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"Lace" Bill and Bev went to hug Lacey as tears start falling from her eyes.

"H-He broke his promise, he said t-that he wouldn't an-and he did, he's gonna go missing because of me, he's- he's" her voice cracks and she turns and puts her head in Bills chest.

"he's already gone" there they are the only 4 left, Bill, Bev and Lacey and Lacey's broken heart.

It's been two weeks and Lacey has only talked to Bill and Eddie.

She has hung out will Bill 4 times and only talked with Eddie on the phone once.

She's so broken you can hear her crying even if she's not.

She was definitely falling for Richie, and he didn't catch her.

She went to stan's bar mitzvah but didn't speak to him.

Richie also went, but sat on the other side of the church.

She's been nothing but empty for 2 whole weeks.

There was a slight knock on her window. She looked up from her diary, only to see Bill but she could tell something was wrong with him, worry was written in his eyes.

Her window creaked open. "We- we need to g-get everybody t-together all of u-us." He stutters but out of breath.

"why? bill what's wrong?" Lacey sits him down on her bed.

"I-it got Beverly." He spits out.

"what?!" is all Lacey can say only because she is so surprised.

"it g-" Lacey cuts Bill off. "I heard what you said Billy, i'm just surprised."

"Okay so i'll get Eddie and Stan you get everyone else" He says standing up.

"uh-uh, no way, I-i can't stand to look at Richie bill." Lacey starts to tear up.

"you g-guys had something," bill puts a hand on Lacey's shoulder.

"a-and you need to f-fix it" he gives Lacey a warm smile and climbs out of her window.

Lacey sighs and plops down on her bed. --"I'm sorry for hurting you i-" Lacey practices what she will say to Richie as she rides to the arcade, knowing that's where he'll be.

"no he hurt me" she clears her throat. "you shouldn't have hurt me,-uhg no that will make him mad." she gets frustrated then she stops pedaling once she notices she's across the street from the love of her life.

She parks her bike on the sidewalk and walks in.

She looks straight ahead and sees Richie playing street fighter.

She slowly glides to him. "ehem" she clears her throat.

Richie looks over at her for a split second then goes back to his game.

"See that's dude i'm fighting? I'm pretending it's Bill." He says as he furiously presses the buttons on the game.

"We need to talk Richie" She says quietly.

"sure, like i'm going to talk to you," he scoffs. "Richie!" She yells grabbing onto his arm. She looks around noticing she got everyone's attention, including Richie's, then she whispers. "We.....Need...... To Talk"

"Fine" He yanks himself from her grip as they walk outside.

"Look, i- i have to tell you something." She says tapping her foot.

"yeah" Richie scoffs looking around.

"no richie i'm serious," Lacey starts to tear up.

"so what are you gonna tell me, sorry, or you feel bad, or maybe you are here to make me feel shitty, but honestly i don't care to hear what you have to te-" Lacey cuts him off. with something she didn't think she would every day to him.

"I'm in love with you!" She takes a step closer to him. "You're in what?". He says surprisingly.

"I'm in lo-" Richie cuts her off by grabbing her by her waist and pulling her to his chest for kissing her soft lips.

When they pull apart they stare into each others eyes. "But you said it was all a lie so," Lacey trails off. As she turns around to walk always Richie grabs her wrist and spins her around.

"No, it. I was mad, i didn't know what to think, my best friend was taken away i was chased by a clown, I was breaking and you not coming with me, completely broke me." He starts tearing up.

He grabs her hands. "But, Eddie told me, he told me how broken you were. I could see at the Mitzvah, and i'm truly sorry Lacey."

At this point they are both tearing up. "Were you ever going to come back to me?" Lacey asks. "Yeah, while i was gone, i- i was trying to figure out how to tell you that," he sighs.

"that i'm in love with you." they both smile at eachother. Richie embraces his girl in a tight warm hug.

"Is that all you came here for," Richie asks intertwining his hand with hers.

"No." She says now in a serious state. "IT got Beverly." She sighs. "oh shit, we gotta go then, and this time. I WONT lose you." They smile and hop on their bikes and go to Bills.

Once they arrive at Bills, they make a plan. Bill saw exactly where the well was then they just had to go down it.

They bike their way to Neibolt, where many dangerous things happened, well not just dangerous, heartbreaking.

flashback-

Wait- Rich-" Lacey runs up to Richie while he grabs his bike.

"Go away-" He pushes her down. She stares up at him in awe.

Once he realized what he had done he felt terrible. "Oh my gosh Lace, I-" she cuts him off while Bill helps her up.

"No Richie! You, this- this isn't you!" She backs up more, towards Bill.

"well I mean look at you, you've broken all of your promises!" Richie yells. "what?" Lacey tears up.

"You promised Bill we'd find georgie, hmm where is he? oh yeah i don't see him," Richie says sarcastically.

"You promised me you wouldnt leave me again and well, your standing by who? the boy who will GET YOU KILLED!" Richie yells and turns around on his back.

"No Richie" Lacey's voice cracks and a tear rolls down her cheek."You are the one leaving me."

"You've made me like you so much, you-you were my first kiss, I saved you and you've saved me, so if you stay here, it means you still want me and that you want to work this out, but if you leave, it means you lied about wanted me or at least you don't anymore."

Lacey is now almost balling. "Well, " Richie pauses. "I guess i'm a damn good liar." He then turns his head and pedals away with the rest of her best friends leaving Bill and Bev.

"Richie"

end of flashback

Lacey looks over at Richie as they are riding on their bikes. She smiles softly as he slowly holds his hand out. She grabs his hand as they ride one handed together.

When they arrive they all stand in the yard, staring up at the house that had just visited weeks before.

Suddenly Eddies watch beeps, time for his medicine. Well that's what they thought until he took off his fanny pack, and threw it into the yard.

Lacey gave him a soft smile,"Good job Eds" she knew he had finally stood up to his mother."Don't call me that," He smiles back.

Richie notices that some people had weapons. He spotted a empty beer bottle on the ground. He picked it up and hit it on the porch handle hoping to make something sharp, only to see that he failed and was left with just the neck of the bottle.

He looks over at Lacey who then laughed at him then held her hand out. He walked over to her and intertwined his fingers with her.

"I'm ready" Richie pushes his glasses up. "Let's  find that sum' bitch" Bill turns around and deathly stares at Richie.

"No not Bev, the clown! but uh let's find her too." He awkwardly smiles shrugging his shoulder.(this wasn't in the movie but i feel like that's something Richie would say/do lol)

The losers of Derry was walking into that house expecting nightmares and horror, but little did they know, Pennywise had much more up his sleeve oh Henry Bowers too.---Ahhhhh #Racey is back and i'm happy i did it! So this book may have 15 chapters. The next one will be short though! Im not sure how exactly everything is going to work out? it's going to be a stretch but i think i can do it! btw im working on 2 books yeah 2!! Im excited and one will be published when this one is finished:))