9
I didn't swim with Bill and the others when we got to the lake. Having just showered, I just didn't want to get dirty again. I felt like such a downer, watching everyone else swim while I just sat on the ground moping and fearing for Henry. Not only that, but my mom was leaving for two weeks and even though that meant the house to myself, I was still worried about the things I have been seeing and dreaming about. Jarred… or the demon clown who took over his body.
He came to me in my dream and now my voodoo spirit has gone silent and I don't know what that means.
"You look deep in thought." Beverly said as she walked out of the water, hair dripping over her shoulders. I nodded.
"Because I am." I said and she sat down beside me, concern all over her face.
"Worried about Henry?" she asked. I nodded slowly.
"That and I dreamed of the clown and have been seeing things lately." I said. She looked at me more intently.
"Could it be trauma maybe?" she asked. I shrugged.
"After two years of feeling better than ever? Even my voodoo spirit has gone quiet, she will not speak to me and that truly scares me." I said and she looked down in total worry. I shook my head and looked away. "And I saw a child… a little boy in clown make up, just like the creature." Her eyes bulged a bit.
"A little boy dressed as that thing?" she asked and I nodded.
"Oh yeah." I replied. She was about to speak, but Mike and Bill were exiting the water.
"Hey what are you girls gossiping about?" Bill asked and Bev and I looked at each other and I shook my head.
"Nothing." I said and stood up.
"I should head home. My mom is leaving for my grandma's and I should be home before she leaves." I said. Mike raised his head.
"Okay, I'll drive us." he said but I stopped him.
"No it's okay. Ya'll just got here and I don't want to be a downer and make you leave. Buy guys!" I called out to Eddie and the others who waved from the water.
"See ya at school Fay!" Eddie called out and I smiled at Bev and just turned and began to walk toward the familiar trail that would lead me back into town. I walked fast not wanting to really be in the forest alone, but I knew I had to be. I needed to be alone.
"Where are you?" I said out loud to the spirit. Has something happened? Did the clown escape and do something to her? Am I protected from demonic entities still? I heard a small giggle and immediately paused in my walking which after everything that has happened, I knew I shouldn't but then again running wasn't an option either if the giggling belonged to a demonic creature. There was another giggle and I turned around thinking I would not show fear.
"Whatever is here, come out now!" I snapped, my tone hard and serious. Something had grazed the back of my head and I gasped and turned around and my eyes widened as I stared at the red balloon floating in front of me. My body began to shake, but my muscles tightened and I looked around. "I am not afraid." There was another giggle that echoed now and I turned to look at the balloon as it began to float away across the trail toward a tree and I watched it as it stopped right beside a tree close to the roots. A white gloved hand slowly reached for it and my eyes widened as I watched a small form come out from behind the tree.
My heart started to beat fast and my stomach suddenly started to cramp hard and violently. I groaned some and placed my hand on my lower stomach. I looked back up to see the small form standing right in front of me looking right up at me with big blue eyes. I just stared down at him now. It was an exact replica of Pennywise the dancing fucking clown. It's here before me. Fire red hair shined in the light just like his eyes, his makeup is flawless but gave him more of a innocent look. The clown child suddenly gushed and raised his hands out.
"MOMMY!" he called out and ran into me wrapping his arms around my body. My hands immediately flew up not getting close. I watched as he rubbed his face into my stomach. "I knew I'd find you mommy!" My body started to shake a bit, but I had to conceal my fear. I couldn't let him smell it.
"Wh-what's your name little boy?" I asked carefully and he looked up at me and smiled.
"Don't you recognize me, Mommy? It's me, Axel, your youngest!" he said happily and my eyes widened more. My first reaction was to run, but if this creature is truly back running would do me no good. I had to talk my way out of this, somehow. Lord give me strength. Slowly I let my lips twitch upward into a strange smile.
"Axel." I said, my tone shivering a bit but I cleared my throat. "My youngest child." I repeated and he moved back and gave a wide grin.
"Yes. I'm the very last to come from your body." he said now rocking back and forth on his heel. Axel… the name of my teddy bear. So many thoughts were in my head now. He now pouted and suddenly jumped into me. I gasped and jumped hard shaking violently thinking he was going to kill me now.
"Please don't be mad, Mommy. Daddy says I wasn't supposed to see you yet. He says to wait until I've eaten my dinner, but I couldn't wait any longer." he said and I heard him now start squealing out loud and he gripped the bottom of my shirt. I felt patches of wet start to form on my shirt and immediately, I felt something I shouldn't feel. I felt sad for his sadness.
"Um oh no. It's okay Axel." I said and he looked up at me, his whit face paint still flawless. He then raised his hands for me to pick him up and now I was not sure if I should take this time to run, but slowly I leaned over and cautiously wrapped my arms around his little body and he hooked on to my neck. My heart was pounding so hard it hurt. But his body was so light and I picked him up and he just hummed happily and leaned into my neck. "Hmmm Mommy."
So he's back in the form of a kid? What was this clowns plan?
"So tell me Axel, who is your daddy?" I asked and he leaned back and looked at me blinking rapidly.
"A dancing clown! He was the one we all saw when we exited your body after numerous failed babies." he said and now my eyes widened some as I stared at him with more emotion.
"What do you mean failed babies?" I asked seriously. He hummed happily.
"When the human sacrifice put numerous babies inside you, they all died and we took over each and every one of them. Each time Mommy goes pee pee, each one of us came out and were flushed aaaallll the way down the sewers. Jarred came out first, he's so mean. Daddy was the last to leave after we all found each other in the sewers!" he explained happily. My body immediately shook as he explained so vividly of what's just happened. My first thought was to drop him and run. Slowly I put him down, body shaking, mind going blank. Axel looked at me curiously, eyes starting to weaken and sadden with tears as I began to back away.
"Mommy… Mommy please don't go!" he cried out raising his hands to me and taking weak steps towards me. I shook my head and just kept backing away. Axel shook his head, eyes fading from the innocent blue to the dangerous gold I was used to seeing, rows of sharp teeth formed in his small mouth as he hiccuped a bit. Immediately I turned and just took off as fast as I could. "MOMMY!" this time the voice was monstrous and just like the demonic voice I had heard two years ago, but the tone was still filled with pain. I continued to run, blocking out any images that could put fear inside me and prayed I made it out of this forest alive.