IT: Chapter I - It Begins

Everyone has a fear

Meg's Pov
We won the rock fight. You should've seen their faces! Belch and Victor ran away like scared little kids and Henry? He was laying on the ground, scared. I had never seen him like this but it was long overdue!,,You ok?",I asked Lia. After all, Henry was still her brother. She nodded slowly.,,I... Yeah, I'm good. Someone had to stand up to him.",she replied, turning to look at me. I nodded a little bit. This would either end badly for us if Henry tried to do something again, or he would finally stop. That I doubted a little but I could hope. Anyways, we went back a different way. Probably to not come face to face with Henry's friends. 

,,Thanks, guys, but you shouldn't ave done that. They'll be after you guys, too, now.",Mike said, walking behind of Bill.,,Oh, no, no, no. Bowers? He's always after us.",Eddie replied, looking back at Mike.,,It's true.",I added, watching where I was going.,,I guess that's one t-thing we all have in common.",Bill stuttered.,,Yeah, Homeschool. Welcome to the Losers' Club.",Richie meant.,,He has a name, you know that?",I asked, looking behind me at Richie. He just flipped me off. I shook my head, following the others. We were headed to get our bikes and then into town. There was the carnival which I had been excited about. But with everything going on, I wouldn't be going.

In town
All of us were in an alleyway, where a lot of the missing kids posters were.,,They say they found part of his hand all chewed up near the Standpipe.",Stan told us as we were looking at Edward Corcoran's poster. Our age, missing just like Georgie. This was fucked up!,,He asked to borrow a pencil once.",Ben spoke up as Bill walked closer to it.,,It's like she's been f-forgotten because of Corcoran's missing.",he meant as he lifted the poster of Edward which revealed Betty Ripsom's underneath.,,Richie, could you please stay focused? This is serious!",I scolded him as he was only playing the tuba of one of the marching band. He was so immature and childish!,,Is it ever gonna end?",Lia asked, standing next to Stan.

,,What are you guys talking about?",Eddie inquired, coming back from getting ice cream. Seriously? I shook my head.,,Unbelievable.",I thought.,,What they always talk about.",Richie meant, taking the other ice cream cone from Eddie.,,Actually, I think it will end. For a little while at least.",Ben said, grabbing everyone's attention.,,What's that supposed to mean?",I asked, crossing my arms in front of my chest.,,So, I was going over all my Derry research and I charted out all the big events.",he started. Lia and I nodded slightly. Ok, sounded good, I guess?,,The Ironworks explosion in 1908, the Bradley Gang in '35, and the Black Spot in '62. and now kids being..",he continued, stopping for a short moment.,,I realized this stuff seems to happen...",Ben informed us and him and Bill said at the same time:,,Every 27 years." What was that supposed to mean? That every 27 years things like that happen and then just stopped? I sighed. This was going to be a rather long summer...

A few days later

We were all in the forest, following Ben. I didn't know why and neither did the others. He wanted to show us somehting and I was very curious. Did he find something about the clown? I hoped not. That clown was creepy and scary.

,,What are we doing here exactly?",Lia inquired, walking beside me.,,I found an underground bunker in the woods. It's pretty cool. To be our clubhouse.",Ben explained. A clubhouse? Cool. We could hang out there without anyone knowing where it was. We continued following Ben, until he stopped. He opened a door and climbed down a latter. I looked at Lia as the rest of us went down there as well. This was definitely a great place to have a clubhouse but had to be safer. Way more...,,Well, a little rusty but if we refurbish it and make sure that it won't collabs, everything should be fine.",Ben said after a little bit of the ceiling fell. Safe? Yes, we needed to stabilize a lot.,,We could start today. Buy everything.",Bill suggested, looking at everyone. We all agreed to buy everything today. Shortly after that, we left the place to buy everything we needed which was quite a lot.

time skip

After finishing everything in the clubhouse, we went to the statue of the founder of Derry. In front of him was a bench. Bev, Stan, Mike and Ben sat down on the bench. Lia set down next to Beverly and I was leaning on my bike, like Eddie, Bill, Richie and Bill.,,Ok, so, let me get this straight... It comes out from wherever to eat kids for, like a year? And then what? It just goes into hibernation?",Eddie asked, trying to understand this. Yes, I didn't quite understand it either but I tried, like everyone else.,,Maybe it's like.. what do you call it?",Stan meant, thinking of the word.,,Cicadas.",Lia said, helping him out.,,Yeah. You know, the bugs that come out once every 17 years.",he explained. Yeah, probably not. That would be better than a clown or whatever it was which ate kids!,,My grandfather thinks this town is cursed. He says that all the bad things that happen in this town are because of one thing.",Mike told us.,,Great. Isn't that just fantastic?",I mumbled, fidgeting with my hands. One thing which caused all of these bad things? Why not?!,,An evil thing that feed off the people of Derry.",Mike added.,,But it can't be just one thing, right?",Lia spoke up.,,We all saw something different.",I agreed and looked at her.,,Maybe. Or maybe It knows what scared us most and that's what we see.",Mike replied. That made sense.,,I-i saw a leper. He was like a walking infection.",Eddie stuttered. Poor guy... but a leper? I wouldn't want to see that!,,But you didn't. Because it isn't real. None of this is. Not Eddie's leper o-or Bill seeing Georgie o-or the woman I-i keep seeing.",Stan said, making everyone look at him.,,We don't know that, Stan.",I disagreed, looking at him.,,She hot?",Richie inquired, smirking.,,No, Richie. She's not hot. Her face is all messed up. None of this makes any sense. They're all like bad dreams.",Stan continued, getting angry in the beginning.,,I don't think so, Stan.",Lia replied and Mike said:,,I know the difference between a bad dream and real life, ok?",,What'd you see? You saw something too?",Eddie asked.,,Yes. Do you guys know that burned-down house on Harris Avenue? I was inside when it burned down.",Mike told us. Oh my God... I gasped slightly. That must have been horrible!,,Before I was rescued, my Mom and Dad were trapped in the next room over from me. They were pushing and pounding on the door, trying to get to me. But it was too hot.",he continued to tell us his story. No, kid should ever go through something like this. 

It was quiet after that. We just sat there for a few minutes until Mike spoke up again.,,We're all afraid of something.",Mike said, looking at the ground.,,Got that right.",Richie meant, turning his head and looking at the stage.,,Why, Rich? What are you afraid of?",Eddie asked. Oh yeah, I wanted to know that too! Maybe I could scare him someday...,,Clowns.",Richie answered, looking back at everyone. Oh great.. yeah, forget my previous thought. Why did he have to be afraid of clowns? That thing was a clown for fucks sake! No one said a word after that. I didn't even know what to say. It was a clown or most of the time. The other times It was your greatest fears... Why couldn't it have been some insects?! Those were easy to kill or to ignore. But no! It had to be some kind of scary clown which could transform itself into everyone and everything!,,We should meet again tomorrow.",Bill suggested, grabbing our attention. I furrowed my brows.,,Why?",I inquired.,,To find out where It hides. Maybe w-we can find I-it.",Bill explained stuttering. I looked at the others. Stan didn't seem to like the idea and neither did Eddie.,,I don't wanna find it. But if we knew where he kidnapped these kids, maybe we could find out where It will be next.",Lia said and I nodded. Everyone else slowly but surely agreed on meeting tomorrow.,,We're meeting at mine.",Bill had decided as everyone was ready to go home. The others nodded before saying their goodbyes. Then, Bill and I made our way back to his house.

,,You think that It could help us find your brother?",I asked during our ride home.,,I-i don't know. I-it made b-b-bring us clos-ser.",he replied, looking at me for a short moment. I nodded. Bill was so... determined about Georgie. And I knew that I shouldn't say this but if that clown was real, than Georgie would have probably been dead for a while now. Of course, I couldn't say it to Bill. He wouldn't listen, I knew how he ticked. The truth was the reality and he did not wanna face it. However, when he spoke about the idea of finding out where It was hiding, a foul feeling started in my stomach. Something was up and he didn't tell us.,,Let's just hope that it's nothing stupid.",I thought and Bill and I continued our ride back to his house...