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Chapter 36

🎈CHAPTER 36🎈

•°Corinne's POV°•

"We put the tokens in the thing. That's good, right?" Richie asks.

"We did it right?" Eddie asks, Beverly had some trouble with her flashlight, as she pointed it towards the spikes, we all jumped back screaming, as Pennywise was staring down at us laughing.

"Shit! Shit!"

"I knew all of this felt too easy." I mutter under my breath, Ben must've heard me, because he gave me a look, before looking back at Pennywise.

"Oh, did it work, Mikey? Did it work?" Pennywise mockingly asks the Hanlon man laughing in amusement. "Tell them why your silly little ritual didn't work. Tell them it's all just a... What's the word, Eds? Gazebo?" Pennywise adds, I couldn't help but wonder what the damn clown was going on about.

"Mike, what's he talking about?" Eddie was the one to ask him.

"M-mikey?" Bill asks.

"Oh, Mikey, you never showed them the fourth side, did you?" Pennywise asks, laughing afterwards. "Didn't want them to know what actually happened to the poor Shokopiwah? Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum." Pennywise states in amusement.

"Fuck, Mickey. You lied to us, again?" Bill questions the man who hasn't said a word since Pennywise appeared.

"N-no, but they didn't believe! They didn't believe they could kill him. That's why it didn't work back then!" Mike tries to explain himself, but I was very disappointed in him.

"Are you fucking kidding me, Mike?" Richie shouts.

"We hurt him." Mike says.

"Fuck!"

"Fuck you, Mikey!"

"I needed something, anything for us to remember. Anything for us to believe." Mike tries to explain why he didn't tell us the truth, but it didn't help one bit.

"God, damn it!"

"Fuck!"

Pennywise was laughing at us, enjoy that we weren't standing together, but fighting among each other. The Deadlights came from the ground once more, moving upwards, swirling around each other, and they were giving off a blue light, which didn't look like a good thing.

"The Deadlights! Don't look at them!" Beverly yells.

Pennywise came out from behind the spikes, looking like a big gigantic spider, of course it had to look like a damn spider. "For 27 years, I dreamt of you. I craved you. Oh, I've missed you!" Pennywise states, laughing, sounding like some sort of obsessed psycho ex boyfriend.

"Mike, get back." Eddie says, as we walked backwards to put some distance between us and the clown spider.

"Waiting for this very moment." Pennywise says.

"Mikey! You gotta move, Mikey!" Bill shouts to Mike who still hasn't moved from the previous spot he was standing at.

"Sorry. I'm sorry, guys." Mike says.

"Damn it, Mike. This is no time to fucking apologize, get your ass over here." I shout.

"Mike, come on, man!"

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

"Time to float!" Pennywise says lifting its arm, it transformed into one of it's legs with a very sharp end, that would pierce right through us.

"Oh, shit!"

"Sorry."

It aimed at Mike, striking, but Bill ran pushing him out of the way just in time. "Mike, come on, get up! Get up!" Eddie says, as they went to help him up.

"Go, go!"

"Run!"

We ran in circles trying to get away from it, but it was hot on our trail, laughing and snarling at us. His arm stretched out, hitting the ground close to us all, separating us from each other.

Ben and I ran into one of the many openings, so that we won't get to us. "Go, go, go!" Ben yells, making sure I kept on running, but we got to a dead end.

"Where did that fucker go?" I ask, looking towards the way we just came.

"Don't worry. We'll find a way out." Ben says, but it didn't help calm my nerves.

"We're trapped." Ben points out after looking around for a way out. "Where are we suppose to go now?" I ask, still shaken up, the ground beneath our feet started rumbling, Ben got pulled away from me, I couldn't even stop it, as I myself got pulled back, almost felt like i was flying.

I hit my back against a wall, slamming the air out of me, it was our old house's closet, there was no windows or anything, the only door there was slammed shut, the door locked.

I backed into the corner waiting for whatever was about to happen next, and suddenly spiders came out of the wall and from under the door, fulling up the small space at a very rapid pace.

I got on the chair, that was in the corner trying to get away, but the room kept on fulling up with those little spiders. Once I felt them touching my skin, is also when I heard Pennywise's laughter ringing through my brain, it was like he was among all these others.

The feeling of them crawling on me had me frozen, it was a terrible feeling, but it got worse as they started biting me as well, I couldn't help but scream out in fear.

I couldn't believe I was about to be suffocated by spider, this wasn't how I was planning on dying, as my entire body has already been covered, I let out a terrible scream of terror, why did it have to be spiders.

"Corinne!"

Pennywise's laughter got louder, like it was mocking me, unwanted tears started running down my face, I closed my eyes, holding my breath as i felt those things on my face.

"Corinne, can you hear me? Cori, don't give up." I heard Ben shouting out towards me just before the room was completely covered with the spiders, and I was buried in the middle of the closet full of them.

"Corinne, I love you." Ben shouts from wherever he was, and I knew at that very moment I can't give up, right now, I have to fight for my happiness.

"Ben!" I shout, with a bit of struggle I took out my lighter, lighting them on fire, which made all of them disappear, looking down at myself i was covered in small bite marks, but i didn't have time for that, i had to save Ben.

"Your hair is winter fire. January embers. My heart... My heart... No!"

I kicked down the door, without any struggle, only to see Ben's hand sticking out of the, the rest of him already buried.

"Ben!" I shout, I was able to hear his screams coming from the sand.

"Ben!" I reached for his hand, until I was able to grasp it, with all my mighty I pulled him out of the sand, that was trying to swallow him hole, when I got him out, we fell backwards on the ground of the tunnels we were in. Ben landed on top of me, I stared up into his eyes, finally remembering what he yelled out to me.

"January embers." I mutter softly.

"My heart burns there, too." Ben says with a soft smile on his face, I reached forward to touch his face. "I love you too, Ben." I say, giving him my answer, but of course our moment was ruined by Pennywise's whooping echoing through the passageways.

Ben got up helping me up too, and we ran towards the way we came, to get to the others.

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