Opposites Attract ☁
Bill's POV
BRRINGGG. The bell rings and I immediately grab my book bag and meet my friends in the hallway. Richie and Eddie are the first ones out and Stan follows after. We get outside and empty our book bags into the trash bin. We chat it up about what we're going to do for the summer, when someone pulls Richie into Stan. I look behind me to see Henry Bower and his gang.
Henry is the delinquent child of Officer Bowers. I'm pretty sure he failed the last school year. I was tired of this. "Y-y-you suck Bowers" I stuttered again and I hated it.
"You s-s-s-say something, b-b-b-billy" He mocked it again and I hated it. It's something I can't get rid of or change.
"You got a free ride this year because of your brother, rides over Denbrough." He was going to do something, but couldn't seeing that his dad was there. "This summer is going to be a hurt train for you and your faggot friends." He licked his hand and rubbed it on my face.
He walked across the street to his car where his brother, M/N was standing. He was staring at me from across the street. He has been my crush since the 4th grade, even though he absolutely hates me.
They got in the car and drove away.
"I still don't know why you like him." Richie tells me from behind. To be honest I don't know why I like him, but I do and I can't stop. Guess there's a lot of things I can't change.
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Time Skip
As promised for the next day, we went to the barrens to look for my brother. When we got there, it was really quiet.
"That's poison ivy, that's poison ivy and that's poison ivy." Stanley started once we got there.
"Where? Where is the poison ivy" Eddie, paranoided asked. "Nowhere, not everything is poison ivy." Richie fed up with both of them replied.
"Okay, I'm starting to get itchy now and I'm pretty sure this is not good for my..." "Do you use the same bathroom as your mother?" "Sometimes yeah." "Then you probably have crabs." "That's so not funny."
Me and Richie went in with no hesitantion,but Eddie and Stanley weren't as welling.
"Aren't you guys coming in?" "Nuh uh, that's gray water." "What the hell is gray water." "It's basically piss and shit. So I'm just telling you, you guys are splashing around in millions of gallons of Derry Pee. So... " "It doesn't smell like caca to me, señor."
"Okay, I can smell that from here." "It's probably your breath wafting back into your face." "Have you ever heard of a staph infection?" "Oh I'll show you a staff infection."
"This is so unsanitary. You're literally...This is literally like swimming inside of a toilet bowl right now. Have you ever heard of Listeria?" Richie picked a bad of the water with a stick and Eddie screamed.
"Are you retarded? You're the reason why we're in this position right now."
I really just tuned out their screaming untill I picked up a shoe. I yelled at them to get their attention as I also turned around to show them the shoe.
"Shit don't tell me that's..." "No, G-Georgie wore galoshes." "Whose shoe is it?"
Me and Richie look inside. The initials showed B.Ripsom. When we told them Eddie started freaking out.
"I don't like this." "How do you think Betty feels? Running around these tunnels with only one frickin' shoe?"
We all stared at him.
"What if she's still here?
That's when I turned around to continue going in. "Eddie come on." "My mom will have an aneurysm, if she finds out that we're playing down here. I'm serious."
There was silence. "Bill?"
"If... If I was Betty Ripsom
would want us to find me. Georgie too."
"What if I don't want to find them? I mean, no offense, Bill, but I don't want to end up like...I don't wanna go missing either."
"He has a point." "Y-Y-You too?" "It's summer. We're supposed to be having fun. This isn't fun. This is scary and disgusting."
A splash randomly brung Stanley out of the rant he was having. Me and Richie came out to see what was happening.
"Holy shit what happened to you!"
Stanley and Eddie went to go help the boy.
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Time Skip
We were now in a convenience store or the Pharmacy. Eddie were grabbing the stuff we need and Stanley and I were looking over our money.
"Will we have enough?" Stanley asked looking at the three dollars in his hands.
"Wait you have an account here don't you?" I asked Eddie hoping to have found a solution. "If my mom finds out I bought all this stuff for myself, I'm spending the whole rest of the weekend in the emergency room getting X-rayed." Well there goes that plan.
We were getting more stuff when Beverly Marsh stopped at our aisle.
"Y-You okay?" "I'm fine. What's wrong with you?" "None of you business." "There's a kid outside. Looks like someone killed him." Dammit Eddie. We need s-s-some supplies, but we don't have enough money."
Beverly walked to the front. She started talking with the Clark. It seemed like she was flirting with him, but just as she was giving back the glasses she knocked over the thing on the counter.
When he went to bend down to get it, she looked back at us, which was our cue to leave.
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Little Time Skip
"Just suck the wound." "I need to focus right now." "You need to focus?" "Yeah could you go get me something?" "Jesus! What do you need?" "Go get my bifocals. I hid 'em in my second fanny pack" "Why do you have two fanny packs?" "I need to focus right now and it's a long story."
I walked to the end of the alley way to see Beverly coming down, along side M/N.
"Hey Billy" M/N talked first. "H-Hey"
"OMG he's bleeding." They turned their heads to look at the three aguring. "Ben from sosh" They walked to the 4 boys.
"Are you okay? That looks like it hurts." "Oh no, I'm good. I just fell" "Yeah right into Henry Bowers." "Shut it Richie." "Why it's the truth." Eddie elbowed Richie and nodded towards M/N, which he seemed to notice.
"You sure they got the right stuff to fix you up?" "You know, w-we'll take care of him." "Sure. Maybe we'll see you around." "Yeah, we were thinking about going to the q-q-quarry tomorrow. If you guys want to come?" "Sure I'll think about it." I turned my head to M/N. He was look at his camera. When he noticed I was looking at him, he kinda just nodded and said sure.
At least there was a chance there.
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Time Skip
We were standing on the edge of the rock that lead to the quarry. "So who's going first?"
"I will." Bev Calla from behind us as she take off her dress "Sissies" She runs to jump off the cliff.
"Oh, holy shit! We just got showed up by a girl." "Do we have to do that now." "Yes."
I feel a hand on my shoulder. "Come on Billy. Don't be a wimp." He takes my hands indicating for us to jump off. "Ready?" I nod my head towards him and we jump off.
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Time Skip Again
We probably been in the water for about an hour or two. We played on each other shoulders, Marco Polo, we swam, and Stanley was completely destroying Eddie in the background.
M/N smile was so big that day. I've seen anything more beautiful. He was interacting with the others and he seemed fun to be around.
We got out and sat around a rock. Beverly laid on her towel on the ground. We were all staring at her expect for M/N who seem to be staring at the sky.
Beverly looked back at us and we all looked away. My eyes darting to M/N.
M/N pulled his camera out his bag and pointed it up at the sky.
"What are you doing?" I ask him looking over his shoulder. "Taking pictures..."
"Whats up with the history project?"
I turn my head around to see Eddie hold a folder of papers. It was messy. There were crunched up papers spilling out the sides.
I grab the folder from Richie to see what was inside. Newspapers about killings in Derry.
"You went to the library. On purpose?" "Oh. I wanna see!"
Bev got up from her seat on the floor and sat in between me and M/N.
I watched her as she looked through the papers.
"Y-Your hair..." "Your hairs beautiful Beverly" Who tf asked you
"Pass it. Why is it all murders and missing kids?"
"Derry not like any town I've ever been in before. They did a study once, and it turns out people die or disappear six times the national average."
"You read that?" "And that's just grown ups. The kids are worse. Way, way worse. I got more stuff if you wanna see it."
So we got up and dressed. We all rode our bikes to his house and M/N was on the back of my bike since he couldn't keep up on his skateboard.
I let M/N off my bike before gently sitting it down.
"Thanks."
We all walked into Ben's house. "Whoa, wow" "Cool huh?"
"No. No, nothing cool. There's nothing cool." "This is cool, right here. Wait, no. No it's not cool."
I walked to his drawer near his window. From behind me I heard someone take a picture. I turn around to see M/N pointing a camera at me.
"Smile" I gave him a light smile and he took a picture. When the picture came out the camera, he took out a expo marker and wrote on it.
"Want it?" "Y-You can keep it." "Ok. Now I have a picture of keep. Never mind that sounds creepy."
"The only trace was a trail of bloody clothes leading back to the well house." This seem to intrigue me
"Where was the well house?"
"I don't know. Somewhere in town, I guess. Why?"
"Nothing."
"Shit." I turned to M/N who was looking at his watch. "I got to get home or else my brother gonna to kill me." He picked his stuff and walked out the door. "I'll go with you." I called after him. I said bye to my friends and rushed after him.
When I got outside, he was already a half block down. When I finally caught up to him, I was a little out of breath.
"Damn you walk fast." He chuckled.
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Time Skip
We talked a lot on the way to his house. When we were about 1 or 2 blocks away when he stopped.
"You should probably go home now. You know... Henry and how he is." "Right... M-maybe we could hang out together, just us though." "Kinda sounds like a date." "If you want it to be."
M/N smiled at me and then he lightly took my face and kissed me on the cheek.
"I would love to go on a date with you Bill Denbrough. Just hit me up when you have a time and place."
And with that he walked the rest the way with me smiling like an idiot.