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The moment he laid eyes on her in Homeroom. Her last first day of school, she walked in. New students was very common at Derry High so nobody cared to stare, except for Richie of course.

Her outfit was too simple for a first day, exactly what he loved about it. Light washed high waisted jeans with a white flower tee. Paired with white converse that wasn't so white anymore.

Her long highlighted hair flowed ever so perfectly. Her freckles perfectly spread under her eyes and over the bridge of her nose.

"Hey hot stuff, i'm Richie Tozier and you are?" Richie speaks very cocky. Lacey wasn't very amused by his use of words referring to "Hot Stuff" but, meeting people was her cup of tea.

"Hi Richie I'm Lacey, Lacey Hawkins." She smiles taking his hand. Letting go of her hand was something Richie couldn't stand.

She gave him an odd look as to why he didn't want to lose her hand but her hand freed itself.

She turned around crossing her right leg over her left.

She gripped her pencil in her left hand and began to write what the teacher had copied on the board.

Richie on the other hand was too busy admiring her perfect curves, her hair and her adorable 5"1 height.

Her hand writing, was perfect, it was that normal high school girl hand writing that most girls had but she made it a little different. ••

The boys were walking through the hall way talking about Stan being a jew and how he has "no meat"

The boys carefully walked past Henry Bowers and his gang.

"You think he'll sign my yearbook, Dear Rich-" Richie cut himself off as he notice the perfect girl known as "Lacey Hawkins" was walking towards his gang.

He stopped dead in his tracks. "Dude what the hell?" Stan hit his arm.

"Shut, the fuck, up" Richie remarks quietly. The boys then finally drawn their eyes to where Richies were.

"Who is that?" Eddie smiles."Mine so back off" Richie rudely remarks and Eddie holds his hands up in surrender.

"Hey Lacey" Richie waves "Hey Richie" she smiles back walking past the boys.

"Y-yeah who is t-that?" Bill asks. "Oh! I know who that is!" Stan chuckles. "That's Lacey Hawkins, she was new a few days ago she came here all the way from Alabama." The boys nod.

"Hold up, how do you know way more about her than I do?" Richie asks poking Stan's chest.

"Um I have bio with her, we talk all the time." Stan smiles"Here watch"

They boys turn around to face Lacey who is currently at her locker. Stan walks over to Lacey. "Hey Lace! Happy there is no more bio?" He smiles.

"Oh hey Stan from Bio! Yeah definitely i'm pretty sure i failed that class but, my parents don't care so" She smiles.

"Well have a great summer Stan!" She smiles , closes her locker, and walks away.

"Haha told you" Stan walks to Richie with a dropped jaw.

"C'mon guys let's just go," Eddie says turning around walking the way to exit the school.

Greta bumps into Stan causing him to scoff.Greta is the high schools bitch.

She storms into the girls bathroom near Lacey. Knowing Greta is up to something since it's the last day of school Lacey follows her.

Before Greta and her little minions could notice, Lacey stands in the dark corner under a window.

Greta kicks a closed stall, which causes Lacey to jump.

"Are you in there by yourself, or do you have half the guys in the school with you huh slut?" Greta spit at the girl in the stall.

Lacey took a small step closer to see brown combat boots and a navy green bag on the girls side.

"I know you're in there little shit, i can smell you." Greta laughs crossing her arms. "No wonder you don't have any friends."

Lacey  furrows her eyebrows at what the girl just said.

"Hey c'mon leave her alone" She walks in between the stall door and Greta.

"Move you freak" She pushes her out of the way.

She signals one of the girls who starts to fill the trash bag up with water.

"Are you going to pour that on her?!" Lacey yells. "Leave her alone im serious!" She yells trying to move in front of Greta but she moves her arm in the way.

"Move your arm and leave her alone. I'm serious!" Lacey struggled move Greta's arm.

Suddenly Lacey pushes Greta's arm hard enough and walks in front of her.

"I said leave her alone, you gap-toothed bitch" Lacey spits causing all of the girls too "oooh"

"You didn't" Greta says backing Lacey closer to the door.

"I did" Lacey snarls and pushes Greta as hard as she can into the wall of the bathroom.

"C'mon lets run!" Lacey beats on the door of the stall.

Beverly Marsh whom Lacey somewhat knows is revealed.

"Bev!!" Lacey spits. "Lets go!" Lacey starts to run out of the bathroom before a hand grabs her arm and swings her back.

"I wasn't finished with you slut" Greta spits at Bev."Where do you think you're going?" Greta yells getting closer to Bev.

Then Lacey got an idea, to give Greta a taste of her own medicine. "Move" Lacey stomps at the girl holding the "water-filled" trash bag.

Lacey gets Bev's attention. She points at the bag and winks.

"Oh Greta," Bev says putting her hand on her shoulder.

"We just wanted to remind you" Bev says as Greta stops in her tracks and pushes her hand off of her shoulder

"What do you mean?" Greta questions with an attitude.

"We wanted to remind you Greta" Bev slowly says.

Lacey inches up with the trash bag directly behind Greta.

"Remind me what!" Greta yells getting frustrated.

"That you," Bev pauses giving Lacey time to lift up the bag.

"Are trash" Bev smirks. Then on signal Lacey  pours the disgusting liquid out of the bag and running over to Bev.

"Uh!" Greta scoffs. "Hey, at least you smell better!" Lacey smirks earning a chuckle from Bev.

"Have a nice summer, Greta." Bev slowly says as we back out of the bathroom.

"Hey, you know my name but i don't know yours." Bev stops Lacey. "Yeah you are Beverly and I'm Lacey, Lacey Hawkins." She smiles

"Well thank you Lacey, for that." Lacey nods. "Beverly!!" Greta yells storming out of the bathroom.

"Shit!" Lacey spits "Lets run!" Beverly laughs as they run through the school finding and exit.••

The boys are now standing outside of the school, emptying their bags into the trash can.

"Best feeling ever" Stan smiles. "Oh yeah try tickling your pickle for the first time." Richie of course makes a dirty remark causing the boys to roll their eyes.

Suddenly the boys hear light screaming as Bev and Lacey runs and hides behind the trash cans the boys were dumping their stuff in.

"What the hell" Eddie is cut off. "Shut up, dude idk your name" Lacey whispers hitting Eddies leg.

"No but really Lace, what are you doing" Stan asks whispering like the others.

"Well Greta was-" Lacey was cut off by Greta yelling their names.

"LACEY, BEVERLY I KNOW YOU SLUT BAGS ARE SOMEWHERE."

Richie looks at Lacey, Lacey slowly puts her finger over her lips.

Suddenly Greta walks over to Richie. "Hey Losers, have you said the Slut Beverly and the Bitch-Face Lacey?" She storms at them.

"uh i'm not so sure who those people are, but shouldn't i be asking the questions, like why you smell like Eddies Moms underwear?" Richie spits earning a laugh from himself and and soft laugh from Bev and Lacey.

"Uh!"Greta yells and stomps off. "Really Richie?" Eddie tilts his head, questioning why Richie always attacks him and his mom.

"Hey i mean it helped" Richie shrugs.

Lacey and Bev jump up and dusk their jeans off.

"Wow thanks guys, but we should really get going." Bev says nervously as if she had to be somewhere.

"w-wait" Bill says. "We are going to the Sewers tomorrow, i-if you would like w-we c-could use s-some help." bill stutters.

"Help doing what?" Lacey asks confused only because she doesn't know about the Betty or Georgie incident.

"I'll explain later, but do we have to?!" Richie whines.

"I want to start training" He jumps.

"Training for what?" Eddie asks.  "Street Fighter" Richie says back. Eddie  rolls his eyes.

"Is that really how you want to spend the rest of your summer, in an arcade?" Eddie spits.

Richie pauses thinking of something to say, he smirks and spits out another Eddies mom joke.

"Beats spending it inside your mother" Richie laughs. he finishes with a light "oh". He raises his hand towards Stan for a high five but Stan grabs his wrist a slowly lowers it down.

"Well, i'm in!" Lacey smiles standing on her tippy toes.

"Bev?" Bill asks his new red-headed crush. "I would love to guys, but my dad needs me home today, but have fun! and thank you again Lacey" She says walking away and grabbing her cigarettes out of her back pocket.

The boys pick up their bikes and start to walk, with Lacey on Richie's side.

Suddenly a tall boy with muscled arms wraps an arm around Lacey.

Lacey looked up and wanted to scream when she saw the horrific sight. Henry Bowers.

"Get off of me you creep!" Lacey yells pushing Henry away from her causing all the boys to stop and look.

"What? You're with the losers,they are all gay anyways so why don't you come with me." He says violently grabbing her wrist.

"ow!" she cries out as he tightens his grip.

"you s-s-suck bower, l-leave her al-lone!" Bill spits out causing all of the boys to back up.

Suddenly the rest of his gang start attaching with Henry still ahold of Lacey's wrist.

Patrick grabs Richie and Stan's bookbags and causes them to fall back.

"Nice frisbee flamer " Patrick picks up Stan's kippah that had fallen off his head to the ground.

"Give it back!" Stan reaches for it, before Patrick throws it into a bus window that was driving by.

Belch comes up behind Eddie and burps in his ear causing Eddie to scream in cringe.

"Last chance babe, you wanna come with me or.." Henry whispers in Lacey's ear running his hands down her waists.

This, made Richie's blood boil. "Don't fucking touch her!" Richie yells doing the unthinkable., he shoved the Henry Bowers off his feet right onto his ass.

"You're gonna regret that Tozier" Bowers quickly stands on his feet running to Richie before Belch stops him.

"Henry" Belch whispers pointing over to his dad, the chief police officer watching him.

"Let's go guys" He ft says while bumping into Richie causing him to fall losing his glasses.

Lacey is quick in her feet to pick them up for Richie, only because he had helped her.

"Here you go Rich," Lacey kindly hands him his glasses.

Richie was thrown off by Lacey calling him Rich, she had just met him and she is already giving him nicknames.

"Thanks, let's get the hell out of here." Richie jumps in his bike.

"Would you like a ride?" Richie turns around asking Lacey.

"Sure" She nods hopping on the back of Richie's bike.

"Ha i'm getting some and you fags aren't" Richie laughs. With what he said Lacey hits Richie in the chest,"Ha you wish" She playfully rolls her eyes."I do indeed my love." Richie says with a sigh.

The bike ride, was silent. First, Eddie left, then stan, leaving Bill, Richie and Lacey.

"Bye Bill!" Lacey yells as Bill turns down a different street. "Bye!" He yells jumping off his bike to walk it home.

Richie turns down the road to his house. "Hey, how did you know what road I live on?" Lacey laughs. "I don't this is my road." Richie replies.

"It's my road also, my house is right there."She points at a house.

"Holy shit" Richie says under his breath. "My house is right there" Richie points to a house, directly across from Lacey's.

"Haha well, see you later neighbor" Lacey says hopping off of Richie's bike. "Wait, Lace." Richie stammers.

"yeah rich?" she softly asks.

"i know we just started talking and shit but, I wanted to tell you I really like you." he says looking at the ground.

Lacey smiles. "That's really nice of you Rich." She says putting her hand in his shoulder. "Bye!" She waves and turns around and runs up her steps.

"Did i mention you have a nice ass?!" Richie yells.

Lacey shoots him a bird "Don't ruin your chances Tozier!" She laughs and runs into her house.

Richie bites his inner bottom lip in though, and heads home.••

woah wc;2255 this was a long ahhh chapter and i hope you guys enjoyed it!!!