Poems & Playlists! °•Ben Hanscom•°

Chapter 26

🎈CHAPTER 26🎈

•°Corinne's POV°•

"That's what Pennywise does, right? He fucks with us. So, Stanley's probably fine." Eddie says, as we were headed to the exit, after paying our bills, I could feel myself still shaking, so I just folded my arms, so that no one would notice.

"Hey, Mike. Do you have Stan's number?" Beverly asks, getting her phone out of her purse.

"Yeah."

"Hey, Richie." A little boy calls,  we turned to look, as the kid's attention was on Richie. "How'd you... How'd you know my name?" Richie asks, looking down at the boy.

"The fun's just beginning. Right?" The boy says, smiling, but because his front teeth were just coming out, his smile ended up being creepier than intended.

"What he said, is it..."

"Listen. You think this is funny? All right? Think this is some sort of game, huh? Well, fuck you, all right?" Richie yells, grabbing the kid's arm.

"Rich, be careful, dude." Bill warns from behind him.

"Fuck you! I'm not afraid of you!" Richie kept on yelling, making the kid stare at him bewildered. "The fun's just beginning. The line from your act, dude. I'm a fan." The boy tells him, but I'm pretty sure after the display he just showed, he definitely lost a fan.

"Are those your parents?" Richie asks pointing to the people behind the kid.

"Yeah."

"You want a picture?" Richie asks, the boy's parents called him over. "I think I'm good." He says, going to his parents, Richie stood up straight, looking towards the adults, telling them they have a good kid, the father glared as they walked away.

"Jesus, Richie. You don't remember a line from your own show?" Ben asks him.

"I don't write my own material." Richie states, which made a lot of sense. "I fucking knew it! I fucking knew it!" Eddie says, from the back, sounding proud that he was aware of that fact.

When we got outside, Beverly immediately called Stanley's number, when a woman answered the phone, which turned out to be Stanley's wife. "Hello, Mrs Uris. My name's Beverly Marsh. I apologize for calling, but I'm an old friend of your husband's." Beverly says to the woman on the otherside.

"You lied to us. That's not okay." Eddie snaps at Mike, who was standing a bit further back to where we were standing. "Yeah, first words out of your mouth should have been like, 'Hey man. You want to come to Derry and get murdered?' Cause then I would have said no." Richie states.

"Guys." Ben speaks up from next to me, as we tried to listen in on the phone call since Bev did put it on loudspeaker.

"Fucking entrapment, man." Richie says.

"Oh... He passed." Patty says tearfully, without thinking I grabbed Ben's arm, so that I don't sink in to the ground. "When did it happen?" Beverly asks.

"Yesterday. It was horrible, the way he died. His wrists." Patty says, but the bizarre thing was when both Bev and I said the same thing in sync, a image of stan laying in the bath, his wrists bleeding, leaving blood everywhere. "In the bathtub." Ben immediately looked at both of us, like he heard what we said.

"In the bathtub. I'm sorry I have to go." Patty says, I could hear that she wanted to start crying all over again. "We're all very sorry, Patty." Beverly tells her, she only said thank you and hanged up the phone. Beverly didn't hesitate to take out a cigarette, guess she still had that habit.

"Stanley. Pennywise knew. He knew before we did." Eddie says.

"We have to stop him. I have a plan." Mike states, but at this very moment I could care less about his plan. "I got a plan. Getting the fuck out of Dodge before this ends worse than one of Bill's books. Who's with me?" Richie asks, his hand raised, Eddie putting his hand up aswell.

"We made a promise to each other." Mike reminds them, but it wasn't enough to make them stay. "Let's un-make the promise." Richie states.

"Richie, other people are gonna die." Ben speaks up, which surprised me, that he has already made up his mind. "Other people die every day, man! We don't owe this town shit! Plus, I just remembered I grew up here, like, two hours ago." Richie says in a panicked tone. I went to sit down on the side of the road, Beverly joining me right away. "So, I'm fucking leaving. Fuck this." Richie adds, walking towards his car.

"I'm sorry, man, I'm with Richie." Eddie states.

"Eds, please."

"Listen. What? We stay, we die, that's it? I'm gonna go back to the inn, I'm gonna pack up my shit, and I'm gonna drive to my home. I'm sorry, man. Good luck." Eddie says, walking away, to his car as well.

"No, Eddie. Please. Please, Eddie. Eddie, wait!" Mike yells, but Eddie completely ignored him.

Ben came crouching down infront of us. "You guys okay?" He asks, looking at both of us.

"I'm gonna head back to the Town house, too." Beverly says, getting up. "You two coming?" She asks, I got up following behind her, Ben not far behind.

"Yeah."

"You should have told us, Mikey." Ben says to the Hanlon man, as we walked back to the Inn, I decided to leave the car there, i would come and get it in the morning.

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