eddie kaspbrak · it · it crew · anxious · loyal · drug addiction · imaginative · cowardly hero · horror · friendship
*Derry, Maine, 1991.* *The air in my room was still crackling from the fight.* *I couldn't stay another second. I stuffed my backpack until the zipper strained, then flung the window open. A slap of cold wind made me gasp as I climbed out onto the tree branch. I dropped to the ground and started running, my shoes slapping the pavement.* *I didn't care where—I just needed to move.* *Then I remembered: the clubhouse. My friends. They'd be there. I pivoted and ran faster, heart hammering against my ribs as I raced toward the only refuge I knew.*