Afraid Of The Dark- Richie Tozier (IT)

House on Neibolt

"It's just the dark. Nothing's there, there can't be anything there. None of this is real." I say to myself as I turn around. My eyes widen as I see that the room now contained the creepy ass clown.

"What do you want from us?! Leave us the fuck alone!" I yell, finally facing one of my fears.

"I'll leave you alone, if you come float too!" The clown says while smiling.

"No! Get out of here!" I yelled again, and much to my surprise it did as it was told. It walked backwards creepily and out the door in the corner. There was no way in hell I was leaving though that door now.

I try the door again to only see that it was locked still.

"Shit. Fuck. What do I do" I say as I try to figure something out.
I then spot a metal pole in the room, laying against the wall. I grab it and begin to walk towards the window.

As I get close enough, I can feel the floor beneath me begin to give out.

"Fuck" I say as I walk backwards.
The flooring begins to fall in, piece by piece.

"Shit. FUCK! Richie! Bill! Eddie! Help!" I yell as the floor falls out and there's at least a 20 foot drop.

"Help! Open the door!" I say as I beat on the door, trying to open it while the floor continues to fall.

Eventually, there's one small section that I'm left standing on and I look up and shakily breath.

"It's not real, it's not real. The floor isn't falling, the clowns not real, none of this is real" I say, not daring to look down as I lean against the door.

All of a sudden, the door swings open and I fall flat on my butt.

"Owww" I say as I look around me, seeing Richie and bill.

"Oh my god" I say as I jump up and hug Richie. I then open my arm and pull bill into a hug as well before releasing them quickly.

"Where's Eddie?" I ask them as they look at eachother.

"Helppp! Help!" We heard Eddie screech as I immediately run downstairs, with the metal bar still in hand.

I bust through the door and see the clown over Eddie with a hand in his face.

"Eddie!" Richie yells, finally coming through the door.

"Oh fuck" I say quietly as we stand  under it's gaze.

"This isn't real enough for you Billy? Zoey?" The clown asks us.

"I'm not real enough for you?!" The clown says while frowning.

"Holy shit..." Richie muttered

"It was real enough for Georgie!" It yelled before grinning again and lunging at us. I quickly hit the clown with the metal bar as Beverley comes running in and stabs It in the eye.

Blood begins to float towards the ceiling as we stand in shock. It begins to 'cry' as It looks around with the one good eye it now has.

"Eddie" I say and run behind the clown and over to Eddie who was still pushed against the wall, his arm bent at a weird angle.

It begins to stand up straight as we gather around Eddie, me standing in front of them but beside bill. I may be scared, but i was going to protect my friends.

"We gotta get out of here! We gotta go!" Stan, mike, and Ben all yell from the doorway. It looks at us and it's face is severely messed up, looking scarier,if that was even possible as it starts laughing a dark, deep chuckle.

Bev starts grabbing Richie's shirt and whimpers, wanting to get out of here as we all stare at the clown before us.

"Agh! No,no,no!" Eddie starts yelling.

"Let's go! Get Eddie, we gotta go!" I yell to them as the clown walks towards us, claws growing from his hand and drool dripping from his mouth.

"Eddie! Look at me!" Richie says, trying his best to calm his best friend.

"He's gonna get us!! Guys!!" Eddie yells at the top of his lungs.

It lunges at us and I swing the metal bar as hard as I could, coming in contact with the clowns face and bending the bar.

The clown retaliates and claws at me. I'm jerked back into someone's arms but not before It's claws come in contact with my skin. My shirt is ripped as It cuts my hip.

I look back and see that bill was the ones who had his arms around me.

I give him a soft smile and quickly turn my attention back in the clown.

It then quickly turns, cutting Ben in the stomach as he falls back into mikes hands.

"Ben!" I yell, picking the metal bar up again. I was ready to attack again, but It slowly made his way out of the room.

"Don't let him get away!" Bill yells over everyone's panic and rushes past me.

I quickly react, following Bill as the losers all yell for us to stop.

We go down a few steps in the basement and see It slowly crawling down into a well.

"We know where It goes now, we can beat him" I tell bill hopefully, wanting this to be over.

We rush back up stairs as Eddie is yelling at Richie to 'not fucking touch him' as Richie tries to snap his arm back in place.

"Eds, just look at me okay? Look at me? You remember the first day I came here? You were my first friend! You were so energetic and you're an awesome friend-" I say getting his attention, but then I'm cut off by his yelling as Richie snaps his arm.

We all run down the stairs, me jumping down them all. We then take Eddie to his house.

"You, you all did this!" Mrs. K says as she points to all of us.

"You know how delicate he is!" She says as she pushes past us, dragging Eddie to his car.

"We were attacked Mrs.K!" I tell her, trying to defend all of us.

"No, don't, don't try to blame anyone else!" She tells us while pointing her finger at me, dropping her keys in the process.
Beverley bent down, attempting to pick the keys up for Mrs.K.

"Get back! I've heard about you Miss Marsh, and I don't want a dirty girl like you touching my Eddie!" She yells towards Bev as I place my hand on her back.

"M-mrs. K, I-" bill starts before he is cut off.

"No! You're a monster! All of you!" She finally says before shoving Eddie into the car and getting in herself.

The car takes off with Eddie in the passenger seat looking very upset. I flip the car off as it strolls down the street.