(IT) Pennywise The Clown

- bills search party -

                                                                             - ONE  YEAR LATER -

Bills eyes opened in a sudden jolt of fright to the sound of his mothers voice, "Bill your going to be late" she said as she knocked at his door for the third time and final time. Reluctant to get ready, bill sat up in his bed and rubbed his eyes, since the year that Georgie went missing, school, grades and fun didn't seem to matter to him, his mind was set on finding Georgie. There was no way he was going to let himself become like his parents and lose hope, in bills mind, Georgie is alive, He is just lost.

                                                                           -Later that day at school -

"I know your in there Beaverly I can smell you, you little shit!", Greta banged on the toilet stall door while Beverly Marsh sat on the toilet with a cigarette in her right hand before putting it out on the side wall of the stall covered in graffiti. "Are you in there alone or do you have half of the guys from school in there with you huh slut?". Beverly's eyes just rolled to the irritating sound of Greta's voice, "so what am I Greta, a slut or a little shit?" Beverly said clearly not scared of Greta and her lack of intelligent insults. "your trash, we just wanted to remind you" Greta took a step back and signalled her friend to commence their horrible prank on Beverly, which was filling the school trash bag of water and tipping it over the side of the stall, Beverly caught on quick to what they were doing and held her backpack above her head to block her from the abomination about to drip down her, luckily for Beverly her backpack took pretty much all of the damage. Beverly didn't get too upset over it though considering it was the last day of school, so she lit another cigarette and waited until she knew Greta would be gone off school grounds.

Soon enough Beverly found herself walking out of the back doors of hell once more for summer that would go by too quick, but at least there was no school for a little while, as she walked down the school stairs at the back of the school she came across a boy that seemed familiar who was also blocking the stairs, he was clearly struggling to get his stuff together, he held a paper school project and was trying to get on his bike at the same time. "Is there a password to get by?" Beverly said as she exhaled quietly. "oh um no there's no password I.. Uh Im.." "your the new kid" Beverly said with a smile, "I'm Ben, Ben Hanscom" he replied with a smile. "Beverly.. Marsh" she said back, "yeah i know we where in the same class last term, social studies", Beverly just responded with a small "Oh" followed by a smile. Beverly soon realised why Ben was taking the back entrance as well, Ben was one of Bowers main victims simply because Ben was fat, and a new kid. A slight glimpse of sympathy crossed Beverly's thoughts which made her decide to sign the year book sticking out of Bens bag, "Here let me sign this"... The book was empty until Beverly's name sat in the top left corner, "stay cool Ben from Sosh", then she walked away.

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"Eddie what's with all the pills your taking today" Richie jokingly said as he pushed into Eddie, knocking his hand and the bottle of pills, releasing a couple onto the tile floor. Eddie gave Richie a stair sending daggers, "Because schools over and its the first day of summer tomorrow and i don't want my allergies to get to me, so can you knock it off!" Eddie pushed Richie Tozier back. You see, according to Eddie Kaspbrak's mother, Eddy was not normal, he was fragile, to everything. Eddie was on so much medication that it would be enough to overflow a bathroom cabinet, wasn't far from it actually. "Bill! Over here!" Richie waved to bill from the doors of the school as teenagers pushed past them crowding the doorway, Bill looked over his shoulder and managed to see Richie and Eddie's heads through the gaps of people walking past, he nodded his head as if telling them 'he will be over in a minute'. Bill stood at the bike racks after unlocking his bike, and turned to look towards the school, he sighed to the thought of his brother one day attending this school, bill just wished that the day would come sooner rather than later. As Bill stood there lost in thought he felt a hand rest gently on his shoulder and he turned around quickly, it was Stanley Uris, another member of Bills small friend group, there was Richie Tozier, the clown of the group, always had an insult lined up or a joke ready, Stanley Uris was smart, very smart but not exactly the talkative type, very few words passes his lips, Eddie Kaspbrak was the fragile Mumma's boy, but smart none the less, very, very cautious though, sometimes that was his curse. And of course, there is Bill, Bill Denbrough. The kid that use to be happy, smart and spontaneous but was now just the brother of a lost boy who was already dead to the town. These boys weren't exactly the popular kids in school, they were barely noticed in-fact, even referred to themselves as the "losers club" as a little inside joke. "doing okay Bill, schools out, shouldnt you be somewhat thrilled?" Stanly said with a concerned reaction after seeing bills face. "Im o..o..okay, just not in the moo..mo..mood for summer when Georgie is out there somewhere b..b..by himself or even w..w..worse, hurt", Stanley looked down, his hands were knotted together as he felt awkward, he had no idea on how to help bill or even comfort him, Stanley didn't believe that Georgie was alive, but he would never say that to Bill, Stanley was happy to help bill however he could, but sometimes Stanley thought of it better to stay silent. Stanley noticed Richie and Eddie walking over and smiled at them, Bill noticed Stanley's face and saw the guys, and turned to them. "got tired of waiting over there, what took use so long, confessing your love to each other? Sorry for interrupting" Richie said as he waited for eddie to laugh at his joke but like always, only Richie's jokes amused him. As they stood there Richie got pushed to the grass, everyone's attention was quickly grasped by Henry bowers and his goons, Belch Huggins (goon number one) grabbed stanley's kippah (which is a Jewish males hat) and threw it into a passing bus window before shoving Stanley into Bill. Patrick hockstetter (goon number two) stood and laughed, he caught his breath and shoved past Eddie. The three bullies began to walk away but the anger Bill was holding within was ready to erupt, he couldn't contain it, he started to walk forward and stanley tried to grab Bills arm but couldn't get a grip. "You su..su..suck Bowers!". Henry immediately stopped walking, completely dumbfounded by Bills words, he turned to face Bill, "whatcha say Bu..bu..bu..billy" He said mockingly. Patrick and Belch turned around to, smirking and hoping a fight would break out. As Henry began to walk closer to Bill he noticed his father, officer bowers, standing beside his cop car watching Henry like a Hawk. "You get a free run at school because of your brother, but this summer, ill get you" Henry raised his hand slowly and licked from the bottom of his palm to the tip of his fingers and smeared his hand against Billys face before laughing and walking away. Henrys words should have scared Bill, but they didn't, Bill was not scared anymore, nothing was scarier to him then the thought of his missing brother and no one, not even Henry Bowers could change that. Stanley noticed Betty Ribsom's mum standing outside of the school, Betty Ribsom was another kid that went missing, "does she really think Betty is going to walk out of the schol, shes probably dead somewhere in the drains hopping around with one foot", Richie was only jokiing when he said ths but soon realised he upset Bill, "shes not dead, shes missing" Bill responded defensively, "sorry Bill, missing". Bill wiped his face and turned to the guys, "I think i know where G..g...georgie could b..be" Bill said and it instantly broke the tension. "Where?" Eddie asked, everyone was curious. "the b...b..barrens, we should g..go there and look" Bill was hoping everyone would take a chance and believe his theory, although even he knew it was a bit insane considering his theory is that the storm blew Georgie through the drains into the barrens. "its summer, but I guess summer can start tomorrow for us, today boys! We search!" Richie's joke actually make Bill smile, and they got their bikes and decided to go there right away. And so the search party for Georgie Denbrough began.