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"I can't believe I pulled the short straw," Richie said. "You guys are lucky you're not measuring dicks"

"Shut up, Richie," Eddie says back.

"Hah I would've lost" Charlie said giving a small laugh.

Charlie, Richie, Eddie, and Bill were all in the scary house. Everyone else was outside keeping watch just in case.

The house was dark with dust and dirt everywhere. The windows were boarded with barely any light going through them. Dried up vines came across the walls and ceilings with old dusted furniture.

"Don't breathe through your mouth" she told Eddie.

"Why?" he asked nervously.

"Cuz then you're eating it" she replied.

She heard him gag and reach for his inhaler but she kept walking.

They were all walking and looking around when Richie spotted a paper stuck in a vine. He grabbed it and read, getting uncomfortable.

"What?" Charlie asked.

"It... It says I'm missing".

They all go up to him to read the paper. It indeed had a picture of Richie with bold letters saying he was missing, just like the ones in town with all the missing kids.

"You're not missing, Richie" Charlie assured him.

"Police department, City of Derry." he read.

"That's my shirt. That's my hair. That's my face That's my name. That's my age! That's the date!"

"It can't be real, Richie," Bill said.

"No, it says it! What the fuck? Am I missing? Am I gonna go missing?" he said yelling in fear.

"Look at me, Richie. L-Look at me" Bill said grabbing his friend by the shoulders, he looked at him.

"That... That isn't real. It's playing tricks on you" Bill assured him.

"Hello?"

The group heard a voice coming through the house. They jumped from how creepy it was but started to walk towards it.

"Hello?" They climbed up the stairs as they heard it again.

"Help me, please!"

The group got up the stairs and turned a corner noticing a girl on the ground in a room, she had blood coming out of her mouth and was gasping.

"Betty?" Bill said.

"Ripsom?" Charlie finished.

She was then suddenly pulled out of sight as her screams echoed through the house.

They started moving to the room where she was taken. But Eddie was frozen in place.

"Guys, can you hear that?" he asked behind his friends. They were at the room where they saw a trail of blood, but no Betty.

"She was just here. Where the fuck did she go?" Richie said.

"Guys?" they heard Eddie say. He was still in the hallway and the door from the room they were in closed suddenly, separating Eddie from the group.

"Guys. Guys!"

"Eddie?" Bill said, trying to open the door but it was locked.

The leper that Eddie saw before grabbed his shoulder. Once he turned around he saw the disgusting sickly face that was holding a red pill in on his tongue.

They then heard a crash from the other side.

"Eddie. Open the door!" Bill said trying to open it but it was locked. "You okay?"

Richie was then in another room that was connected to the one Bill and Charlie were in. He thought he heard Eddie.

"Richie?" Charlie said.

Then the door closed on them again, separating Richie from Bill and Charlie.

"Richie! Richie!" she yelled.

"Open the door!" he yelled.

"It won't open!" it was also locked.

"What's going on? Richie!"

Richie was stuck in a room filled with fake clowns. He approached a coffin that said 'found' in blood with a Richie-like dummy inside. Once he closed the coffin the clown popped out.

They tried to listen in but didn't hear anything. Bill kept trying to open the door. They heard Richie scream. Charlie kicked at the door multiple times, making it open and she pulled Richie into their room. The clown was on the other side about to attack but Bill closed it before it could reach them.

"Let's get out of here," Bill said. Charlie had helped Richie up. Just then, "Eddie's head" popped out of an old mattress. His face was all gray and weary.

"Wanna play loogie?" he said in a creepy voice. He then started to shake and a black tar started coming out of his mouth and onto the floor and it made its way to the kids. Then his head disappeared.

The friends turned around and saw three doors. Each one had a different writing, 'Very scary' 'Scary' and 'Not scary at all'. They were all written in blood.

The friends looked at each other and ran to the door that said 'Not scary at all'. Bill opened the door and all they saw was blackness.

"Where's my shoe?" they heard.

The lights then turned on and there was Betty Rimpsom, dangling by her arms with no legs whatsoever. Her screams shouted through the room as the friends yelled and Bill closed the door.

"Where the fuck were her legs?" Richie yelled.

They turned to look at the tar that was steaming hot and making its way to them.

"What the fuck is that!" yelled Charlie.

"This isn't real," Bill said to Richie and Charlie.

"Remember the missing kid poster, that  wasn't real, so this isn't real"

They turned back to the door, Bill about to open it. Richie and Charlie just held on to each other, afraid of what they were about to see.

"Come on. Ready?" Said Bill.

"No!" they said at the same time. When Bill opened the door, there was nothing in the door other than the hallway in the house.

"Oh, thank fuck" said Charlie with a breath of relief.

"Where's Eddie?" said Richie.

"Help! Help!" they heard from downstairs.

"Eddie!"  The three friends raced downstairs to save their friend.

As they approached a kitchen, they saw the clown standing over Eddie with its hand over his face. Eddie looked terrified and he was holding his broken arm.

"Holy fuck. Eddie!" yelled Richie.

"This isn't real enough for you, Billy?" said the clown in his high pitch scary voice. "I'm not real enough for you?"

"Oh, shit" said Charlie.

"It was real enough for Georgie" IT said, giving a psychotic laugh.

It then ran toward them with its mouth open and teeth out, charging at them until Bev plunged a rod through its head, making him stop in place.

"Holy shit!"

"Get Eddie! Get Eddie!" By now the whole club was in the house but Charlie and Richie ran to Eddie as Bill moved away but was still looking at the creature.

"Let's go!"

"Guys, watch out!"

The clown got back up, the rod still in its head and slowly made its way to them.

"No, no, no, no!"

"He's gonna get us! Guys!"

The glove on its left hand teared away as a sickly looking claw formed. The clown stepped close to the friends, scaring them and laughing. He then turned, he clawed Ben right across the stomach as he fell onto Mike.

"No!"

"Ben!"

The clown then left the room.

"Don't let him get away!" Bill said as he followed the clown 

"Bill, we have to help Eddie!" Charlie shouted.

"Bill!"

Bill then returned back, but he knew he saw the clown leave into a well in the house basement.

"I'm gonna snap your arm into place!" Richie said to Eddie.

"Rich, do not fucking touch me!" Eddie said to Richie.

Everyone was shouting and Charlie knew Richie was going to snap his arm so she quickly grabbed Eddies good hand and grasped it hard.

"Okay, one, two, three" Richie said.

"Do not touch me!" Eddie said but Richie cracked the bone from Eddies arm back to normal, hearing the crack made everyone cringe. Eddies was squeezing Charlie's hand, it was hurting so much, but she didn't let go.

"Holy shit!"