You ran as fast as you could down the
Street back to Bill's house.
Bursting through the front door.
You yell for Billy.
"BILL! BILLY!" You scream bloody murder. Bill's mother runs to you as his father follows.
"(Y/n)!" Bill's mother calls after you. In a fright. "(Y/n) what's the matter?" His father worriedly asks
You were crying and in fear.
But you managed to ask
"Where's Bill?"
His father Answers
"At school he just left without you assuming you already left."
"Are you okay?" His mother asks.
"Yes. I'm fine." You run out of the house and towards the school hoping he wasn't already in class.

You thought of the Clown... Pennywise... The one you followed down the gutter and lost Georgie's Boat...and got confronted by him or his corpse... You just wished it was just a dream and you overslept.

But no.
'why did you have to steal a dead kid's paper boat? And lose it?'

Why was the answer you didn't have in mind. You didn't know why.
And it scared you to think about the boy down there asked why... And you couldn't give an answer. Either you were too scared to or you didn't know yourself.

You finally made it to the school and with only two minutes to spare.
Smelling like sewage and mildew you enter the classroom. With the whole class all together for a moment look up and see who was almost late.
You smile a bit to hide your true feeling. Removing your hood and sitting next to Billy.
He asks "w-w-where w-were y-you?"
"I uh... Woke up late..." You lied
Bill knows when you're lying. But for some reason he didn't say anything else and shrugged it off.

You watched the clock all throughout the school day. The Arms on the machine traveled up and down.

When it was almost time to leave you tensed a bit waiting inpatiently for the long arm to complete his journey.
But that time seemed to be a long time.

And with the last words your teacher had finished with was..
"-remember Children to get home as soon as possible. There has been a curfew for everyone. So please if you walk home I ask you walk home in a group."
You didn't listen to her lecture or warning. It seemed like nobody did.
Since it's probably that thought that it was a slim chance to go missing now.

As soon as the bell rang. You were the first to dash out of the classroom and out the doors of the school...
Then you stood at the steps to wait for your Friend, Billy.

Bill walks down to the front to meet you. You had your hood down with your hair scrambled up in a mess.
Your boots were untied and your coat was unbuttoned. You held no items for school since you left them at home next to Bill's bedroom door.
Oh well then.

The first thing he says is
"Okay... T-tell M-me w-where w-were y-you really t-this M-morning?"
So he did know you were lying. Which was something.
You take a deep breath and slowly started to walk with him.

"Well... Um... I was out....This morning because I lost..something.." You started to feel guilty of what you had done and hoped Bill wouldn't ask what you lost just where did you lose it.
But Bill didn't respond. He just wanted to know where you were and why didn't you go to school when he did.
"And I didn't have the time on me and I guess I lost track of time and forgot."
You added
Bill sighs and looks at you with his eyes in concern. you think to yourself, the guilt building up...you wanted to tell him what you saw and did, but would he really believe you? A clown in the gutter? finding maybe all of the corpses of the missing people in the sewer? and possibly Georgie, Billy's dead younger brother.

You debated about it and told yourself it would be easier to tell him later and hopefully he would understand by then even though it was a 50-50 percent chance of he either will think of you as a liar or crazy. But not an idiot.

When you got home with Billy, Mrs. Denbrough was already started making supper and greets you two when you enter.
"Hey! How was school?" She cheerfully asks
She gives Billy a kiss on the forehead and you just stand at the doorway in silence until Mrs. Denbrough asks you
"(Y/n) are you okay Honey? You were in a bit of a panic this morning."
You fake laugh a bit.
"Heh heh. Oh yeah this morning! Yeah I'm fine! Nothing suspicious or anything! That's for sure! Hahaah"
"Alright then." She says

Time skip...

Bill went out with his friends Eddie and Richie to play some baseball or something with the others... You decided to stay home when he asked if you wanted to come along because you had a 'massive headache'
But in reality you just felt the ping of guilt grow bigger in your stomach.

You lied in your bed that was across from Bill's and thought of this morning. You didn't want to tell him not now. Not later. Never.
But he has to know.
'it's your fault....'
' You did this.'
Your heart beats right out your chest
It felt like you were getting weak.
Something was digging through your mind and in your brain making your head throb.
You look to the ceiling and turn to the floor.
You got up to get to the bathroom as your vision was getting blurry and your legs getting weaker to hold your weight.

You stumble into the bathroom chills were going through your body. Turning the water on. Splashing water on your face you try to stay calm and gather strength.
You look at the mirror for a second and open the cabinet behind it to find some pain meds.
You take two and gulp down a few gushes of water and almost immediately vomit them out in the sink. As if something didn't want you to have them. Or they wanted to keep you in this state.
You glance back to the mirror and see your reflection copying your every movement. Until a flash of red blotches the surface and a force knocks you out, Which makes you fall back making a huge thud from downstairs.

'don't let the bed bugs bite (y/n)...hehehe'