𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬

iii. THE BARRENS

CHAPTER THREE:
THE BARRENS

  

     AT THE Barrens, Timothy sets his bike down, sighing before looking at Stan and Eddie. "That's poison ivy. And that's poison ivy." Stan says, pointing making Timothy look to where he was pointing. "And that's poison ivy." He says, again and Timothy gives a little grimace before going over to where Bill was. "Where? Where's the poison ivy?" Eddie asked him with a tone of worry.

"Nowhere." Richie said, facing them. "Not every fucking plant is poison ivy, Stanley."

As Bill and Timothy walked into the sewer with Richie, Eddie spoke, "Okay, well I'm starting to get itchy now and I'm pretty sure this is not good for my-" Eddie is cut off by Richie, "do you use the same bathroom as your mother?"

Timothy looks at Bill as they walked together, "sometimes, yeah." Eddie replied and sometimes, Timothy didn't know how Bill did it. Yeah, Dave and El might have acted like Richie in some ways, being trashmouths and making jokes, but at least his friends weren't constantly bickering like Richie and Eddie currently are. Timothy swears to himself in his head he gets a vibe from them.

"Then you probably have crabs." Richie's comeback made Timothy roll his eyes, smiling slightly as he looks over at Bill who was looking all around the sewer. Richie's humour was a lot like David's and he found him funny sometimes. "That's so not funny." Eddie said as Bill comes to a stop, Timothy doing the same to look at him.

Richie turns to face Eddie and Stan, "aren't you guys coming in?" He asked and Timothy looks over as well, pointing his flashlight towards them. "Nuh-uh," Eddie says, pointing to the sewer water. "This is greywater." He says and Timothy turns away, walking with Bill further into the sewer.

"What the hell is greywater?" Richie asked and Timothy glanced back but then looked ahead of them, looking at Bill once. "It's basically piss and shit, so I'm just telling you. You guys are splashing around in millions of gallons of Derry pee." He says as Timothy looks around, then he decided to speak, "hey.. I wanted to say I'm sorry to hear about.. your little brother going missing." He whispers and Bill doesn't look at him, still looking around.

"He was a nice kid, I'm sure you miss him lots." He whispered again and Bill looks up at him. "Very m-m-much.." He whispered back then looked away and Timothy looks back. "Doesn't smell like caca to me, senor," Richie said in a terrible accent. "Okay, I can smell that from here." Eddie said, "it's probably just your breath wafting backing into your face." Richie shot back and Timothy sighed, looking away to face the other way now.

"Have you heard of a staph infection?!" Eddie exclaimed at the bespectacled boy.

"Oh, I'll show you a staph infection," Richie said then picked up a garbage bag with the stick as Eddie rambled, but then yelled when Richie threw it at him. Timothy looks over, "Richie." He said with a grimace but the two boys continue bickering anyway as Bill picked up a shoe, turning to Timothy who looked at him right away. "Oh.. Fuck.." Timothy whispered under his breath, staring.

"Guys!" Bill said, turning to face them and they all stopped, looking over. "Shit, don't tell me that's.." Stan said and Timothy shook his head. "Georgie was wearing galoshes.." He says as Richie walked over to them, Bill points the flashlight at the shoe as Eddie asked, "who's sneaker is it?"

"It's Betty Rimpsom's.." Richie said, looking at them and Bill looks at Timothy then back at Richie. "Oh, shit, oh, God, oh, fuck! I don't like this." Eddie said and Timothy looks behind him when he hears someone whisper his name, but then he looks back at the group as Richie spoke, "how do you think Betty feels? Running around these tunnels with one freaking shoe?!" But all of them just stare at him with a serious look so he looks down.