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She smiled. "Believe me, I understand."
"I'm not sorry about anything."
"No, no, me neither."
"And you really are an amazing girl. I don't want you to think I don't think you're an
amazing girl."
"And you really are a remarkable guy." She waited a beat, able to hear him breathe a
little on the other end of the phone. "And I know that you aren't sorry, and I know that
you care about me, and I certainly know you like my feet." He laughed. "But I also
know," she continued, "that you're very afraid that Joey is going to misunderstand the
situation and jump to conclusions that aren't true. And I know that there's nothing that
would be more upsetting to you than that, because I know better than anyone that if I
could open up that great big heart of yours and look inside, I'd find nothing but Joey's
fingerprints all over it."
"And footprints," he muttered bitterly.
She chuckled. "Well, maybe those too. But I said to you then, I said to you on New
Year's, that I knew how much you missed her. And I still know how much you miss her."
Pacey suddenly saw himself as if from the outside, saw what he was doing, saw himself
on the telephone having this particular conversation with this particular girl, and it made
him a little queasy. "Am I a dog? Am I a horrible, unfair, disgusting dog? Am I one of
those guys that angry women singers write about? Am I one of those guys who your
future husband is going to have to make up for?"
"No," she assured him simply. "You're one of those guys I'm going to think of as
somebody who almost, but not quite, was a pretty good prospect. Who knows? In a
different universe where you're not madly in love with somebody else, maybe you would
be a pretty good prospect. But I really don't have much interest in being anybody's
second choice, so don't beat yourself up. If you had approached me with a different
angle on what happened between us, I would have come back with the one you're taking
right now."
"I'm not sure I'm not making a mistake of epic proportions here," he said softly.
"What would be a mistake of epic proportions," she sighed, "would be if you let this thing
with Joey get away from you again. You have to clear this up with her, because if she
did catch on to the New Year's thing, God only knows what she thinks is going on
between us. And understandably so."
"So you're telling me to go to the B&B and talk to her before it gets out of hand."
"You should have hung up on me thirty seconds ago, because that would put you in your
truck right now."