"as i told you all last week to prepare you. today, we start a new project."
the class erupted in groans as the young teens looked at their friends in disbelief.
"i thought she was joking"
"bro this shit sucks"
"great another thing that will drop my fucking grade"
the quiet girl in the front rolled her eyes, annoyed at her peers. her grades were straight a's and therefore she had nothing to worry about.
"okay, okay, enough already! i had told you all last week. you will be getting penpals! so stalk up on some post stamps and paper because we are going to be writing letters. and not the same boring letters to our principal but to someone across the country. now we've had contact with the -"
this is exactly where the young girl stopped listening and started panicking. penpals were pretty much friends. she didn't have friends. more importantly, she could finally try and be normal and popular and the person would never know.
"-so youll have until christmas and then you can choose if you'd like to continue exchanging letters with your assigned partner."
the girl watched as ger teacher looked down to the paper she was guiding herself off of and found herself hoping that her partner was girl. a boy would see right through her she thought.
"first row come up to get your partners slip information"
she pushed herself soft off her seat and got handed her slip first
Richie Tozier
Male 16
Grade 11
39841 West Broadway
Derry, Maine 70295
"what the fuck ms. peralta?" and just as quickly as she said it she slapped her hand on her mouth and looked up mortified, she had really fucked up.
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alright so not much but the first two chapters will be setting the scene for this book so i hope you dont mind that. i also couldnt figure out richies actual street so i used the derry map to give him a street that would kinda make sense and this would put him right near Greta Bowie's and Sally Mueller's house. im basing myself off of a certain map here lol- m