Psychotic// Richie Tozier

{19} The Fucking Crackhead House

Richies POV

"Well shit" Alex sighs, walking to the front of all of us where Bill once stood.

She throws her hands up in the air, "We gotta do something" she says. Mike was about to speak but he got cut off by her. "We have to at least try to persuade him not to go in there" she starts doing that cute thing she does when she knows she has a bad idea. She fidgets with the variety of bracelets on her wrist while shrugging a lot.

"And if we can't do that... we can't let him go in there alone" she states, sighing and dropping her hands from her bracelets. There's a long silence after that, and before I know it, were all riding our bikes and skateboards over to Neitbolt.

"The stupidest idea ever" I state, looking at Alex as we quickly follow Bills tracks. "Is not" she comments, not taking her eyes off of the road ahead. I scoff, turning away from her and pedaling faster.

We arrived at the huge and awful house just as Bill was in front of the almost broken door. "Bill! Bill wait. You can't go in there. This is crazy!" Bev says, throwing her bike to the ground and running to stand in front of him. "Look, you don't have to c-come in with me" Bill stutters out, all of us standing in front of him on the dead lawn.

Alex's POV

"W-what if another Georgie goes missing?" he asks. "Oh-or another Betty, or just another kid. Or one of us!" he gestures to all of us.

"Are you just gonna pretend it isn't happening like everyone else in this town? Because... I can't" Bill continues.

"I go home and all I see is that Georgie isn't there" he looks down. "I see his clothes, his toys, his stupid stuffed animals but... he isn't" he mumbles the last part, sounding just as vulnerable as he looks at that moment.

But suddenly, he looks up with the look of power and hope. "So walking into this house, for me, is easier than walking into my own" he states, turning and walking over closer to the front door.

"Wow" Richie comments. "What?" Bev asks. "He didn't stutter once" he answers, walking over to the stairs with Bill.

"Wait!" Stan shouts, stopping everyone. "Shouldn't we have some people keep watch? Just in case something bad happens?" he asks. "W-who wants to stay out here?" Bill asks, everyone's hands shooting up including mine except for Beverly.

Richie turns around to face all of us, seeing our hands raised up. I see them too, so I roll my eyes and dramatically let it drop. "Fuck" he sighs.

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The house obviously looks like it hasn't been used in a while, if anything, it looks like someone trashed it. Only Eddie, Richie, Bill and I ended up going inside.

"I can't believe I ended up pulling the short straw" Richie comments. "You guys are lucky we aren't measuring dicks" he says, "Yeah because that would be really unfair" I say, my eyes traveling all around the room. "Both of you shut up" Eddie snaps, "Oh god that smell..." he mumbles.

"Don't breathe through your mouth" Richie says. "How come?" Eddie asks, genuinely confused. "Cause then you're eating it" Richie replies, a duh tone present in his voice. I hear a gagging sound behind me, that being Eddie believing Richies stupid comment. "Not true" I chime in. Eddie uses his inhaler anyway.

We wander around the first floor of the house a little, looking around. I notice a weird looking piano, I open it and press a key. The sound comes out loud and horrible, it startling me and making me accidentally jump and mumble a curse word.

I see Richie in a certain room with a ton of cobwebs and a disgusting couch. I walk over to him as he studies a piece of paper he found. He looks up at me with panic screaming in his big eyes. "What?" I ask, walking faster to him.

Bill and Eddie come over too, concerned and curious. "I-it says i'm missing" he mumbles, not taking his eyes off of the paper. I stand next to him, reading what it said. "Yuh-you're not missing, Richie" Bill points out.

"Police department, City of Derry. That's my shirt, that's my hair, that's my face, that's my name that's my age thats the date!" he starts freaking out, pointing to all of information that's true while Bill tries to calm him down.

I look up to him from the paper, it's all true... but how could it be? It says last seen July 4 but that's today. "It says it! It says it! What the fuck?! Am I gonna go missing?!?!" he shouts, Bill tearing the paper away from him.

"Alex! Am I gonna go missing?!?" he looks to me, his eyes getting wet as his voice cracks. "No, No. No Rich, you're not gonna go missing!" I hold his shoulders as I yell over his shouting, him frantically looking around the room in fear.

"Rich! Richie, look at me!" he stops looking around, facing me and looking at my eyes, his still full of fear and panic. "You are not missing now, and you won't go missing! Okay? We are here! Right now, we're here and you can't go missing. Not now or ever. Okay? We're together and we can't be separated" I say, him calming down. "Y-yeah, it's not real" Bill assures, I nod.

"Hello?" we hear a noise coming from upstairs. All of our heads shoot up to where it came from. "Hello! Help me please!" a quiet female voice begs. I furrow my brows as we all walk over to the stairs in a group.

When we reach the top of the second floor, we slowly follow the voice that sounds like it's gagging. We come to a stop at the entrance of a hallway, on the other side being a half open door with... Betty Ripsom lying on the floor, helpless.

My eyes widen when I see her. She's coughing, struggling to breathe and I have this urge to help her, but I can't bring myself to do it.

"Betty?" Bill queries in a shaky voice. "Ripsom?" Richie queried in disbelief. "What the actual fuck" I curse under my breath.

Suddenly, her scream fills the house as she gets dragged away from the door in a flash. I jump at the noise and glance at everyone. "What just happened?" I quietly ask, them ignoring my question and continuing on through the hallway.

"This house is fucked up! Making us hallucinate or something, right?" I guess. After they don't answer I sigh a shaky breath.

Hello!!! I'm back and i've got a chapter ready sooner than i thought i would so yeah. I thought i could fit in the whole neitbolt thing in one chapter but i'm just gonna make two parts. This is the first part I hope you liked it because i had fun writing it at 2 am for sure lol. anyway, thanks for reading and bye- love and light❤️⭐️- author