|3|

Lacey wakes up with Richie almost off the bed snoring of course.

She tiptoed down her stairs because she wanted water.

She fills up her glass with ice and tap water.

She leans against the counter and sighs. Thinking about what happened and what she did. When she kissed Richie.

Did she like him? love? the only thing she knew was that she didn't want to lose him.

she heard footsteps behind her, she turned around to see Richie, a beat up Richie.

"Rich are you okay what hap-" She stopped herself, realizing that this couldn't be Richie.

The look in his eyes the way he was walking towards her.

"Your fault, your fault" Richie kept repeating getting louder.

"What? what's my fault?" Lacey asks confused and hurt.

"You left me and pennywise got me!"Richie says.

She has never heard of pennywise before so she only thought Richie was joking.

"haha real funny rich" as she went to take a sip of her drink she stopped before her lips touched the glass to see that the water was now blood.

She dropped the glass, it shattered and the blood went everywhere.

" Why did you leave me?!" Richie cried. "I-i didn't leave you?" Lacey chokes starting to tear up from confusion.

"It's okay though, you can come join me, down here where we all float. try it! you'll float too" Richie smirks.

"I don't know what you mean" she says backing up as Richie walks closer.

"You'll ..... Float....." Richie grabs a knife and holds it up in the air.

"Too!" He yells as the knife comes down stabbing himself in the stomach.

"Richie!" Lacey cries running up to him.

Richie is bent over crying. When Lacey puts her hand on his shoulders he stops crying.

A terrifying clown face suddenly pops up. "Hi Lacey, you'll float too, hahahaha!" The clown(pennywise) says really fast.

Then he chases Lacey into a corner in the kitchen.

"Stop, stop please, Richie!!!!" Lacey yells holding her hands up.

Then somebody starts shaking her. "Get away from me!" She yells sobbing.

"Lace it's me Rich, Lacey hey!" Richie sits down and pulls her onto his lap.

"What happened?" He asks combing his fingers in her hair.

"You, you stabbed yourself in the stomach, then you, i was drinking blood and you said i would float too or something i don't know" She sobs laying her head in the crook of his neck.

Richie has never been this passionate before, he was always known as trash mouth tozier.

"C'mon, let's go back upstairs" He whispers helping Lacey stand back up.

They both slid back under the covers, the only difference was that Lacey was in Richie's arms, where she felt safer than ever.--The sun was beaming through Lacey's curtains.

Her eyes fluttered open, she noticed she was still in Richie's grip, she was just being a little spoon.

She managed to slip from Richie's grip to take a shower.

She needed to get her mind off of everything that happened last night because today was a new day.

She had made plans with Beverly but she didn't tell Lacey where they were going.

she chose a yellow mickey mouse graphic tee that would be tucked into some some high waisted jean shorts and paired with black vans.

during the shower she broke down. she realized what her biggest fear was.

she basically already experienced it, or kinda.

she didn't want to lose Richie. she didn't know what it was about him but, he may be a dirty trash mouther but last night he showed her the soft side she knew he had.

after she was dressed she blow dried her blonde hair, and did a half up half down, but the part that was up was in space buns.

she walked into her room to see Richie sitting up watching tv.

"goodmorning" she whispered. "good morning gorgeous," he smiled.

"wow trashmouth tozier has a decent nickname for a female? since when!?" she joked jumping on her bed.

"my parents are at work so, but i'm hanging out with Bev today." She says smiling

"that's fine, the boys and i are going to the quarry." he was standing up.

"sounds fun" she taps her finger in her thigh.

"are you okay.?" Richie whispers. "From, last night, like what did you see?" He asked.

"I told you, it wasn't real though, i know it wasn't." she looks down. "but thank you for making me feel safe," she smiles putting her hand on top of his.

"it's what i do babe" he says pretending to pull up the invisible collar on his shirt.

"here we go, back to the old Rich."she stands up.

Richie shoots up. "Cmon !" he runs. "i'm hungry" he says quickly hitting her butt and shooting down stairs.

"Tozier!" she smile/yells.

She runs down stairs and chases Richie around the little island in her kitchen.

"Wait, wait wait!" he holds his hands up. "if i make you pancakes, will you stop chasing me" he smiles hoping for a yes.

"uhg fine, but they better be blueberry" she points eyeing him down.

she sits at the table talking and laughing with Richie about pointless things and eating their breakfast.

"I better go, Bev wanted me to meet her at the pharmacy at 2" Lacey says putting their dishes in the sink and washing just hers so her parents don't see 2 plates.

"Okay, i need to get to Eddie's anyways." He says walking towards the door.

They both walk outside, Lacey gets on her bike while Richie gets his from behind the bushes.

They ride their bikes together before Richie has to part at Eddies road. "Bye Lace!" He yells. "Bye Rich!" She waves back smiling.

Bev arrived at the pharmacy just before Lacey did.

"So you never told me where we were going?" Lacey says.

"Just follow me." She smiles.

Just before they reached their destination, Lacey noticed exactly where they were headed to, the quarry.

"Um bev, they boys are gonna be here!" Lacey stops her bike.

"Gonna? they already are!" She whispers pointing through the trees.

"Why are we here!" Lacey whisper yells frustrated.

"You, need to make Richie want you more, and no boy wants a girl more than one who, swims in their undergarments and who can jump into the water before they can.

"No way, i'm not," Lacey shakes her head.

"Yes you are, i'll go right after." Bev smiles.

"Uhg fine" She rolls her eyes.

They lay their bikes down and tip toe somewhat behind the boys.

They were arguing about loogies and who was going to go first.

Lacey removes her socks, shoes and shorts.

"So whose gonna go first?" Ben asks.

The boys stay silent as to because they are too scared to jump in the water with just underwear on.

"Now!" Beverly whispers also just in her undergarments and shirt.

"I'll go!" Lacey yells, taking off her shirt and throwing it to the ground.

"Holy" "Omg" "W-wow" All the boys except for Richie speaks.

Lacey runs past the boys.

"Lace- WHAT THE FUCK!" Richie yells as she jumps in the water as soon as she lands Bev runs past the boys into the water after Lacey.

"We just got showed off by two girls!" Richie yells.

"So, who's gonna go first?" Eddie asks.

They all sigh.

First it was Bill, then Richie then Eddie, then Stan and Lastly Ben.

For hours the Losers were just having fun swimming and splashing each other around.

"Richie let me get on your shoulders," Lacey whispers.

"What??" He smiles. "You heard me" she pushes him.

"yes ma'am " he smirks going under water.

When he comes up Lacey is perfectly on his shoulders.

"Okay wants a battle, or who's the best at chicken?" She asks putting her hand on her hips.

"I g-got you!" Bill yells. He goes underwater and puts Stan on his shoulders. "Oh so Stanley is the best at chicken."

"You bet" they all say. "Okay then well it's on" She smirks.

"on your mark, get set, go!" Eddie yells.

struggling to stay up, Lacey is defeated.

"not bad stan" she says walking up to him and giving him a soft hug.

after the swim while the boys wanted to sit around and listen to music including Bev, Lacey wanted to lay out and get some sun on her pale skin.

For about the whole time everybody was silent, Bev was looking in a 7teen magazine not noticing the fact that all eyes we're on Lacey.

"Why are y'all so quiet?" Lacey asks. Suddenly they break the staring at Lacey.

"We are just looking at magazines," Stan laughs.

"yeah," they all say.

"bev is holding the only magazine we have" Richie spits.

"dude" eddie hits him.

"they were totally staring at you," bev laughs.

"i know" Lacey laughs sitting up and pulling her sunglasses up on top of her head.

"ben, why do you have a book bag, haven't you heard it's summa?!" Richie remarks grabbing his bag and going through it.

"This isn't school stuff" Ben adds lightly snatching his bag from Richie's hands.

"It's research, Derry is like a town i've never seen before."

"Oh i wanna see!" Lacey hops up sitting on the rock between Ben and Richie while Richie stares and smirks

Ben flips through the pages and newspaper articles. "I have more at my place, if you wanna see." He looks at the losers and earning a nod from all of them.

They all get dressed and bike their way to bens house.

Ben made sure he was the first to his house and into his room to hide his "New Kids On The Block" Merch.

When everybody walks in all you hear is "woah and wows" his wall was filled with newspaper cut outs of missing kids and mass murders.

"Creepy" Eddie whispers. "No cool" Richie smirks.

Stan was looking at the projector slides while Lacey and Bill were paying close attention to the newspapers.

Bev, Eddie and Richie were just looking around bens room.

The dates, Lacey noticed they all came together.

"Every 27 years" She whispers to herself.

She noticed that every 26 years is when multiple people from Derry go missing and most are children.

Nobody heard what she had said, as they were now paying attention to the slides Stan was first looking at.

Bill took a slide which was a map of derry and a a slide that marked where "it" happens.

"I have to show you guys something" Bev whispers. i saw something. ---cliffhanger hahahaha. i'll update tomorrow<3