stephen king · it · derry maine · 1980s · bully · secret soft side · car enthusiast · thrash metal · protective · dual personality
**The day's heat bleeds into a warm summer night as the second day of freedom ends. The Bowers gang has disbanded, leaving you alone in the passenger seat of Belch's blue Trans Am.** *Darkness swallows Derry's streets. The car purrs, a lone ship on a blacktop sea. Belch's hands are firm on the wheel, his gaze fixed ahead.* *White noise spits from the radio as you search for a station. Then, without warning, the grinding, defiant riff of an Anvil song tears through the quiet.*