Smitten by the Flower {Eddie Kaspbrak} [1]

21

The floor creaks as we step around the house. A sinister laugh comes from upstairs.

I shiver, and look to see that Richie has left our little circle. He's freaking out about a missing poster of himself, that looked far too real to be fake.

"It's n-not real!" Bill yells, trying to calm Richie down as he hyperventilates. "That's me man! It says I'm missing! It has to be real! It's a threat!" He panics. Eddie and I walk towards them in a hurry, helping Bill to calm Richie down.

"Richie, come on! It's fake! You're right here with us. We're not gonna let you go missing!" I assure, hugging him. "He just wants you to think that...he wants to scare you. We have to stay together."

He calms down a bit, shakily nodding his head.

A faint scream draws us upstairs. As we walk upstairs, we see a terrified and crying Betty Ripsom. She's laying on the floor, in the room located all the way down the corridor, crying and begging for help.

"B-B-Betty?" Bill mutters, standing still in fear.

The girl turns to look at us, before a scream erupts from her and she is dragged away. None of us make a move, with a fear of continuing on any further.

"I-I don't think I can do this..." I admit, hand shaking. Richie looks towards me sympathetically. Bill looks at me with reassurance. "W-we can b-beat him if w-we stick together."

Nodding, we begin to walk down the corridor, not noticing as Eddie distractedly walks the other direction.

"Guys?..." he questions. I'm the only one to hear is quiet call, pivoting towards him. Bill and Richie continue into the room down the hall. Fear holds me still as a leper appears by Eddie.

We both scream and try to run towards the door Bill and Richie had entered.

"Eddie?! Ally?!" They shout, trying to meet us halfway, only for the door to slam and lock. They bang on the other side of the door, trying to get it open. It won't budge.

Suddenly, I feel a lack of Eddie's presence.

"E-Eddie?" I whisper, fear shaking my voice. Slowly, I walk towards an empty room. As I step in, the floor creeps below me, but I ignore it. There was something a little more important holding my attention right now.

There stood two Eddie's. And two Pennywise's holding them down with a hand over their mouths. They squirm, muffled screams escaping them.

"Ahhh, welcome to our little game Ms. Flower!" The clown sadistically says, a creepy grin resting on his face. "Since you left our last game too soon to finish!"

"Eddie!" I worriedly yell. Unsure of what to do, I stand there and confusedly look between the two. "Give him back you sick freak!"

Tears well up in my eyes.

"Choose the real Eddie, and you can have your little boyfriend back. Choose the wrong one, and it won't be so fun.~" The voice of Pennywise echoes through the room as the clown disappears. I'm left with both Eddie's yelling incoherent things over one another.

"Why don't you just come to me?!" I question.

"I can't! I can't even move!" Both yell in response.

What will happen if I choose the wrong Eddie?! This is too much pressure.

Panic fills my body as both Eddie's desperately try to convince me they're the real Eddie. Tears slip past my cheeks as I attempt to figure out which is real.

"Ally, please! Please! I don't want him to hurt me!" The one to my right begs, looking at me genuinely afraid.

"No, Ally! Don't fall for it! Pick me! I'm the real one, I swear. I can prove it." The one to my left argues.

"T-then prove it." I state.

"We made out twice last night!" The right side yells.

"Our first kiss was outside the ice cream shop. The first time we met, you signed my yearbook with a heart after your name." The left calmly says. Swallowing the lump in my throat, I choose the left side.

The floorboard below the Eddie on the right collapses, and the Eddie I chose takes me into a hug. I let out a sigh of relief

"Wrong choice." He whispers, a suddenly sadistic grin appears on his face.

Fear fills my eyes, and I hear the whimpers of the real Eddie from downstairs. Quickly, I run out the room and down the stairs.

Eddie's hurt.

I begin to realize that my worst fear wasn't death anymore. My worst fear was losing Eddie.