City Fool [Mike Hanlon]

𝗍 𝗐 𝖾 𝗅 𝗏 𝖾

CHAPTER TWELVE: MY DICK'S BIGGER THAN YOURS

     BILL and Ginny were pedaling as quickly as they could in order to get to the house on Neibolt Street. That's where It lived meaning Betty and Georgie had to be there.

"We'll be okay Ginny even if it's just us. They don't understand what we're going through," Bill told the girl as the two turned a corner.

Ginny knew no one else in their friend group besides Bill truly knew how she felt with losing someone the way the two did. The two know what it felt like to lose a person close to them and not know how or why. Most of the people in town told the two to get over it or that they weren't the only ones to lose someone. And it's true. They weren't the only two to lose someone but that doesn't cause the pain to shrink. It doesn't cause the pain to go away.

Sometimes it causes the pain to get worse because as soon as there's a new kid missing no one cares to look for the other missing kids. It's like the entire town forgets them. Hell no one even bothered looking into Patrick Hockstetter.

"He t-thrusts his fists against the p-post-st and still insists he sees the gho-gho-ghost," Bill muttered while the pair walked up to the house.

As the two got to the front door, Beverly called out, stopping Bill.

"Look you don't have to come in with us. But what happens when another Georgie goes missing or another Betty or another Ed Corcoran or one of us. Are you just gonna pretend it isn't happening like everyone else in this town? Because I can't. And neither can Ginny. I go home and all I see is Georgie isn't there. His clothes, his toys, his stupid stuffed animals, but he isn't," Bill said. "So walking into this house, for us, is easier than walking into our own or our friends," Bill finished.

"He didn't stutter once," Richie muttered as he stared at the two.

Some of their friends began to follow Bill and Ginny until Stan stopped them. He suggested they keep a look out just in case anything bad happened. Ginny agreed, having a feeling that something would go bad.

When asked who wanted to stay and be a lookout, everyone, with the exception of Bill and the girls, raised their hand. Richie muttered profanities under his breath as the group decided to draw straws. He always had the luck of drawing the short straw.

In the end Richie and Eddie accompanied Bill into the house while the others waited outside. Richie and Mike had convinced Ginny to stay outside with the others and so she sat in the steps in between Mike and Stan.

As the three boys walked through the front door Ginny heard Richie say, "I can't believe I pulled the short straw. You guys are lucky you're not measuring dicks."

"Richie, please, my dick's bigger than yours," Ginny yelled back at him, getting a "shut up" in response.

After a few moments of silence, Ginny began wondering if she should have gone in with the boys. Voicing this to the group they all reminded her that they were all there in case something went wrong.