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𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 GREY WATER

              ・❥・chapter five, maneater

ROSALINA REALLY DIDN'T wanna get up today but she told the losers club she'd meet them at the barrens. She couldn't sleep, she was worried they'd think she was insane like Greta and Amy. She quickly raced down the stairs to pick up some toast before leaving the house. "Bye mom love you!" Rose shouted as she walked out the door and began the long trek to the barrens, sadly she lived on the other side of Derry which sucked but it was a good exercise.

Rosalina always had a pen on her to jot down any novel ideas but today her head was clouded with the losers. They welcomed her so fast into their group she realised that they could of ignored her but they didn't. They wanted to hang around with her, Rose didn't really speak to her other friends outside of school. It was obvious they hated her and she knew that.

Rose watched cars pass by as she walked through the town. 'Love' was the only thing she'd wrote down on her hand. She didn't even know why she'd wrote that. Rosalin had stopped paying attention to where she was going ages ago which was probably the cause of her running into somebody else.

"I'm s-sorry!" The person chuckled, she knew that laugh and she looked up to see Richie.

"Carry on stuttering and you'll sound like bill." She let out a laugh before taking Richie's hand.

"So pretty lady bill asked me to find you, would you do me the favour of walking with me?" She bowed as a joke. "Why sure Tozier it'd truly be an experience." She winked at him before dusting off her jeans.

Richie Tozier had never seen her in jeans before, she was always wearing skirts but she looked just as good in jeans. He wasn't going to lie, the first thing he noticed was her butt.

"R-rosalina!" The girl ran up to Bill and hugged him. "Hi Billy!" She laughed, hugging Eddie and Stan as well. "How was becoming a man Stam?" He chuckled.

"Eventful." Richie finally appeared through the trees. "Thanks for leaving me Rose." She flipped him off and stuck out her tongue. Richie placed his hand on his chest pretending to be offended before flipping her off and the pair laughed.

"C-come o-on love b-birds." Bill shouted as the group walked off to the sewers. Richie jogged over to Rose slinging his arm over her shoulder which she lightly brushed off.

The group walked down the mini hill together with bill a little bit ahead. "That's poison ivy, that's poison ivy and that's poison ivy." Richie and Rosalina rolled their eyes as they walked into the giant sewer pipe.

"Not every fucking plant is poison ivy Stan!" Richie said with Rose nodding in agreement.

"Okay, well I'm starting to get itchy and I'm pretty sur-" Richie interrupted into his sentence.

"Do you use the same bathroom as your mother?" Rose looked grossed out by all the floating objects in the water, obviously it was a sewer but still it's disgusting.

"Yeah sometimes why?" Eddie answered. "Then you probably have crabs!" Rose laughed and smiled sheepishly at Eddie when he glared at her.

"That is so not funny." Richie began splashing Rose with the water, "Eddie it kinda was." Rosalina said, squealing as she felt the water dampen her jeans.

"Ew- Richie stop being a dick! That is disgusting!" Richie stopped and turned to Stan and Eddie who were lurking by the entrance.

"Aren't you coming in?" Eddie shook his head.

"Nuh uh! That's grey water." Richie and Rose gave each other a look that meant 'what is he talking about?'

Stan sighed at his friends. "What the hell is grey water?" Richie shouted at the boy, the stick he picked up pointing at the young boy. "It's basically piss and shit. So I'm just telling you your splashing around in millions of gallons of derry pee."

Rose turned to her right to see richie smelling the end of the stick, she chuckled at his actions. "W-what are you serious!?" Eddie exclaimed.

"Doesn't smell like caca to me señor!" Richie's terrible accents were enough to make the Rose laugh.

"I can smell that from here!" Rose rolled her eyes at Eddie. "It's probably just your breath wafting back into your face." Richie and Rosalina high fived as they began splashing Stan and Eddie, with the murky water, the pair giggling while Stan was just rolling his eyes at them.

"Have you ever heard of a staph infection!" Eddie was clearly annoyed with the the childish actions of the two. "Oh I'll show you a staph infection." Rose had a stitch from laughing too hard and held onto Richie for support.

The playful vibe quickly fell as Bill shouted them. "G-guys!" His voice echoed as the group turned to look at him. "Oh shit don't tell me tha-" He shook his head.

"H-georgie wore g-galoshes" Richie and Rosalina walked up to him and looked at the sneaker. "Who's sneaker is it?" Eddie questioned, they all knew it was a sneaker from one of the missing people.

Rose gasped as they read the name. "It's Betty Ripsom's sneaker." She said loud enough for the group to hear her. Stan and Eddie glanced at each other.

"What if she's still here?" The group fell into silence, nobody knew her personally but she was still someone they knew. Eddie interrupted the silence. "My mom will kill me if she finds out we've been down here!" Rose had had enough.

"Eddie, Betty is missing! I'm pretty sure finding her is more important than your mom!" The boys behind her agreed.

"if I was Betty I'd want you all to find me!" Rose  shouted. "Maybe I don't want too." The boys glanced at Stan to see if he agreed.

"Summer is supposed to be fun! This isn't fun!" Richie was about to open his moth but was
interrupted by a loud splash.

The group looked looked out of the pipe to see Ben. "Holy shit! What happened to you?"

AUTHORS NOTE .  .  .

Hello!! Make sure to vote and comment. I am sooo tired its like 2:49 am right now but I needed to update on here and Sativa!! So I you all have enjoyed this short little chapter!!