The Middle (Ben Hanscom x Reader)

Clowns

Y/N POV
We all sat down in a group, me next to Beverly. Bill, Beverly, and I had somewhat explained what we saw.

"OK, so, let me get this straight: It comes out from wherever to eat kids for like, a year, and then what? It just goes into hibernation," Eddie asks trying to figure it out.

"Maybe it's like, what do you call it... Cicadas. You know, the bugs that come out every seventeen years," Stan said trying to reason with the group.

"My grandfather thinks this town is cursed," Mike tells us, "He says that all the bad things that happen in this town are because of one thing... an evil thing that feeds off the people of Derry."

"But it can't be one thing. We all saw something different," Stan exclaimed.

"Maybe. Or maybe It knows what scares us most, and that's what we see," Mike told us.

"I-I saw a Leper. He was like a walking infection," Eddie shivered.

"But you didn't. Because it isn't real. Not Eddie's Leper, or-or Bill seeing Georgie, or the woman I keep seeing," Stan reasoned.

"She hot," Richie asked Stan, a smile plastered across his face.

"No, Richie. She's not hot! Her face is all messed up. None of this makes any sense! They're all like bad dreams."

"I don't think so. I know the difference between a bad dream and real life, okay," Mike sighed.

"What'd you see, you saw something, too," Eddie asks him.

"Yes. You guys know that burned down house on Harris Avenue? I was inside when it burned down. Before I was rescued, my mom and dad were trapped in the next room over from me. They were pushing and pounding on the door, trying to get to me," Mike told us with sadness in his eyes, "But it was too hot. When the firemen finally found them, the skin on their hands had melted down to the bone. We're all afraid of something."

"You got that right. All right, Rich, what are you afraid of," Eddie asked him.

"Clowns."