JUNE 24, 1989

- - Rylee Tozier - -

I woke up the next morning to Richie jumping on my bed, we share a bedroom since our parents literally don't care about us and we shared a room when we were babies and we just never changed rooms, of course we have separate beds though.

"C'mon get your lazy ass up, we're meeting up at Eddies house." Richie said and dragged me out of my bed, literally, I fell to the floor with a thud, followed by a groan from me.

Richie went over to his side of the room and dragged the navy blue sheet, which we had set up to have privacy, across to the other side of the room where it attaches to the wall.

Once I finished getting dressed, in high-waisted jeans, a black tank top, one of Richies plaid shirts, and my usual black converse. I wore the plaid shirt buttoned down a little bit, just down to about half way down the tank top, and i let some of the shirt hang off of my shoulder.

As Richie and I were biking to Eddies house, Richie decided to annoy the shit outta me "So, you excited to go see your boyfriend?" he asked, wiggling his eyebrows, I gave him a weirded out face and laughed shaking my head, "Oh c'mon Ry, I know you like Eddie."

I shook my head, "No, Rich. He's my best friend." that's the thing, I think I do like Eddie a little more than a friend. I mean he's just so adorable, his little smile, the way he rambles on about everything, he's just.. cute. Fuck Rylee Eddie doesn't like you like that, forget it.

"Sureee." he said as we pulled onto Eddies front lawn and dropped our bikes

We walked over to Bill and Eddie who were sitting on the front porch, "Hey guys, let's go."

"Wait, wait, wait, I want snacks." I said pouting

Eddie rolled his eyes and we all walked into his house, Richie, Bill, and I immediately running to the snacks cabinet

"Take everything but the delicious deals, guys. My ma loves 'em." Eddie told us

We obeyed his wishes and grabbed basically the whole combined except for the delicious deals. "Hey, first you say the barrens and now you're saying the sewer. I mean, what if we get caught?" Eddie asked Bill

Richie walked over to a different cabinet and opened it, revealing a bunch of pill bottles.

"We won't, Ed's. The s-s-sewers are public works, w-w-w-we are the public, a-a-aren't we?" Bill replied with his usual stutter

"Hey Eddie, are these your birth control pills?" Richie snorted and grabbed a pill bottle waving it around

Bill and I stuffed all the snacks we grabbed into my back pack and started looking in the fridge for drinks.

Eddie walked over to Richie and snatched the bottle out of his hand, "Yeah and I'm saving them for your sister." Eddie said without thinking

"You're what?" Richie and I asked at the same time

"Sorry it just slipped out. This is personal stuff, Richie." Eddie defended himself

I chuckled to myself and zippered up my backpack after sneaking a few pepsi cans in it. After that, we all headed towards the door, until Mrs. K spoke up.

"Eddie Bear, where are all you kids off to in such a rush?" She asked, sending me a glare. She's never really liked me, she says Eddies too young to associate with any girls that aren't her.

"J-J-Just to my backyard, Mrs. K. I-I got a new..." Bill stuttered trying to think of something

"A new croquet set! Jeez, spit it out B-B-Bill." Richie saves us with that.

"Oh okay," she didn't seem convinced at all, but continued, "but sweet don't go rolling around in the grass. Especially if it's just been cut, you know how your allergies can get." she said directing her attention to Eddie

"Yes, ma." Eddie said, starting to push us out the door

"Aren't you forgetting something, Eddie Bear?" Mrs. K asked

Richie and I look at eachother and giggled as Eddie walked over to his mother and gave her a kiss on her cheek, obviously embarrassed and walked back to us, giving us a weird look, him knowing Richie or I would say something.

"Want one from me too Mrs. K?" Richie and I asked at the same time

Eddie shoved us out the door and said "Sorry mommy." before shutting the door and walking to his bike, Richie and I were dying of laughter "Knock it off you two."

"Okay okay." I said regaining my breath, I hopped on my bike and followed Bill down the road to go pick Stanley up and head to the sewers

We got on our bikes and approached the hill, Bill screaming "Hi-go, silver away!" and going much faster than the rest of us

"Hey Billy! Your old lady bikes too fast for us!" I joked and drove beside Richie to high five him

Once we got to the sewers, Stanley started pointing at every fucking plant saying "That's poison ivy, and that's poison ivy," he paused and looked right behind Eddie and pointed to behind him and said "and that's poison ivy."

"Where?!" Eddie screamed, jumping away from the 'poison ivy' even though it's not even poison ivy "Where's the poison ivy?!" he screamed again

"No where!" Richie yelled

"Yeah not every fucking plant is poison ivy, Stanley." I added

Bill, Richie and I walked into the sewer, and started looking around, "Okay well I'm starting to get itchy now and I'm pretty sure that's not good for my-"

Eddie was cut off by Richie, "Do you use the same bathroom as your mother?"

"Sometimes, yeah." Eddie told him

Richie and I looked at eachother and said "Then you probably have crabs." at the same time

"Okay that's so not funny you two." Eddie said rolling his eyes

"Oh okay shorty." I joked

"You're shorter than me!" Eddie exclaimed

I rolled my eyes and said "I never said I wasn't."

"Aren't you guys coming in?" Richie asked Eddie and Stanley, who was just standing there

Stanley only shook his head and Eddie just had to make this about getting sick. "Nuh uh. That's grey water"

"What the hells grey water?" I asked

"It's basically piss and shit. So I'm just telling you, you three are slashing around in millions of gallons of Derry pee. So-" he cut himself off when I picked up a stick and sniffed it, Richie walked over and sniffed it too "are you- are you serious?! what the hell guys what are you.."

"Doesn't smell like caca to me señor." Richie and I said in a really bad Spanish accent

Eddie gagged, "Okay, I can seriously smell that from here."

"It's probably just your breath wafting back in your face." Richie snorted, making me laugh

Eddie scoffed, "Have you ever heard of a staph infection"

"Oh i'll show you a staph infection."

I started moving to stick in my hand around in the water, "Rylee, that's disgusting. This is so unsanitary. You're literally- This is like swimming inside of a toilet bowl." Eddie complains as I pick up a trash bag that's soaked from the sewer water with the stick, "Have you ever heard of listeria?!" I threw the garbage bag at Eddie and it landed at his feet

Eddie jumped away from the bag and screamed. "Are you- are you retarded?!"

"Are you retarded?!" I mocked Eddie in a funny voice, making him even more mad

"You know, if I get cancer, I'm blaming it on you." Eddie told me, placing his hands on him hips

"Yeah and if Richie gets pregnant, I'm blaming it on you." I joked, placing my hands on my hips like Eddie did

"That's not- Thats not even possible. And even if it was possible, that's disgusting!" Eddie shreieked

"Actually it is possible, some guy in the town over, a couple years ago, got pregnant and gave birth through his-"

"Guys!" Bill cut me off

I turned to look at what Bill was holding, a shoe. "Shit- D-Don't tell me thats.." Stanley said

"N-No, Georgie wore galoshes." Bill states

"Well who's shoe is it?" I asked walking into the sewer with Richie and Bill

Bill shined his light on the inside of the shoe "It's Betty Ripsoms." Richie said

Eddie started freaking out completely. "Oh shit! Oh God, no fuck. FUCK! I don't like this."

"How do you think Betty fells?" Richie tried to make a joke and I finished for him

"Yeah walking around the sewers with one shoe." I said hopping around a bit with Richie

Eddie and Bill gave us a look basically saying 'This isn't funny.' So we stopped.

"What if she's still here?" Stanley asked

I looked down the sewer, grabbing Bills flashlight, walking further into the sewer with Richie and Bill, "Eddie, Stan, Cmon!" Richie said to the boys

"NO! My mom would have an aneurysm, okay? If she she finds out that we're playing down here. I'm serious. Bill?"

"I-If, If I was Betty Ripsom, I w-w-would want us to f-find me. Georgie too." Bill said

"What if I don't want to find them?" Eddie started, I gave him a look to be careful of what he says, "I mean, no offence Bill, but I don't want to end up like- I-um I don't wanna go missing too." He finished

"He has a point." Stanley shrugged

"You too?" Bill asked, hurt obvious on his face

"This is summer! We're supposed to be having fun. This isn't fun. This is scary, and disgusting." Stanley continues

Richie was about to say something, but a loud splash behind Eddie and Stan cut him off. We turned around and saw a boy. The new kid. He had blood stained on his shirt, he had dirt all over his face too and a few bruises. "Holy Shit! What happened to you?" Richie and I, again, said at the same time

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