lmao i found this screenshot on Pinterest 

song: milk and cookies, melanie martinez

baking, am i right?

one day, richie and ashley were at home alone. ash was seated in the living room, a book in hand and richie was laying on a lazy boy, complaining. "i'm so bored!" he groaned. "why don't you go to the arcade rich?" ash sighed, not looking up from her book. "but it gets boring  you know?" 

"well, do something productive. make a snack, clean your room?" she suggests, flipping a page. richie then jumped out of the lazy boy and took ashs hand. "dude, what are you-" he pulled her into the kitchen and started to go through the cupboards. "we can do some baking ash!" he smirked. 

"oh god," she groaned. last time richie tried to bake, he almost burnt the house down. "what do you want to make?" she asked, flipping through a recipe book. "i don't know, cookies?" he suggested. ash looked through the kitchen and they had just enough ingredients for the cookies. 

"this is stupid richie" she sighed as she started to read the recipe. "why?"

"nevermind." she started measuring the flour and pouring it into the bowl. richie looking over her shoulder. "can you like not hover? you can be such a mouth breather rich." she scoffs, starting to mix the dry ingredients. "well i'm sorry, i was just waiting for the right time to do this!"

he took a handful of cocoa powder and threw it over to the bowl, getting half on ashleys clothes. "richie! i hate you!" she says with a smile, she dipped her hand into the cocoa powder and took a handful out. "fuck," richie says backing up slowly. she threw it all over him which makes him cough. he rushes up to her and pushes her to the ground. they start giggling while laying on the floor. 

"you know, i missed this." richie sighs, wiping his glasses on his shirt. "hm?" ashley hums, leaning into richie. "us actually spending time together." 

"yeah, i missed it too." 

the twins then stand up and finish the cookies. they taste delicious obviously, and richie feels quite proud. even though ash did most of the work. the two kids are sitting in their kitchen, richie rambling about street fighter while ash is seated on the counter, munching on a cookie. 

suddenly, the phone starts to ring. "i'll get it." ash says and jumps off the counter. richie leans over and eats the rest of her cookie. 

"hello?"

"hey, ashley its b-bill. please come into t-town. and bring r-r-richie" 

"okay-?" the phone suddenly hangs up. a bit dramatic. 

"whos that?" richie asks. she walks over to him and leans on the doorframe. "bill, he wants us to meet in town right away." 

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as soon as the twins arrive they see eddie. "hey richie, ash" he smiles. "hey eds" richie smirks. eddie rolls his eyes. "bill and stan are in the alleyway waiting for everyone else. i'm going to get an ice cream want on?" he asks.

"no thanks-" ash starts, "i'll have one! free food, hell yeah!" richie winks. he starts to follow eddie, but gets caught up trying to play a tuba. ash scoffs and walks up to the alleyway. she hears bill and stans voice, and quickly ducks out of sight.

"you should j-just tell her s-stan." bill whispers. "no! she probably doesn't like me bill. shes like really popular, why would someone a pretty as her like me?" stan scoffs. like?

"you n-never know s-stan, but its pretty obvious that you like her. like, almost the whole group except her knows." bill sighs. ashley took a deep breath and walked in, like she didn't know about anything.

"oh h-hey a-ashley" bill smiles. stan jolts up and turns around to face her, his face bright red. "hey ash." she walks towards the boys, "you okay?" she says, noticing stan staring. "uh yeah, i'm fine" he lies. so many thoughts were rushing through his brain, 'what if she hear me? what if she doesn't like me.'

"okay..." ash sighs. she notices ben, bev and mike wheel their bikes into the alley way. "you wanted us bill?" bev says, leaning her bike against the wall. 

they look at a missing kids poster, bill walks up to it and lifts it up. underneath shows betty ripsom. ash sighs at the poster and rubs her temples. "its like shes been forgoten." she sighs in discust.

"is it ever going to end?" stan says, ash turns and sees the band member snatch his tuba off richie. "what the fuck dude?" he whines walking over to the group.

"what you guys talking about?" eddie asks, handing richie an ice cream. "what they always talk about" richie says, gulping down a bit. "i actually think it will end. for a little while" ben pipes up, the group turning to him. "what do you mean?" ash says, arching an eyebrow. 

"so i was going over all my derry research, i looked at all the big events. the ironworks explosion in 1908, the bradly gang in 35, and the black spot in 62, and now kids being... i realised this stuff seems to happen, every-" ben starts.

"27 years" bill and ben say at the same time. "damn." ash sighs, flipping the poster again, looking at bettys face. she lets go and walks back over to the group.

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"lemme get this straight, it comes out from where ever, to eat kids and then what? it just goes into hibernation?" eddie asks. "my grandfather thinks this town is cursed, that all the bad things that happens is because of one thing" mike says,

"but it can't be one thing, we all saw something different" stan says. "i-i saw a leper, it was like a walking infection" eddie shivers. "i-i saw betty, and richie." ash sighs. richies head perks up and he looks at her confused. "stan was there, but he couldn't hear what i was hearing." she feels a warm hand squeeze hers. she looks up and sees stan smiling at her.

"like, he couldn't get to me. there was something in the way. like a wall." she explains. "but it was playing tricks on you. on all of us. it wasn't real. not eddies leper, not the voices and the rotten richie and betty that ash saw. or bill seeing georgie, o-or the woman i keep seeing-"

ash looks up at him. "is she hot?" richie snorts. ashley looks over at him and stares daggers.

"no richie! shes not hot!" stan yells, "her face is all messed up. none of this makes any sense. its all like bad dreams-"

"its not a bad dream, its too real for that!" mike sighs. "you see something too?" ashley asks, putting her hand up to block the sun. "yes, you guys know that burnt down house on harris avenue? well i was in it when it burnt down, and before i was resuced my mom and dad were trapped in the next room over from me. they were pushing and pounding on the door, begging for me to save them. but i couldn't, it was too hot. when the fireman found them, their skin on their heads were burnt down to the core." everyone looks a bit distressed, beverly rubbing her temples.

"we all are afraid of something." mike shakes. "got that right." richie says, turning to look at a clown on the stage. "why rich? what are you afraid of?" eddie asks.

"c-clowns."