CHAPTER 1

Narration

Paul had just moved to Maine during the summer after previously living in Ohio. Moving there was stressful enough, but now he had to be transferred to a completely different school. This thought alone kind of scared him as this was the only time he'd been to a completely different school before. Moving up to high school was an exception since he already had a few friends going with him, but this time he had nobody familiar to be with.

It was 22:00 as of now, the night before I had to go to my new school. Although this scared me knowing that this was my last night before I had to worry about anything school-related, I knew in the back of my head that I'd be fine. I'm not really what some would class as "popular", just an average guy. Surely I'd find a couple of people to talk with on the first day.

My thoughts were interrupted by my mom shouting from downstairs. "Paul! Get some sleep! I want you to actually be awake by tomorrow morning!". I sighed and got up out of my desk where I was randomly browsing through my PC. "Okay! Goodnight!" I shouted back in reply.

I lay down in my bed and just hoped for the best of what would come tomorrow...

The next morning I lay outstretched in my bed, half asleep. After about 5 minutes of this I was rudely awoken by my phone's alarm that was set for 07:00. I fumbled around with it for a second, missing the stop icon several times before succeeding. I got out of bed and made my way to the shower for a good 10 minutes to wake myself up and because my hair looked like a bird's nest.

After having breakfast it was time to go walk to school. Luckily when we had moved here, we were just about a 10 minute walk away from Ewen High School. I had attempted to familiarise myself with the area during the summer so I would know where to go to get to the school. I exit the house and start walking down the memorised path I created which seemed to be the fastest way there.

After 10 minutes, I arrive at the entrance to the school. People are standing outside in small groups of around 5 all over the school grounds. As I walked towards the school, I checked my timetable. I had a computing class that I picked for the first period. I searched around for the computer room section of the school and luckily found it right around the corner. I still had around 5 minutes before class started, so i just waited at the door.

A few more people gathered around the outside with me as the bell was within a minute or two of ringing. Soon enough the bell rang and we were greeted into the class by the teacher. He welcomed us back and noticed that I was new, so he greeted me briefly and began to talk to us for a good 20 minutes before allowing us to go onto the computers.

There, I sat at the end of the row beside some other kid. He looked a bit like the stereotypical computer fanatic, with a heavy black fringe. He turned to me in his chair as he waited for his computer to log on.

"So you're the new kid?" He asked, even though he already knew the answer to his own question.

"Uh, yeah. I suppose so." I answered.

"I'm Richie. The entertainer of my group." He said, gesturing at a handshake.

I grab his hand and return the gesture. "Paul." Continued by a question. "You have a group?"

"Yeah, I have a few other guys I hang out with." He replies.

This was a good start to the year. I would hopefully already be part of a group of other kids on the first day. The two of us seemed to get along quite well for the rest of the period. We're both into computers somewhat, so that was a bonus. I was still ecstatic about meeting the others that he knew, hopefully there were easy to be around.

Ayy, first chapter of this story. I need to know what would be best in a few reviews. Should I get Paul to meet characters from Carrie? Or from IT? I'm not sure if I'd like to do both or not. I definitely want to keep Henry Bowers and his gang in the story since there's a lot more to work with than just Chris and Billy. I feel that I should just keep the setting and characters from IT, but just add Carrie to the story (including my character Paul. He isn't a real character, just some sort of other version of myself).

So... I'd really appreciate some ideas about who should be in this story. I have a few chapters planned ahead of time that only need tweaked depending on the situation of how this chapter goes and how it's received by others.