You and I... ~Bill Denbrough x reader~

Chapter 5-Derry parade

When i got home i did the same thing as the night before minus the clown,plus a nice 8 hour sleep.

I was awoken by a phone call.

"Hey Y/n,Bill-i mean we wanna know if you wanna hang out with us today?" Eddie said as i heard a giggling Richie.

"Yeh sure what time?" I asked smiling.

"Around eleven? Meet us in town near the derry parade" i said yes and rushed upstairs to get changed.my dad was coming home today so atleast i wouldnt go home to an empty house.

I got changed out of my pyjamas.It wasnt quite the peak of summer so i grabbed a colourful jacket id gotten during autumn.
The night before id put my hair in braids so i carefully undid them and put my hair half up-half down with a white scrunchie.
I slipped my black and white vans on before making my way to town.

Id decided to walk and as I approached i saw Richie,Eddie,Bill and Stan but non of the others.

"Hey" i said as they all turned to look at me.a chorus of 'heys' were heard before i sat down on the curb waiting for the others.

"Bev!" I shouted excitedly and ran to hug her.she looked gorgeous today as always.

We made our way to some posters as Richie was being Richie and annoying some person playing the trumpet while Eddie got some ice cream.

"What you guys talking about" Eddie asked giving the second ice cream to Richie

"What they always talk about" Richie took a lick of his ice cream.

"I-its like s-shes b-b-been forgotten b-because corcorans m-missing" Bill said one hand in his pocket.
I admired his cute face as Ben went on about the different happening over the last 100 years or so.i was only then brought out of this trance when Bill said
"27 years" i quickly shook my head before anyone noticed i was staring for so long but Richie had seem to noticed and sniggered.i rolled my eyes at this.

We decided to move to the park and we all crowded around a greenbench.
Richie,Bill and Eddie sat on their bikes as Mike,Bev and Ben sat normally on the bench.me and Stan sat on the back rest with our feet on the seat of it.

"OK, so, let me get this straight: It comes out from wherever to eat kids for like, a year, and then what? It just goes into hibernation?" Eddie said trying to wrap his head around all of this

"Maybe it's like, what do you call it... Cicadas. You know, the bugs that come out every seventeen years" Stanley tried to figure it out

"My grandfather thinks this town is cursed. He says that all the bad things that happen in this town are because of one thing... an evil thing that feeds off the people in derry" mike explained his grandfathers theory.

"But it can't be one thing. We all saw something different" stanley seemed more confused now
"Maybe. Or maybe It knows what scares us most, and that's what we see" i said,seeming to understand what Mike was trying to explain to the rest of us
"I-I saw a Leper. He was like a walking infection" Eddie shivered when remembering his experience.
"But you didn't. Because it isn't real. Not Eddie's Leper, or-or Bill seeing Georgie, or the woman I keep seeing" Stanley seemed panicked,asif he didnt want to believe it all himself

"She hot?" Richie tried to lighten the mood

"Shut up" i said rolling my eyes

"No, Richie. She's not hot! Her face is all messed up. None of this makes any sense! They're all like bad dreams" Stanley said the last part sounding like he was about to cry.

"I don't think so. I know the difference between a bad dream and real life, okay?" Mike seemed more reasonable then Stan

"What'd you see, you saw something, too?"

"Yes. You guys know that burned down house on Harris Avenue? I was inside when it burned down. Before I was rescued, my mom and dad were trapped in the next room over from me. They were pushing and pounding on the door, trying to get to me But it was too hot. When the firemen finally found them, the skin on their hands had melted down to the bone." We all flinched thinking about the gruesome sight of seeing our own parents like that

"We're all afraid of something." He continued

"You got that right" Richie said glancing over his shoulder at the clowns on the stage

"All right rich what are you afraid of?" Eddie asked

"Clowns" he simply said,pushing his glasses up his face.

"What about you Y/n?" Richie then asked to try and avert the conversation from his own fear

"Mmm-" i debated whether to say

"N-nothing" i stuttered out.no one questioned anymore,assuming its too personal.

We hung out for a bit longer before going our separate ways and planning to meet at Bill the next day.