song: bury a friend, billie eillish.

you see it too?

the kids drove their bikes onto bens front lawn. at the quarry he explained how kids go missing six times the national average. the club walked into bens bedroom, who was leaning against his wardobe door. 

ash and stan walk in, richie and eddie rambling on about something behind them. the walls were covered in newspaper articles and missing kids posters. "woah, woah, woah" eddie sighs as he looks at the walls.

"wow!" richie says, adjusting his glasses. "pretty cool huh?" ben says proudly. "no! no, nothing cool" richie scoffs, recieving a slap on the arm by ash. "whats that?" stan asks pointing to an article. "oh that? thats the charter for derry township" 

"ha, nerd alert" richie snorts, pushing up his glasses. ash glares at him and then chuckles. "no, its pretty interesting. derry started as a bever trapping camp-"

"still is am i right boys!" richie cuts holding his hand up. ash, eddie and stanley glare at him, as he slowly lowers his hand. 

"91 people signed the charter that made derry, but later that winter everyone disapeared." ben explains.

"the whole camp!" eddie questions. 

"there were rumors of indians, but no sign of an attack. everybody just, thought it was a plauge or something. but its like, everyone just woke up and left."

ash leans in, and notices a picture (drawing) of people gathered around. she looks closer and notices a odd looking figure. it had weird lines coming from its eyes to its mouth, and a huge forehead. she still couldn't figure out what it was. 

"the only clue was a trail of bloody clothes, leading to the well house" ben continues. "jesus, derry could be on unsolved mysteries" richie snorts. ash examines the weird looking man, when she is intrupted. "you okay ashley?" stan asks, tapping her shoulder.

she snaps back into reality. "ah yeah, just reading" she lies. 

"w-where is the well house?" bill asks, the group turning to him. "um, i don't know. somewhere in derry i guess?" ben guesses. "why?"

"n-nothing"

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it was getting late, and the losers decided to head home. "you coming ash?" richie asks as he holds his bike. "um, i'll walk with stan home, if thats okay" she says. he nods and starts to head down the road with eddie.

the two kids walk along the road next to the forest, when they hear a strange noise.

"ashley?" it sounds like a girls voice. panicy. she shrugs it off and they carry on walking. "ashley? please, help me!"

"did you hear that?" she asks stan, he shakes his head. "ashley! please!" ash tightens the grip on her bike. she turns and sees a familiar thing on the ground. she drops her bike and walks towards it. 

a pointe shoe. she picks it up and examines it. the pointe shoe of betty ripsom, ash gasps. which grabs stans attention. he walks over to her. 

"ashley, over here" she hears the voice. she looks up into the woods, and sees the head of betty poke out of behind a tree. "betty?" ash calls out. she starts to walk into the forest, when stan grabs her hand. "ashley, what if it isn't her?" he says shakily. 

"stan. i saw her-"

"ASHLEY!" betty shrieks. stan squeezes ashes hand. ash then rips out of stans grasp and starts to run. "betty?!" she shouts. "ashley!" bettys voice echos. she carries on running until she stops, and sees the figure of betty.

the night she went missing, ash and her were walking home from ballet, she wore her sneakers over her leotard. she stood there missing one. "wheres my shoe?" she whispers. 

"betty-" ashes eyes start swelling up with tears. suddenly betty rushes forward, about to attack. ash screams and turns to run back. she sees stanley, and bumps into something. she looks up and sees nothing. she reaches her hand out and there seems to be an invisible wall dividing the two.

stanley bangs on the wall trying to get to her. "ASHLEY!" another voice screams, sounding like richies. "ASHLEY HELP!" she looks and sees a zombie like richie, along with betty. ash falls to her feet and backs up, her back hitting the invsible wall. betty and richies voices echo through her head, while stan carries on trying to get to her.

she puts her hands on her ears and screams, when stanleys banging stops and the voices go quiet. she takes her hands off her ears and looks up. there stands a clown holding a balloon.

she jumps to her feet, her eyes wide. "hows it going ash?" it says in a child like voice. drool spills from the clowns mouth while he speaks. "what are you doing in the forest?" 

stans hands are placed on the invisible wall. "you and your jewish friend would be home by now if it weren't for that shoe."

"come join us. you'll float too. we all float, down here." ash screams and the clown starts laughing, like a maniac. the balloons pop and the invisible wall dissapears. ashley tumbles into stans arms, as she was leaning on the wall.

"you okay?" he asks, shaking. she doesn't respond. tears stream down her face as stan helps her stable. he walks her out and she grabs her bike. she sees the pointe shoe and slides it into her backpack without stan noticing.