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They all decided to meet at the Quarry the following day. After the fight with Bowers, they all went to town and got supplies to clean themselves up. After Eddie bandaged her cuts, they all went to the woods to hang out. Charlie didn't have many friends before, maybe one or two but they were never really close. She met up with Beverly on the street and they rode together to the lake. She never really had a friend that was a girl before either, she always hung out with guys since she was a tomboy. But Beverly was cool to hang around with, they talked the whole way to the water.

The boys were already standing at the edge of the cliff in nothing but their skins and underwear, deciding who should jump first. Once the girls reached them they started taking off their clothes.

"Sissy's" Beverly said before jumping right off the cliff and into the water.

Charlie followed in suit. She was wearing her black sports bra and black underwear as she ran to the edge.

"C'mon guys!" She said. Then jumped right off cheering and fell in with a cannon bomb.

"What the fuck!" yelled Richie as he watched them jump. "Holy shit! We just got showed off by two girls" he exclaimed.

"Do we have to do that now?" asked Stanley.

One by one the boys jumped into the water. They thrashed water at each other and played chicken fights over and over for a long while. It was the funnest Charlie had in a long time.

Once they got out, Charlie had to go into the woods to pee but when she returned she saw all the guys looking at Beverly bathing in the sun, checking her out.

"Ahem," Charlie said loudly. Once she did, all the boys looked away in embarrassment.

Richie dug into Ben's backpack and took out folders filled with papers as Charlie sat next to Mike on the rock. She rummaged through her backpack where her high tops, shorts and shirt was and she finally grabbed the black baseball cap from her backpack and put it on her half dried hair.

"I like your cap" Mike noted.

"Thanks, I never leave home without it" she smirked. He nodded.

He was looking at her body which showed all the bruises from yesterday's fight. There were even scars on her legs but they didn't look new. Charlie noticed he was looking at them.

"It's from baseball and stunts on the bike, being a tomboy has its dangers" she told him.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable" he quickly said.

"Nah it's cool" she smiled at him and he returned the gesture. She really enjoyed how he was around her, he was nice and very respectful.

"What's with the history project?" Richie asked Ben. They both turned their attention to them.

"When I first moved here, I didn't have anyone to hang out with, so I just started spending time in the library" Ben explained.

"You went to the library? On purpose?" Richie asked. Charlie just rolled her eyes and took the papers from Richie, slapping them on top of his head before reading them. She thought going to the library was awesome, she loved to read.

"Why is it all murders and missing kids?" she asked.

"Derry's 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. And that's just grown-ups. Kids are worse. Way, way worse." Ben said.

The group looked around with raised eyebrows and concerned expressions. They never knew this history of their town before.

"I've got more stuff if you wanna see it" Ben said a little enthusiastically. Eddie shook his head no.