Bill's POV
Its now 7.30pm on the 31st of December and I was about to leave my house to meet up with everyone when my mom stopped me
"Ok, so we'll meet you at the memorial park at
12.30am tomorrow. We'll be in our normal picnic spot"
"Yes mom I k-k-know" I rolled my eyes reminding her she's reminded me 15 times.
"Ok, see you then" she let me go
I went to the garage and took my bike and headed for our meeting spot, it was already dark and the roads were still slippery but I made do. The wind flew threw my hair and the coldness sinked threw my dark blue jumper as I peddled my way down the road near the kissing bridge. Once I got there I went down the hill and walked away from the bright red bridge to see the losers sitting around a small fire.
"Hey" I said as I dropped my bike where everyone else's were. Then I noticed that Bev and Stan weren't here yet.
"you didn't run into Beverly or Stan on your way?" Richie asked
"Yeah richie I d-did. I just peddled away from my girlfriend and Stan then left them b-b-behind. No I didn't run into t-them!" They all looked shocked, I creased my eyebrows "what?" I asked
"We just haven't herd you call her your girl friend before" Mike answered
"Yeah, we've said it and teased you. But you yourself haven't said it" Richie shrugged
"W-w-well I just did" I sat down on a log around the fire.
"So what are we doing tonight?" Ben wondered
"Anything but splitting up" Eddie spoke up
"If we're right this s-should be that last day pennywise can terrorise Derry until 27 years p-p-passes" I explained
Ben looked up behind me. "They're here" he said
I stood up and turned around to see both Stan and Bev walking towards us with their bikes. When they got closer Bev came straight to me and hugged me "hey" she said pulling away from the embrace.
"W-what was that fuh-or?" I asked.
She grinned "haven't seen you in a while" then shrugged
"It was only f-f-ive days"
She grinned and walked off to the group and sat down.
"Look at this guys, we got the place to our self this year" Richie spoke up
"You came here last year too?" Ben asked
"We always come here for New Years" Eddie told them. "But before it was always just me, richie, stan and bill"
I sat down next to bev.
"What did you guys do?" Beverly asked
"M-mainly snowball fights" I admitted
At that moment Richie got up and started to walk to the trees
"Where are you going?" Eddie asked
"I need to pee" Richie shouted back
We returned to our conversation about what we should do when I saw Richie coming back with a huge amount of snow gathers in his arms, he tried his best to put a finger to his lips telling us not to tell Eddie who he was sneaking up on.
When he was right behind Eddie he dropped all the snow on Eddie's head and chuckled. Eddie sat there frozen in shock then furiously turned around "seriously!" He then grabbed snow off the ground of pegged it right at Richie. The snow hit his chest, he fell over tripping in a ditch of snow.
Richie got some snow shaped it in a ball and aimed for Eddie but ended up hitting Bev in the leg.
"Oh your in for it!" She got up.
Eventually I was dragged into the fight and so was everyone else, it was every man and woman for their self.
When the fight ended we decided we'd build a snowman. He had in-graved eyes and mouth and a stick for a nose.
We sat back down taking a short break.
"Next year is gonna be good" Richie commented
"Yeah no bowers ,no pennywise and Bevs back" stan added
As we talked about the upcoming year I could see something moving behind mike, I shifted so I could see behind him, when I still couldn't see I stood up, everyone saw this And saw what I was staring at. The snowman changing shape.
"Go go go!" Eddie said quickly standing up and running away
"Shit" Beverly graves my hand and started running with Eddie and everyone else.
I looked back, The snowman was no longer a snowman it was pennywise and he was catching up to us.
"If we get to people he won't follow" Bev shouted
We all ran into the tree line making it harder for him to see us but also making it harder for us to see him. I turned around and it was not there. I stopped running. "I-is it gone?" I asked
That's when a scream broke the cold silence
"Where's Eddie?" Richie then said, we all looked around, he was no where to be seen.
Richie started running back to where we were
"Richie!" Mike called then ran after him.
"Mike, Richie wait!" Ben followed them.
"We should go see if he's alright" stan said.
"Yeah lets go" Bev agreed, we started running, just before we left the tree line another scream in the direction where we just came from. Then another and another.
"That was richie!" Stan said.
"And the other one was ben" Beverly added
Richie's POV
I had to find Eddie- I had to.
I could hear mike and Ben chasing after me but I would not stop Eddie was in trouble. I started to slow down, not knowing where I was going anymore and mike and Ben finally caught up to me, they both stopped and panted. I looked around for any signs of struggle, nothing.
I looked into the distance and saw someone- no that wasn't just someone it was "Eddie!" I said starting to walk towards him. He was just standing there like a statue. When I got closer I realised he wasn't standing, he was floating.
"Oh shit, fuck Eddie, eddie can you hear me?" I looked up to his white eyes
"Richie!" I herd mike scream right before a hand grabbed my neck from the back and lifted me. The arm twisted so I faced it. It's face had a grin on it
"Give me back Eddie asshole" I managed to say
"No, I'll take him and I'll take you and all your friends" it said, then it opened its mouth wider and wider until it's face stretched out and it was completely open with rows and rows of teeth and three glowing lights- then everything went black.
Mike's POV
Richie had run off somewhere by himself. Who knows where he was and what was happening to him. Ben and I were back to back circling our area making sure nothing could sneak up on us.
"See Anything ben?" I asked. No response. "Ben?" I turned around and saw that he was gone. Then laughter. A sinister laugh coming from every direction. I had no weapon, I was defenceless and venerable. I decided I'd run, run anywhere maybe just maybe I'd run into bill, Bev and Stan. But no I can across something bad. Eddie, Richie and Ben floating. A twig snapped and as an instinct I turned around and there IT stood.
Beverly's POV
"Where could they of gone? They can't that far" I said starting to panic
"L-let's go back in the woods and s-see if we can find them" bill suggested. So we did we all walked together through the trees looking out for any sign of one of our friends.
There was a sudden hush of wind that came from behind us, as if something flew past. We both turned around.
"Stan?" I called. He was no longer here.
"Stan!" Bill cupped his hands around his mouth.
We waited for an answer... "help! Guys!" Stan yelled from a distance.
We ran and followed his voice still calling to us, pleading for help.
As we ran I tripped on a tree root and fell to the ground.
"Bev" bill turned around and help me up "y-you alright?"
"Yeah" I brushed myself off, nothing but a graze would come from that fall. We kept running and following
Eventually we ended up under the kissing bridge. We stayed silent.
"Help!" A voice sobbed
"Come on" I started to go up hill "wait bill, what's the time?"
"T-ten to twelve, almost t-there" he told me as he climbed up hill along side me
The entry to the red barn on the kissing bridge was just like the Sewer pipe, nothing but blackness could be seen.
"R-ready?" He asked
I looked to his eyes dreading that this may be the last time I do. I placed my lips on his and kissed him, tears almost pricking my eyes. I pulled away from the kiss and said "just in case we don't make it out"
"W-we'll get out and so will everyone else. I promise" he assured, then took my hand as we walked in.
Bill's POV
We walked in the red barn to pitch black, I could still feel bevs hand in mine. Suddenly it was as if light were turned on in the middle only. We stood in the middle. A low voice whispered through the air "look up" the voice left chills as we dreaded what was coming.
Slowly we both tilted our head up and there everyone was Eddie, richie, stan, mike and Ben all in the air floating. Bev put her free hand to her mouth then released my hand to put over her other hand. Which turned out to be a bad idea. As soon as she did the lights went off and it was back to being dark.
"Bill?" I herd Bev call
"Bev f-follow my voice"
She let out a quick scream
"Bev! Bev!" I panicked.
"Something was behind me" she told me
I followed her voice and groped for her in the darkness "Bev, where are you?"
"I'm here" a voice that seemed right in front of me said
Our hands touched and in an instant we were hugging as tightly as we possibly could. "N-next time don't l-let go" I said
"Where are you bill?" A familiar voice said "billy?" It was Georgie's voice. A spotlight appeared on him. Still in his rain coat, still with one arm.
"Where are you bevvy?" A different voice said. Another spotlight appeared and in it stood Beverly's Dad.
Soon came a number of repetitive "Bevvy, are you still my little girl?" And "I wanna go home billy"
"Bill! What's the time?" Bev screamed over the shouts of our counterfeit family members.
"11.55" I shouted back.
The lights turned off but the voices didn't stop, we started to back up, attempting to escape them. Our backs hit the corner of a wall. I felt Bev slide down so she was sitting, I did the same and put one hand to my ear. We stayed there for a couple of minutes, eventually Bev's head was on my shoulder, her arm around my waist and my arm around her, keeping her close to me. Lights started to flash and we could see our friends floating, then I herd it over the yells of bevs Dad and Georgie a count down was going on "10, 9-"
Pennywise appeared, his sharp teeth and scary face showing through the flashes of light, every flash he got closer and closer
"6, 5"
The shouts intensified both syncing into saying one phrase: "You'll float too!"
"3, 2"
It was closer and it's face starting to open, showing the teeth and glowing orange lights.
"1! Happy new year!"
In a flash of darkness it was gone, the barn had as much light as it could for the time of night.
Bev was slightly crying slightly laughing in my arms. We looked up to see our friends floating down. We both un tangled our selves and got up to rush to them who were now laying on the floor groaning.
"What the fuck" Richie said groggily
"Richie!" I ran to him.
"What happened?" He asked
"It got you, you were floating" I explained
"Eddie, where is he?" He said all of a sudden frantic. He spotted Him as Eddie moaned and got up, richie then laid back down and sighed
"Thank fuck, everyone else ok?" He asked
"Yeah they're all fine" Bev told him.
Soon everyone else started to wake up feeling dazed and all very confused on how they got here. Once we explained we all decided it was probably time to leave the bridge to go meet our parents.
As we walked out of the barn a red firework exploded in the air, Bev and I stopped to watch it. She took my hand in hers and looked into my eyes, with relief. I grinned, remembering all the times we were together in the past year.
We kept walking, trailing just behind the losers, linking hands and looking up at the fireworks over our heads.
A/N: thank you to everyone who has followed this story from the start and to everyone who read and enjoyed it. It was so fun coming up with all the cringey but cute billverly moments I hope you enjoyed them and sorry if they made you cringe. Thanks again!