• 𝕓.𝕕. 𝕩 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕖𝕢𝕦𝕖𝕝 •

• a visit into the past •

We follow mike through the town of Derry and past sewers. We finally make it to an oddly familiar forest. "This is where we came after the rock fight." Ben smiles. "The clubhouse." Richie mumbles. "Oh my gosh! You built that for us." Beverly smiles and points at Ben. "The hatch has gotta be around her some place." Richie says.

We all look for the hatch to the clubhouse. Beverly trips new Bill quickly catches her. I scoff and turn my head away. Wait, why did I scoff at that? It's not like I care. I completely ignore them and look over at Ben who is looking for the hatch.

"You know what I actually think the door was more like around-" Ben gets cut off when he falls through the ground. "Found it. I'm okay! Come down!" He yells. I smile as the memories of this place return to me...

Flashback
Beverly climbs down first followed by me, Richie, Bill, Eddie and Stan. "What the dick is this? How'd you build it?" Richie questions Ben. "When did you build it?" Bill asks. "Here and there I guess. It was already dug out for something so I just had to reinforce the walls, get some wood for the roof door, and that's pretty much it." Ben replies and shrugs. "It's so cool!" I add. "Pretty good for my first time eh?" Ben smiles and leans against a pole.

Something falls and I freak out and jump on Richie. He catches me but then drops me. "Now that's a cool feature, what happens when you put your hand on the other pillar professor?" Richie sarcastically says. "Asshole." I mutter under my breath and stand up. "See this is exactly why there are safety codes, why we have permits! This is a death trap you understand me?" Eddie argues.

"Well it's a work in progress okay?" Ben says. "Ok if I get hurt you are liable. Also what is this? A switch of an Iron Maiden?" Eddie asks. "That's a flashlight." Ben replies. "What is that a horse hitch? When do you have horses down her- oh this is cool." Eddie picks up a paddle board thingy. "That was like 3 dollars so please be careful." Ben adds.

"I have one of these." Eddie starts hitting the ball against the board. "Hey Stan you see this?" Eddie annoys Stan. I continue to look around. Bill, Beverly and Richie look at Eddie like he's a complete idiot. Eddie drops the paddle ball. "Oh good going fuck nut you broke his thing!" Eddie exclaims. "I broke it?!" Stan furrows his eyebrows. "Yeah you broke it with your face!" Eddie says. "What?" Stan asks confused. "I'm not putting my fucking hand down there."

Flashback ends

Eddie picks up a dirty red ball out of the crack. He blows the dirt off of it. I look around and pick up one of my Smash Hits magazine with Molly Ringwald on the cover. It's covered in dirt and dust but I wipe it off with my sleeve. "Hey losers, time to float." A voice says. My eyes widen and I stumble backwards.

Richie comes out of the darkness laughing. "What the fuck Richie?!" I yell and gasp in relief. "Fuck Richie..." Eddie breaths out. "Remember he'd do the little dance *weird noises*" Richie dances. "Are you gonna be like this the entire time we're home?" Eddie asks. Richies nods his head, "Just trying to add some levity to this shit. I'll go fuck myself."

I sit down and continue reading my Smash Hits magazine. Ben picks up a bucket with a lid and Bill walks over to him. "Hey guys." Ben says. "Th-this Stan, f-for the use of losers only." Bill stutters. He goes to open the bucket jar thing. "Bill..." Eddie states. He takes the lid off and pulls out a shower cap...

Flashback
Stan pulls out the final shower cap and hands it to Richie. "What the fuck is this?" Richie grabs the cap. "So you don't get spiders in your hair when your down here." Stanley replies. "Stanley, we're not afraid of fucking spiders." Richie hands the cap back to Stan. Stan grunts and walks away. Meanwhile, the rest of losers and I are putting on our shower caps.

"I stand corrected." Richie rolls his eyes. Eddie takes his shower cap off. Beverly laughs and continues to smoke her cigarette, "That's a first." " touché." Richie replies. "Hey rich your 10 minutes are up." Eddie says. "What are you talking about?" Richie questions. "10 minutes each was the rule." Eddie raises his voice slightly. "I don't see any sign." Richie shrugs. "Are you being this way right now?! Really? No no no no. Why would there be a sign of it was a verbal agreement?!" Eddie argues.

Eddie and Richie continue fighting and Eddie gets in the hammock with Richie. I laugh. "I can see your vagina!" Richie yells. "Richie just let him have the hammock." I roll my eyes and giggle. Beverly goes over to talk to Ben and I decide to talk to Bill. "Hi Bill." I awkwardly smile. "H-hi y/n." He smiles back.

Then I here Richie start talking. "I'll do that, I'll do anything to get the hell out of Derry, and I'm taking y/n with me so Billy boy here doesn't try anything." He says. "Man when I graduate I'm going to Florida." Mike says. "What's in Florida mike?" Ben asks. "I don't know, you know I guess it's just a place I've always wanted to go." Mike smiles. "Stan you should go with Mike to Florida. You already act 80, you'd clean up with all the grandmas." Richie makes kissy faces. We all laugh. "Beverly and I have a plan to move into an apartment together when I graduate. Since technically I graduate a year after all of you. Which means I'll have no friends for a whole year." I smile but then I get sad. Beverly Sadie hugs me and I put my head on her shoulder.

"Do you guys think we'll still be friends... when we're older?" Stan asks. We all look at him. "What? Why wouldnt we be?" Eddie asks. "D-do any of your parents still hangout with their friends from middle school? I mean, things might me different then." Stan states. "We all might be different." I lift my head off of Beverlys shoulder. "We'll always still be friends, I don't... I don't think that just g-g-goes away because we get older." Bill says. "Yeah Stan come on, you don't have to be so...."

Flashback ends
"Sad." Beverly says. "He was old before his time." Ben sadly smiles. "Yeah wonder what he was like all grown up." Eddie says. "Probably what he was like as a kid... the best." Richie says sadly. Bill tosses him the shower cap. I stand next richie and side hug him for comfort not just for myself but for him too. "Alright mike, what are we doing doing here?" Richie asks as he side hugs me back. "The ritual to perform it, it requires a sacrifice." Mike starts. "A sacrifice? I nominate Eddie." Richie automatically responds. "Wait what?!" Eddie shouts in disbelief. "Because your little you'll fit in a barbecue." Richie for Shane motions.

"I'm 5'9 that's like average height, why not y/n? She's smaller than me!" Eddie argues. "Not that kinda of s-sacrifice guys." Bill says. "You know what Eddie? For the sake of our friendship imma forget you just said that." I cross my arms and look away from him. "The past is buried, but your gonna have to dig it up piece by piece. And these pieces, these artifacts, that's why we're here. They are what you'll sacrifice. And since Stan isn't here to find his I figure we should all be her together to find his artifact." Mike says. "I think Bill just did that." Eddie puts on Stans shower cap.

We all exit the clubhouse. "Okay mike so where do we find out tokens?" Eddie asks. "Yeah I gotta be honest man all do respect this is fucking stupid. Alright? Why do we need tokens alright we already remember everything saving Bev, defeating IT, I mean we're caught up!" Richie exclaims. "Not everything, we fought. What happened after that? Before the house on Neibolt. Think." Mike says. "W-w-we c-can't remember can we?" Bill questions. "We there's more to our story. What happened that summer. And those blank spaces like pages torn out of a book. That's what you need to find. We need to split up. You each need to find your artifact. Alone. That's important. When you do, meet me at the library tonight." Mike says.

"Yeah I gotta say statistically speaking you look at survival scenarios we're gonna do much better as a group." Eddie waves his hands around. "Yeah splitting up would be dumb man. Yeah ok we gotta go together alright we were together that summer right?!" Richie exclaims. "No. Not that who-whole summer."

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Hi everyone! I'm super excited to write the next chapter when y/n gets her token hehehe. I hope you all like this book as much as I do!
~adaline

Question of the chapter:
Who would you want to be best friends with irl of the losers club?

For me it would be Sophia Lillis or Jaeden Martell

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