~Jacob, Class of 2029

One crisp day in late October a tallish, thin kid named Kevin Norton read a book called “Fact or fiction? Does worshiping evil bad guys make them come alive?” Kevin thought this was a bunch of lies, so he showed it to his shorter, wider friend Jayson. Jayson thought it was true, and then he told that to Kevin. Kevin said he’d prove it was a lie at their sleepover that night at Kevin’s house in the suburbs of San Francisco. Then Jayson said “bet,” and it was on. So that cloudy, rainy, moonless night they worshiped Pennywise so he’d come alive. For the first five minutes nothing happened and Kevin taunted “Told you so!” But then the windows shattered, letting the pouring rain get in the house, the lights flickered, soon to go out, and Pennywise climbed out of the wall! They screamed “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Then they ran out of the room and locked the door on Pennywise. They knew he would escape, but it would still buy them some time. “Told you so,” said Jayson, breathing heavily. “Now’s not the time!” They both could tell that was true. “We have to split up so he doesn’t get us both!” They both agreed on that. “And this might be the last time we see each other, so goodbye friend!” Jayson ran up to the attic, and Kevin ran downstairs to his dad. Jayson could see and hear bats and crows flying around up there. By then Pennywise had broken out, and had seen Jayson go up to the attic. He made his footsteps softer to make it seem like he was going downstairs, but actually went upstairs to the attic. He opened the stairs to the attic and said in a creepy voice  

“I’m coming for you!!” Meanwhile in the attic Jayson was shaking while hiding in a box full of knives. When Pennywise was fully on the floor of the attic, Jayson threw all of them at Pennywise at once. But they just went straight through him. Then he knew he would lose, so he just crawled out of the empty box, and waited for the afterlife to come. You could hear Jayson’s bones crunch in Pennywise’s mouth all the way from downstairs in the dirty root cellar. Kevin knew Pennywise was coming for them, so he tried to convince his dad of this. But his dad just kept saying 

“I know you and Jayson are trying to scare me mom and your sister, but you ain’t scaring me! You always try to scare me every year, and I always fall for it, but not this year!” Kevin heard Pennywise clomp down the stairs. “I’m coming for you!” he said, his head twisting. “How’d you get the costume head to twist like that?” Kevin could tell his dad’s question made Pennywise very angry. “I’m! Not! A! Costume!” Pennywise’s mouth became gigantic, with his teeth growing to be the size of possums and swallowed Kevin’s dad. The crunch of the bones was even louder. In the corner were Kevin’s mom and sister. They were both curled up into little balls on the floor, half screaming, half crying. “I don’t like crybabies,” yelled Pennywise, who was growing even bigger. He ate them too. Now even the neighbors could hear the crunch of the bones now. “And I especially don’t like cowards!” Now Pennywise was so big the floor collapsed under them, and the ceiling and walls caved in. And in an instant, Kevin was gone too. The next day, it was just Pennywise in empty space by himself. “Mwahahaha,” he laughed evilly. “I AM KING OF THE UNIVERSE. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!”