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Stanley, Bill, Evelyn,  Mike, Ben and Beverly were looking at a missing poster of Edward Corcoran.

"They say, they found part of his hand chewed up near the stand pipe", Stanley says.

"He asked to borrow a pencil, once", Ben said.

Bill walks up to the poster and flips the poster up to see a poster of Betty Ripsom, startling Evelyn.

"It's like she's been f-forgotten because Corcoran missing", Said Bill.

"Is it ever gonna end", Stanley says.

"What are you guys talking about?", Eddie says with Richie holding three cones of ice-cream giving one to Richie and the other to Evelyn as she thanks him.

"What they always talk about", says Richie.

"I actually, think it will end, for a little while at least", Ben says.

"What do you mean?", asked Beverly.

Evelyn takes at bite out of her ice-cream in anticipation but ends up regreting doing so after getting a brain freeze.

The group sigh at her antics.

"So, I was going over my Derry research and I Charted out all the big events. The Ironworks explosion in 1908, The Bradley gang in '35, and The black spot in '62 and now kids being... I realized this stuff seem to happen-", Ben trailed.

"Every twenty-seven years", Ben and Bill say in unison

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The losers club was now in park, in a secluded area to talk about Ben's theory.

"Okay let me get this straight, It comes out from wherever to eat kids for like a year, and then what, goes into hibernation?", Eddie asked.

"Maybe, it's like cicadas, you know the bugs that come out every seventeen years", said Stanley.

"My grandfather thinks this town is cursed. He says all the bad things that happen in this town are because of one thing. An evil thing that feeds off the people of Derry", said Mike.

"But it can't be one thing, We all saw different things", Ben stated.

"Maybe, or maybe it knows what scares us most and that's what we see", Mike says.

"He's got a point", Evelyn agrees.

"I-i saw a leper, He was like a walking infection", Eddie said.

"But you didn't", Stanley denied, "because it isn't real, None of this is. Not Eddie's Leper Bill seeing Georgie or the woman I keep seeing".

"Is she hot?", Richie jokes.

Evelyn gives him a *really* look.

"No, Richie she's not hot", Stanley snaps.

Evelyn puts a arm around Stanley's shoulder, Understanding he just scared like the rest of them were.

Stanley continues, "Her face is all messed up, none of this makes any sense, they are all like bad dreams".

"I don't think so, i know the difference between bad dream and real life", Mike explains.

"What did you see, did you saw something too", Eddie asks.

"Yes", You guys know that burnt down house in Harris Avenue. I was inside when it burnt down. Before I was rescued...my mom and dad were trapped in the next room from me. They were pushing and pounding the door trying to get to me but it was too hot. When the firefighters found them the skin on their hands were melted to the bone", Mike said.