hi, my name is victoria harrington. i'm 13 years old and am currently sitting in my class.

it's the last class before summer vacation, and I couldn't be more ready to get out of this school and be with all my best friends.

aah, my best friends, where do I begin? well first of all there's bill denbrough;

two years ago, his little brother went missing. last summer, when I was with my grandmother in Florida for summer vacation, he figured out who killed him. apparently it was a child eating clown, but that was just what richie had told me. we met when we were kids, around 3 or 4, when we went to the same daycare and instantly became friends after i bumped into him on the first day I was there. after georgie went missing, we became closer; I was the only one of all of his friends that came to the small, family only, funeral.

how about eddie kaspbrak? he's definitely the smaller one of the group, even though he's the same age as all of us. he is just small and fragile, and his mom is super protective of him and fills him up with medications that he doesn't even really need. we met a few years ago when I moved schools; he offered me hand sanitiser on my first day at the new school.

we can't forget stanley uris;

he's the quiet one. doesn't say much; but when he does it's either him scolding the other boys, or him laughing and making jokes with them. there isn't much to say about him; he's good friends with eddie and richie, and there's not much more to him.

and then of course, there's richie tozier... the flirt of the group

always making jokes about having sex with eddie's mom, which are super funny, when he says them in the right scenarios. he also jokes a lot about me and how 'gorgeous' I am and how he wants to do stuff with me, which are not funny at all... ever. he has thick glasses that make his eyes look huge, I find it cute. he spends every single sunday at the arcade, wasting his money playing some stupid fighting game, but sometimes he doesn't if we're hanging out together.

and then I hear the bell ring, 'finally' I muttered to myself.

i packed up my things and threw them into my backpack and rushed out of the classroom as I saw bill, richie, and eddie walking together towards the exit of the school.

once I caught up to them, we were already almost out of the school,'hey hot stuff!' richie smiled at me and grinned for coming up with a new nickname.

sighing, I told him,'shut it, tozier. i'm just trying to enjoy my summer without you flirting with me.'

'i'm not flirting, I'm just being extra friendly to someone who is extra attractive.'

I laughed,'thanks for the compliment, but still..'

he pushed up his thick glasses and walked over to the trash cans at the front of the school. while we were walking, stanley caught up with us and walked over to eddie.

as we all threw the contents of our backpacks in the trash, stan said,'best feeling ever!' richie looked at him and then said, 'try tickling your pickle for the first time.'

me and bill looked at him, I smiled, but bill just shrugged at his stupid joke.

after we put our newly emptied out backpacks back on, we started walking to the bike racks so everyone could get their bikes, but then henry bowers and his stupid friends walked up to richie and pulled his backpack back so he fell into stanley and the both fell over like dominos. I sighed and muttered, 'wouldn't you just leave us alone, for once bowers?' I bent down to see if the boys were okay, they were and I helped them both up.

once they got up we could hear bill yelling after bowers, 'you s-s-s-uck bowers!'

bowers turned around and said something in his face that I couldn't here, before licking his hand and wiping it on bill's face. I frowned and looked down, 'hey there, victoria. coming to my house anytime soon? we should really finish what we started last time' he smirked and winked at me.

'shut up, henry. you were the one that dragged me to your house to 'do homework', I was just trying to be nice but I should've never trusted you. you pig.'

his eyes narrowed, 'see you later, sweet thang. and by the way, good acting like you didn't want it.' he winked before running off to his car with his friends and driving away.

all the boys looked at me, to see that I just stood there and did nothing while frowning. eddie came closer to me and put his hand on my back, 'vic, it's okay. we all know that he has a twisted mind and what he did was totally wrong and bad. just don't listen to his lies'

swallowing the spit in my mouth, I sighed and said, 'guys, I'm fine. just annoyed that he's still annoying all of you'

my frown quickly turned to a smile again as we started walking to the bikes.

everyone got on their bikes and said bye to me except for richie. he just stood there and watched all the others bike off.

'no bike today, rich? did you walk to school?' I asked him, he then looked at me and scrunched his nose while smiling, 'nope, I just saw that your bike wasn't here so maybe do you want to sit on the back of my bike and you can come to my house?' he pointed to his bike that I didn't see before with a hopeful grin.

smiling, I got on the back of his bike as he peddled back to his house. oh how I loved his house.

how his mom always had a big vanilla candle lit in the kitchen, how richie's room was filled with pillows and pictures of girls from magazines, and how the dark furniture was still so welcoming even though all the blinds were normally closed and the wooden furniture was a deep mahogany brown.

once we got there, richie parked his bike as I got off and walked up to the front door. once he caught up with me he twisted the doorknob. no one was home. he fished a key from under the doormat that said 'welcome' and put it in the doorknob and opened the door while saying 'hot stuff first' while putting the key back in its place.

as we both came in and the door closed, I could see the vanilla candle that was almost all burnt down to the bottom, 'vic, wanna go in my room?' I smiled and nodded.

after going through the hallway we got to his room and I let myself in. I jumped onto the bed and laid down on it. 'already vic? wow, I thought I would have to say a couple pick up lines before you wanted to tickle my pickle.' I gave him a disapproving look, 'you wish tozier!' before getting up off the bed and walking towards him, 'now I may be hot stuff, but you're just richie tozier'

we were inches apart when I said that. he walked away from me, 'just richie tozier? do you know how many girls would die to be in my room and have me flirt with them the way I do with you?!'

'probably just eddie's mom' I said while he walked back over to me.

I could feel his breath on my face, and the tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife. his face quickly became red as he said, 'so what now, hot stuff?' I smiled and shrugged.

as if it wasn't possible before, we inched closer and closer together, still not breaking the silence.

he wrapped his hands around my waist and we moved towards the bed.

if I could have wished to have seen what all the other losers were doing at that moment, I would've. because I'm the type of person to think, 'hm, I'm about to kiss one of my best friends, I wonder what my other best friends are doing...'

we flipped around, so I pushed him on the bed. his hands were still on my waist as he fell, so I fell with him. it was nice, feeling so safe in his arms.

as my focus shifted from his eyes to his lips, so did his.

we layed there, looking in the each others eyes, completely taken in by each other, not aware of anything else happening in the world.

also not aware that eddie and bill walked in through the front door because richie had taken one of eddies prescriptions on accident.

we only became aware of them when the door swung open to richie's room, and there stood bill and eddie, in shock of what they were seeing.

'is this actually happening?' eddie said in shock.

while I was getting up off of richie, I looked at him, gave him a shrug while mouthing the words,'i'm so sorry' and ran out of the room to go home.

as I was walking home, I saw henry's blue car pull up next to me,'hey sugar thang, need a ride?' I looked down at the ground while walking and stubbornly said, 'no, go away bowers'

he stopped the car and got out after parking it behind me, 'i'm not taking no for an answer, get in the car victoria.'

scared, I started walking faster away from him, 'please leave me alone, henry.'

he ran after me, picking me up by the waist and throwing me over his shoulder.

screaming and kicking him, he still wouldn't stop. a car passed by and I yelled help, but they didn't do anything.

they just drove off with a red balloon in the back of their car.

henry set me down roughly in his car while I was screaming and slammed the door. I was sobbing while he ran over to his side and started speeding the opposite way back.

with some quick thinking, I remembered that richie and bill and eddie were hopefully outside as we were most likely going to pass his house.

I started screaming and banging on the window as we got closer to richie's house. and sure enough, there they stood.

before they saw me, bill and eddie were playing around after richie, probably talking about what they just saw.

but as soon as they saw me, the stopped rolling around in the grass and stared for a second, just in shock

after the initial reaction, bill, followed by eddie and richie, got up and ran over to their bikes

while still being in the car with henry, I gave up. I couldn't see any of the boys, so they probably couldn't keep up

feeling the car stopping, I looked out of the window to see that we were next to the the river, 'oh shit he's gonna drown me' I thought to myself

bowers got out of his seat and walked over to my side of the car, he opened the door and pulled me by the collar of my white dress with pale pink flowers scattered across it so I fell to the ground, getting mud on the dress

'oh I know you want it, victoria. follow me you slut.' henry said sternly to me as he slammed my door. I got up and started following him, so I wouldn't get more hurt then I already would be.

we got down to the rocks next to the lake and then henry pushed me down so I landed head first into the hard rocks, 'ah shit, im gonna get blood on my dress.' I said to myself, but bowers heard.

'lift it up.'

'lift what up?' I was worried to death

'your dress you idiot'

'no'

'NO? who do you think you are, now lift up your dress before I rip it to shreds!'

I could tell he was angry, but if theres one thing in life I don't want, then its for henry bowers to have sex with me, wether I wanted it or not.

I heard a clang of metal hit the ground in the distance as a maniacal smile appeared across henry's face as he took his belt off and slapped my shins with it

'you like that, don't you viccy?'

sobbing, I screamed at him, 'what do you want from me?! you know I don't!'

he got down on his knees and looked me dead in the eye, 'you know it slut'

he grabbed the edge of my dress and tried to pull it up, but I stopped him by holding down on it.

'oh you whore' henry muttered as he let go and grabbed a sharp rock off of the ground and started to cut up my dress. I screamed as he cut my skin on my legs since the rock went through my dress and cut the skin, causing more bleeding and more pain.

'give it to me princess' he smiled as the bottom of my dress was completely torn up and ripped apart, leaving me only in my bra on the top and then the shorts I wore under the dress, of course I had underwear on but I didn't want to think of the possibility of him seeing them.

he licked his lips as his hands started to trail from the blood on my thighs to the zipper of the shorts.

all my hope was gone but then I heard the last thing I ever expected to hear,

someone, or some people that were on the other side of the river

'GET OFF OF HER YOU MULLET-WEARING ASSHOLE!'