As it was | Richie Tozier

009

"When everything's made to be broken"

Bill and I rode to the house alone with just us two. Once we got there we stood for a second staring at the house scared shitless.

"Bill! Bill you can't go in there." Says Beverly only talking to Bill as he had already went up the stairs. "Look you don't have to come in with me. But what happens when another Georgie goes missing or another Betty or another Ed Corkrin or one of us. Are you just gonna pretend it's not happening like everyone else in town? Because I can't." Starts Bill as I make it to the top of the stairs.

"I go home and all i see is that Georgie isn't there. His clothes his toys his stupid stuff animals but he isn't. So walking into this house for me... is easier than walking into my own." Bill says turning around as tears threaten to fall from his eyes.

"Wow." "What?" "He didn't stutter once." Says richie walking over to join me and Bill. "Wait!" "Why don't we have some people keep watch." Says Stanley almost shitting his pants just being on the lawn of the house. "It's just because your scared shitless." I scoff.
"Ya know just in case something bad happens."

"Who w-w-wants to stay out here?"
Everyone but Bev, Bill and mine hands raise."pussies." I whisper under my breath. Everyone's hands go down and they all draw straws.

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"Can't belive I called the short straw." Says Richie as Eddie, Bill, And me walk in with him. "Don't be a pussy."

"Your lucky we're not measuring dicks." Says Richie towards me looking over to me. "Shut up, Richie." Says Eddie his voice quieter than usual.
I walk over to what looked like a piece of paper in a chandelier not listening to what Richie and Eddie were talking about.

Richie beat me to picking up the paper and his eyes went wide internally freaking out. "What? What is it?" I asked looking at the paper as it shows a missing paper for Richie.

"What the fu-" "it says I'm missing." Says richie as bill comes over. "Your not missing though."
"West department city of Derry. That's my shirt. That's my hair. That's my face. That's my name." Yells richie as bill try's to grab the paper out of his hand. Richie keeps yelling freaking out about the paper as I yank the paper free from his hands. Throwing it down and hugging Richie.

"Look at me richie. Look at me. That's not real. IT is playing tricks on you. Stop freaking the fuck out. Because we all know that if you go missing I'll go missing because we're basically conjoined at the hip." I say richie as I let him out of the hug holding his hand.

"Hello?" Says a girl voice from upstairs then what sounded like metal moving. "Hello?"

"Help me please!" Says the voice sounding desperate as we descend up the stairs. At the top of the stairs there's a long hallway where on the ground someone laid.

"Richie." I say holding tighter into his hand. "Mag." He answers back his hand squeezing mine three times which meant I love you.

The person gets yank to somewhere behind the door screaming as they disappeared. We all slowly start to move closer to the door.

"She was just here. Where the fuck did she go?" Asked Richie as we made it to the room. The door behind us slams shut and I notice that Eddie isn't with us.

"Eddie!" "Guys!" Eddie yells trying to get to the door. "What the- Eddie!" Bill yells trying to open the door on our end As I let go of Richie's hand to help..

Something outside smashes and Eddie starts to yell. Then there's another crash and Eddie goes quiet.

"Eddie!" I yell messing with the door. Bills right behind me. "Eddie!" I hear Richie say walking into a room. I go to follow him.

"Richie." I say walking over to the door for it to slam in my face. "No! Fuck Richie!" I yell banging on the door. "Mag come on open the door!" Richie says panicking as I bang my body into the he door trying to open it.

Bill joined my side as Richie went quiet. "Richie?" "Mag... There are clowns in here." Richie said his voice going quieter as he started to walk away. "Shit." I say ramming into the door knowing richie hates fucking clowns.

Richie yells running back to the door as it finally opens up and he falls onto me. "Richie." I say grabbingo onto his face making sure he was ok. Bill slams the door shut yelling at us to get out.

The mattress in the other room starts to move making us all jump and look at it. Eddie's head pops out of the mattress. "You wanna play lougie?" He says his voice being deeper than usual.

Blood spills out of his mouth and the mattress makes a growing puddle on the floor as his head disappears. We turn around to get out of the house, seeing three doors.

We all look at each other then head to the door that said not scary at all. The room inside was dark. "Where's my shoe." Says a girls voice as bill turns on the lights. It's Betty ripson but without a lower half.

Richie slams the door and we all back up.
Richie panicky as Bill tries to calm him down. "Guys! I understand your panicking but that stuff getting closer and it doesn't look good." I say to the boys getting their attention. Bill opens the door. "Where's Eddie?" He says then we here Eddie screaming for help.

"Eddie!" Richie says as we rush into the room seeing IT hovering over Eddie.

"This isn't real enough for you Billie? I'm not real enough for you?" Says IT still holding onto Eddie. "Holy shit." Says both richie and me at the same time as I grab onto his hand squeezing it three times.
"It was real anough for Georgie." He says laughing then running at us. We back away as beverly stabs IT with something I can't remember the name of.

The group rushes in as I rush over to Eddie
dragging Richie behind with me. Claws grow from its hands as he walks closer to us. Richie grabs Eddie's heads so he's looking at us instead of IT and I step in between Eddie and IT. He jumps at us and we all jumps back getting closer together. IT laughs as he turns around slashing Ben across the stomach. IT slowly backs out as everyone panics and Bill follows after him. I'm too focused on helping Eddie to go after bill.

Bill rushes back as I go to snap Eddie's arm back in place and he screams. We rush out of the house as Richie and I help Eddie out.