JULY 7, 1989

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"Wait he actually did it? He grew some balls! He finally did it!" Richie yelled "All jokes aside, Eddie, you're my best friend, but that right there is my sister. You hurt her, I hurt you ten times worse."

"Uh-huh," Eddie mumbled "You're saying this to the boy you just put in a lot of pain."

"Oh come on, I fixed your arm!" Richie argued

"You snapped it into place, you didn't fix it, you snapped it into place. There's a difference." Eddie argued back

"Anddd they sound like an old married couple even after Eddie and I started dating." Rylee joked

Eddie smiled and squeezed Rylees hand, again with his good hand, as the group of eight friends walked to Eddies house. Ben was still holding his stomach, Richie and Rylee were making jokes, Mike, Stan, and Beverly were still too scared to say anything, Eddie was holding Rylees hand with his good hand, and Bill was thinking about that clown.

The group made it to Eddies house and Mrs. Kaspbrak ripped Eddie away from Rylee "You, you did this." she said pointing at everyone, "You did this to him. You know how delicate he is." she went on, dragging Eddie away from his friends and into the passenger seat of Mrs. Kaspbrak car, slamming the door once he was in the car

"W-W-We were a-attacked Mrs. K.." Bill tried explaining but she cut him off

"No! Don't. Don't try to blame this one anyone else." Mrs. K yelled, dropping her keys

"Oh, let me help-" Beverly started to bend down to pick up Mrs. K's keys for her but she cut her off, once again

"Get back! Oh, I've heard of you, Miss Marsh. And I don't want a dirty girl like you touching my son." Mrs. K said picking up her own keys

"M-Mrs. K I-" Bills started, but was cut off, AGAIN

"No! You're all monsters! All of you. and Eddie is done with you. You hear? DONE!" She yelled

"Mrs. K, if you just gave us time to explain.." Rylee tried to reason with her but it didn't work

"And you!" Mrs. K pointed a finger at Rylee, "What do you think you were doing touching my little Eddie Bear? Hm? You're just like her over there, Rylee Tozier." Mrs. K motioned towards Beverly, then continued, "A disgusting little girl. You stay away from my son. All of you!"

"I'll have you know that none of those things people say about us are true Mrs. K! None of them! I have never slept with Henry Bowers, and neither has Beverly! I'm tired of people like you, and everyone else in this town just believing things people say! It isn't true! It wasn't my fault that my father-" she cut herself off "None of those rumours are true, Mrs. K."

"Why should I believe a whore?" Mrs. K yelled and got into her car, speeding off to the hospital.

"I saw the well. We know where it is and next time we'll be better prepared." Bill announced

"NO! No next time Bill! You're insane!" Stanley yelled

"Why? We all know no one else is going to do anything." Beverly joined in

Richie stepped up, "Eddie and Rylee were nearly killed! And look at this mother fucker!" he pointed to Ben "He's leaking hamburger helper!"

"We can't pretend it's just gonna go away. Ben, you said it yourself, It comes back every twenty seven years." Beverly argued

"Fine! I'll be forty and far away from here. I thought you said you wanted to get out of this town too!" Ben raised his voice

"Because I wanna run towards something! Not away." Beverly reasoned

"I'm sorry, who invited Molly Ringwald into the group?" Richie cut in

"Richie-" Stan attempted to stop him

"No. I'm just saying, let's face facts. Real world. Georgies dead. Stop trying to get us killed too." Richie continued

Rylees eyes watered at the mention on Georgie being dead, she didn't know if it was true, but she was losing hope that he was still alive.

"Georgies not dead." Bill fought

"You couldn't save him, but you can't still save yourself." Richie tried to walk away but Bill pushed him

"No, t-t-take it back." Bill yelled, Richie pushed Bill back. "You're scared, and we all are, but take it back!" Bill yelled and punched Richie

"Bill!" Beverly and Rylee yelled

"You're just a bunch of losers! Fuck off!" Richie yelled as Mike and Stan held him back while Beverly and Rylee were holding Bill

"Richie stop." Stan tried to reason

"You're just a bunch of losers and you'll get yourselves killed trying to catch a stupid fucking clown." Richie went on

"Stop!" Beverly yelled, getting everyone's attention, "This is was it wants. It was to divide us. We were all together when we hurt it. That's why we're still alive."

"Yeah? Well I plan to keep it that way." Richie said, starting to walk away

"Richie, please. I get it-" Rylee said and she let go of Bill and tried to reason with her brother

"No!" Richie cut her off, shrugging Stan and Mike off of him, walking towards his sister, "You take his side! Every time! Every single time Rylee, you never agree with me! You always agree with Bill, or Stan, or Eddie! Your boyfriend, you choose your boyfriend and your friends over me, your own brother." Richie paused, "You know what, maybe mom and dad were right."

"W-what?" Rylee mumbled

"Mom and Dad were right about you Rylee! You're just a pathetic little whore!" Richie yelled, shoving her back, making her fall to the ground

Tears welled up in Rylees brown eyes. Richie just realized what he had said and tried to help her up "Rylee-"

"No!" Rylee yelled and pushed his arm away, "No, Richie. You can't just apologize for that! I hate you! I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!" She yelled, standing up and walking away "Don't talk to me." She mumbled as she left

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