staisy | Stan Uris fic

Chapter 8

Time was passing slowly. All that was on her mind was the incident that occurred 2 weeks ago. It was like a reoccurring dream. Like a record player stuck in an endless loop.
What is he saw them?
What if he knows?
Maisy couldn't bring herself to tell her mom that she saw what was supposed to be her father but she knew if she did that she'd be under house arrest. She wouldn't be able to see her friends and summer would be worse than staying in school for the whole 7 weeks; at the moment it wouldn't make a difference though, there was only one week left of school before summer break and every day after school Mai just went straight home and stayed there for the rest of the night.

The losers were starting to get worried. Stanley hadn't said anything about what happened, Maisy trusted him more than herself and he knew it but the questions were getting too much.
Would the others be mad if they knew he was keeping secrets?
Was it best if they knew?

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It was the last day of school. She was torn between the safety of her and her mom or having the summer of her life with her best friends. She'd had enough. Enough of the secrets. Enough hiding away from the people she trusted most in the world. As usual, Stanley knocked on Maisys door in the morning. She opened it and greeted him with a smile. A genuine smile that he hadn't seen in weeks. She took a breath of the warm air and stepped outside before saying bye to her mom and closing the door.
"you look happy today." he said matching her expression
"yeah. I've been thinking; fuck everything" she was still smiling
"what..?"
"there's no point in shutting myself away and waiting for things to die down. Summer starts today. I'm telling the others what happened and then we'll all move on."
"I'm proud of you."
"why's that?" she nudged his arm
"you're finally opening up. That's good. Also I've missed you" he nudged her back
"you see me every day"
"yeah I know but it wasn't you"

The two carried on talking all the way to school and through out the day. Everyone was anticipating the final bell. The sweet sound of freedom. Time with friends and family in the sun was just around the corner. At final bell, 7 of the 8 losers met at the trash cans at the west entrance and dumped most of the contense into the dark void, never to be seen again. Thank God. The group slyly avoided Henry Bowers and his goons, that was for someone else to deal with.

On the way to Mike's farm, Maisy briefly explained what had been going on with her and how Stanley was there to help her through it.
"so.... You've been hiding from your dad?" Eddie began the chain of questions
"pretty much." Mai replied
"is he sill here?" Beverly took a more serious approach
"who knows, but I have to be careful" she tried not to make them worry.
"Hey, w-we'll keep you safe, M-mai" this was a big promise for Bill to have made but Maisy knew that he'd keep it. He always did, always will.

-

"I heard there's a fair on, near gate lane. You guys wanna go?" Stan knew how to kick off summer right. That was an offer even Eddie couldn't turn down. The group collectively agreed that they'd meet at the fair at 4:30 they all split off to get money and a change of clothes. Obviously Maisy and Stan were joined at the hip the while time. Finally, the time came and all the losers met at the entrance. Ben got there first, he was then joined by Bill and Mike at the same time, Beverly, Richie and Eddie all came as a three and Stan and Maisy finished off the 8 because they had the furthest to walk.

Africa by Toto was playing loud throughout the fair and could probably be heard from a mile away. It was decided that they would begin slow and breezy with a teacup ride. Ben, Eddie, Stan and Mike sat in one cup, it was spinning at a steady pace, Mai, Bev, Bill and Richie, on the other hand were zooming round and round at full speed, screaming as loud as they could.

This was the start of the best summer ever