Loved You from the Start (Stanley Uris x Reader)

Chapter 4

3302words

Feel free to point out any spelling mistakes, or anything in the story that doesn't make sense <3

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

That same day, we all left to go to Bill's garage, setting up a map and slideshow. I helped close the garage doors as we sat down next to the projector. The map appeared on the wall as Bill pointed to it: "that's where Ge-Geo-Georgie disappeared. There's the Ironworks and the Black Spot. Everywhere it happens, it's all connected by the sewers. And they all meet up at the-"

"The well house," Ben cut him off. "It's in the house on Neibolt street," Stan glanced over. "You mean that creepy old house where all the junkies and hobos like to sleep?" Richie turned to Bill and continued, "I hate that place." "It always feels like it's watching me.

Eddie began to panic and took a gasp in his inhaler. "That's where I saw it; that's where I saw the clown."

"That's where it lives," Bill tells us, "I can't imagine anything ever wanting to live there." Stan stared at the pinpoint spot

"Besides a kid eating a clown," I shook my head. "Can we stop talking about this?" Eddie stood up in front of the projector. "I can barely breathe; this is summer! We're kids, and I can barely breathe. I'm up here having a fucking asthma attack! I'm not doing this!" Eddie ripped the map off the wall, and Bill shouted at him to put it back. He shook his head, but the projector continued to play.

Photos of everybody at the Barrens played before switching to the Barrens and finally the rock fight. "(F/N), what did you do?" "I didn't do anything; I lost the Quarry film!"

It began to speed up, flashing pictures of just Bill's life. It got to a photo of his family at church. Bill muttered Georgie's name as the photo zoomed in and panned up to his mother. Her hair began to blow in her face until it slowly revealed the clown; it got so fast that it turned into a video.

Everybody began freaking out, standing up from their seats and backing away, Richie panicking the most. "Turn it off, turn it off!" Beverly shouted at Bill, who was still frozen, and staring at the screen. Mike rushed forward and kicked the projector down, knocking the film out.

The projector blasted on again, facing the wall where Stanley was. It seemed to only stare at him with a blurred face as I began to grab Mike's arm, trying not to cry.

The picture appeared again and he wasn't there, before pooping out of the screen. He began to crawl on all fours towards us, almost not fitting in the garage. The room kept turning black, making it difficult to see. I was stuck in a corner, staring at the thing. As everybody backed away, I noticed it turned his gaze to me. He slowly crawled towards me, opening his mouth to reveal hundreds of sharp yellow teeth.

Thankfully everybody opened the garage doors, light flooded in, making the figure disappear. "It saw us, it saw us and it knows where we are!" Eddie shouted. "It always did, s-so-so let's go." Bill walked towards his bike while we all stood still. "Go, go where?" Ben asks. "Neilbolt," Bill replied, "that's where G-Georgie is."

"After that," Stanley points back in the garage, "yeah it's summer, we should be outside," Richue agrees. "If you say it's summer one more f-f-fucking time..." He turned around and got on his bike, Beverly shouted for him but he didn't wait. (1:15:20)

I sighed as everybody got on their bikes and chased him. I stood there, not really wanting to go. As everybody sped off Stan waited for me, "you getting on?"

"Stan, I'm scared," he just nodded before saying, "me too, but I'm less afraid when I'm with you."

I gave him a small smile and got on his bike, I held his shoulders as we rode to Neilbolt. As we finally got there, we saw Beverly shouting at Bill. He turned around and stared at us, "Look, you don't have to come in with me. But what happens when another Georgie goes missing? Or another Betty? Of another Ed Corcoran? Or one of us? Are you just gonna pretend it isn't happening like everyone else in this town? Because I can't. I go home, and all I see is that Georgie isn't there. His clothes, his toys, his stupid stuffed animals, but... He isn't. So walking into this house.. for me.. it's easier then walking into my own."