Title:  Every Which Way But Loose � Part One
Author:  Angie
E-mail address:  [email protected]
Category:  Pacey/Joey
Rating:  PG
Disclaimer:  I don�t own �em.  They belong to Kevin Williamson, Paul Stupin, and the WB.
Summary:  Just going to take the course of events in a different direction after the episode �Cinderella Story.�
Author's Note:  This is a fic I wrote quite a while before I wrote �Green Apples�, but I have decided to go back and finish it up, so, we�ll see what happens.

Every Which Way But Loose � by Eddie Rabbit

I've always been the kind of man who doesn't believe in strings
Long term obligations are just unnecessary things
But girl you've got me thinkin', while I'm drinking one more beer
If I'm headed for a heartache, then why the hell am I still here
I'm testin' my resistance and its wearin' mighty thin
I got the feelin' I should leave before the roof caves in
My mind tells me to move along but my body begs me stay
And now I feel the need to hold you close and love the night away

Chorus:
While you're turnin' me
Every which way but loose
You turn me every which way but loose
Inside the fire's burnin' me
In mind you just keep turnin' me
Every which way but loose
Baby there's no excuse
To turn me every which way but loose

When the sun comes up in the mornin' it should find me someplace new
But right this minute all I want is to lay here next to you
Those memories still keep callin' me from somewhere in my past
Better hurry if they want me cause I can feel me fading fast

(Chorus)

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Joey�s mind was going in a hundred directions at once.  One moment they were riding down the road, then they were arguing, then Pacey pulls off to the side of the road, they get out of the truck  (still arguing of course), and now he is kissing her?  What just happened here?  And AJ.  Not 24 hours before she was with AJ...everything was wonderful.  And now...Pacey?

Pacey ended their kiss and placed his forhead on hers.  The lingering silence was deafening.  She spoke first.

�That was...very...weird,�  Joey said speaking slowly and trying her best to make sense of the whole incident.

�Potter...�  Pacey started.

Joey acted as though she didn�t hear him.  �Good...� she continued, �...but very...weird.�

�Jo, listen.�

�So what just happened here?� she asked

�Well, I...�

�Well you what, Pacey?� she snapped.

�Hold on just a second...you�re mad at me???�

�Pacey, I...� she started knowing that she had sounded too harsh.

�What, Jo?  You know, I have spent the last 24 hours thinking of no one and nothing else but you.  I have been there every second that you needed me or ask of me for months now.  You called me last night and I came after you, no questions asked.  And you are not kind...not grateful...but angry!  If a single soul on the face of this earth cared for me even one third what I care for you, Potter, I wouldn�t know how to respond.  But ya know...maybe that is the problem.  You don�t know how to react when someone expresses deep and true feelings for you.�

�Pacey, wait.�

�Just forget it, Jo.  Get in the car.  I�ll take you home.�

They rode the rest of the way home in painful silence.  Joey felt very selfish and something else...heartbroken?  No, Pacey was her friend.  She looked across the seat at him and wanted nothing more than to apologize to him and kiss him once again.  Then her better judgement took over. 

This is Pacey, she thought.  Once Pacey, always the same Pacey.  No, I could never apologize.  It would be a cold day in Hell before she would give him the satisfaction.

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End of Part One. 
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