Chapter 11

This chapter is about what the group does when Mike tells them to walk around town. It starts out as telling Ben's story. Mike told everyone to act on intuition, so Ben told his taxi driver to stop at random and got out. He walked down the street to his favorite place of the town when he was a kid: The library. He started walking through and everything was just as he remembered it, even the curfew sign was still there. Ben decided to get a library card to have something that he could remember Derry by, but as he was signing up for the card, Pennywise the Clown appeared on the upper balcony. It started calling for Ben to come up the stairs but Ben ignored It. When Ben turned around to leave It had left its calling card, a yellow balloon was tied to the railing of the balcony. Eddie went to a strip of town where all of the rich people used to live he loved to look at the houses when he was younger. He happened on a old hardware store that had a vacant lot where the kids used to play baseball. The lot was all grown over with weeds and garbage but Eddie went in anyways. At the back of the lot there was a fence and behind that fence was the Barrens. Eddie turned to leave but then It struck again. The lot transformed into what it was when Eddie was a little boy, and a bunch of Zombie-like creatures dug them selves out of the ground. Eddie shot out of there like a gun. The leper was standing on the corner waiting for Eddie. . . Bev decided to go see her old house. She thought that maybe her dad still lived there, they hadn't talked in at least 5 years. When Bev reached the doorbell and read the name it said Marsh! Her name! She rang the door bell and an old lady answered the door. The lady told Bev that her father died 3 years ago but she was welcome to come inside and have a cup of tea. When the Lady gave Bev her tea she noticed that the tea looked "muddy." She looked questionably at the Lady, but it wasn't the lady, it was a witch, and the house had turned into candy, it was the witch from Hansel and Gretel. Bev sprinted from the house and the witch followed. Bev ran across the street and when she turned around Pennywise was on the porch, laughing. Something brushed Bev's leg. It was a yellow balloon floating down the street. Richie went to The central park to think things over. he remembered when he was a kid and a statue was put up for Paul Bunyan in the park. One day while running away from Henry Bowers Richie sat on a bench next to the huge statue of Paul. He was reading a bulletin board when the statue came to life! Well the same thing happened while Richie was pondering where to go, except for the statue turned into the clown. Bill was the only one that didn't see It that day but he swore he saw a ghost. He was walking down the road when he decided to ask a little girl what her favorite store in Derry was. She told him a thrift store was her favorite, so Bill stopped by. There were many things in the window of the store but only one thing stood out to Bill. There was a bike in the display case. It was Silver! Bill brought his old bike back to Mike's house, and started restoring it. Mike had bought a tire patch on pure intuition, because he had no bike, he said he felt like he would need it. Everything was starting to fit into place.