JUNE 1989

ALL OF THEM WERE AT THE QUARRY the next day and the boys were standing at the edge. Sarah was changing out of her red overalls and blue shirt, leaving only her bra and underwear.

She was about to go meet the guys but she saw Beverly.

"You came." Sarah says smiling.

"Couldn't leave you alone with these guys. Come on."

The girls walk over to where the guys are and see them all still standing there, nervous to jump.

"Alright, who's first?" Bill asked.

"We'll go." Beverly says making all the guys turn around and face the two red heads.

Beverly takes off her dress leaving her in her bra and underwear too.

"Sissies." Sarah says and both Beverly and her run to the edge and jump off.

"What the fuck!" Richie yells as both girls splash into the water. "Holy shit. We just got showed up by two girls!"

"Do we have to do that now?" Stan asks nervously.

"Come on!" Beverly shouts.

"Don't be a pussy Tozier." Sarah says swimming on her back.

One by one they all jumped down to meet up with the girls. When Richie jumped he immediately went over to Sarah and lifted her on his shoulders.

"Richie!"

"Chicken fight."

Beverly got on Bill's shoulders and began to fight the two.

"Give up Marsh?" Sarah asks laughing.

"In your dreams, Denbrough."

As the girls grabbed onto each other's shoulders eventually Sarah had knocked Beverly off and Sarah and Richie cheering since they won. Richie smirked and then threw Sarah off his shoulders and went into the water. She swam next to Eddie, Stan, and Richie and something touched their feet.

"What the fuck?" Richie exclaims.

"Something just touched my foot, right here." Stanley says.

"Me too." Sarah agrees.

Richie and Bill go underwater and come back up, everyone wondered what it was.

"It's just a turtle." Bill says.

For an hour all of them were having fun splashing in the water and swimming but eventually they all grabbed their stuff from the cliff and went over to the rocks.

Beverly and Sarah were both sunbathing and everyone was looking at them. Well Stan, Eddie, Richie, and Ben were looking at Beverly and Sarah. Bill was mostly staring at Beverly and Richie was mostly looking at Sarah. The sound of music is what could be heard in the background since Sarah and Bill were lucky enough to snatch a cassette player from the garage.

Beverly and Sarah turn to the boys and saw them all look away, but both girls definitely knew they were staring. Richie looked away and saw Ben's backpack.

"News flash, Ben. School's out for summa!"

"Oh, that? That's not school stuff."

Richie grabbed a post card and looked at it.

"Who gave you this?"

"No one." Ben says quickly and annoyed grabbing it and stuffing it back into his backpack.

Sarah gets up and go over to the boys, Sarah sat next to Richie and Stan, while Eddie sat right below her. Sarah then began to look at the papers in Ben's bag.

"What's with the history project?" Eddie asked.

"Oh, well.. When I first moved here, I didn't have anyone to hang out with, so I just started spending time in the library. I still do but usually Sarah would come with me."

"You went to the library? On purpose?" Richie asked them.

"Yes, there's nothing wrong with learning. The only thing is you can't learn." Sarah says teasing and smacking the top of his head with the papers and then passing them to Bill.

"The only thing I need to learn Cherry Bomb is how to get the ladies."

"I wanna see."

Beverly comes over and sits next to Bill, she grabs the papers and looks at them.

"What's the Black Spot?" Stan asked Ben.

"The Black Spot was nightclub that was burned down years ago by that racist cult." Eddie explains.

Sarah looks over at Richie seeing that he's still staring at her.

"Richie... you okay." He snaps out of it and looks at Sarah.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Why?"

"You looked completely out of it."

His face turned red and he continued to look at Ben papers. Sarah looked at him confused but ignored it.

"Y-your hair." Bill says.

Beverly touched her hair, until Ben complimented her. "Your hair is beautiful, Beverly."

"Oh, thanks." She says smiling at Ben and touching her hair again.

"Can I see the papers again, Bill?" Sarah asks and he hand them over to her and Richie is hovering over her.

"Why is it all murders and missing kids?" Richie asked as Sarah flipped through the papers.

"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."

"You read that?" Beverly asked Ben.

"And that's just grown ups. Kids are worse. Way, way worse. I've got more stuff if you wanna see it."

Everyone nodded and began to grab their stuff and head to the Hanscom household.

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They all arrived to Ben's house on their bikes, Ben rushed into his house obviously trying to clean up his room for having unexpected company. Sarah shook her head and followed up the steps and went towards Ben's room.

All the kids followed Sarah and saw Ben breathing heavily and leaning against his closet door.

Eddie and Richie were having a conversation but stopped when seeing Ben's room lined up with artifacts and pictures of Derry History.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wow." Richie says walking over to the pictures next to his dresser.

"Cool, huh?" Ben asks smiling.

"No. No, nothing cool. There's nothing cool." Richie said looking around as Ben's smile fell.

Sarah smacks the back of Richie's head and giving an apologetic look to Ben.

"Don't mind him, I already think it's fascinating. I remember finding a couple of these things with you."

"This is why you have the smarts, Cherry Bomb. And I have all the good looks in this relationship."

"B-beep beep Richie." Bill says and holding up a film in the light showing a map of Derry.

"What's that?" Stan asks Ben walking over to the dresser next to Richie and Sarah.

"Oh, that? That's the charter for Derry Township."

"Nerd alert." Richie says to the guys.

"I think your talking about yourself Richie." Sarah retorts punching his arm lightly.

"No, actually. It's really interesting. Derry started as a beaver trapping camp."

"Still is am I right, boys?"

Sarah rolled her eyes and walked over to Beverly and looked at the stuff on the wall near his bed. She had seen some of this stuff before but some of it was the newly added.

"Ninety-one people signed the charter that made Derry. But later that winter they all disappeared without a trace."

"The entire camp?" Eddie asked him.

"There were rumors of Indians, but no song of an attack. Everybody just thought it was a plague or something. But it's like one day everybody just woke up and left."

As Ben continued to talk, Sarah went over to Beverly and tapped on her shoulder, showing her something behind Ben's door. She silently laughed with Beverly and Beverly decided to close the door to get a better look only for Ben to look at the two.

It was a New Kids on the Block poster plastered on the back of his door. Ben looked at the two pleaded to them not to show the guys. Sarah and Beverly looked at each other and opened the door so they wouldn't see. Ben sighed and turned back to the group of boys.

"W-where was the Well House?" Bill asked Ben.

"I don't know. Somewhere in town, I guess. Why?"

"Nothing."

Bill stares at the pictures one last time on the wall and placed the old film on the table.

"W-We gotta go." Bill says looking at the time seeing it 5:30.

"Right curfew." Sarah says agreeing with Bill.

Ever since the disappearances of the kids there had been a curfew that everyone must be inside at 7:00 PM.

Everyone went outside and began to grab their bikes, before Beverly could leave Sarah stopped her.

"Hey Beverly!"

She stopped and looked at Sarah and saw that she had given her the phone number to her house.

"We should hang out more, we red heads have to stick together. Besides your way cooler than theses guys."

"Sure thing, See ya Sarah."

After Beverly leaves, the group said goodbye to Ben and everyone began to ride home.

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After going to Ben's house, everyone departed ways. It was later at night and both Sarah and Bill were sleeping soundly.

It was raining hard outside and on the roof a leak decided to drip water on both of them, waking them up.

Sarah tuned to Bill and saw that he too had woken up.

"Bill?" Sarah asked.

"Let's get the b-bucket."

The twins get up and head towards the closet outside the hall and grabbed the bucket. Sarah gave Bill a bucket and then she grabbed one herself. She close the closet door both her and Bill turned around until they heard a light click on behind them, it was to Georgie's room.

Sarah and Bill look at each other and placed their bucket on the ground and go to investigate. Bill looks inside and finds nothing there, just a one light that illuminates the room.

Sarah follows Bill as he grabs Georgie's turtle LEGO piece and sits on the bed.

"Bill? You okay?" She asked.

He shook his head as tears began to fall from his cheek. Sarah sat next to Bill and let him cry on her shoulder even letting a few tears fall herself. It's always been hard to accept Georgie's death, that even their parents couldn't handle it. They still had Georgie's room still nice and clean, nothing was ever touched and it looks like he still lives there. Every time their mom came close to the room she'd cry and go to her room. So they decided to never cleaning it out even though it had to be done.

Sarah held Bill for a few minutes until the two heard someone run. Bill and Sarah look at the door and get up slowly. They looked at the floor and saw muddy foot prints that led from Georgie's room to the stairs.

The twins followed the footsteps and led them downstairs, to the kitchen and that's where the foot prints ended. They stood from the door way confused on why the trail ended there. Until a figure in a yellow coat and walkie talkie that screeched ran in front of them making Bill drop the turtle LEGO piece. Sarah and Bill both gasped at the person they saw run.

"Georgie?" Sarah asked.

Bill grabbed Sarah's hand as they both shakily went to find Georgie. They walk into the kitchen and walk to see the basement door open.

"Oh fuck, Bill I don't like this." Sarah says trying to turn back.

"But it's G-Georgie."

Sarah is then tugged forward as Bill helped her to go with him to the basement. As they walked down the stairs they see the basement flooded with water. They walk to edge and hear a splash, making them both turn their eyes to the corner of the room.

"I lost it Billy, don't be mad." Georgie's voice said.

"I-I'm not mad at you." Bill stuttered.

Georgie gives a wicked smile and walks out from the corner and lets the twins see him.

"It just floated off....... but Bill, Sarah, if you come with me, you'll float too."

"Georgie.." Bill whispered out.

Sarah was too scared to say anything, she didn't know how to feel. She saw Georgie smile but she knew better and she closed her eyes and took a deep breathe.

"Your not real!" Sarah says to Georgie.

Georgie then begins to deteriorate and began to look like a dead corpse. His voice began to grow deeper and more strained, his eyes began to turn milky white, and suddenly what made both twins scared was a clown right behind Billy and mouthing the same words as Georgie.

"You'll float too, you'll float too!"

The clown's bright yellow eyes were turning different direction and looking at Sarah and Bill, still mouthing the words "you'll float too." Until Georgie began to scream it at Sarah and Bill. Georgie's mouth began to turn to slush, until he clown grabbed Georgie and pulled him down in the water making him disappear. The clown stood up tall and made a run towards the twins.

"Run!" Sarah said grabbing a frightened Bill and pulling him up the steps before the clown could get them.

Sarah shut the door and began to breathe heavily at the events that just happened. She placed her hands over her face and frightened tears came down her face.

"What the fuck was that?" Sarah asks shakily.

Bill came over to her and held her tightly as she cried and in her mind the clown was still fresh in her mind.