RAPTURE ! ( it )

summary.

RAPTURE !
SUMMARY !

❝ everything will be alright -
it's just a mere crush .❞

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THE PAIR HAD MET WHEN THEY
WERE ATTENDING KINDERGARTEN
AT DERRY ELEMENTARY.

Amelia had shared her Marvel comics with the boy who had been reluctant to even approach her that first day of school. He had been so awestruck at the thick pile of comics she had carded in her bookbag, yet maintained a desk-length distance away from her and reached out with hesitant fingers to the colored flaps of the comics.

'Well, what's your issue?' was her harsh, whispered words as she had found it quite odd for someone to be behaving like him.

'Germs, so many germs,' had been his disturbed murmur with wide brown eyes, 'Too many.'

'There's no avoiding them, you know. They're everywhere, bud,' she had snickered while gesturing to the bustling room around them.

'Don't remind me.'

That had been the start of their unrelenting friendship that carried on throughout each grade, through every prank, through every sorrow, and through every brawl that put a crack in their foundation. They were close - closer than any other two kids in their provincial hometown and they were envied for that.

They were the 'founders', per say, of the Losers Club and had welcomed four other kids into this organization of theirs come third grade; Bill Denbrough, Richie Tozier, and Stanley Uris. Yes, Amelia was the odd one out in the band - being the sole girl among four boys, but she maintained a firm stance in the bunch and proved them weak on numerous instants against their typical group of tormentors, which thwarted all of them that a girl of only five feet could size up teenage boys.

The bullies never pulled their punches on her, not even caring for the fact she was a frail girl with little to her frame. And every time she had been stricken by one of their punches or any other form of aggressions, Eddie had barreled forward from standing beside the other boys to size up the taller boys, even though it resulted in him acquiring a battered eye and collapsing to the ground with his inhaler clasped in his hand. Always with the stupid moves.

Once eighth grade commenced at Derry High School, she was perplexed when only a week into the school year she started receiving crumpled pieces of lined paper in her locker, written in shockingly decent hand writing and signed with 'anonymous'. Utterly bewildered at the entire situation, Amelia had simply tucked them away into her book bag to examine that afternoon after school, out of view of wandering eyes. Once she had started to study them, she was deep red in the face at the admiration this person possessed for her and pondered who the person behind the numerous letters could be.

A few months prior to the end of eighth grade, Bill's young brother, Georgie, was murdered brutally on a rainy afternoon - merely down the street from the house he had wandered out from minutes earlier. Derry was disheartened by the loss of such a young child and the adults started to behave oddly - as if they knew who - or what - may have yanked this child's life away from him. Her own parents were acting even more protective and guarded than they ordinarily were, and required her home at six o' clock every evening, which irritated her to the point she was tempted to rebel against the curfew to have more time with her friends.

Yet, as the months trickled by, more children started to inexplicably vanish from Derry's streets just like Georgie had. It unnerved everyone and made rumors spark about the potential causes of these children disappearing. Of course, the sole rumors the Losers Club ever perked their ears to were the ones that were centered around their own school - particularly the ones concerning Beverley Marsh and her recklessness with the boys. Yet, Amelia and the boys speculated none of those petty rumors to be of any truth; Beverley was a genuine girl who would never even consider fooling around with any of the pathetic guys that attended that school.

And then, school finished and the entire summer was already arranged with plans that would make it enjoyable despite their limited boundaries. Amelia was filled with resolve to discover the person accountable for writing those letters as well that summer.

But, those plans never came true once they met a boy named Ben and learned the appalling truth about their hometown. However, with that fresh, frightful truth and a new enemy emerging, everyone begins to panic and expose truths about themselves.

Especially Eddie.

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