JULY 7, 1989

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"He thrusts his f-fists against the p-post and still insists he sees the g-ghost" Bill repeated, Rylee sent him a smile

"You're getting better Billy!" She told the boy

"Bill! Rylee! You can't go in there, this is insane!" Beverly yelled as the losers jumped off their bikes and ran towards Rylee and Bill, who were half way up the steps to the house.

"Look, you don't have to come with us. But what happens when another Georgie goes missing? Or another Betty? Or another Ed Corcoran? Or one of us?" Bill paused, looking at the faces of his friends, Rylee had a proud smile on her face and she nodded, in agreement. "Are you guys just gonna pretend none of this is happening? Like everyone else in this town? Because I can't. I go home, and all I see is that Georgie isn't there. His clothes, his toys, his stupid stuffed animals, but he isn't. So walking into this house, for me, it's easier than walking into my own." Bill finished

"Wow." Richie mumbled

"What?" Ben asked

"He didn't stutter once." Richie said

Everyone's attention turned to Rylee, who was looking to the ground, "Ry?"

"Like Bill said, we can't just ignore this, and keep pretend kids aren't going missing, we just can't! If it was one of us, you guys would feel differently about it. I mean, come on, Georgie went missing. That kid did nothing wrong, ever. Rich, what would you do if I went missing, hm?" she paused, looking at her brother, who was speechless, "You would look for me, right?" she stopped again, looking at her brother, who nodded his head rapidly "Exactly. Losing someone close to you, that you love, you'd do anything for them to be okay, and.. I really wanna help find Georgie. That kid was like my own brother, I just wanna find him. So, again like Bill said, you don't have to come with us, but that doesn't mean we're gonna stop." Rylee finished, tears welling up in her eyes as she thought about Georgie, she really misses that kid.

Bill looked at Rylee and smiled, before they both turned around and started walking up the stairs again

"Wait! Uh.. shouldn't we have some people keep watch? You know, just in case something bad happens." Stanley called out from behind them

"W-Who wants to stay out here?" Bill asked

Everyone except for Rylee, Beverly, and Bill raised their hand. Rylee have Richie and Eddie a glare and they all slowly let their hands go down. "Fuck." Richie mumbled

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JUNE 7, 1989

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"I can't believe I pulled the short straw. You guys are lucky we aren't measuring dicks." Richie yelled

"Oh shut up Richie, your nick name could be Dick! Your name is Richard!" Rylee yelled back

Richie rolled his eyes, and shoved her a little bit, playfully, of course. Rylee smiled and continued walking with Richie, Eddie, and Bill into the house

"Ugh, I can smell it." Eddie complained

"yeah.. don't breathe through your mouth." Richie told Eddie

"How come?"

"Cause then you're eating it." Rylee finished for her brother, making Eddie gag

Rylee saw something in a dried up vine, and walked closer to it, picking it up and looking at it, it was two pieces of paper, missing papers.

"Rich.." Rylee mumbled, her eyes widened, and her breathing became faster than usual

"What? What happened? What's that?" Richie asked and grabbed one of the papers, once he saw it, his eyes went wide and he started breathing heavily, exactly like his sister

"What i-is it?" Bill asked, walking towards the twins

"They-They say we're missing.." The twins mumbled at the same time

"You're not missing." Bill told the twins, walking towards them slowly

"That's my shirt, that's my hair, that's my face.." The twins listed off

"Calm down, Rylee." Eddie said, wrapping an arm around her shoulders

"Calm down Richie" Bill said, looking at the missing poster

"That's my name, that's our age, that's the date!" The twins listed off things from their own missing papers at the same time

"Calm down you two this isn't real!" Bill yelled

"NO!" Richie and Rylee yelled at the same time

"it says it! Right here! We're missing! What the fuck?! Are we gonna go missing?! Are we missing?!" Rylee yelled

"Calm down." Eddie told Rylee, and wrapped his arms around her waist, giving her a hug, she immediately dropped the missing poster and wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged back, "You're not missing." He said and kissed the top of her head

"You guys aren't missing. Look at me, Richie, look at me. That isn't real. You and Rylee are right here, It's playing tricks on you two." Bill explained, taking Richies missing poster out of his hand and threw it on the ground

"Hello? Hello? Help me, please!" A voice called from upstairs, Bill and Richie head towards the stairs, and Eddie and Rylee let go of the hug, Rylee started to follow behind her brother and Bill, but Eddie grabbed her hand, "Stay with me the whole time, okay?" he told her, walking with her towards the stairs

Rylee only nodded. "Do you promise to stay with me for this?" she asked

"I promise, Ry." He told her, giving her a quick kiss on the lips, then held her hand and followed Bill and Richie up the stairs. The four got to the top of the stairs and walked towards the room they heard coughing and crying from.

"Betty?" Bill asked

"Ripsom?" Rylee and Richie finished

They all walked towards the room, Betty was laying on the floor on her stomach, sobbing, "Help me, please." she cried out, before her body was dragged away by something the kids couldn't see

"Eddie. What are you looking for?" It's voice whispered from a room behind him, he dropped Rylees hand and started walking towards the room.

"What the hell? She was just here!" Richie yelled, as he and Bill looked around the room Betty was just in

Rylee, still not noticing the absence of Eddie, walked into a room with a open door, the rooms door suddenly shut, as did the door of the room Eddie walked into

"Guys?! Guys?!" Eddie yelled as the door slammed in his face

"Richie?! Ed's?! Billy!? Help!" Rylee screamed as her door slammed in her face

"Time to take your pill, Eddie.." It's voice said from behind Eddie, he turned and saw the leper,

Eddie screamed and fell backwards, down through the floor and onto a table, breaking the table. His watched beeped and he fainted.

"Rylee! Eddie!" Richie yelled from outside the locked doors

"Eddie open the door!" Bill yelled, trying to get to his friend

"Richie help, i'm in here!" Rylee yelled, banging on the door

Richie could only hear the screams of Rylee, he couldn't hear where she was. Richie saw something move in a room and he ran into the room, "Eddie? Rylee? Rylee? Eddie? Come on you dipshits, we're not playing hide and seek."

"Richie?" Bill asked, noticing Richie walked into a room

The door slammed in Richies face "Richie, Richie!" Bill yelled

"Bill come on open the door!" Richie yelled

"What's going on, Richie open the door!" Bill yelled

"Oh shit.." Richie mumbled, turning around, seeing the sheets had fallen off of the statues, the statues being clowns. "Stupid clowns" he said, thumping one of the clowns on its wooden head

He saw a casket in the room open, blood on the inside of the cover spelling out 'FOUND', next to it was his and his sisters missing posters

A white sheet was covering something inside of the casket, Richie ripped off the sheet, revealing a doll version of him and his sister, bugs crawling around them, "Oh, fuck! Ew, ugh." Richie said, shutting the casket and he started to walk back towards the door

"Beep beep, Richie." It said and jumped out of the casket and lunged at him

Richie screamed and the door swung open, Bill caught Richie and said "Let's get outta here."

"You wanna play loogie?" a disgusting version of Eddies head popped out of a mattress in a room, 'Eddie' began coughing and gagging, and throwing up black liquid, that was burning leaves and came towards Richie and Bill, the two screamed and slammed the door shut, the two turned around and were met by three doors, labeled:

'NOT SCARY AT ALL'

'SCARY'

and 'VERY SCARY'

"well shit.." Richie mumbled staring at the doors

Meanwhile, Rylee heard a thump from behind her, she stopped banging on the door, and she stopped screaming, she turned around slowly, only to be met with an empty room. Suddenly, the clown popped up infront of her "Boo!" it laughed

Rylee jumped and backed into the door, "Four big fears, Rainie." the clown mumbled "Number one, clowns." it said and stepped closer to her, smiling wide, "Number two, drowning." suddenly the clown disappeared and the room filled with water, rising at an unusually fast rate.

Rylee screamed as the water reached above her head, she thrashed around until the water suddenly disappeared, leaving her on the ground, soaking wet, desperately panting for air "Please.." she mumbled, and stood up

"Number three, athazagoraphobia." Out of no where, Richie, Bill, Eddie, Ben, Beverly, Mike, and Stanley all appeared in the room, all talking to eachother and laughing

"what?" Rylee mumbled, walking towards them "Hey guys" she greeted them

They all turned to look at her, "Who are you?"

"W-What?" She mumbled

"Number four, betrayal." It said

"Oh god please no." She yelled, her seven friends were all standing in front of her, angry looks on their faces

"How could you Rylee?" Mike yelled

"What?" She asked

"You killed him! You killed Georgie! I-It's all your f-f-fault he's dead!" Bill accused

"What? N-No! No I didn't!" she yelled

"Yes, you did!" Beverly screamed in her face

"You're a terrible person." Ben said

"A huge mistake." Mike added

"A murderer!" Bill yelled

"You're a no good whore!" Beverly joined in

"A bad sister!" Richie screamed

"A freak." Stanley yelled, shoving her to the ground

"A lying bitch!" Eddie yelled

"No! I didn't do it!" Rylee yelled

"Mom and Dad were right to do it." Richie said and kicked her leg

"W-What?"

"They were right to hit you! Stupid bitch!" Bill screamed

Rylee squeezed her eyes shut, "Stop! This isn't real! This isn't you! Stop it! Stop! S-Stop. It's not real. This isn't real." She yelled,

"It's not real?" The clown laughed, Rylee opened her eyes, "They don't love you, Rylee, they don't care." the clown continued

"That's not true! They care about me! Bill cares about me, Richie cares about me, Eddie cares about me, Beverly cares about me, Ben cares about me, Stan cares about me, Mike cares about me, they all care! They care!" She yelled,

"Richie doesn't even care about you, he feels pity because of what your parents do." The clown said, then frowned and pushed Rylee backwards, sending her falling through a huge hole in the floor, landing on the floor next to a passed out Eddie

Rylee shook him a little, "Ed's, Eddie. Wake up, come on Ed's please." she begged, shaking him more

Eddie opened his eyes slowly, "Ry?"

"Yeah Eds it's me." She smiled and hugged him, he tried to hug back but only one of his arms would wrap around her, she looked down at his arm and gasped "Holy shit! Does that hurt!?"

Eddie wanted to seem tough, but on the inside he was hurting like hell. "No, I'm fine. It's nothing."

Rylee shook her head and kissed his arm softly. "Y'know, now that I think about it.. my lips hurt like a bitch." he joked

"Ha-Ha, Ed's, you needa stop hanging out with me and Richie, you're making jokes like us!" she laughed while she talked

Eddie smiled at her, she's so pretty. He found himself staring at Rylee for a while, she noticed, "What are you staring at Ed's?"

"You, stupid." He replied with an even bigger smile than before wrapping his good arm around her waist and giving her a peck on the lips

"What are we?" Rylee asked

"Well.." Eddie leaned in and kissed her, longer than before, "I was hoping you'd like to be my girlfriend."

"I'd love to Eddie Spaghetti." She smiled "Y'know I never though you'd ask while we're about to die.." she said, just now remembering where they were

"Oh yeah.." Eddie mumbled

Upstairs, Bill and Richie walked towards the door that says 'NOT SCARY AT ALL' and opened it, "Where's my shoe..?" a quiet voice asked through the darkness

Bill slowly reached for the string to turn on the light and pulled it, revealing Betty Ripsom hanging by her arms, bloody, with no legs.

Bill and Richie screamed and slammed the door "WHERE THE FUCK WERE HER LEGS?!"

"It wasn't real, that wasn't real. Remember the missing posters? Those weren't real, neither is this." Bill calmed Richie down

"Yeah." He mumbled

The two boys walked towards the next door, it said 'SCARY' on it and opened it, to be met with a hallway "Oh thank fuck." Richie mumbled "Let's go find Rylee and Eddie." he repeated over and over

Bill and Richie ran faster when they heard Eddie and Rylee scream, "HELP! HELP!" they ran into the room and saw the clown, holding onto Eddie and Rylees faces, it slowly turned its head towards them

"Ry.." Richie mumbled, looking at his sister as she shook violently

"This isn't real Billy? Am I not real enough for you? I was real enough for GEORGIE!" It yelled and lunged at the boys, but Beverly ran into the room and jammed a pole into the side of the clowns face

The clown stopped almost paralyzed. They all ran towards Eddie and Rylee. Richie ran to Rylee first and gave her a hug and a kiss on the top of her head, what he always does when she's scared, "It's okay Ry."

"Get eddie! Get eddie!" Rylee yelled pointing towards Eddie, who was holding his broken arm and screaming

"Fuck we gotta get outta here!" everyone yelled as the clown turned around slowly to face them, it's face all messed up due to the pole sticking out of the side of its head.

It showed its large claws and laughed, jumping at the kids, who were huddled around Eddie, they all screamed, It turned around and slashed Ben across the stomach, leaving three deep claw marks

"BEN!"

It smiled, and backed out of the room slowly, bowing as it made its way down the hall

"Do let it get away!" Bill announced, getting up and starting to follow it out of the room

"Bill!" they all yelled for Bill, but he just followed the clown around the house, down into the basement where he saw the clown lowering itself into a well.

"Bill!"

Bill ran back upstairs

"I'm gonna snap your arm back in place." Richie told Eddie

"Don't you touch me! Rich, don't you dare fucking touch me!" Eddie screamed as Richie held Eddies arm

Richie looked to Rylee and have her a look, she nodded and moved closer to Eddie "Eddie, it'll be okay he's just gonna-"

"DONT LET HIM TOUCH ME!"

Richie gave her another look, she nodded, looked back at Eddie and rolled her eyes, then placed her lips on Eddies

Eddie seemed to calm down and kiss her back a little, her kiss was easing the pain of Richie snapping his arm back into place

They all left the house. "I didn't mean kiss him, but that'll work.." Richie mumbled while walking next to Rylee and Eddie, who were holding hands, Eddie using his good arm to hold Rylees hand, "Mind telling me what all this is about?" Richie motioned towards Eddie and Rylee

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