Invisible String - Pacey Witter

Chapter Twenty-Four

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All along there were an invisible string tying you to me

"Hey Daphne, why'd you rush out earlier" Dawson asks me as I try to pass him.

"Oh there was something Jen needed help with, so I hurried out and helped her" I smile and try to walk pass.

"Aunt Gwen said she missed you this trip, and that she loves you" he continues.

"Well I wish I went, I love her to."

"Why didn't you come? It would have been fun."

This kid really can't just let me leave, can he?

"I was just a little tired, I needed to take a few days easy. Love you Dawson" I say rushing into my room.

I couldn't do this, really I couldn't. This was a shit show, this was my hell.

I lay in my bed and think about everything. I mean really, he would just leave in the morning, right?

I fall asleep and stay asleep for a while.

I wake up and realize how hungry I am.

I rush into the kitchen and avoid everything I can.

My parents are not home yet, they will not be for a while.

I think I heard snoring from the room next to mine, so hopefully I am the only one who is awake.

I grab a glass and fill it with water. I lean against the counter and try to relax, what was I going to eat?

"Daphne" I hear a voice from the darkness of the house say to me.

I turn back around to the sink and avoid him, I knew who it was.

"Daphne you can't keep avoiding me, we have to talk about how things ended up" Pacey tells me as he walks closer and closer.

I'm still turned to the sink.

"I don't want to talk to you Pacey" I say without looking at him.

"Daphne, come on now."

"Pacey we really shouldn't right now, Dawson is upstairs right now."

"Well since you are too scared to, I will do the talking. I know you don't want to hear this, but you will have too someday. Daphne, I like you, and I like you a lot and whether you want to hear it is irrelevant because you have to. You have to know that I have liked you since we were kids, and I like you now. I am not going to appease you and lie to your face; I'm going to tell you the truth. I know how I feel, now it's on you."

"Pacey are you too ignorant to examine the situation as a whole? Think about it. There is Dawson involved. There is Andie involved. Are you not afraid of their feelings?"

"I'm terrified of the day they find out about my feelings for you Daphne, but that's not our big issue here. The issue is whether or not you feel the same. The way I feel, it takes over my body. I think about it day and night. I haven't felt so good and so bad about someone, Daphne. And I've tried to get rid of these feelings, but they don't budge."

"Pacey..." my voice says faintly.

"Daphne, I know how I feel, you know how I feel. Now it is on you, it truly is. I just want to know how you feel. How you truly feel. Not what Dawson wants, or what Andie wants, hell not what I want. I want to know what you want and how you feel. If you don't like me, things can just go the way things were. But I am not making that decision for you, I already have for myself."

"Well what if I did like you back? Then what Pacey? What's the plan then?"

"I don't know Daphne, we'll just have to see. So what is it? What do you want?"

I stay silent for a while, I really didn't know what to do.

I could slap him, I might.

I could tell him how I feel.

I could yell at him, get a point across.

I could run out the room and to my car, drive away forever.

I grabbed his face and brought it down to mine. We made eye contact for a second as our faces were that close. My hands were on his cheeks and seeping into his hair.

At some point in between, I closed my eyes and our lips pressed against each other. His soft lips touched mine and we kissed, passionately.

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All along there were an invisible string tying you to me