Notes: I have up to chapter ten written, so I won't have a reasin not to update until then. Yes, the first few chapters are very movie verse, but I have a reason for that, so please don't make a big deal about it. And I based this mostly on the movie, but there will be book references for all of you who DID read the book. And I tried to edit this myself so if you find any mitakes, please try to ignore them.
Warning: Language and Violence.
Summary: They were her boys. She was their girl. They were all best friends. Together forever. After the Ray Brower adventure, then what? What happens after? Find out here.
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I never really thought I was weird. Who ever does really?
The first friend I ever had was a boy named Christopher Chambers. Chris for short. He was the first person to ever call me Bia, instead of Bailey. My mother never came out and said it, but I knew she didn't like him. He came from a bad family. Everyone knew he would be bad too. But I didn't care. He was a good friend. And at 6, that's all that seemed to matter.
We were inseparable until we were 7. Well, until I was seven and he was 8. I was always the young one. I had skipped first grade, so go figure.
Anyway, about 3 month after I turned seven, my mother packed up everything, and moved me and my sister Valerie (age 13 at the time) out to Pennsylvania.
Let me tell you how much that sucked.
I had no friends for one. The girls were wimps and the boys were dumb. They were nothing like Chris, or the other boy we had sort of become friends with, Gordie Lachance, his name was.
We had lived out there in PA for almost three years when Valerie was in a head-on collision. After that, my mom and I moved back to Castle Rock.
My first day back was hell. My mother couldn't look at me and I had no one else to talk too. I just realized I hadn't mentioned my father. Well, he died when I was only a year old. I don't really care. From what I was told, he was a real asshole.
Yes, but, getting back to the main story, after I was put back in school, my first day back, I was late, because the stupid-ass secretaries lost the forms and had to go and re-locate them. So when I walked in Mrs. Harts 5th grade class late, I saw Chris again for the first time in three years.
Guess who I got to sit next to?
If you said Chris, pat yourself on the back.
He passed me a note right before lunch. It said to that he wanted me to meet his friends at lunch.
Lunch came and I met his friends.
Gordie was almost like a girl in a boys body, only more manly. Does that make any sense? It did to me.
Teddy Duchamp was fucking crazy. His laugh made him even more crazy. It was almost scary.
And Vern Tessio? Well…he was kind of fat. But he seemed okay.
At any rate, after school Chris took me to 'The Gangs' tree house thing and taught me the secret knock.
Teddy almost shit himself when he came and saw me. Apparently, the rule was no girls.
Chris said, and I quote, "Bia ain't a girl. Well, she is. But she ain't. You know what? Shut up Teddy and deal."
No one ever questioned me being there again.
We spent the next two years together. Everything was fine. Though I never told Chris or any of the other boys about my sister. To them, I guess I was like an only child. I don't even think Chris remembered Valerie. But I liked it that way.
By the time school let out after 6th grade, things were getting weird. Not like weird weird, but weird. People thought it was strange I hung out with the bad-boy Chambers, the pussy Lachance, the Loon for a Father Duchamp and the fat Tessio. But I never saw them like that. Chris was my best friend. Gordie was an amazing listener and story writer, Teddy…well, yes, Teddy was whack, but in the good way, and Vern was…well…Vern.
Well, anyway, it was the weekend before we came to in Junior High. We were all just sitting around the tree house waiting for Vern to get his ass there so we could decide what to do. When he finally arrived, he was completely out of breath and he had to tell us something important. We gave him a super hard time until he finally just said, "You guys wanna go see a dead body?"
He went on to tell us about how he was under the porch and heard everything. I wasn't really listening. I figured this would be a "boys thing" and they would fill me in when they came back.
"Bia." Chris snapped his fingers in front of my face.
I blinked a few times. "Are you okay?" Gordie asked.
I nodded. "Of course." Why were they all looking at me?
"So are you coming or not?" Teddy asked, looking all excited.
Wow, I was invited. Truth be told, I almost said no, Then I saw the looks on all of their faces and nodded again, only slower. "Sure, what the hell."
Then we left to pack. I knew my mother wouldn't care. She has barely left her bedroom since we moved back except to go to work. She probably thinks everything was entirely my fault.
We all met up just on the edge of town for an adventure I will never forget.