27 years prior

04

🎈Mavis pov🎈

We were currently at Eddie's house in his kitchen... raiding his fridge and pantry for food for some reason.

"Take everything but the delicious deals, guys, My mom loves them," Eddie said as they grabbed whatever they wanted, Eddie's mother only let me into the house because she knew my Aunty, weird right? "Hey, first you said the barrens and now you're saying the sewer...I mean, if we get caught?" Eddie whispered as Bill looked in our direction.

"We won't, Eds, The sewers are public works, W-we're the public, aren't we?" Bill assured him as I fixed my glasses and tied my hair up.

"Eddie, are these your birth control pills?" Richie asked as he looked at the full cabinet of pull bottles.

"Sheesh," I muttered as Richie points up at the bottles with a grin.

"Yeah, I'm saving it for your sister, this is private stuff." I snorted at Eddie's remark as he smacked Richie out of the way and shut the cabinet, we all went to leave but his mom stopped us.

"Eddie, dear, where you boys and girl off to in such a rush?" She asked us, uh-oh his mom would have an aneurysm if she knew where we were going.

"Uhm, just m-m-my backyard, Mrs. K. I got a new..." he was choking on his lie.

"A new croquet set. Jeez, spit it out blubber Bill." Richie teases as he covered for all of us.

"Okay...Oh and sweetie, don't go rolling around in the grass, especially if it's just been cut. You know how bad your allergies can get." She said as she picked at her nails.

"Yes, mom," Eddie said as we were about to leave but she stopped us again.

"Aren't you forgetting something?" She asked Eddie, he shut his eyes as he wandered over and reluctantly kissed his mother's cheek, Richie tried not to laugh but he was failing as he croaked on a laugh.

"Do you want one from me too, Mrs. K?" Richie asked as Eddie shoved him out of the door first, I saw Mrs. K chuckle before Eddie pushed us all out of the house.

"Who are you anyway?" I heard Richie ask Mikoto as he walked out with Bill and Eddie behind him, I was already outside, "wait! You're that Japanese kid Henry keeps harassing!" Richie laughs and I gave him a dirty look, he went silent and I smile at him and then Mikoto.

"Mikoto, that's trashmouth, Richie Tozier," I introduced her, she smiles slightly at me before looking at Richie.

"Loud-mouth, right?" Mikoto asked me, I nod my head and she giggles, "You don't shut up in my Math class." She points to Richie.

"And? I make it entertaining," Richie grins as everyone else rolled their eyes.

"Right..." She widened her eyes as he looked away and then she smiles at Eddie, "This is your house, right?" Mikoto asked him.

"Yeah, I'm Eddie Kaspbrak," He looked at her hand before holding his out, "Nice to meet you."

"Back at you." The pair smile before they shook each other's hand softly.

"Come on, Bill, this is Mikoto!" Bill walked up and stood next to me, we exchange a smile before he looked in her direction and held a hand out for her.

"H-Hello, I'm B-B-Bill Denbrough," Mikoto only smiles before softly shaking his hand too.

"Hi, I'm Mikoto Saiko," she said softly before they let go of each other's hand and I grin.

"We have the Barrens to look through, come on guys, let's go!"

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"That's poison ivy, And that's poison ivy, And that's poison ivy." Stan pointed as we went past every green plant, I rolled my eyes as I kept walking, I glance at Mikoto and she bit her lip, she wasn't used to this I don't think.