The Clown

Chapter 15: Phone Call

"Hawkins. Hawkins Indiana."

"Ooooohhhhhh... I'm so loaded."

Pennywise was on the basement stairs with a beer bottle, looking very drunk.

"I think he drank too much." Tyler commented.

Hartman nodded. "You've been drinking again, right?"

Suddenly, Pennywise stood up and threw some chicken nuggets at them! He ran downstairs and teleported.

They walked downstairs, and found a random kid floating in the air.

"Whoa..." Hartman exclaimed as he examined the body. The boy was in a skeleton costume, with underwear on his head. There was a strange wound on his forehead, and once Hartman got near it, the body fell!

He also got up.

"What happened to you?" Tyler asked the skeleton kid.

"Pennywise..." He mumbled, swaying.

"Pennywise? What did he do?" Hartman interrogated.

When the kid didn't respond, Hartman grabbed him and looked him in the eyes.

"Tell me, what did he do?" He asked firmly.

"He's trying to kill you."

Hartman pushed the kid away annoyingly.

"Isn't it obvious?" Tyler said.

Hartman turned towards the door.

"Come on, let's go."

So they walked outside to the backyard.

Meanwhile, Tony was at the police station looking for any information on Hawkins, Indiana.

The police chief Hopper walked up to them.

"Hawkins, huh? I used to live there." He said.

"Really? Nice place, or..."

"It was alright. I moved because of jobs."

Tony smiled. "Anyways, do you know anything about a boy named Will Byers? My friend Harley here says he went missing."

"Missing? Let me take a look."

Hopper went to the file cabinet and searched for a little bit.

"Byers..." He muttered. "Nope. But luckily, I knew his mom. Her name is Joyce. Maybe you can ask her."

"I already have." Harley protested. "She's as stressed as me and my friends are. She's going crazy over him. Can you help us?"

Hopper sighed and thought for a minute.

"No, but I might know someone who can." He walked to the super old rotary phone on the wall over there, dialed a number and waited.

Back at the "House of Annoying Drunk Clowns", Pennywise had smashed his glass bottle with an axe and teleported across a lake near Tyler's house.

"Ugh, he keeps running away. I hate it!" Hartman groaned.

Suddenly, his phone vibrated. It was Chief Hopper.

"Hopper? What's he doing now? Probably looking for me."

He answered the call.

394 words.