"Ready?"
"Just count to three."
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Adelaide Flint could swear living in Derry was a nightmare, and the summer of '89 only proved that to be true. But maybe Derry isn't so bad. That was, after all, where he was...
From the movie franchise, IT (2017...
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~~~Nightmare In The Cellar~~~
Adelaide walked down the stairs at the call of her father who was about to begin making dinner. He had gotten out the ingredients he needed to make homemade pizza. She helped him with measuring out the ingredients before he mixed them together in a bowl. After a while, their dinner was done and Adelaide helped set the table.
They had dinner together at the dining table and they began conversing about how their day had went. Adelaide's father informed her that sometime in the next few weeks he had to go out of town to pick up a car part from a neighbouring town, but he wasn't sure when yet. He told her that he had spoken to Zack and Sharon Denbrough and they agreed that she would stay over there when the night comes.
After dinner had finished, Adelaide decided to have some ice cream for dessert but her father had some things to do in the garage. Apparently, his car needed another check-up that night and he spent about 15 minutes in the garage after dinner, trying to find the cause that had been disrupting the smooth sailing of the car. As Adelaide enjoyed her cookies and cream ice cream, she heard her father call her from the garage. She kept the ice cream back into the freezer and walked into the garage.
Adelaide was ready to help but her father only instructed her to go down to the cellar to grab his old toolbox that had been stored there ever since he got the new one. But it turned out that there was a certain type of screwdriver he needed to fix the car and his new toolbox lacked the material. The girl nodded and went back into the house, walking towards the common room where the door to the cellar was.
Truth be told, Adelaide didn't like going into the cellar. It was dark, cold, and secluded. She wasn't necessarily afraid of the dark or the cold or even how small the space was. She was scared of lizards. And down in the cellar, there were a lot of lizards.
Her fear of the certain reptile began when she was a young girl. She was about 4, maybe 3, at the time. It was a memory she never could forget, no matter how hard she tried to. It was like a core memory.
It was during breakfast, she remembered. She wasn't at her home, she was in another state, visiting her aunt on her mother's side. Adelaide was still very young and therefore, her mother still insisted to put her in a baby chair at the end of the table, the head of it. Everyone seated around the table were in conversation about something Adelaide didn't remember at all, but they were eating their breakfast, too.
Adelaide remember that the tray of her baby chair was empty. It was white, plastic, and hard. It made a light thud if she were to hit it. While she were seated in the chair, not eating and wasn't really paid attention to, her eyes had travelled down to her pyjamas.
That's when she saw a lizard crawling across her stomach. She screamed and cried out for her mother. Adelaide's mother whipped her head to see the cause of her daughter's cries and saw the reptile, brown and it's tail was long.
