Tyler turned around and shouted, "Pennywise!"
Instead of being scared, Tyler ran towards the clown and jumped. The clown caught him and held him in his arms. The clown tried to laugh like Pennywise, but it only sounded like a smoker coughing out a laugh. This made Pennywise cringe and angry.
Alissa gaped at the clown in the room, then slowly covered her face to mumble beside her mother, "What is Uncle Daniel doing?"
Paul heard Alissa making him turn around, raising his eyebrow,
"He knew the kids were scared of IT." Alissa's mother said with a smile,
All Alissa could do was glance at Paul and hide her face in her hands.
Alissa held the camera in her hands and peeked through it then snapped a quick photo of Tyler in his father's arms. She was approached by Paul who doesn't seem pleased at all. He stood beside her and she felt his presence making her glance at him then continue taking photos,
"This is absurd." She heard Paul say,
She furrowed her eyebrows, "What?"
"Dress up as a killer clown and then what? Play with children?" There was hatred in his voice,
Alissa sighed and continued taking photos of other people as she walked around and Paul followed behind her, "Well, the kids are afraid of him, what did you expect?"
"That he would take that opportunity-" Suddenly Paul stopped himself when Alissa looked at him, "He's defeating the sole purpose of the clown."
"Are you serious?" Alissa was annoyed now. She was confused and annoyed. Paul was acting strange, since she was not used to him complaining for one, and annoyed due to the fact that she's been reminded of the clown again. There was no way of running away from the thought of the demon clown, she thought.
"What?" Paul stood right in front of her camera, making her stop and look directly at him,
"What kind of Halloween party is this?"
"Look, Paul, you invited yourself to this," Alissa grabbed his arm, "Don't blame me for it." She pulled him away and started snapping photos,
Paul stayed quiet for quite a while. Alissa stopped taking photos, rested her hand on her waist and glanced at Paul. He looked displeased. Paul saw her look at him, "What is it?"
"I've never seen you so...pissed."
Paul didn't even smile, "I hate to see a good holiday wasted." he looked and sounded stern,
Alissa paused, then couldn't help but laugh. She laughed so much at the look of his face. She never knew Paul would honestly make her laugh. This made Paul grow even angrier, "Something funny, Alissa?"
The demon clown knew if it grew angrier, it could not do anything to her. What could it do? Slit her throat and drain the blood out of her, then it'll lose the rarest opportunity to become the most powerful ancient evil in the macroverse. It knew it had to keep its hatred to itself for now.
"Sorry, I just never saw you like this. I don't know why I'm laughin-" she started laughing again, shaking her head, trying to stop as she knew it would make Paul even more pissed. But the thought made her laugh even more,
"The stupidest thing makes you mad, I get it." She told him and started taking photos to distract herself, "You're a weird one, Paul."
"You have no clue." Paul mumbled.
"Alright, Pennywise has to go scare off the adults in the other room. Don't get yourselves in danger!" Daniel announced with a terrible Pennywise impression as he put down his son to join the other children. Then, he took off.
Alissa glanced at Paul and tried to hold in another laugh, "I'm gonna go with them." She said and pointed to her camera as she was set to follow her Uncle to the other room, but Paul only nodded and stayed in the living room as he heard the children talk that they'd go to the backyard to play around. He smirked and followed them out.
The children had a small pool set up in the large backyard where the tent also was. Paul hid just behind the door pane leading to the backyard and spied on the children running towards the tent where the movie 'IT' was playing in the TV set up just outside,
The movie was already playing, but they chattered,
"Who do you think is gonna win the best costume tonight?" One of the kids asked,
The rest of the children were blabbering on who could possibly win but Kyle's voice made them stop, "I think it's definitely me. I made an effort with this ninja turtle outfit, man."
A girl shook her head, "It's definitely me."
"What about me?" An joyful and silly voice spoke up, shutting up the children from their own conversation. They all pause to see at the real Pennywise standing behind them. It smiled at them warmly, its hands in midair as if presenting itself to them,
"Uncle Daniel!" One of Tyler's friends shouted, but Tyler wasn't even sure if it was his father,
Pennywise snapped at the child without a smile, "Uncle Daniel who?" he chuckled maniacally, "Knock knock!"
Not one child answered,
"Knock knock!" Pennywise repeated as it squatted down with such a poise,
"Who's there...?" one of the kids mumbled nervously,
Pennywise turned to her and smirked, "Not Uncle Daniel!"
"Who are you?" Kyle, the eldest of them all asked with bravery, but a hint of nervousness in his voice,
"Why," the clown stood up on his feet and laughed as he presented himself with his hands again, "I'm Pennywise! The dancing clown!"
"Your dad's really good." One kid whispered to Tyler,
"Do you want to play with me?"
Nobody could open their mouths at the sight of such a real killer clown,
Pennywise slowly bent down as it took a long sniff of the children. Then, its head quickly tilted to look directly at Tyler, "How about ya...Georgie?"
The kids' heads turned to look at Tyler at the middle,
"Ya like to play as Georgie, don't ya?"
There was an eerie aura surrounding them like a bubble just outside the party, and this made the children very uncomfortable.
"Hey, stop, you're scaring him." Kyle said, standing in front of Tyler, touching his hand.
"Aww," Pennywise sneered, "Look at the big brother you are!"
Kyle didn't like the way his Uncle acted and noticed something unfamiliar in its face. The make-up looked so real it bothered him.
"We're gonna go watch."
"But how 'bout me?" Pennywise sadly asked, "Don't ya prefer the real Pennywise?" the clown asked in such a cocky tone,
"I think we're good." Kyle defended,
Pennywise gritted his teeth. These kids are lucky he could not massacre them one by one.
"Kids! Dessert's ready!" shouted Aunt Maria in the background, making the kids have a sigh of relief but they knew they could not leave yet. Pennywise started to grow hungrier and more mad,
"We're going now." Kyle said as he grabbed Tyler's hands, and the rest of the children, like a herd of sheep followed him just trying to get away from the tall clown,
Pennywise gracefully turned on its heel and grinned at Kyle who looked back at him, "Have fun with dessert!" He teased, making some of the kids turn around as they walked,
And with a deep, demonic voice, Pennywise spoke, "I'll have mine later." And its drool dripped down his chin, its eyes glowing bright gold, making the children gape in terror and scream, running back into the house.
The children ran back inside and the second they stepped in, Daniel startled them, "Who wants dessert?" He laughed in a silly voice, making the children scream even more. Some of them started crying, and it left Daniel puzzled and shocked at the terrified, pale, and stiff children.
Alissa turned around, startled by the screams of the children, giving her a quick flashback of Pennywise. But she was somehow relieved and disappointed when she realized it was still her Uncle in a clown costume. She sighed as Paul stepped closer to her,
"So lame." She said, frowned and turned around to get herself a drink while Paul stood there, smirking.