The Town of Derry

Getting Worse

"𝒊 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒍𝒆𝒚" 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒅; 𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚, 𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒈𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒇𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏.

"𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎, WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE" 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈

More and more, the dreams were happening, wether I was sleeping, running, talking to friends, anything.

I would pass out and have a Dream.

"Laur" "Laura" "Laura??" I heard voices say as I woke up, "you okay?" Stanley asked as he held my head up "I had another dream" I said, being helped up by Beverly and Ben.
"IT said IT got Mike, and that you were next" I said to Stanley, looking over at mike.

"Did you see IT?" Richie asked to mike, mike shook his head 'yes' "when I was walking past my work, there was groans and stuff coming out of the door, so I opened it and they all started chasing me" he explained, I sat on the end of his hospital bed while Stanley held my knee sitting in front of mike and I.

"That's how I ran into bowers on the quarry bridge" mike said, now explaining what happened to him at the quarry. "I was running from those things, finally got far enough and they just disappeared? Then a minute later bowers got me pushed up against the railing, then all I felt was a sharp ass pain going through my body, and over the railing I went" he said, the nurse then came in and gave him a new IV antibiotic.

"Just one more hour Mr. Hanlon" the nurse said as she did some slight paper work before leaving the room. "We're g-going to my h-house after" billy reminded us, I smiled over to him as Stanley sat beside me on mikes hospital bed. "What is it you have to show us?" Ben asked while getting up from the chair and offering Bev the seat. "D-dont worry about I-it right now" he said.

~ time skip to Billy's ~

We rode our bikes to Billy's house, and he swung open the garage door as we all placed our bikes on the driveway. As he opened the garage it revealed 8 seats in front of a projector screen. "Sit down guy" Billy said, I sat down in the back row, beside Bev and Stan.

"Did you bring the map?" Billy asked to Ben, Ben slid over a map and Billy put it on the projector. "Look, T-There the Ironworks. There's a black spot, every place IT happened, is all connected by the sewers! And they all meet up at.." billy explained pointing out the spots and sewers "the wellhouse" Ben added to Billy's statement.

"The house on Neilbolt" Stanley said, grasping my hand as I took bevs. Eddie pulls out his inhaler quickly, and takes a quick puff then looks at everyone while standing in front of the projector screen. "Can we stop talking about this?!" Eddie screams "it's summer, we're suppose to be kids" Eddie adds, Richie walks over to Eddie and rubs his shoulder. "Ya I agree with Eds" Richie said.

The projector tray turns off, so it's back onto a white light just shining on Eddies body.
"What happened" bill asked as we all stood with each other by the projector trying to fix it.

It rotates making a clicking sound.

*click* we heard as it happened again.

Mike try's to stop it from turning again, on the screen old vacation pictures of Billy's family start showing up. Then it repeatedly shows Georgie, then the same slide over and over.

"Is it.. moving?" I said about Georgie, while backing up into bevs arms. The projector continues to turn, and turn, and turn.

*click* *click*

Georgie then leaves the frame, it's him..
it's Pennywise, in the frame now! He was waving, at us.. the losers.

The projector continues to turn faster and faster, making pennywise wave smoother and smoother, until..

*click*

There we was! Pennywise, IT! right in front of our faces! Everyone screamed, Mike kicks the projector over quickly making the garage go black as it crashed to the ground.
I ran over to Stanley and Ben who were standing beside each other.

We looked at Bev and she was staring at the ceiling, we all gazed up to see what she was looking at.. the projector was now shining on the ceiling, and there he is! Pennywise, staring down at us, I grabbed Stanley's arm pulled Ben back with me.

As he POPS OUT THE FRAME, he reaches for Beverly, trying to grab her, she fell to the ground and Ben held me back from getting taken too, I was trying to grab Bev. Just as he was about to take her the garage door opens.

"Fuck it I'm so done! It's s-" Richie gets cut off by billy "if y-you say it's s-summer one more f-f-fucking time" Billy said throwing the map down.

"Guys, we can't split up, you saw what happened to Mike" Beverly said as she stood beside billy, I stood with Richie as he got on his bike, "I don't know what to do" I stood there as Richie, Stanley, and Eddie stared at me to come with them, I looked at Ben who was standing with Bev. "I can't leave Stanley alone for IT to get him" I said turning and walking towards the guys on their bikes.

Mike came with us, as Billy, Bev and Ben went into bills back yard.

*5pm*

"I can't believe that" Eddie said trembling as we sat at the quarry, I patted his shoulder to comfort him. "Fucking clowns" Richie said, I looked at him "let's maybe not talk about this" I said as I sat with my feet hanging off the edge.

Mike stood behind me leaning into my back.
"So you and Stan?" He whispered making me clench, feeling my cheeks warm up. "I have no idea what your talking about Mikey boo" I tapped the spot beside me but he refused.

"You know laura, when you sit on the edge like that it makes me worry" Stan said taking mikes spot and leaning against my back. "Live on the edge Stan" I smiled up at him, "support" he said as he sat behind me holding me back so I didn't fall in. "Hey pass me my fanny pack" Eddie said to Richie, I leaned my head back to look at Richie and grinned.

"Does rich like Eddie?" Stanley asked me, I looked at him with wide eyes. "I know he's gay laur" Stanley whispered nudging me. "How?" I mouthed to him "he told me when you were talking to Beverly the other day" he explained, I shook my head yes to answer the question.

"Hey guys we better be getting back to someone's house, it's getting dark" mike said, we all got up and gathered everything, rich offered me to ride on the pegs but I declined, I needed to think.