𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙, richie tozier

xiv. ( neibolt pt. 1 )

.⃗ . ༉‧₊˚✧ MURDERED!

STELLA AND RICHIE walked into the house side by side, close behind eddie and bill. stella really didn't want to step foot near the house, but here she was. she drew a short straw, so she was forced to go in with the other three boys. her leg hurt like hell, but she avoided it and acted like she had totally forgotten all about it.

"i can't believe i drew the short straw!" richie complained. "you guys are lucky we weren't measuring dicks." stella rolled her eyes. "i would've won anyway." she replied sarcastically.

"you wanna check? because i—" richie started, but eddie thankfully cut him off. "it fucking smells in here," he states in disgust. he wrinkled his nose at the stench and took a quick look around the area.

"just don't breathe out of your mouth." richie warned. stella looked at the boy with her eyebrows knitted together in confusion. "why not?"

"because then you're eating it." richie informed, scaring his asthmatic friend. eddie quickly pulled out his inhaler and took a few puffs out of it.

"that makes zero sense, but i guess i won't breathe at all then." she shrugs, holding her breath as payback for scaring eddie. richie's eyes widen and he quickly objects to it. "no, i meant— i was just joking, okay?" stella let out the breath she was holding in and smiled innocently at him. "oh, i know."

richie didn't reply to her and instead he went over to a crumpled up paper he spotted. stella decided to follow after him, not wanting to be left alone in the creepy house and figured that it wasn't that bad. richie unfolded the paper and looked at it, horror filling his eyes and his face dropping completely. stella's eyebrows furrowed as she walked closer to him, confused to as what he was so scared of.

"i'm... i'm missing!" he shouts in terror. "richie—" stella attempted to calm the boy down, but he didn't listen to her and went on. "no, that's my hair, my glasses, my shirt, my face! i'm missing, do you not see this stella?"

"you aren't missing! you're right here in front of me and i don't think you'll be gone anytime soon. or at least i hope so..." stella went quiet at the end but it was still loud enough for the group of four to hear. "stella, i don't think that helps—" eddie began, but richie cut him off again.

"so it's true, i'm gonna go missing and i'm—" stella snatched the paper out of his hands, tired of his rambling about 'going missing.' she didn't believe one bit of it, it had to be the clown trying to scare the boy.

"shut the fuck up, tozier." stella demanded, glaring at him. "maybe if you'd stop talking so much then you won't go missing!" richie immediately shut his mouth, scared of the words that she just said. he knew that stella was usually like this, but it was one of his biggest fears after all. nobody would want to go missing like that.

the group suddenly hears something, or rather someone. the noise came from upstairs. they all looked at each other, uncertain about going up there to find out what the noise was. she acted like she wasn't afraid, and gave them the most confident gaze she could muster at the time.

they seemed to have bought her act and began walking up the creaky staircase. in all honesty, it freaked stella out but she didn't want to show it. she knew that they noticed something off about her lately, and she didn't want them to worry about her. she was fine, or at least she'd convinced herself that she was.

the four kids reached the top of the stairs, stopping at the sight before them. it was betty ripsom, peeking at them from behind a corner. stella's heart began to race and her breathing started to pace quicker and quicker as each second passed by. she was uneasy and afraid to admit it. "betty?" bill cautiously called out to the girl.

"help me," she whispered before being pulled back, disappearing from where she was looking out from. the action was followed closely by a deafening scream, causing stella's breath to hitch in her throat. she'd never seen anything like it.

"eddie... eddie!" a random voice beckoned out to the germaphobic boy. he quickly whipped around, searching for where it came from. "do you guys hear that?" he asked, but nobody seemed to hear him. he came to a halt and stopped right by a door. he took his inhaler out and took another puff from it.

the group noticed how eddie wasn't trailing behind them anymore so they turned around and looked at him in dismay. they were already in the room where betty had supposedly been dragged into, but eddie was still out in the hall. "eddie, what are you doing?" richie asked, looking at him in puzzlement.

eddie tried to walk towards them but the door quickly shut closed before he could even get closer to it. he sprinted towards the door, trying to get in. the floor beneath him began to break and crumble, so he backed up a bit. he stared at it happening, not knowing what to do.

the floor snapped directly under his feet, causing the boy to fall down and land straight into a table. he became unconscious from the impact, which could have been fatal.

the group on the other side of the door tried to open it but had no luck. richie started to wander off without stella or bill, who was still pounding on the door and trying to get it open.

stella glanced behind her only to find him walking off. "richie, don't go in there." she rolled her eyes, letting go of the doorknob along with bill. she knew that richie was bound to get himself into trouble if he was alone, so she tried her best to keep him by her side at all times for not only her sake but his as well.

richie ignored her and looked anyway, slowly walking in as his two friends started walking over to him. the door quickly shut, similar to how it did when eddie tried to get in.

stella and bill picked up their paces, much to stella's disadvantage, quickly approaching the door that also wouldn't budge. it was really no use, but they kept trying anyway.

after a while of pushing on the door, it finally bursts open and revealed richie running towards them as the clown chased after him. as richie made his way safely to them, they made sure to shut the door before the clown could get out.

richie stood close to stella as the group spotted eddie's head popping up out of the old mattress. it was a disturbing sight and was for sure going to scar them for all of eternity.

"hey guys, you wanna play some loogie?" eddie's head says in a scratchy voice, making the group go wide-eyed. blood started gushing out of his mouth, leaking all over the floor as the horrid liquid slowly crept up near their feet.

they heard eddiescream for help and they all rushed down the stairs, wanting to help him and get away from the sight of their friend's decapitated head spitting out blood all over the floor. stella's injured leg slowed her down but the others were too busy trying to get to eddie to notice.

the group knew little about what was to come, but it definitely wasn't pretty.

🍒, maybankz—
n/a

WRITTEN. unknown
EDITED. june 5, 2020