Chapter 3: The Carnival

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The many colored lights of the carnival shining bright with red, blues and yellows. Almost hypnotic amongst the sounds of it all.

The games being played with people laughing, the yells from the rides, the popcorn popping

Scarlet decided to get on the Ferris wheel for awhile. She hands her ticket to the wheel operator and gets in the seat and it takes off going upwards high into the night sky.

She closed her eyes to breath in the night air and then looked down at the crowd. That's when she saw him...It was him or IT standing below with a big grin on his face, waving at me, looking like he did back when I was younger.

Her heart starts thumping hard in my chest and she breath harder, but as soon as the wheel gets down to the ground and stops, he's gone. Scarlet is looking around but no sign of him now.

"Fuck" she says under her breath.

*Maybe I just imagined him.* She thinks to herself. Walking amongst the crowd she spots a red balloon floating around near one of the games. Scarlet takes a deep breath and walks over to it following it around behind the game tables and down over to a water drain in the street.


She see's a kid near it talking to someone. Scarlet smirks and walks over to the kid and not looking at the drain. "You know, curiosity killed the cat."

The kid see's her near and gets up to say " A Cat?"

"Yes it's an old saying. Who you talking to?" She asks sweetly. The boy looks at her and says "It was a clown."

"Now why in the world would a clown be down their?"

The boy shrugs his shoulders. Scarlet looks at the opening in the street and acts like she see's nothing. "Well you better run along then, before your mom gets worried"

He nods and runs off.

Still on her knees in front of the drain opening and still not looking at it "I know your their, Pennywise"

His/It's face comes into the light to look at her with it's glowing blue eyes. "Hiya, Scarlet!" He says in a high tone. "Look at you all grown up! heh!" He giggles.

"Wait..You seen me before?" She asks him. Pennywise giggles with delight. "Of Course I have! Silly.. You were a little kid last time I saw ya! But before I could eat ya, you moved away! Wah!"

"You were going to eat me?"

He giggles "Yess my dear! Just like your little cousin. He was such a treat!" He shakes his body with bells ringing. Scarlet swallows hard thinking about that day with a dazed look on her face.

"Why so deep in thought?" He asks curiously. She quickly snaps out of her daze and looks at him right in the eyes that are still a glowing shade of blue.

Just looking at them is making her feel something in the pit of her stomach, waves of desire for understanding him/IT more....and maybe more. He stares back smiling wide "I smell your fear and you will be so tasty!" He giggles with glee

A voice calls to her and she looks up to see one of her neighbors waving, but when she looks down to the opening again Pennywise is gone.

Scarlet sighs.

*Maybe next time we meet, we can get to know each other.* She thinks.

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