• THE CURSE OF DERRY • PENNYWISE X READER

Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1

I've always been that girl, the one that people in town saw as strange, the one that didn't have many friends. The fact that I'm eighteen, with no parents definitely doesn't do me any favors. I was too young to remember them, I don't exactly want to talk about it, there's already enough bad news in this bloody town...

It was only last week I was walking down main street, when I walked past the main hall of our town, the town of Derry.

We kind of have a bad reputation for people going missing, especially kids. Whether it be bad luck, a big coincidence or as the townspeople prefer to put it as 'CURSED!', I don't know. But I'm not going to lie, I couldn't help but just assume that the kids disappeared into the storm drains, as they were practically the only danger in town. And not to mention the fact that they had a diameter of at least two meters, so a six foot person could easily fit in there let alone a kid, and just to add to that, those sewers are like a maze, you could walk around for hours and still not find your way out of them. And whenever a child did show up, which tended to be a very rare occurrence, they were never alive, just found, out by the Barrens, conveniently connecting to the sewers.

God, just thinking about it gives me the creeps. Your probably wondering why I'm writing a journal about kids going missing and stormdrains, but recently, I was walking back home from my shift as a waitress at the local diner, and something out of the ordinary occurred in this normally boring town.

As I mentioned, I'm a waitress at the towns café,  the work and pays not great, but it's something. I also forgot to mention, that I'm on my way home to my Aunties house, yeah, how original, my parents die and I move into mum's sisters house, but she instantly took me in, I mean what kind of family member wouldn't.

*To the current moment in time*

I was working my shift at the diner, taking a regular customers meal to him, the same old fried breakfast, which he'd order any time of the day whenever he came in.

"Here you go Jeffery, is there anything else I can get you?" I asked smiling.

"That'll be all for me lovely" He smiling back at me.

You walk off still smiling and headed to another table, this one sat by the front window of the diner, showing off the entirety of the street. You could see the main hall, the chemist and the butcher house from it.

I collected the dirty plates and glasses and carried them back to the kitchen and then came back with a wet towel to wipe down the now cleared table. As I lifted the salt and pepper shakers I looked up and out the window once again.

My sight was drawn out the window to the other side of the street, still nothing out of the ordinary. I looked up to the sky, where a rain drop landed directly in my line of sight making me jump. I gasped in fright, still watching as more and more began to fall.

I sighed at the realisation of me walking home in the rain. As I realigned the salt and pepper shakers, something from across the street caught my eye that hadn't before. I looked back across and was confused to see, a single bright red balloon levitating. The wind was picking up, leaving the trees to rustle frantically, yet it floated without a single bit of movement.

I tilted my head slightly out of curiosity, and mostly confusion.

"Hmm, that's weird...that wasn't there before? And why is there just one, and how the hell isn't it blowing around in that weather?" I questioned under my breath.

As I continued starring at this balloon a child ran in front of it, with his mother right behind him. She had a firm grip on the child's hand as he practically dragged her along, the mother covering her hair with a newspaper to protect it from the rain. I continued to stare, waiting to see if it was still there after they'd passed, or see if the pair noticed it, and as quick as it came, it was gone?