Cherry Bomb- R. Tozier

Chapter 1

"You can't run for long witch!" I hear Greta yell out as I sprint through the small amount of woods near our school.

I hate Greta and her goons so much, not as much as I hate Henry but pretty close to it. They always torture me for the fun of it. Normally they come after me when I'm alone which happens to be just at lunch.

Looking behind me to see how far away they are, I can feel myself gasping, heaving for even a bit of air. Is this how Eddie feels without his inhaler? God it sucks.

The losers are my only friends, they consist of my cousin Bill Denbrough, Stan the Man Uris, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Richie Tozier. We are all normally glued to the hip, but this year all of them had the same lunch and I was the odd man out.

Stuck alone.

Normally it isn't too bad, but of course last day of school, Greta just had to accuse me of stealing her money. So, that's how I got to where I am now. Sprinting away from them, trying to not get caught.

I don't see them behind me anymore but as soon as I turn to look forward again I run smack into someone. Their arm clotheslining me, and the momentum I had from running earlier leaves me to fall flat on my back, knocking the little air I had, out of my lungs.

Slowly I open my eyes to see the trees and the sky above me. I can feel the blood falling out of not one but both of my nostrils. Slowly inching down, and around my mouth. I close my eyes for a second, realizing I got caught.

Damn, it.

When I reopen my eyes I see Greta and her two lackeys looking down at me and her boyfriend Peter also standing there, all of which were smirking down at me sadistically.

"You're gonna hang, witch." Greta tells me darkly as she glares down at me, right after I gently touch my nose to see the blood that I knew was there. "Grab her." She demands to Peter who immediately obliges and grabs me.

"Let go of me! You psychopaths!" I yell out frantically, trying to kick them away from me.

Peter eventually grabs a hold of me putting me in a choke hold while one of Gretas goons comes around and ties my hands together in front of me with some rope they found.

They start walking back towards the school, me struggling the whole way there. Still trying to kick them so they'll let go of me, but continuously failing.

Eventually we make it back to the school and they drag me to a tree in the clearing of the field, this is where everyone hangs out. What are they doing? Whats their plan?

"She'll take your blood, she'll take your head, she'll follow you until you're dead." Greta and her goons chant as they shove me to the floor of the clearing. "String her up." She commands as Peter follows instruction, I can feel the rope pulling my arms up no matter how hard I resist.

"No, stop it. Stop!" I shout as the rope begins to lift me off the ground, "Stop it!" I yell out and continue to try and pull on the rope, in hopes that it'll set me free.

Greta walks up close to me and sticks her hand in my pocket that contains the money Richie gave me earlier for lunch.

She pulls out the money holding it teasingly in front of me. "Well, well. What do we have here?" She smirks walking around me in a circle.

"Goddamn thief!" Peter accuses taking a step forward angrily, as a crowd starts to form around the tree, watching me hang there pathetically while they torture me.

"No, She's no thief. She's just been possessed by a witch. Its the only way to explain her psycho behavior." Greta spits out venomously getting in my face.