I was just gonna say, you know, given everything that's happened in the twelve months since last year's prom -- I'm glad we ended up here.
Me too, Dawson.
God, we're so healthy, it makes me wanna puke.
I know. It is kinda sickening.
“Promicide” · Season 4
In this episode: Joey Potter (4), Pacey Witter (4), Dawson Leery (1), Gretchen (1)
I'm at the prom, Pacey. I'm at the prom again. I mean, I graduated 4 years ago and I'm still here. You know, tonight for the first time, I didn't just feel older than Dawson, I felt old. Too old to be here. Too old to be doing what I'm doing.
Want pathetic? How's this for pathetic... I'm technically still a junior. I'm not even supposed to be here.
A brother who's too young and a sister who's too old. We're quite the lot now Pacey.
You know... last year... I felt like I could give you something that no one else could give you. I could give you that wall to paint your mural on. I could take you away on a sailboat for a summer. I could even give you that night in the ski lodge. But I don't feel like I have anything left to give you now, Jo. I guess I'm spent. I've become a man who hates himself so much he can't even look at his own reflection in the mirror, and I wish that I could tell you that being with you doesn't make that worse, but it does... because the more that you love me in spite of that, the angrier that I get at you... and the more that I stop loving you back.
How long have you felt this way?
I don't know, but I know it's not right.
Why don't you just tell me how you want me to act? 'Cause I can't win with you, Jo. If I act like I'm unhappy, you get angry with me. But if I act like I'm happy, you get angry with me.
Well, maybe you should stop acting and just talk to me.
Maybe I just don't have anything left to say.
You want me to take off the happy mask? Then happy mask is off. So, now answer me this one question Joey, why are you with me? Why are you with me? Cause I don't know why I'm still with you. I used to know, but now I don't anymore. What I do know, I feel like I'm Josephine Potter's little charity project. I feel like I'm the designated loser...
This isn't about me...
No, it is about you. It's about you and how you make me feel when I'm with you! I feel like I'm stupid, I'm worthless, I'm never right! You know what I realize? It's not my fault! When I'm with you it's "poor Pacey, he didn't get into college," or "stupid Pacey forgot the limo, he ripped my dress, he messed up the corsage."
I told you I don't care about any of that.
But I want you to care! I don't want you to accept it like it's supposed to be. We are not trapped on this boat. You and I are trapped in this relationship! I can't take it anymore Joey. When I'm with you, I feel like I'm nothing. That's why I flinch when you touch me. That's why I never touch you, why I never think about it. Because when I do, it just reminds me that I'm not good enough.
You done?
No, I'm just getting started.
Well, you can stop right now. You can go to hell!
...
You've spent your entire life trying to get out of Capeside, Joey, because you felt like you deserved better. Well, I am Capeside. That's why I didn't get out and you did, and you do deserve better. You deserve better than this place, and you deserve better than me.
You break my heart into a thousand pieces, and you say it's because I deserve better? Just... leave me alone.
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