My heart burns there

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      We all ran towards the voice, the scene playing in front of us freezing us in our tracks Stan was lying on the ground, seemingly having some sort of spasm. His screams were being muffled by a...a giant...a creature...a..a woman, who's jaws were clamped tightly around his head. I covered my mouth to stop from throwing up. The woman picked her head up from Stan's head, causing a shriek of terror to sweep across the group. The woman had a misshapen head, shark-ish teeth adorning her mouth. Her eyes were straight up white. Her face was almost green, because of her pale complexion. She backed into the dark, and we all rushed to Stan, kneeling down. Everyone was asking if he was okay. He started to scream and cry frantically.

      "NO! NO! YOU LEFT ME!! YOU LEFT ME TO DIE! YOURE NOT MY FRIENDS!! YOU MADE ME GO INTO NEIBOLT!!" He started to sob, losing track of his words. I flung my arms around him, hugging him tightly, feeling like I was the shittiest friend to ever exist. "This is your fault..." he whimpered.

    "I'm so sorry, Stanley..." I muttered, sniffling and burying my face into his shirt. He kept crying, but got quieter, staring down at me, his expression unreadable.

    "We would never let anything happen to you." Eddie said, touching Stan's shoulder softly. Everyone joined in on the hug, and we were all just a huge loser cluster. Half of us were crying, others were screaming. But then it all went silent. Eddie picked up his head, staring down into a dark tunnel. My heart stopped as a scanned the group around me. Eddie, Richie, Stan, Mike, Ben. Bill....where's bill.

     "BILL?!" I screamed, pulling away from Stan and jumping to my feet. Eddie joined me as we both called for him, an unmistakable lump of panic rising inside of me. I had no idea how much he meant to me until this moment. I could barely breathe. "I can't lose him..." I whispered. Eddie took my hand.

     "I know where he went, you won't have to lose him." He said, leading us down the tunnel. We heard Bill's footsteps ahead of us, and we all tried our best to follow them. We were walking through the water when Eddie tripped, taking me down with him. We fell onto all fours, staring down at the water ahead of us. I stood up, but Eddie stayed down.

     "Dude, get the hell outta there, that's greywater." Richie said.

    "Wait, wait wait wait wait, where the fuck is my flashlight?!" Eddie yelled. In a split second, a pale, lifeless head with a ripped off mouth floated to the surface, making everyone fall back and scream. Thousands of heads came after it. One had no eye, the other...didn't have skin. I grabbed Eddie by the waist and pulled him up, stumbling back. Eddie started screaming, and ran straight past the heads, of course, we followed.

    We walked down a tunnel, and I gasped. Standing-no, floating in front of us...was..."Beverly...." I whispered, dropping my flashlight and covering my mouth with my hands.

    "Oh shit..." mike muttered. We all ran towards her, screaming her name. She didn't even flinch. She was staring up at something. I followed her lifeless gaze, my mouth dropping open. Above us, there were people. So many people. Boys, girls, kids, adults...babies. I fell to my knees, stuttering.

     "G-g-g-gu-guys...." I whispered. They all looked at me.

    "What's wrong?!" Eddie asked, rushing towards me. I pointed a finger up at the ceiling, and everyone followed, gasping. "Are those..."

      "The missing kids." Stan cut Eddie off. "Floating." I snapped out of it, my face hardening in anger.

    "Stan. Pick me up." I instructed. He gave me a look. I glared at him. "I'm getting Beverly down-""How-""JUST FUCKING PICK ME UP!!" I screeched. He put his hands up in defense, and walked over, wrapping his arms around my waist and hoisting me up. I grabbed Beverly's legs and gently pulled her down. My eyes filled with tears as I looked at her, and Stan placed me down. Her eyes were drained of life. If you looked at her before, you could see everything about her. But now....I barely knew her. "Beverly..." I choked out, brushing a finger across her cheek. Nothing. My only female friend. Was she dead?

    Ben ran over, shoving in front of me and grabbing Beverly's shoulders.

    "Bev!" He screamed, shaking her. "BEVERLY!!" He stared at her. "WHY ISNT SHE WAKING UP?!" His voice broke, as he looked around at us. We were all holding back tears, unable to speak. "WHATS WRONG WITH HER?!" He yelled, starting to cry. I let out a weak whimper, leaning my head on Richie's shoulder.(( I almost put his name in all caps lmao. Leaning my head on RICHIE'S-)) He looked down at me sadly, and gently ran a finger through a strand of my hair. I let a tear run down my eye, letting out a sob. "BEVERLY, PLEASE!!" Ben yelled. "COME ON!" He hugged her, her head lolling to one side, leaked of all life. I sniffled, staring at her.

Ben pulled away from the hug, and put his hands on either side of Beverly's face. He then did the unthinkable: he kissed her. I gasped. Everyone else made a weird face.

"Woah, woah woah." Mike said.

"Ew." Eddie muttered. Ben pulled back, and Beverly just sat there, still lifeless.

"Come on, Bev..." I muttered. She took in a huge breath of air, jolting back to life. My whole body felt warm, and I started weeping huge tears of joy. She looked at Ben.

"January Embers...." she trailed. Ben smiled.

"My heart burns there too." He said. They stared at each other, until I ran in, hugging Beverly tightly, sobbing loudly. She laughed. Richie flung his arms around me, Ben, and Beverly.

"Jesus fuck." He said. Everyone soon joined, and, yet again, we were a huge loser cluster. And, yet again, we were missing someone. Eddie started to trail away from the group, and Beverly looked up, looking at Eddie.

"Where's bill?" She asked. My head shot up.

"SHIT!" I yelled, startling almost everyone. I wormed out of the huge hug, rushing towards where Eddie was. I froze.

In front of me was Bill. And in front of him

.....

Was Georgie.

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