"Do you have everything?" Mrs. Denbrough asks as the three kids get ready for school. "Mia where are you?"
"Coming Aunt Sharon," Mia calls from upstairs. She turns back to her stack of books on her bed.
"Okay, Tempest, Geometry and Grammar," she says, grabbing the books and shoving them in the bag. "Pencils, rulers, erasers and..."
The teen shifts her supplies around, trying to find it.
"Where is it? Where is it?" her heart pounding in fear.
She then leans down to look under the bed.
"Bingo," she smirks, before packing the last thing.
"Bill, grab your coat," Sharon says.
"C-Come on Mom, it's still like f-fifty degrees out," he moans, shoving his sketchbook and list into his backpack.
"It doesn't matter. The weatherman says it's going be getting cold soon," she fires back, fishing his coat out of the closet. "Mia hurry up!"
"Coming!"
"Mommy, where are my socks?" Georgie calls, running through the house barefoot. The six-year-old is tearing the house apart looking for his favourite dinosaur to take to school for show and tell.
Sharon rolls her eyes and grits her teeth. "I thought I told Zack to take everything out of the dryer?"
Mia comes down in a sweatshirt and lugging her heavy backpack. Georgie races back and forth until she catches the back of his bag.
"Hang in there Squirt," she says. "Stay in one place so Aunt Sharon can give you your socks."
"I have to find my dinosaur!" he protests, trying to pull away from his cousin's grasp.
Mia peers through the zipper and sees something with green scales. She reaches in.
"Is this it?" she asks.
Georgie grabs the toy and holds onto it tightly, as Mrs. Denbrough returns with fresh socks.
Mia and Bill wait outside for Georgie and Mrs. Denbrough, who was driving them today.
A chilling autumn breeze permeates the air as the family from the Denbrough house head for school. Mr. Denbrough was carpooling with some coworkers, leaving the car for Mrs. Denbrough to run errands and for Mia to use it after school to get to the cabin for tutoring.
Mia slides into shotgun, while Bill and Georgie clamber into the back.
Sharon locks the door before fumbling to get the car started.
"Okay, so what time is tutoring?" Sharon asks, shoving the grocery list in her pocket.
"At about 3:30," Mia answers. She turns to her cousins. "Which means You guys will have to make your own way home," Mia says, as they leave the cul-de-sac.
"W-We know," Bill says.
"Will you be back by then Aunt Sharon?"
"I'm sure," she answers, steering onto one of the other roads. "I only need to do a bit of shopping in town."
"Mommy, will you pick me up a toy?" Georgie asks.
"Sorry, honey it's not that type of shopping."
"No fair." The six-year-old crosses his arms.
"Left here," Mia signals to her aunt, as she'd never driven them to school before.
Sharon pulls up to the school parking lot.
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Strange as IT Seems
FanfictionWhen Derry is evacuated after an emergency, the Losers Club travels to the quiet town of Hawkins, Indiana, where they should be safe. Joined by his cousin Mia, who carries her own personal demons, Bill and his friends begin to adapt to this new smal...
