song: stressed out, top

blurry face.

"do you think the clown will ever go away?" richie asks out of the blue while ash and him bike to bills. "i don't know richie" ash sighs, pulling into the denbroughs driveway. they are the last two of the losers club to arrive, everyone is seated around a projector. richie sits on a chair, stan next to him. ashley flops down next to eddie, in front of stan. 

"look, thats where g-g-georgie dissapeard." bill stutters as he points to a point marked on the screen. "theres the ironworks, and the black spot."

"everwhere it happens, its all connected by the sewers. and they all meet up at the-"

"the well house" ben blurts. "the house on neibolt street" stan says, tuning to bill. "you mean that creepy ass house where all the junkies and hobos sleep?" richie asks.

eddie leans down and takes a puff from his inhaler. "i hate that place" beverly whispers. "it always feels like its watching me."

"thats where i saw it, thats where i saw the clown" eddie huffs. "th-t-thats where it lives." bill says. "i can't imagine anything ever wanting to live there" stan cringed. ash places a hand on eddie shoulder, while he takes a couple of deep breaths. 

"can we stop talking about this? i-i-i-i'm having an asthma attack, this is summer, we're kids. i can bearly breathe!" eddie yells as he stands up, in front of the projector. "i'm not doing this!" he shouts and rips the map off the wall. "what the hell-" bill starts.

"put the map back!" he yells.

"uh-uh" eddie grunts. the projector starts to flip through diffrent photos, "w-wh-what happened?" bill asks. mike walks over and tries to switch it off. ash looks at the photos confused. eddie turns around and slowley starts to head back. ash's hair brushes against stans legs, giving him shivers.

"georgie." bill says, the projector zooms in on the kids face, then slowly pans up to his mothers, whos hair is in her face. her face starts to morph into the dredded clowns face and the kids start to panic.

richie stands up, eddie riching up to him. hugging him tight. "what the fuck is that?!" he screeches. "what the fuck is that!" stanley leans over and grabs ashleys hand, ignoring his red flushed face. she stands up and falls into his chest. she is petrified. 

"I DONT FUCKING KNOW!" eddie screeches back at richie, holding him tighter. stan pulls ash next to her, they duck behind richie and eddie. "turn it off! TURN IT OFF!" beverly yells at mike, whos panicing. stan squeezes ashleys hand, who squeezes it back. mike finally kicks the projector and it falls to the ground.

stan and ash step out from behind richie and eddie. stan sighing in relief. it suddenly switches on to the wall, right in front of stan and ash. 

it flickers. turning off.

then on, showing its face.

then off.

then on.

it then suddenly pops out, making everyone shriek in fear. it is around 10 times in size and looks around and eyes up stanley and ashley. "oh hell no!" ash shrieks. stan stands still frozen. the lights flick off. then on.

"run" bill shreiks. ash grips stans hand and starts to run when richie pushes ashley into stan and they back up into eddie.  

it then turns and sees beverly, whos backed up in a corner. it reaches out for her, as she covers her eyes and screams. ben suddenly opens the garage door, and the clown dissapears. stan scrambles to his feet and helps ashley up. she stands frozen and then turns to him.

she pulls him into a quick tight hug, her heart pounding. 

beverly walks over to ben and taps his shoulder, "t-thanks ben" she then walks over to bill and hugs him.

"it saw us, it saws us and knows that we're here!" eddie panics. "it always knows" bill says and walks out to his bike.

"lets go" he says picking up his bike. "go? go where?" ash croaks, her voice shaky.

"neibolt!" bill says. "that's where g-g-georgie is"

"after that?" stan says, his voice hoarse.

"y-yeah its summer, we should be outside. "if you say its summer one more ff-f-fucking time-" bill swears. he mounts his bike and rolls it out, and pedals down the drive way.

"bill! wait!"

"gosh dammit" ashley grunts, letting go of stans hand. she quickly jumps on her bike and follows bill. soon noticing the rest of the group following close behind.