouldn't she stay for her Grandfather's funeral?
Gram: Okay. I'll miss you
Jen: I don't think she would say ok so quickly. And definitely not the I'll miss you part. She'd probably give a sermon about going down the same path twice.
Jen: (Smiles) I'll miss you too
Jen: I don't think I would say that either.
Dawson: Aren't they all a little too happy? I mean her grandfather and her husband just died.
(Jen packing. In her suitcase, she finds a picture of Billy that she must have forgot to take out when she first came out here. She looks at it for a second, and then rips it up)
(Joey at her locker at school. Dawson comes up behind her)
Dawson: Guess who?
Joey: Um, Brad Pitt?
Dawson: Sorry to disappoint you
Joey: I guess I'm not that disappointed, as long as we can see "Legends of the Fall" tonight.
Dawson: Only if you don't leave me for him.
Pacey: Who writes this stuff?!
Dawson: Like I would ever agree to see Legends of the Fall!
Joey: Deal
(she gives him a quick kiss, and walks to class)
Pacey: PDA's?! So soon?
(Pacey comes up to Dawson)
Pacey: Finally Pacey comes into the picture!
Pacey: You're kidding, you guys finally got together?
Dawson: Yeah, see ya Pacey
Joey: So descriptive.
Pacey:(Yeliing to Dawson as he walks away) Fine, don't tell me anything
Jen: Spell Check Alert!!
Dawson:(Turning back to Pacey) Okay.
(Pacey sighs)
Pacey: I wouldn't let him off that easily!
(Jen, in her room zipping her zipper on her suitcase. She is leaving in two hours for New York. Gram walks
in.)
Jen: Can you help me zip this? I think its stuck.
Grams: Sure
(She bends down and finally fixes it.)
Grams: There
Jen: Thanks
Joey: Women of such few words.
Grams: So, what are you going to do in the big apple?
Jen: I can't picture her saying the big apple. Or being cool about it for that matter.
Jen: My mom said we might go to Long Island for a vacation.
Grams: Well, it better be good, you're missing a week of school.
Jen: That's another thing ,she wouldn't let me miss school.
(Jen smiles)
(Dawson and Joey walking home from school, holding hands)
Dawson: Is it okay if we watch "Legends of the Fall" at Pacey's tonight? He says he really wants to see it.
Dawson: I would never see Legends of the Fall. Over my dead body!
Joey: Either that or he wants to know whats going on between us. But sure, I guess I can bear with him for
a night.
Dawson: Great. I'm sure he'll love that. I'll pick you up at five, okay?
Joey: Make that 5:30, I've got tons of homework, plus I have to study for a quiz in biology tomorrow.
Dawson: Ok.
(Pacey comes up behind them)
Pacey: So, are you guys coming to my house tonight?
Dawson: Sure, we'll be there around 5:30
Pacey: So, are you guys still virgins?
Jen: Subtle!
Joey: Maybe, I guess you'll never know
Pacey: I can't believe she answered that!
Jen: This dialogue is so juvenile!
Pacey: Ahhhh!! Oh well, see ya at 5:30
Dawson: Whats with the Ahhhhh!!?
Jen: Does this author have Attention Deficit Disorder? She keeps changing the topic!
Joey: (Smiling at Dawson) Make that six.
(Pacey rolls his eyes, and leaves)
Joey: I'll see you later Dawson
Dawson: See ya at 5:30
(They kiss)
Pacey: More PDA's!
(Jen is in New York, with her mom)
Dawson: That was fast!
Jen's mom: Jennifer, I hear from your grandmother you've settled down.
Pacey: Does Jen's Mom have a name?
Jen: Um, yeah
Jen's mom: So whats this with Dawson, is that his name?
Jen: yeah, um, we dated for a while.
Jen's mom: DatED?
Joey: I can't tell if it's a spelling error or if she's upset.
Jen: Um, yeah. We broke up.
Jen's mom: I'm sorry.
Jen: That's okay
Pacey: Such intellectual conversation.
Jen's mom: This may be the middle of the school year, but how would you like to move back here?
Joey: So she can be corrupted again? Or so she can get back together with Billy?
(Dawson and Joey kissing VERY deeply in front of Pacey's house. Pacey opens the door)
Jen: I'm sure of it now! This author has A.D.D.
Pacey: Oh jeez! Come on, its 6:15.
Joey: Ooops.
(They go in Pacey's house, and go to his room)
Pacey: Come on, tell me everything!!!
Dawson: (Wide eyed innocence) What do you mean?
Pacey: I think they know what.
Joey: (Wide eyed innocence also) Yeah?
Pacey: AAAHHH!!!
Pacey: I sound like a four year old. AAAHHH!!!
Dawson: Just put on the show.
(Dawson and Joey snuggle together as the opening credits of "Legends of the Fall" come on. Pacey sits on the floor.)
(Jen is her mom's apartment , pondering whether or not to move back to New York. On one hand, New York is fast paced and full of excitement, but Capeside had her friends, and was peaceful. (Jen walks up to her mother)
Jen: I'm gunna need more time to decide.
Pacey: Spell Check Alert!! What kind of word is "gunna"
Jen's mom: I understand. No hurry. By the way, Billy called for you. I told hme you were busy.
Pacey: Spell Check Alert!
Dawson: One, how does Billy know she's back? Two, why would her mother tell her that ,the boy she was having sex with in her parents bed, called?
Jen: Good, and I'll be busy for the rest of my life as far as he's concerned.
(Jen's mom smiles)
Joey: Where is Jen's Dad?
( In the middle of the movie, Dawson and Joey fall asleep on Pacey's twin bed. Pacey watches them smugly. After a while, Joey wakes up.)
Dawson: I thought they were on the floor.
Pacey: Well, I guess you could now technically say you did sleep with Dawson.
Pacey: They've been sleeping together since they were little! They could have said that all along! Not just now.
(Joey sticks her tounge out at him)
Dawson: That's mature!
Joey: I could have said that since I was seven.
Pacey: That's what I said.
Pacey: But you're going out with him now.
(Dawson wakes up)
Dawson: (Looks at Joey) Hello beautiful.
(Joey and Dawson kiss passionately)
Dawson: In front of Pacey?
Pacey: Hey, if you guys are going to kiss like that, get off my bed. Don't want anything bad to happen.
(Dawson and Joey look at him at the same time)
Dawson and Joey: Shut up!
Pacey: Hey, I can't help it if I'm the only safe person here.
Jen: Safe from what?
(Jen is sitting on a chair in her mom's apartment, talking to her mom)
Jen: I want to stay in Capeside. I'll miss you and everything, but I think I'd be much happier there.
Jen's mom: Whatever makes you happiest dear. Come visit us whenever.
Pacey: That's a pretty laid back attitude for a woman with a troubled teenager. And isn't her mom sad that her father died?
(Jen smiles)
Jen: Thanks mom.
(Paceys room. Dawson and Joey are in sleeping bags on the floor, Pacey is asleep on his bed. Joey and Dawson are still awake.)
Dawson: Isn't it a school night?
Dawson: Hey, you never told me. Didn't you go visit your dad again?
Joey: Yeah. I told him that he really messed up.
Dawson: Good for you.
Jen: Didn't Dawson go with her the fist time and urge her to forgive him?
Joey: Dawson?
Dawson: Yeah?
Joey: I love you.
Dawson: I love you too Joey.
Pacey: Again, such insightful dialogue
Joey: Good night Dawson.
Dawson: Good night Jo.
(Dawson watches as Joey gets into her boat. Savage Garden's I Wanna Stand With you on a Mountian starts to play)
Jen: I thought they were sleeping at Pacey's ?
Joey: Yeah, and the name of the song is Truly, Madly, Deeply. Not I want to stand with you on a mountain.
The End
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Jen: Thank God that is over! And I don't even believe in God. I think that was the worst one so far! What does the title have to do with the story?
Dawson: That author needs son Ritalin, seriously.
Pacey: I agree.
Joey: Oh man! We still have so many more.
The group took a moment to recover from that story, and then stared at the pile of fan fiction.
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