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chapter seven; do you wanna float with me
"MOM, DAD, I'M HOME!" I yell into the now, empty house. I sigh knowing they'll be back and as drunk as they were the night before. They've been drinking more frequently lately.
I walk into my room and over to my vanity that sat in the left corner of my side of the room.
"Do you wanna float with me?" A voice asks that stops me dead in my tracks and I turn around to see Georgie.
"Georgie?" I ask but, then, his body begins to contort into something...different; a clown.
"No, I'm Pennywise the dancing clown." The clown says and I scream at the top of my lungs, backing up into my vanity and accidentally knock a bunch of things down. The front door slams open and both me and the clown look in the direction of the hallway.
"Bye." The clown says and disappears into thin air.
"What the-"
"Cassie!" My dad yells and I flinch when he slams my door door.
"Ye-" I start but am cut off by a slap.
"Stop yelling, you're gonna wake up the whole damn neighborhood!" He shouts in my face.
"S-sorry." I apologize but, he isn't having it and punches me in the same place he had slapped me. I fall to the floor, holding my left cheek.
"P-Please." I beg, tears streaming down my face. Whenever my parents get drunk, they get completely wasted and grow violent. My sister is usually gone by the time they get home so, she doesn't know this and I am forced to hide the bruises from my parents and my sister.
"Whatever. Just know, you're nothing to me." He spits in my face and walks out the door, slamming it shut behind him.
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I drop my bike and begin to undress, leaving myself in only my undergarments. Fear settles in the pit of my stomach seeing all of the bruises and cuts along my skin but, I don't let it stop me. I take a deep breath before running and jumping over the cliff following Beverly.
"What the fuck! We just got showed up by a bunch of girls!" Richie yells and I laugh.
"C'mon!" Beverly and I yell at the same time and the boys begin jumping one by one.
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"You know they're staring at you, right?" I ask Beverly and she laughs.
"Let them stare. Anyway, what's up with all your bruises and stuff?" She asks me and I look to the ground.
"I'm just...really clumsy." I lie and she reads right through it.
