In Your Dreams

Jen sat on the edge of the dock and rocked her feet back and fourth against the wood, she'd been thinking about alot of
things since she woke up, but mostly, would Andie ever speak to her again and also...where the hell was Joey seeing as
she hadn't spoken to her since she dropped her off the other day. Suddenly, Jen heard small creaking footsteps emerging
from behind her, her eyes widened but she didn't turn around.

"Andie?"

"No but close...." Joey said out loud when she reach the edge of the dock. Jen looked back and realized she was wrong.

"Joey...hi-hey..." Jen said a little off balance.

"Hey, so....um...yeah I just came over to spend some time with Dawson....that's my boat...there." Joey said nervously
pushing a loose strand of hair behind her ear and pointing back towards the other side of the dock.

"Oh, so how is he?" Jen asked bringing her feet up off the dock and putting her knees up to her chest.

"He's fine, just Dawson, you know?" Joey said not looking directly at Jen.

"And you?" Jen asked her eyes burning straight ahead towards the length of the Creek, not making eye contact.

"Me?"

"Yeah."

"I'm....just...." Joey's lack of speech was making Jen slightly impatient, she stood up and turned to face Joey directly.

"It's just a question Jo...." Jen said softly. Joey looked up at Jen and smiled a little.

"I know...I can answer now, I'm good now that you actually looked at me..." Joey played with her hands a bit, rubbing them
together and intertwining her fingers.

"Yeah, I figured in the metaphoric sense, that if this were a story or something the reader would have stopped reading in
like, less than a minute if I didn't make eye contact with you..." Jen giggled and put her hand on her mouth.

"That could very well be true," Joey smiled at Jen. "Ok so, now that we are looking at each other I wanted to, talk,
if you're not busy."

"Do I look busy?" Jen asked tilting her head.

"I uh, guess not" Joey shrugged.

"Ok good, so talk...." Jen said walking along the dock, Joey followed her along side.

"I was hoping you'd go first..." Joey did her stressed pain creased forehead thing with her head.

"Jo, how can I go first if I don't know what it is we're talking about?" Jen asked, deep down however she did know and had
been awaiting any type of sign that she was right from Joey for the past five and a half minutes.

"I'm sorry, ok, I'm just very, well to put it lightly, I'm panicking that I'm going to say something wrong here," Joey said
stressing with her hands, they stopped at the other end of the dock and Jen sat down at the edge once again, she looked up
to Joey as if to imply for her to also sit, so she did.

"Joey, you're using your amended right for freedom of speech, your not talking to a high executive or the President,
you're talking to me, Jen Lindley, so just....talk." Jen said in a reassuring tone to make Joey feel more comfortable.

"Ok...um...for starters, I'm really sorry....for the other day..."

"For what?"

"For the silent treatment I gave you when you were nice enough to drive me home," Joey said looking down.

"Jo, it's ok really, I mean I was a little upset that you weren't talking but then I just figured that too much stuff may
have been going through your head at the time that was ten times more important than engaging it what would've probably
been a small talk conversation with me," Jen said lightly sighing.

"Well, if that's what you thought then you definitely had me pinned, because I was...thinking....about a certain drunken
incident that occured the night before that," Joey said in a nervous tone, she tried to pull herself out of shy mode but
so far it just wasn't working.

"So you remember then...what happened...that night?" Jen questioned her.

"Do I remember? Jen I can honestly say that I think I'd go down in the record books as the only drunk person in the world
to ever remember a full night's past events," Joey said now looking slightly at her again. She decided to just keep going
without Jen coming in to say anything else before hand. "I remember being sober at first with you, me and Andie all
laughing on your floor and then you doing what instinct told you to, which was kiss my hand. I remember going into the
kitchen and finding some comfort underneath your sink. I remember bringing myself back to doorway, drunk, and hearing
Andie say alot of heavy things to you, I remember the rest......the kissing and the touching, and the lack of sense that
came from my mouth....." Joey began to ramble.

"Jo ok, I get that you remembered all of the night's events..." Jen started befshe she was interrupted.

"Jen please I need to keep going or else my regular Joey Potter shyness gene will come back and I don't need that right now..."


"O/"

"Ok, well really there's only one more thing that I remember...."

"Ye/"

"I remember waking up in the middle of the night, sort of slumped over the edge of the bed and I pulled myself back up to
this more than empty space and I didn't even realize why until I looked over. I had all this room, all this bed room to
myself because I saw you with your arms wrapped fully around Andie and you were tightly pressed against her. Then I sat up
for about twenty minutes and all I could think about was how much of a fool I made of myself and then my thoughts were just
streaming waves of, if would have been sober through the last half, would your arms still be wrapped around her....or would
I have had a chance to let you know my whole story." Joey sighed and then continued "But now I'm late with this overly long
run on of words and it doesn't matter what I say or how I say it, because you're with Andie now...."

"Joey. J-Joey...ok...stop....just for second and let me get in a couple of words here," Jen put her hand on Joey's arm and
smiled, she was so happy to hear everything that Joey had to say, even if she did ramble it all out in one or two big
breaths, it was incredibly endearing.

"Ok," Joey simply said, with a look of worry across her face.

"That night as you know, Andie told me about feelings she had for me....I in turn, gave into her feelings due to the fact
that I too was feeling something, so...uh...how can I put this, we sortof made it offical that we were a uh, couple I
guess you could say but there was some conflict yesterday and now we aren't...together. "

"So you're..."

"I'm not done yet is what I am right this second," Jen said in a firm but soft tone, stopping Joey.

"Ok." Joey shut herself back up.

"I know I feel something for her, but I also know that if I would've thought for one second that you actually remembered
that night's events and wanted to make something of them or something along those lines, I probably would'nt have made
anything official. But the vibe I got from you when I drove you back home the other day was that you either didn't remember
what went on or you did and just wanted to forget it, straight up, and try and pretend that it never happened, and...
I think I'm done now." Jen breathed out and ran her one hand through her blonde hair.

"Well you know now that I did remember....Jen I didn't want to forget what happened, and I certainly didn't want to try and
erase it completely from body and mind, I just...wanted to keep thinking about it before I let anything come out of my
mouth, because I knew if I jumped all over the topic that quick it wouldn't come out the way I would've wanted it to.
Jen, things like the other night don't just randomly happen to me all the time. in fact, the things that happened to me
the other night, have never happened to me before, well, except for the drunk part itself, that's happened before,"
Joey rolled her eyes. Jen felt a little more relaxed now that Joey had opened up even more to her and decided to breeze
into a joke.

"Yes, I know you've done the drunk thing before Jo, I definitely think the other night was just another edition to the
"Joey Gone Wild" series..." Jen laughed. Joey's mouth opened and her face turned red, she nudged Jen playfully.

"Hey!"

"You think if I video taped your next drunken act and the one after that I could put them up on Ebay and sell them, plenty
of high high bidders I'll bet..." Jen giggled some more and rubbed her arm, Joey just looked on in shock at the words that
were coming from Jen's mouth and she started laughing again. She leaned forward and her head hit Jen's as they laughed,
both girls pulled back afterwards rubbing their heads and looking at each other at a very close distance.

"Ow..." Joey squeeled.

"Yea..eek," Jen said back. The girls continued to rub their heads for an unnecassary amount of time as they stared into
each other eyes. Jen finally stopped rubbing and opened her mouth.

"So...you don't want to forget?" she whispered to Joey,

"Forget what?" Joey asked curiously. Jen then proceeded to take the hand Joey was rubbing her head with off it and lean in,
kissing her quickly but long enough to open her lips a little, but not use her tonuge. Joey shut her eyes and kissed back.
They pulled apart after only ten seconds.

"That." Jen said. Joey opened her eyes and looked at Jen.

"No, I don't want to forget that.....but on one condition..." Joey started to say.

"Tell me." Jen said.

"Let's not rush into anything, I have a tendency to jump with my heart and I just...I want to, pace myself without making
it all official yet..is that...." Joey was about to say ok when Jen cut in.

"Yes, completelrighright, nothing official, besides...we haven't even had our first date yet..." she smiled sweetly at Joey.

"That's true..." Joey agreed.

"So when could that happen?" Jen asked anxiously.

"A first date?"

"Yes."

"Are you asking me out on a first date?" Joey said in a funny questioning tone.

"Well, technically I am asking you when I first date could happen, but if you want to read between the lines, then yes I
guess you could say I am asking you out on a first date," Jen gestured with her hands and smiled.

"Ok....so you're asking me..."

"Yes..."

"And I'm saying..."

"Yes I hope..."

"Well how about first I say 'is seven at Leery's Fresh Fish tonight alright' and then say yes," Joey playfully nudged her
cheek to her shoudler.

"That will work for me..." Jen grinned and started to get up she put out her hand to help Joey up too and they began
walking over to Joey's boat. Joey balanced herself with one foot off the dock and stepped into her boat, Jen bent down to
undo the ropes.

"I'll pick you up ok?" Jen asked.

"Jen you don't have to do that, we can just..."

"Jo, it's a first date, I want to make this right, please just nod yes and let me do this..." Jen said pleaded. Joey looked
at her and nodded with a little smile inching along her close lips. She sat down in her boat and began to row.

"See you at seven then..." she called over the sound of the paddle hitting the water. Jen just waved and smiled,she watched
as Joey made her way further from the dock and out of sight. Once she couldn't spot her anymore Jen began to walk back up
to her house, feeling excited but also a little unsure of herself. She had all of these feelings churnning in her stomach
at once, some for Joey and some still for Andie, but she didn't know how much of each set of feelings she had just yet.
All she did know was at this point, Andie seemed to not want to have anything to do with her after all that had happened
and at this point, Joey did want to have something to do with her, and maybe more. She could feel it for Joey at that
moment, she really could, but her feelings weren'ficificial at the request of Joey and her own head telling them not to be
just yet. So, although the sense of Andie continued to make it's way in and out of her feelings system she decided to stick
to her unofficial Joey feelings...and go from there.