| Joey an Dawson both get letters to go to the office and call home. Joey learns she has been accepted to Worthington and Dawson learns he has been rejected from NYU. Joey feels bad about Dawson being rejected however hee keeps telling her she has no reason to feel bad. Joey and Pacey skip 6th period to go see her acceptance letter. Meanwhile Jack and Jen have been accepted into five colleges and they are trying to narrow it down so they can go to the same one. Jack says they should go to NYU but Jen says no. Jack tells her she needs to deal with her issues. Bessie plans a Bar-B-Que for Joey to celebrate her acceptance. Dawson's mom is happy when Gretchen shows up to take Dawson out because she knows he is disappointed about getting rejected. Gretchen tells Dawson he can always use the money that Mr. Brooks gave him to make his own movies. Dawson begins to feel better. Jen goes to her shrink and he tells her she needs to remember what happened the last time she spoke to her father. That is the only way she will know what makes her so afraid of going back. The only person who may remember-DRUE. When Pacey and Joey get back from shopping for the BBQ Joey gets a letter from Worthington saying that it will cost her 15,000 per year to attend. Knowing they can't afford this, she is faced with the fact that she can't go to Worthington. SHe is upset but decides to go through with the BBQ and says that no one is to say anything. At the BBQ Dawson tells Joey that she has no reason to be unhappy. Joey breaks the news to Pacey. Joey tells Pacey not to say anything because she doesn't want anyone's pitty. Jen makes a toast saying may Worthington be worthy of Joey. Jen tells Jack he is becoming insensitive by making fun of her. Gretchen goes to help Pacey and Pacey tells Gretchen that Joey won't be going and that he is actually happy that she isn't going. Jack goes to talk to Jen and Jen tells Jack that there is nothing for her in New York and that she is afraid to go back. Jack tells her they don't have to go to NYU. Dawson's parents drop by the BBQ with a package for him. He opens it and finds out he is accepted to the University of North Carolina. Joey goes inside. Dawson goes to find her and sees her inside crying. She tells him that she can't afford to go to Worthington. She tells him how much they want per year. Dawson asks her if Worthington is what she wants and when she says yes he tells her to use the money that Mr. Brooks gave him. He tells her to at least consider it because it is her entire future that she is considering. Dawson goes to talk to Joey later and she says no. He begs her to let him help her even telling her that of all of the pain she has been through this is the first time that he has been able to take away the pain. She tells him that she can't. Dawson goes to talk to Pacey and Pacey tells him it is a lot of money for there to be no strings attached. Jen goes to try and talk to Drue. Drue gives her a made up story and Jen gets upset and says that she can't leave the past alone and that she thought that for once he could help her out. Joey tells Pacey she will just wait a year and then reapply and she will be financially independant. Pacey tells her she can't because a year becomes a lot longer and before she knows it she will not have gone at all. He tells her she dosen't want that, he dosen't want that and Dawson doesn't want that. Drue goes to see Jen and tells her what he knows of what really happened that night and of how she used him to provoke her father. She appologizes for using him and he accepts her appology. Joey goes to see Dawson and tells him the truth about her sleeping with Pacey over the ski trip. She tells him that she wanted to tell him the truth that night but she didn't think that he would understand. He tells her that she never gave him the chance to understand. She tells him that she never wanted to hurt him and then she leaves. Jen tells her shrink that all she remembers is her and her dad fought the last time they spoke. She tells him she dosen't know why. He tells her that she is not ready to remember and she tells him that when she does it will probably just give her another reason to hate her parents. He tells her that she dosen't hate her parents she hates herself. He tells her that the reason she is in therapy is to stop hating herself. He also tells her that she blames herself for what happened that night and that is why she can't remember and that when she remembers she will be able to stop hating herself. Joey goes to see Pacey and she confesses to him that she lied to Dawson about what happened during the ski trip and that she just got through telling him the truth. Pacey confides in her that he was actually happy that she couldn't go to Worthington because for once he wasn't the one holding her back. He tries to make her promise him that if he ever holds her back she will cut him loose but she refuses to promise. She tells him she can't promise him that because then she will be promising to let him go. Jack and Jen stare at a fish in a bowl to try and get her memory back. Hack starts making jokes. Jen tells him that if he wants to go to NYU he better shut up and stare at the fish. Joey finds Dawson waiting for her on the dock. She says she is surprised to see him. Sawson tells her she underestimates him. He tells her that he also feels something is finally right between the two of them. He tells her that nothing will ever change that. He gives her the money and tells her that he dosen't know how he feels about her sleeping with Pacey or how he will ever feel but that he is sure that giving her the money is right because he is sure of how htey feel about eachother. She hugs him and thanks him. He tells her she is going to have some of the best years of her life at Worthington and that he wants to hear all about them. |
