— the new boy

Adelaide sighed as Stanley went on, "That's poison ivy," He said.

"Where's the poison ivy?" Eddie asked.

"Nowhere," Richie answered, "Not every fucking plant is poison ivy, Stanley,"

"Okay well, I'm starting to get itchy now," Eddie complained. "And I'm pretty sure this isn't sanitary?"

"It isn't," Adelaide said.

"Do you use the same bathroom as your mother?" Richie interrupted and Eddie nodded, "Then you probably have crabs,"

"That's so not funny," Eddie said, Bill walked into the tunnel, looking around, Richie behind him.

While Stanley, Adelaide, and Eddie stayed at the entrance. Richie stared at them and Adelaide gave him a questionable look. "Aren't you guys coming in?" Richie asked.

"Uh-uh no," Eddie said, "That's grey water,"

Adelaide grabbed a hold of a pole above and carefully stepped in, slipping. Bill grabbed ahold of her quickly, helping her down.

"What the hell is greywater?" Richie asked.

"It's basically piss and shit!" Eddie exclaimed, "So I'm just telling you, your swimming around in millions of gallons of Derry pee,"

Richie smelled a stick and Eddie sighed, "Thanks," Adelaide said carefully.

"What are you? Are you serious," Eddie asked.

"Doesn't smell like caca to me senor!" Richie exclaimed.

"Okay, okay I can smell that from here!" Eddie argued.

"It's probably your breath waving back into your face," Richie teased.

Eddie rolled his eyes, sighing "Have you ever heard of a staph infection?" Eddie asked.

"Oh, I'll show you a staph infection!" Richie yelled.

"This is so unsanitary! You are literally like swimming inside of a toilet bowl right now!" Eddie defended, Richie picked up something with his stick and threw it at Eddie who squealed, Stanley, rolling his eyes.

"Shh!" Adelaide said, looking at what Bill had in his hands, "What is that?"

Everyone's attention was on them, he showed them a shoe, his flashlight on it. "Shit- don't tell me that's-" Stanley started, Eddie exchanged looks with all of them.

"N-no, Georgie didn't wear these..." Bill stuttered.

Adelaide comfortingly put a hand on his shoulder. "Whose sneaker is it?" Adelaide asked.

Richie examined the shoe, "It's Betty Ripsom's," he said, looking up at the group.

"Shit..." Eddie mumbled, "God. Fuck! I don't like this,"

"How do you think Betty feels?" Richie asked, jokingly, "Running around these tunnels with only one fricking shoe!" He hopped.

Adelaide stared at him, "Too soon, Rich," Adelaide said blankly.

"What if she's still here?" Stanley asked, Eddie's eyes glancing over at him. Bill turned to the dark end of the tunnel.

Richie and he took a few steps, "Eddie Cmon!" Richie called.

Adelaide froze in place. "My mom will have an aneurysm! Okay! If she finds out we're playing down here!" Eddie yelled, "I'm serious! Bill?"

Bill slowly turned around to face the other 3, "If I was Betty Ripsom... I would want us to find her," He stated, "Georgie too,"

"What if I don't want to find them?" Eddie asked.

"Eddie!" Adelaide hissed.

"What?" Eddie shrieked, "I mean, no offense Bill but I don't wanna end up like G– I don't wanna go missing as well,"

"He has a point," Stanley agreed.

"Y-you too?" Bill asked.

"It's summer!" Stanley defended, "We're supposed to be having fun! This isn't fun, this is scary and disgusting-"

Stanley was cut off by water splashing loudly behind him. The small painful noises of a person.

Eddie and Stanley jumped, turning around quickly and Adelaide took a hesitant step forward. She followed Richie back to the entrance, it was a boy. He was covered in blood and was struggling to stand up.

"Holy shit, what happened to you?" Richie asked. Adelaide elbowed him, glaring. The boy's head moved in their direction of them.

Eddie and Stanley were the first to rush over to him and Adelaide quickly followed.

The Pharmacy.

The group had ridden to the pharmacy in town, with the new boy who they hadn't learned the name of yet. They pulled into the alleyway next to it and got off their bikes, letting them drop.

Eddie was going on about how he was going to fix Ben up. Bill helped the boy sit down, "Addie, Richie, stay here," he told them before rushing off with Eddie and Stanley.

"Glad I got to meet you before you died," Richie said blankly, the boy just looked up at him.

"Richie!" Adelaide hissed.

"Well, what the hell do you want me to say?" Richie asked, raising an eyebrow.

"How about a simple, 'Hi, I'm Richie Tozier'," Adelaide told him, turning to bed, "I'm Adelaide Merkwelle, most people call me Addie,"

Richie rolled his eyes and Ben cracked a small smile. "I'm Ben, Ben Hanscom," he greeted. "Mostly known as"

"The new boy?" Adelaide questioned, which made Ben nod. "Well this is my friend Richie," she said, patting him on the back.

"Ow," Richie said sheepishly, which just made Adelaide roll her eyes in annoyance and let her hand drop to her side.

"Friends since the first grade," Adelaide said, smiling at Richie.

"Are you guys all friends?" He asked, "You and the other three?"

Adelaide nodded, "Bill and Stanley were friends before I met them, Richie and I met Eddie when he moved to Derry in second grade. Then I think we all just sorta started hanging out,"

Ben nodded along, acting like he knew the names of the other three boys. Richie sighed, "Enough small talk, he clearly doesn't know who the hell you're talking about," Richie pointed out, "Stanley is tall, curly hair. Bill is the stuttering one and Eddie is the small one with a fanny pack,"

The three others appeared in distance running over, Eddie dropped all the stuff down and kneeled next to Ben.

"Hi," Bill said awkwardly to Adelaide.

Adelaide turned to him "Hi?" She questioned.

"Suck the wound!" Richie announced.

"I need to focus right now!" Eddie shouted, working on Ben's wound.

"You need to focus?" Richie questioned.

"Yes now, can you go get me something?" Eddie asked.

"What do you need?" Richie interrupted.

"Can you go get my bifocals?" Eddie asked. "They're in my second fanny pack,"

"Why do you have two fanny packs?" Stanley asked.

Bill walked in the direction of the street, Adelaide eyeing over there she saw a redhead girl, she knew to be Beverly Marsh walk over to him.

Richie and Eddie kept nodding, but Adelaide was curious. She was caught off guard when Beverly started walking over.

"You have to suck the wound before you apply the bandage!" Richie told him, "This is 101 stuff!"

"You- you don't know what you're talking about," Eddie told him.

"Are you okay? That looks like it hurts?" Beverly asked as she walked up to them.

"No, I'm good, I just fell," Ben lied.

"Yeah right into Henry Bowers," Richie corrected.

"Richie," Adelaide hissed.

"Shut it!" Bill told him.

"Why? It's the truth!" Richie defended.

"You sure they got the right stuff? To fix you up?" Beverly said, grinning.

Ben just smiled sheepishly, "We-we'll take care of him," Bill assured her, "Thanks again, Beverly,"

"Sure," Beverly said softly, "Maybe, I'll see you around?"

"Yeah, we were thinking about going to the
q-q-quarry tomorrow if you wanna g-go?" Bill asked.

"Good to know," Beverly said, "Thanks,"

"Good going bringing Bowers up in front of her!" Stanley told him.

"Yeah dude, you heard what she did," Eddie told him, Adelaide crossed her arms listening intently.

"What she'd do?" Ben asked.

"More like who'd she do?" Richie joked, Adelaide raised an eyebrow, glaring. "I heard the list is longer than my wang!"

"That's not saying much," Stanley said with annoyance.

"T-they're just r-r-rumors," Bill stuttered.

"Anyway Bill had her back in the third grade, they kissed in the school play. You can't fake that sort of passion!" Richie explained, "No tip-tip and felly good my old fellas! Get into Dr. K! Fix him up!"

The play Adelaide was supposed to be in, she was gonna kiss Bill, she got sick before opening night.

"How about you shut the fuck up Einstein because I know what I'm doing and I don't want you doing the British guy-" Eddie was cut off.

"Suck the wound!" Richie interrupted, "Get in there,"

Adelaide stared, was their friend group growing? It had been only them since second grade, maybe it was time for more friends. Beverly would be nice to have around, another girl for once.

But did she like Bill?

A/N:
I'm really enjoying writing this story. But I do need to update my other stories. Anyways, what do you think so far?