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five

fourth of july, 1959

ever since eleven in the morning, fireworks have been going off like crazy. vallory woke up to a huge boom and what sounded like a group of teenagers yelling. she rubbed her eyes and moved the warm blankets off of her body to sit up. she was surprised that none of the boys had come up yet, but they were probably celebrating america with their families. that was, until, she heard the secret knock and a very frantic voice.

"vallory! vallory open the fucking door. open the fucking door right now, vallory!" the voice said quickly. so quickly, that vallory couldn't even tell who it was. she sprung up from her bed, moved the small table, and opened the door. she saw a scared chris with a small bruise by his nose and a group of teenagers running up to him. he scrambled up the door and slammed it shut. he moved the table on top of it and put everything heavy onto it.

"shit, chris. what the hell just happened? who was that? why-why-why is there a bruise on your face?" vallory asked while hyperventilating.

"it was ace merrill and his gang, the cobras. i was walking to the store to get small fireworks for all of us and they saw me. they pushed me to the ground, that's how i got this bruise, and chased me all the way here. i'm sorry, vallory. i didn't mean to scare you or anything." chris explained. the cobras were still underneath the tree house, beating and punching everything they could reach. after a loud ten minutes, they left laughing and screaming swear words at us.

"oh my god," vallory laughed, "i punched one of 'em in the face one time cause they was hitting on me. it was hilarious."

"no way, which one?" chris smiled with wide eyes.

"his name was eyeball, and he had a fucked up eye." vallory said, pointing to her eye.

"shit. damn, vallory! that's my older brother!" chris exclaimed.

"really? he doesn't look anything like you." vallory stated quietly. she was confused, she never knew. if she did, well, she probably would've still punched him. chris sighed, and sat in silence for the next few minutes.

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teddy, gordie, and vern all showed up to the tree house around night time. teddy brought a bunch of fireworks for them to light off. they decided to stay at the tree house, because you can see the whole town and all of the fireworks from there. of course, teddy didn't forget to bring some illegal fireworks. but who would care?

"you guys ready?" teddy asked with a smile as he lit the firework. it shot up into the air, and made a boom. the color was gold, it lit up the whole sky.

"woahh." they exclaimed in unison.

"that was boss, teddy!" vern said. vallory then volunteered to light off the next firework. she took the lighter and lit it, placing it upon the wick. after a few seconds the wick caught fire and went to the bottom, triggering the firework. this one was larger, with a bigger boom.

"damn, teddy! where'd you get this shit?!" chris asked excitedly. teddy shrugged and lighted another.

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boom.

vallory fell to the ground and held her leg. she sat there in shock, unable to comprehend what had just happened. chris and gordie ran over to her, saying something. she couldn't hear them. she tried to stand up but the pain in her leg wouldn't let her. she looked down, to see a huge gash in her leg with blood pouring out.

"oh fuck. what happened? guys what happened? oh my god oh my god oh my god-" vallory yelled why crying.

"vallory, vallory calm down. we'll take you to, to the uh, the uh, we'll take you to the hospital. it's a shitty one but they're way better than a couple a kids. gordie, teddy, vern, can you help me lift her up?" chris explained. he guided the other three boys on where to hold her. no one touched her injured leg, so that it wouldn't hurt. chris and teddy slung her arms over their shoulders while gordie held her normal leg, and vern ran in front of them (as best as he could) to get to the hospital.

when they got there, vern held open the door for them that led to the emergency room. doctors were scattered around.

"hello? we- we need, we need help. my friend, uh, vallory, vallory blackson got hit in the leg by a, by a , by a  firework." vern tried his best to explain to the nearest doctor.

"alright. doctor parker, get a stretcher. boys, eh, you, and you," he pointed to chris and gordie, "come with me. you two, stay here." the doctors got vallory onto a stretcher and carried her to a room. (i know nothing about medical shit so just, like, idk. I'm trying my best here) they set her on a table and examined her leg. they gave her pain meds and put her under. they cleaned the wound multiple times while they waited for the doctor to come back with supplies. the doctor stitched up the leg as best he could and wrapped it up.

"do you boys know any family members that can come and get her?" a nurse asked.

"yeah, her brother. he lives at uh, uh, 8954 holly street. don't ask for the mom, though. only the brother." gordie told the nurse. she nodded and sent a police officer to the house.

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hey bitchesss. sorry i haven't updated an actual chapter. but like, yeah. i might be shaving my head this week and i'm really excited. also nervous, but mostly excited. i've had my hair short since like, last fucking august and now i'm sick of it. so, i have to cut the rest of my hair to my undercut and now i have to wait fucking forever for my hair to grow out yay!! have a nice day/nice, shit heads. love ya😘😘