Afraid Of The Dark- Richie Tozier (IT)

ROCK WAR

"You know I love being the personal doorman really. Could you idiots have taken any longer?" Richie asks while circling us all once again.

"Ugh, shut up Richie" Eddie tells him.

"Yeah, just shut up" Stanley agrees, clearly annoyed by he boy.

"Ah, I get it. Trash the
trashmouth. At least I wasn't the one scrubbing the bathroom floor imagining that her sink went eddie's mom's vagina on Halloween" Richie says as he continues to circle us.

"S-she didn't imagine it" bill tells him as he slows down to stop along with everyone else. I stop and kick my board up to my hand.

"What is it bill?" I ask him.

"I s-saw something too" he tell us, not making eye contact with any of us.

"You saw blood too?" Stan asks.

"Not blood. I saw g-Georgie" he tells us looking sad as I shoot him a comforting smile.

"It seemed so real" He tells us as his eyes find their way back to the ground.

" I mean it s-seemed like him but t-there was this..." he trails off.

"Clown" me and Eddie both say, finishing his thought.

"Yeah. I saw him too" Eddie states as he looks at everyone.

"Me too. He was in my house and he was choking me until....my mom came in" I say, lyeing about the part where Richie found me.
I pull my collar down a little and wipe my make up off, showing everyone the bruise.

"Can only virgins see this shit? Is that why I'm not seeing anything?" Richie asks the group, even though he was there last night and saw the clown too.

We then hear a sound come from the woods and look over to see the one and only Belch Huggins' car.

"Shit. That's Belch Huggins' car" Eddie tells us all.

"We, we should probably get out of here" stan tells us all.

"Wait, I-isn't that the homes-schooled kids bike?" bill asks.

"Mike Hanlon" I tell them all as we hear more groans come from the opening.

"We need to help him! Let's go!" I yell to the rest of the losers as I leave my skateboard and run to the opening in the woods.

Bev runs after me but the rest of the losers are a little reluctant but soon follow. We follow the trail until we see Henry Bowers on top of Mike, about to hit him with a rock while his goons cheer him on.

Mike was my first friend in this town. He's always so nice and calm, and would never hurt a fly. I don't get why Bowers would pick on him.

"Hey, Henry!" I yell from across the creek. He quickly turns and I launch a rock, hitting him in the forehead, causing him to fall off of mike.

"Nice throw" Stan says as he stops beside me and mike makes his way over to us.

"Thanks" I say looking over at him with a smile as the rest of the losers pick up rocks.

"You losers are trying too hard! They'll do you, all you gotta do is ask nicely, especially Zoey" he says while grabbing his junk and biting his lip.

I gag and make sure Henry hears it too. Then, Ben lets out a battle cry/scream causing us to jump back at his outburst.

He then launches a rock at Henry, making it skid off of his head.

We all begin to launch rocks at the Bowers gang and eventually, they start picking up rocks to throw as well.

"ROCK WARRR" Richie yells at the top of his lungs as a rock hits him in the forehead, knocking him down in the process.

We take out the Bowers gang one by one and eventually Henry is the only one left, as the other have ran away. Eddie jumps in the creek, throwing rocks 90 miles per hour.

Bill throws the last rock that knocks Henry down.

"What's wrong Henry? Not so tough of a man with all of your goons gone?" I ask as he cowers on the ground. I roughly throw another rock over to him just for fun.

We all begin to walk away but I stay behind with Richie.

"Go blow your dad you mullet wearing asshole!" Richie yells, once again at the top of his lungs, as we both flip him off, walking away. I run a little bit ahead and catch up to mike.

"Hey mike! How's life been treatin' ya?" I ask him smiling.

"Hey zoey, it's been decent." He says back smiling.

"Thanks guys but you all shouldn't have done that. Now Bowers will be after you too" He tells us.

"No, Bowers is always after us" Eddie tells him.

"I g-g-guess that's one thing we'll all h-have in common" Bill says as he looks back at mike who smiles at him.

"Yeah. So welcome to the losers club" Richie yells to mike as we continue to walk.