<P> In season one, Joey is the "girl next door ." She is confused by her growth into a teenager and her developing feelings for her longtime best friend Dawson, who she also admitted is her soulmate . She immediately becomes jealous when Jen Lindley arrives and steals Dawson away from her . She is intimidated by Jen, who grew up in New York and does not know how to compete . She lives with her pregnant sister Bessie, and she works for her at the Ice House, the Potter family restaurant . She is frustrated with having to deal with work and taking care of her sister along with significant helpings of teenage angst . Nonetheless, Joey manages to be helpful with the birth of Bessie's son, Alexander, as does their critical neighbor, Evelyn Ryan . One day she is convinced to compete in the beauty pageant, which she does so that she can win the cash prize . But instead of winning the contest, she wins Dawson's heart, as he finally sees past his best friend image, and realizes that he has strong romantic feelings towards her . At the end of the season, she finds herself with the opportunity of going to Paris for a year, but rejects it in favor of staying in Capeside with Dawson after she and Dawson kiss . </P> <P> At the start of the season, she and Dawson are a couple and things start out well, but Joey begins to think that she is losing her identity, as she can't see where Dawson ends and she begins . During a full moon, the new guy in town, Jack McPhee, kisses her . Dawson finds out during a school dance . After a huge argument, Joey decides to break up with him, even though for the first time they both say that they love each other . She says that she wants to "find herself," and so she breaks up with him . </P> <P> Joey and Jack begin dating afterward but the relationship ends just as quickly when Jack realizes that he's gay . Joey's father is released from prison and comes back into her life . At first this change is uneasy, but they heal the rift between them and she gets back together with Dawson . However, Dawson finds out that Joey's father is dealing cocaine . After a fire at the restaurant which was started by rivals of Joey's father, Dawson tells his parents who advise him he needs to go to the police . He tells Joey instead . He convinces her to wear a wire, and get a confession from her father so that nothing like the fire will happen again . She gets the confession from her father and shows him the wire . Knowing that she had betrayed her father, she is understandably heartbroken and angry with Dawson . She breaks up with him and tells him she doesn't even want to know him and that she will never forgive him . </P> <P> After Dawson returns from visiting his mom over the summer, Joey offers herself to him but Dawson rejects her . Joey flees and Dawson asks Pacey Witter to keep an eye on her . As the season progresses, it becomes obvious that Pacey and Joey's friendship evolves into something deeper . Joey has a brief relationship with a college student, A.J. Moller (Robin Dunne). This relationship makes Pacey jealous and forces him to confront his true feelings for Joey . After months of build up, Pacey finally kisses Joey after she confides in him that he and Dawson are the only ones to "have ever known her in a way that no one else does ." Joey initially is angry when Pacey kisses her; however, later she comes to realize that she may also have feelings for him, as well . </P>

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