Beverly's POV
"Aunty Mary" I rushed to her "What are you doing back?"
"Beverly! What are you doing out so late? And why are you dirty?" She hugged me
"We were in the woods, mucking around. So why are you here? The conference should still be going" I asked her
"I'll tell you that in a sec" she said when bill came up to us. "You must be the famous Bill, Bev's told me lots about you" she held a hand out and bill shook it.
"Is your mother inside?" She asked bill
"Y-yeah" he answered
He lead my aunt inside and took us to his mom.
"Hi, you must be Mrs Denbrough. I'm Mary, Beverly's Aunty."
"You can just call me Sharon" they shook hands.
"I just want to thank you so much for letting Beverly stay here, and looking after her" Mary thanked
Bill and I exchanged worried looks, I could tell he was think the same as me. 'Would I be leaving tonight? Would I have to say goodbye again?'
"Ok, I'm sorry but what's going on here" I interrupted
"Bev, the truth is, I never was on a business trip" she started
"What?" I looked at her.
"I have been moving our things over here to Derry, since were moving here. I've bought a house not far from here and-" before she could continue I interrupted her "wait! Really! I'm moving back!" I couldn't hide my happiness
"Yes" she told me. I gave her a big hug. After that, bill's mom and Aunt Mary started to talk.
I turned back to Bill, we hurried up stairs then went to his room. As soon as we got in the room we tightly hugged each other.
"No more goodbyes" I said over his shoulder.
"D-does that mean your c-coming back to d-Derry high?" Her then asked over my shoulder
"I guess"
"I guess that a-also means yuh-you won't be sleeping here anymore" he pulled away from the hug
"Yeah, but at least we'll see each other everyday" I said
After a while we went back down stairs and saw bill's mom and my Aunty sitting at the table. "Hey kiddo" Mary noticed me "Uh, Sharon has offered for you to stay one more night, just while I unpack the rest of the boxes"
"Yeah, sure...thanks" I said to Mrs Denbrough
"Ok then, I better be off. I'll see you tomorrow to pick you up" she said to me, then to Mrs denbrough "thank you again"
When she left it was almost 10.00. We had dinner then changed into pjs. As bill was getting dress in the bathroom I sat on his bed and looked around at the room. As he opened the door and came in he saw me looking around the room "w-w-watcha looking at?"
"Just the ceiling" I said laying down on my back. He joined me on the bed and did the same. We both lay on our back just staring up at the roof. I turned my head slightly to the left and looked at bill with tired eyes. He looked back.
Bill's POV
I looked straight into Bev's sky blue eyes. Her straight face said a million things, I gave a slight smile. She smiled back then closed her eyes, falling asleep. She looked peaceful and beautiful. I pulled a blanket over us then closed my own eyes.
I fluttered my eyes open to see Beverly had gotten closer in the night and was leaning her head on my shoulder, then I realised that her arm was over my waist. She moved so I closed my eyes so it would look like I was still asleep. She stiffened then moved her arm and moved over. I pretended to wake up. "M-morning" I said to her
"Morning" she smiled.
After we just lied there for a while she broke the silence "did you need help packing up the mattress?"
"Y-yeah Alright" So we got out of the bed and started to take the sheets off the mattress and chucked them aside then pushed the mattress under my bed. We looked out the window and saw a car pull up outside, Beverly's Aunty got out the car.
Bev took her bag, before she walked out the door stopped her "a-are you s-still coming to the b-Barrons with us?"
"Wouldn't miss it" she walked out.
A minute later she was out the front getting into the car, before she did though she looked up at my window and smiled at me.
Beverly's POV
As we traveled in the car it was quiet. Mary said it wasn't far only a couple of blocks away. "So why are we moving here? What about your job?" I asked her
"Well one reason is, I got offered a job here in Derry, an office job that was better than the last. And the second reason is you, I know what those kids did and what they called you, I'm not stupid" she looked at me quickly then back to the road.
"How'd you find out" I asked nervously
"You really thought you could hide that bike, also your principal contacted me"
We turned down a road and she slowed down, I looked at the surroundings and realised- "wait is this the street?" I asked Mary
"Yeah. The house is just... here" she stopped in a driveway.
"This is the street Stan lives on" I told her
"Well that's good" she said
We got out of the car and I looked at our new house. It was a one story house, it had a garage at the front and a small path down to a Porch and the front door. I awed at the house. I could tell I was going to like it here.
We went inside, the front room was a lounge room then behind a kitchen. It then led in a hall way that went around the whole house. There were three seperate room in the hallway, a bathroom and 2 bedrooms.
"That's my room" Mary pointed to a room "and this, this is your room" she opened a door. All my stuff from Portland was in there, my room had a window that showed the front. It was bright and lively. "This is the best"
"Merry early Christmas" she said to me. I gave her a tight hug then she left me to my room.
An hour or so later I went to Mary in the lounge room "hey aunt Mary. Uh, the guys and I were gonna meet up soon, could I go?" I asked her
"Sure, just be safe, and come back before dark, please. Oh and here's the keys in case I'm not home when you come back" she Thew keys at me. And I put them in my pocket.
"Yup, thanks" I said as I walked out the door. The Barrons weren't far from here. I knew that I probably shouldn't be alone, I knew that, but still went by myself.
I got to the edge of the trees, so far there was nobody else. I started to walk down the hill. As I walked down I herd a stick snap, I spun my head around. "Shit" I said under my breath. I kept walking hoping that maybe I'd get the the meeting point and they'd all be there.
My hope was misplaced. Someone came up behind and pushed me, I fell and rolled down the rest of the hill onto the hard rocks. When I stopped, I was on my back. I gasped for air then grunted. I looked to my side and saw Bowers standing there staring at me. I tried to scurry up but he was on me in a second. He pinned me down, I tried to break free. "Get off me!" I screamed, I struggled. His face was inches from mine, still bloody and messed up as ever. "Hmmm what should I cut first? The throat? Wrists?" He had a twisted grin and reached for his knife. "Help!" I screamed "Bill! Anyone!"
Bill's POV
On the way to the Barrons I met up with all the guys. We were going down the hill through the trees.
"Where's Bev?" Ben asked
"H-her Aunty came b-back" I told them
"Does that mean she left?" Mike questioned
"No, actually s-s-she's moving back"
"Really! That's good" stan said.
Before anyone could say something more there was a scream in the distance "Help!"
We all stood still and wondered where the sound came from. "Bill!" My eyes widened
"That was Beverly!" Eddie realised. With in a second we dropped our bikes and ran, when we got to the bottom of the hill, we all stopped for a split second and took in what we were seeing. Henry, pinning Beverly with a pocket knife sitting next to her cheek. Before I thought anymore I rushed to them and kicked bowers's head. He was knocked off beverly and landed in the water, Bev gasped for air. We all rushed to her and surrounded her. She propped her self up and breathed heavily. We all hugged her. I looked back to where Bowers should be. He was not there. "Where'd he go?" I said out loud. There was no trace of him, no water puddles, no footprints, nothing.
"A-are you ok Bev?" I turned to her
"Yeah, thanks to you" Richie helped her get to her feet.
"What happened?" Ben asked her
"Bowers came up behind, pushed me and I fell down the hill" she explained
"That explains the scapes and cuts on your face" Richie said. Bev touched her cheek where there was the graze, then looked at her finger and saw the blood.
"Damit" she whispered to herself
" can we just leave. Whenever we come here now something bad always happens" Eddie pointed out.
"Yeah like last time" Stan looked to Bev's leg.
"Where should we go then?" Mike asked
"W-we could go back to my place" I shrugged
"Or mine" Bev suggested
"Where is it?" Stan asked
"Actually stan, it's not far from you, like two 2 or 3 houses down"
"Well lets go there then" Richie set off up the hill, Eddie in toe. Before Bev and I started walking I took her hand and pulled her back.
"A-are you s-sure your ok?"
"It's not the first time something like that's happened to me, before... my dad... you learn to let it go" she said to me with a sigh. "Thank you, again"
I looked down, smiling. She got closer and kissed me on the lips. It wasn't long before we herd richie's voice "Will you two hurry the fuck up! Jesus we all know your like in a relationship and all but god"
"Alright were coming, asshole" Beverly looked back at him.
We went up the hill, collected the bikes and started following Bev and Stan back to their street. I walked up to Stan and Bev.
"Y-you two should walk home and stay t-together since you b-b-basically live next to each other" I suggested
"Probably a good idea... seeming what just happened there... and with Eddie" Bev said
"What happened with Eddie?" Stan asked, sudden alert on his face.
We told Stan what happened, he as we walked he listened and probably started to wish he hadn't asked. Stan had always been the frightened one in the group, and ever since the flute lady, it was worse.
"That explains why he's being quiet" stan said while we all looked over our shoulders to Eddie, who hung his head low as he walked.
Something broke inside him when pennywise kidnaped him, he hasn't been the same. I guess it was only yesterday.
"Give it a few days" Bev said, knowing what I was thinking.
We arrived at a medium sized one story house, across the road and two doors down from Stan's house. "My Aunt isn't home"
"Is that good?" Mike asked
"Yeah, she won't have to see my bloody face" She took out keys from her pocket and unlocked the door, we all flooded inside.
"This is nicer than your old place" Richie commented, I wacked the back of my hand on his shoulder.
"You guys just wait in here" she said gesturing to the lounge room "and I'm going to go clean my face" she walked away
"So s-stan now you live near Bev you g-guys can keep an eye on each other" I said
"You worried about your girlfriend?" Richie snickered, stan rolled his eyes at Richie and I just stared.
"No offence bill but I wouldn't be worried about Bev" Ben raised his voice
"Yeah, she's pretty badass" Mike agreed with ben
"I k-know she's badass, but that won't stop b-Bowers or p-p-p-p-" I cut myself off. The stutter had gotten the best of me, nobody was daring to glance at me. "I'm going to g-go check on B-Bev" I walked away.
I walked passed two bed rooms then came across Bev staring in the mirror of the bathroom wiping away blood off her cheek with a wet tissue.
"Y-y-you ok?" I stepped into the bathroom
"Yeah. Just trying to hide the evidence" she smirked, then winced from the graze.
We herd the boys chatter through the halls but couldn't understand the words, we looked at each other sceptically. She splashed the graze with water then we walked out back to the lounge area.
"What are you guys talking about?" Bev asked
"We were just thinking on how we can stop IT" ben told us
"I thought we couldn't" she responded
"That's what we thought. But then recalling the 27 years and pennywise saying to us about him having a long rest- when he had bill- we figured out that maybe it will go away when this year is over" Richie explained
"Maybe" Eddie repeated
"If that's the case t-then we only have t-to d-deal with it for a-another two w-w-weeks" I said
"A lot can happen in two weeks" mike added
Just then rain started to pour down on the roof and I started to wonder if in a weeks time, on Christmas Day, if it would snow.
