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Pairing(s): none.

Warning(s): none.

Word Count: 104.


Beverly shrugs when her aunt asks where that cut on her hand came from. Explaining a blood pact is going to get her tossed right into the looney bin.

Everyone is willing to pretend: his death was really an accident, her secrecy is merely a result of the trauma, and her relationship with all those boys were likely just innocent friendships.

A killer clown would probably fall under Beverly attempting to deal with her trauma by turning her father into something else. Why did she pick a clown, though?

Explaining things away is much easier for everyone. It doesn't make her feel better, though.