Losers' Club //Richie Tozier//

🎈26. 🎈

Run, run like you're the wind. Just run. Run after something, run for something, it doesn't matter, just never stop running.

"Don't be scared Nicole, it's just a bumblebee." Mom said as she held my hand. 

"What if it stings me?"

"Have you harmed it in anyway?"

"No."

"Then there's no reason for it to sting you."

She had all the answers in the world. All the right advice too, ask her anything and she'll give you the best advice she can possibly provide.

"mom and dad are it!" I heard Jess shout as she took off running.

I took off running after her laughing like it was the funniest thing in the world.

She's so pretty. Her brown waves fly back with the wind and her clear skin send signals of beauty. Her laugh is contagious maybe that's why I'm laughing so hard.

"Run Jess!" I shouted as I gasped for air. She was always the fastest runner of the family even though she was the youngest.

"I got you." I heard my mom's sweet voice say as she wrapped her arms around me, embracing me in that warm motherly hug.

I closed my eyes, enjoying her soft touch. I turned around to look at her kind eyes.

She's beautiful. I looked at her caramel hair and brown eyes. Then her perfect freckles that only Jess inherited. She's stunning.

"I love you." I smiled as I hugged and kissed her. The material of her white and light blue dress felt like silk on my finger tips.

"I love you too." She said as she rubbed my back and snuggled my head into her shoulder.

The hidden park. That's where all the good memories stay in. They don't go beyond their walls, they stay here, stuck. There's no taking them out.

She discovered this place when my dad and her met. Back in their teenage years she discovered a park so hidden than not even the oldest people in Derry knew about it. She brought us here every Sunday after church for a picnic. We would set a blanket and eat sandwiches and then play a game afterwards while the sun gave us kisses.

"You won't ever leave us right?"

There's nowhere for me to go." She chuckled, "Besides even if there was I would never leave you." She smiled as she kissed my cheek and pulled away, "ever."

She won't ever leave me.

I closed my eyes to blink for a quick second and once I opened them It was gone. The warm sun, and bumblebees were gone. My mom, my dad, Jess, it was all gone.

But I knew exactly where I was.

October 30, 1986
The day before Halloween.

I woke up screaming from a nightmare I had. A nightmare that was too gruesome to even talk about.

She rushed into my room while turning on the light.