So this is my Second Stephen King based Fanfiction! All material goes to the magnificent Stephen King whom I have idolized since I started writing original works and then Fanfiction. I will be using a script from the 1980 film as reference so I suppose I should give a quick shout of to the amazing Stanley Kubrick and his surreal movie making, he won't see it but he shall be acknowledged none the less. And with that ladies and Gents, away we go.

Chapter 1: The New Job.

"Sherry…Sherry."

Sherry bobbed her head up and down with lank blank hair falling in front of her face like a curtain, unaware that her music was so loud her mother was trying to get her attention.

"Sheryl!"

Sherry finally heard the semi-shrill voice and pulled off her head phone before turning off her new Walkman, which had been a gift from her father when he told her that they may be moving again, hoping the gift would soften the blow. "What?"

The mother frowned, "would you turn that noise down? You're going to damage your hearing if you listen to it that loud." Sherry rolled her eyes and moved the little knob slowly to lower the volume. "And go get dressed. Just because it's the weekend doesn't mean you get to sit around like a bum" Standing up with a groan the seventeen year old finished the rest of her tea, which was now lukewarm, and ruffled Danny's curls as she passed.

"That tv is killing your brain cells you know" she warned him and he glanced at her but didn't say anything. "Dad says that rock and roll is going to ruin your morals." Danny informed her in return as she secured the headphones back over her ears and blasted the rest of Hit Me With Your Best Shot, mouthing the lyrics along.

"Sherry, dressed" Mom called from the kitchen and the teen grumbled under her breath as she made for her bedroom and closed the door harder then she had meant to, making the fake feather boas and Keep Out poster then decorated it fluttering in the slight breeze.

Stripping of her long Pj pants and baggy t-shirt and trading up for a baggy Pastel teal sweat and crème high waist pants she then pulled her waist length, ink black hair into a high pony tail with a teal scrunchy. Even though like other teenagers she tried to follow the latest fashions she never permed or teased her hair because she considered it her best feature, that and her cheek bones, both of which she got from her mother.

Her room was decorated with MTV posters and scarves tied around the tall frames of her bed. A sleek cherry red guitar rested on its stand in the corner surrounded by dirty clothes, and a small portable TV sat on her dresser. After they moved there it took her three days to decorate her room and part of her didn't want her father to get the job so they didn't have to move again.

Moving to her mirror she grabbed a white plastic bottle of saline solution and a cotton ball and wet the cotton. Bending her left ear to the side she dabbed and rubbed at the fresh cartilage piecing, a small silver ring to compliment the diamond stud on either lobe combing her bangs meticulously to one side she applied minimal make up and popped her lips after rubbing on light pink lip gloss.

The phone sitting by her bed on the side table rang loudly and was echoed by the one in the living room. "I Got It Mom!" she yelled at the top of her lungs and picked up the white plastic phone from the receiver. "Hello?"

"Hey there Button."

"Hi Daddy" Sherry said cheerfully. "How's to going up there?"

"Pretty good, I'm still up at the Hotel and I've got an awful lot to go through so I don't think I'm going to be able to get home before nine or ten."

Sherry twisted the corkscrew chord around her arm. "So did you get the Job?" she asked eagerly. "Yes I did Sugar" She could hear the smile in his voice. Sheryl and her father had always had a very special bond. Being the first born and only daughter, she was often doted on by Jack, almost to the point of Wendy calling it spoiling.

"You're going to love it up here Sher, the Mountains are amazing and the Hotel is huge." Sherry smiled, "Sound's great, you wanna talk to mom?" there was a crackle on the other end, "Nah, just tell her I won't be home until late, okay Button?"

"Okay dad. I love you. See you tonight" She said and Jack returned it over the line before hanging up. Sherry exited the room and made for the living room. "Who was it sweetie?" Wendy asked as her daughter entered and found her sitting at the dining room table smoking.

"Daddy, he says he got the Job, and he won't be home until late. Probably nine or ten." Wendy smiled. "that's fantastic," Wendy's face fell a little bit but kept the same smile when she realized he had hung up without talking to her. "I guess we're going to have to pack up again."

"Yeah" Sherry sighed pensively and Wendy tapped off the ashes from her cigarette, "Ah come on Sherry, It won't be so bad, after all you said you weren't getting on that well with the girls at school."

"yea but…" she sighed, "I was just thinking about Todd."

Tod Manning, Sherry's boyfriend, didn't know about her father's new employment because Sherry didn't want to tell him until she was sure. The phone rang again and Wendy picked it up. "Hello?" She paused. "Oh hey Todd, Yea yea she's right here" She handed the raven haired teen the phone with an encouraging smile.

"Hey Todd" Sherry held the phone up to her left ear and hissed when the plastic hit the still tender ring before switching to her right side.

"Hey there beautiful" that ever so charming voice called over the phone. "And how is my best girl this morning?" Sherry blushed even though he wasn't there, "She's good, Hey Todd I gotta tell you…"

"I was thinkin' you and I could head up to the drive-in tonight around eight, they're having one of those old horror movie marathons so maybe we could make fun of them." Sherry grinned, "Yea that sounds great, Listen There's something I really gotta tell you."

"Yea Babe?"

"Uh… "She bit her lip, "My Dad just got a new job, up in the mountains at a hotel over the winter. So that means the entire family will have to move up there."

"Ah shit" Todd cursed. "For how long?"

"Who knows, until spring probably?" Sherri frowned, "I know It sucks but I don't really have a choice here." she stood up and twisted the long chord. "I'll see you tonight alright?"

"Hey" Todd said,
"Yea?"

"I love you."

Sherry grinned, "I love you to, Babe."

"You know what you could do to soften the blow?"

"What could I do?"

"Sing the song."

Sherry looked around and her mother looked at her expectantly, "Not here baby."

"Ah come on!"

"Todd."

"Please?"

"My mom's right here!" she whispered

"I'm not hanging up the phone until you sing the song so…"

Sherry sighed and looked at her mom and smiled sheepishly before picking up the receiver and carrying it into the kitchen. Hopping up on the edge of the counter she looked round the corner before sighing. "Mmonzdetip" she muttered and Tod laughed, "aw come on don't be light that"

Sherry grinned. "I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation. And the only explanation I can find." She sang, "Is the love that I've found ever since you came around, your love's put me on the top of the world."

Todd laughed on the other side, "There's my girl. I'll pick you up around seven thirty huh?"

"Okay, Love you"

"love you to." Todd hung up and so did she and she carried the phone back into the living room.
"I'm going out with Tod tonight." She informed her mother, "Don't you wanna see your dad back?" Wendy asked. Sherry didn't answer as she walked to her room, passing the bathroom and glancing in then stopping cold.

"Oh my God!" she shrieked at the sight of Danny thrashing and moaning on the floor like he was having a seizure. "Mom, Call the doctor!" She called as her mom ran down the hall, "Danny's having some sort of fit." The small boy babbled and thrashed on the tile floor and Sherry seized his arms and pinned his legs in place so he wouldn't hurt himself while Wendy rushed for the phone.

"Danny? Danny!" she held his head straight, "Danny snap out of it!" Danny stopped instantly and froze stiff as a plank. "Danny? Danny can you hear me?" his big eyes stared up at her but didn't see, a look of horror fixed in his pupils until he suddenly went limp, his eyes rolling into the back of his head. "Oh God, okay uh." She gulped, three years of life guard training instantly leaving her mind. "Let's go Doc." She pushed her arms under his shoulders and legs and carried him into his room and laid him on his bed, head propped up.

Wendy ran in with the phone still in her hand. "what happened to him?!" she cried, "I don't know, I think he might have had a seizure or something." They waited for Danny to wake up while waiting for the doctor, who came fifteen minutes later.

The door bell rang and Sherry ran to get it then led the woman into Danny's room, the boy had woken up a few minutes after his fit and Wendy sent Sherry to do the dishes while the exam took place. Sherry strained to hear what was going on until Danny's room door shut and the doctor followed her mother into the living room. "Sherry, could you put on another pot off coffee please?" Wendy popped her head in to ask and Sherry nodded and filled the maker with water and pushing the button before exiting and lingering just outside of the Living room to listen in

Apparently the doctor chalked it all up to some unexplained emotional fluke that sent her kid brother into a frenzy. Then they started talking about Danny's friend Tony. "Tell me did the appearance of Danny's imaginary friend…"

"Tony" Sherry put in, "yes Tony, Happen to coincide with the move?" Wendy shook her head, "No uh, let's see, I guess Tony started talking to Tony about the time we put him in nursery school."

"Did Danny adjust well to school?"

Sherry scoffed audibly and Wendy cast her a chastising look before turning back to the good doctor, "No, he didn't like it all that much, then he had his injury and we had to pull him out for a while and… yea I guess that's about the time I noticed he was talking to Tony."

"It was earlier." Sherry put in, "He didn't like school because the other kids pick on him for talkin' to Tony in class and at recess." The doctor nodded, "what sort of Injury did Danny have."

Wendy took a draw from her cigarette, "uh, he dislocated his shoulder." The doctor looked befuddled, "however did he manage that?"

Wendy bit her lip and glanced at Sherry, "Honey, why don't you go on to your room?" Sherry clenched her jaw and crossed her arms, "I was there when it happened, remember?" the teen looked at the Doctor, "there was an accident."

The doctor looked at Wendy, "accident?"

Wendy put on a cheerful smile, "Well it's just one of those things. You know... purely an accident, um. My husband had oh... been drinking, and he came home about three hours late, so he wasn't exactly in the greatest mood that night." She took another drag from the cigarette, "And well Danny had scattered some of his school papers all over the room...and my husband grabbed his arm, you know, and pulled him away from them."

She shook her head suddenly, "It's...it's just the sort of thing you do a hundred times with a child - you know, in a park or on the streets - but on this particular occasion my husband just..."

"He didn't mean to" Sherry jumped in to her father's defense and Wendy sighed, "I never said he did." She muttered before smiling again, "Anyway something good did come from it because he told me, Wendy, I'm never going to touch another drop, and if I do you can leave me. And he didn't, and he hasn't, and he hasn't had a drop of alcohol in five months"

The doctor left and Sherry grabbed her coat and purse, "I'm going out with some friends." She told her mother on the way out the door, "I'll be home in a few hours"

"Sheryl…"

"Yea mom?"

"You know I don't blame your father for what happened right?"

Sherry paused and gripped the cold metal handle of the screen door, "Yea I know." She forced out. "Have a good time honey."

"I will"

"I love…"

Wendy didn't get to finish her farewell when the sound of the screen door meeting the door frame cut her off, "…you" she sighed and put out her cigarette before standing and going to check on Danny.

Yea, so Sherry is kind of a bitch in that last part. But you know character flaws and all that, plus it's fairly common for a child to favor one parent over another and vice versa so we can all guess who Sherry favors huh? More coming soon if I get good reviews on this chapter, or you know just not get any bad reviews.