as joan walked towards her house alone as usual....she felt uneasy and anxious , as if something was not rigjt..... then.....
she saw something.
what seemed to be a mysterious...dark figure just at the corner.... holding a balloon, again.
it was a man.
a man with pale skin , red lipstick, freaky hair and a red balloon.
he was a clown.
as she blinked and panicked,
it closer
and closer
and closer
and closer
until
she screamed, she screamed at the top of her lungs, a hideous scream full of fear and desperation.... and suddenly it vanished.....
neighbours looked at her as if she had gotten mad, whispering awful remarks and cursing at the damned girl for interrupting their slumber of some sort.
while hearing whisper and chants, curses and such, she stunbled upon a boy , specifically a boy named bill denbrough.
by then, she had felt annoyed of this boy, constantly trying to make her participate in their little group and made her join the group.sometimes she thinks that he does it to maybe brighten things up after the incident.
although she not understand well of it, it would be foolish to not hear of the news of his brother goerge denbrough, went missing.
indeed he did, and not only him....a list of people, specifially children had gone missing after he did. the citizens of derry was curious and mad as to what may have caused it, but fear they have, know they not. not then.
she understood very well how he felt, alone and desperate, just like she did when her mother, left her and her dad for a new , older,richer husband.
she simply left with clothes that showed barely any fabric, a heavy load of makeup with her new ... husband mr. richardson whatever he is... he sure got her mother good.
a gold digging whore she is.
she never saw her mother ever again since then, she was 9 at the time and she cried for hours not being able to talk with her "sweet mummy" again.
but there she stood, with bill denbrough, face to face, a person who would probably know who she felt, or even worse.
"hey."
"hello."
"so, uh, joan, i-i-i was wondering, i-if y-y-you wanted to you k-know g-go to the quarry w-with us t-tomorrow? the-there is this new kid, h-his name is b-b-b-ben h-hansom, he i-is new and we found him bleeding and-"
"i'll go."
"oh,u-uh cool. m-make sure to be there a-at 12."
joan simply nodded and went back home.
she did not realise it, but for the first time in 3 years, she had felt excitement again.
the sunlight beamed at her face brightly. it had been the morning of the day where she would be with the losers club again.
little did she know something unexpected would happen that very day.
rushing, she combed her hair and picked out an outfit. no,not just any outfit. she had to find a bathing suit.
of course, she'd never worn one. her father would never let anyone see her daughter in such clothing and for her daughter to wear such clothing that is.
nontheless, she found something, not a bathing suit in particular but something similair to that.
it was a swimmimg shirt and red pants, soecifialy gym pants.
it did not really suit a feminine look, but it was all she had.
she then took out a bag, and filled it up with all her swimming necessities, which included sunscreen, lotion, a book and a towel.
hesitantly, she left her house and locked it, for her father would not come back for atleast 7 hours.
quarry, 10:34 p.m
after what had seemed like hours of endless cycling, she finally managed to reach the quarry.
as she felt the heavy wind flowing against her, she also felt a presence.
laughter and whistles of children coming from ahead, and she knew exactly who it was from.
"hello bill."
"h-hey-"
"we're all still waiting fro beverly," richie interrupted while joan just nodded before sitting on a nearby rock, bill following from behind.
they both just sat there awkwardly, as if one of them expected to other to say something but did not.
"i know what your friends think of me," she said then paused.
"a traitor, a filthy whore, an unworthy slut," she continued.
"you should stay away from me, sooner or later you will lose them because of me, i know what you want bill, but it's never going to work... besides , you have beverly don't you?", she finally said.
"you know, stanley was right, you are ungrateful, you push people away and... you are a ....... filthy whore who did bowers,that is why you dont have any friends,"he replied after a very long pause.
"we should head back to the others," she said after another very long pause.
bill's point of view •
bill didnt know what happened,but it felt like his heart shattered into pieces. he had failed once again, to get the girl he very much fancied.
"we should head back to the others," he heard her say.
he then hesitantly followed her.
"why you lookin' so pale billy boy cherrio up there my boy!", richie said.
"yeah bill,you look depressed, even more than richie when he found out his girlfriend cheated on him!", eddie said.
uh, oh, he messed up.
ever since july, richie's ex girlfriend cheated on him with albert, his so called "friend", richie had been extremely angry and sad for days. so angry, that he punched albert on the stonach. bill and his friends had witnessed it all.
"what the frick did you just say, eddie?", richie asked with seriousness.
"hold on there richie, it was just a joke," eddie replied.
before the others could process what was about to happen, richie punched eddie on the chest.
"GUYS CUT IT OUT!", joan screamed.
stanley gripped on richie's arm while bill gripped on eddie's elbow.
"holy fucking shit you fucking bastards, chill the fuck down!", joan screamed.
"she's right, we are here for a swim not for that, richie, eddie," bill said.
without even noticing, beverly marsh ran up to them.
"hey guys! what are you doing?",she asked.
everybody then acted like everthing was normal ,not doing what they were before.
3rd person pov again~
"nothing ,nothing at all," bill said without stuttering.
beverly hesitantly shrugged, and then jumped in the the water.
"we just could beaten off by a girl," eddie said.
"we're fucking pussies," richie replied.
stamley glanced at both of them blankly, with confusion , anger and dissapointment.
"are you pussies gonna make up or what? cause we aren't getting any younger."
richie and eddie became frightened. stan, stanley, stan the man would never been mad, or dissapointed.
"fine, freakhead , i'm sorry," richie said.
"whatever," eddie replied.
the boys glanced down towards the cliff, seeing that beverly was already in the water, they felt ashamed.
"perhaps, you should go first, richie," said joan.
"why me? are you trying to get me killed woman?", richie said.
"the stupid ones.... always die first," she said.
the others glanced at her with confusion. to them she was like wednesday addams almost, a freaky, pshychopathic girl.
"you also don't want to be a pussy now don't you?", she said.
richie glared back at her with annoyance.
"I DON'T!", he said then jumped off the cliff.
as he did that, the other boys soon hesitantly jumped after him.
"are you coming, jo?", bill asked.
"i will be, bill," she said.
"well do you wanna jump together?", bill asked.
"no," she replied.
bill them shrugged then nervously jumped off the cliff. smirking, joan made her way back to sit on the rocks.
"really jo? him?",a familiar voice said.
startled, joan glanced back to see who it was.
of course.
ryan reynolds.