the silence in the classroom is thick, the only sound being the quiet hum of the air-conditioning. kids in the class scribble furiously at their desks, stealing quick glances at the clock every now and then.

apart from them all is alexandra pulman. seated in the back row and furthest to the right, she twirls her dirty blonde hair around her finger and looks at the clock; only five more minutes. alexandra finished her test minutes ago, but she absolutely hates being the first one to turn her test in. people make fun of her above-average grades enough.

'why am i even in summer school?' she wonders, rolling her eyes to herself. she thinks it's absolutely insane that her parents made her do a whole month of summer school right after the school year ended. alexandra brought home her report card with all A's, except for a B+ in geography, and her parents flipped. they immediately signed her up for a month of summer school, and she couldn't do anything about it.

she turns to the clock again; three minutes. she groans to herself before getting up from her desk and walking towards the front of the room, her pleated plaid miniskirt swishing from side to side. she meets the eyes of patrick hockstetter as she walks, a smirk pulling at his lips as she does.

"nice ass, pulman." he sleazily comments, standing up behind her. she rolls her eyes. "fuck off, patrick." he bites his bottom lip and groans, only so that she can hear it.

"god, i love it when you play hard to get." he says in her ear. he reaches out and puts his hand on her ass, squeezing. she turns around quickly, knocking his hand away.

"i said fuck off!" she says loudly, getting the attention of the whole class.

"hey!" the teacher pokes her head up. "mr.hockstetter, ms.pulman, save it for after class." patrick chuckles to himself as they both walk up to the teacher's desk to turn in their tests. alexandra rolls her eyes once again and begins to walk to the back of the classroom, patrick still following close behind her.

"next time, sweetheart." he whispers to her, sending shivers down her spine.

she quickly walks away from him and sits back at her desk, packing her books into her bag. once finished, she puts her elbow on the desk and rest her head in the palm of her hand. she anxiously looks at the clock, waiting for the bell to ring. the moment it does, alexandra shoots up from her desk and quickly walks to the door, pushing through the crowd of kids rushing to turn their tests in.

she quickly walks through the halls, avoiding eye contact with the kids that yell mean things, like, "slut!" and "whore!" and "hey babe, want to go for a quickie?". she pushes a strand of hair behind her ear and sighs; she puts on a hard exterior, but really, the comments hurt a little.

she wants all the rumors to be just rumors, but they're not. how could she have known that all guys her age are assholes?

alexandra has always been a popular girl, especially popular with guys. she hit puberty sooner than the other girls, and that got the boys' attention. in the many relationships she's been in, she's gotten attached. she thinks that the guys felt the same way, but right after they have sex, she gets dumped. then the guy goes and tells all his friends that "he fucked alexandra pulman", and then they tell their friends, and they tell their friends, and soon enough, the whole school knows that "easy alexandra" got another one.

the ding of a bell pulls her out of her thoughts. she picks her head up and looks around; she had walked herself all the way to keene's pharmacy without even realizing it.

she walks straight to the confectionary aisle and scans the options, settling on a bag of gummy bears and a pack of bubblegum. she approaches the counter and places the items there, grabbing her wallet from her bag.

"hey, alexandra." mr.keene says cheerfully as he begins to scan her items.

"hi mr.keene." she replies, monotonously. he bags her items and she hands him the money, telling him to keep the change. she takes the bag from him and mutters a quick 'thank you', not in the mood for a conversation with mr.keene.

she walks away from the counter and sets her bag down, stuffing her purchase into it. she stands up, walks out the door and quickly turns without looking, knocking into another body. the person falls forward, landing in a puddle that has most likely been there for a few hours.

"oh my god." she mutters as the person gasps. they stand up slowly and she looks up, her eyes meeting barely familiar faces.

"holy fuck." her friend richie tozier blurts, stepping in front of the other boys to help the one that alexandra so carelessly knocked over.

"richie!" the boy yells, evidently smaller than his friends but still a little taller than alexandra. he pushes richie's hand away. "don't fucking touch me!" he breathes heavily and fumbles with a fanny pack around his hips. he pulls out a baby blue inhaler and takes a sharp puff of it.

"eddie! what are you getting so worked up about?" another boy steps forward and says, who alexandra recognizes to be bill denbrough. "it's just water."

"standing water!" eddie responds, taking another puff. "do you know how much bacteria is in standing water? i don't want a staph infection!" he breathes heavily.

"it's just a puddle. you'll be fine." bill insists.

"you don't know that!" eddie screeches. "which one of you cocksuckers pushed me? i'm not playing around!"

"it wasn't us!" richie defends them all. "it was her." he points to alexandra and eddie turns around, his face softening as he sees her.

"eddie! i'm so sorry." alexandra says quickly. "i didn't even see you and i didn't mean-"

"you know my name?" eddie asks innocently, a small smile playing on his lips.

"of course i do." alexandra chuckles. "you've sat next to me in english every day for two years. you ask me for a pencil almost every class."

"i thought you bought your pencils by the dozen-" richie starts but eddie cuts him off by elbowing him in the stomach.

"oh yeah!" eddie laughs nervously. he doesn't talk to girls very often, and definitely not girls as pretty as alexandra pulman.

"anyway, i'm really sorry i knocked you over." alexandra says.

"it's no big deal!" eddie lies, his mother's voice in his head screaming that he needs to disinfect his entire body. "i was gonna get rid of this polo anyway." alexandra looks down at his dirty pink polo and winces.

"alexandra," richie says, a playful smirk plastered on his face as he pushes past eddie and steps close to her. "i'm loving the skirt. could you give me a look underneath it sometime?" she rolls her eyes, knowing she has to sit through one of richie's awkward jokes. she just plays along though, they joke around a lot.

"not a chance, tozier."

"baby, come on!" he pleads in a mock whine, walking around behind her to try and sneak a peak. alexandra quickly turns around. "you know you want this." he whispers, humping the air sexually. alexandra can't help but laugh at his jokes.

"nice try, bug eyes. call me when your dick is longer then 2 inches." he laughs and goes to stand next to bill, who gives richie a slap to the shoulder, as to say 'cut it out, dickhead." alexandra turns back to eddie.

"what are you guys doing out here?" alexandra smiles sweetly.

"eddie needed to pick up his prescription." richie says.

"prescription for what?" she asks, turning to eddie.

"i-uh-um, backup inhaler." eddie fumbles over his words and licks his lips quickly.

"oh, you have asthma? i used to have asthma too but i grew out of it." she smiles again. as she talks, eddie stares at her, mesmerized by those two little adorable dents on her cheeks. when she smiles, they're there, and with how much she smiles, eddie can get used to this. her perfect teeth, smooth tanned skin, those dimples, ugh! it drives him crazy. he could stare at her all day.

"dimples." he mumbles quietly. alexandra cocks an eyebrow.

"what?"

"uh, nothing!" eddie says quickly, anxiously playing with the zipper on his fanny pack.

"no, you definitley said something." alexandra persists. "it sounded like you said 'dimples'."

"no! i definitley didn't say anything." he laughs nervously. "anyway, um, we're all going to the quarry today, wanna come?"

"the quarry? sure, that would be fun." he raises an eyebrow and turns to his friends who all stand in shock, suprised that their timid little friend had asked a girl to hang out. "i need to go home and check in with my parents first, but then i'll meet you all there." he nods slowly.

"cool. see you then." he says.

"okay." she says, cheerfully with a smile. "bye eddie." he mumbles a quiet 'bye' as she turns and begins to walk the other way. as she left she hears a commotion behind her. "eddie has a crush" teasingly spills from his friends lips and he groans loudly, causing a laugh from alexandra.

"shut up!" eddie yells at his friends as they turn down the alley.

***

heyyyyyyy

so ur probably wondering where my other books went... i unpublished them cuz i was bored of them and i thought they were kinda stale soooooooo now i have this new book!

PLS dont hate me bc i might bring back my other books but i dont know.

i hope u guys like this book bc i have a newfound love for the IT movies so i rlly rlly wanted to write a book for my actual bean eddie kaspbrak

also, this book starts about a year after the incidents of the first movie, so bev wont be in the book too much since she moved away. i might bring her back but idk. the kids are 15/16

hope u guys like it!

-nyla