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The next few weeks were a bust. The club never got back together. Richie had visited Stans ceremony and Charlie met up with them after to get ice cream with them. She heard that Stan crashed his own speech by not completing it and she was proud of him. She would even meet up with Mike a few times at his farm and sometimes they'd walk around town and the woods but they never mentioned the fight.

One day Charlie was at home, reading her book when the phone rang. She answered it.

"911 whats your drama?" Charlie said laughing to herself. She always answered the phone in some fun way.

"Ch-Charlie?"

It was Bill. Her smile fell.

"What do you want?" she asked.

"It's Beverly," he said.

"What happened?" she asked worried now.

"IT. I-IT got her"

Her breathing stopped.

"We have to m-meet at Neibolt. W-We have to get her back"

"Okay, I'll be there" she said standing about to hang up until he said,

"Wait, Charlie ... I'm s-sorry" he said.

"Look Bill, now's not the time let's just ... get Bev back" she said and hung up.