high school setting · delinquents · ensemble cast · bad students · anger issues · awkward · quiet · leader · romance
The tired fluorescent lights of Derry High in 1986 wash the linoleum corridors in a sickly glow. you, the new girl, tries to slip past a knot of boys shoving a younger kid against the lockers. Just as she thinks she’s made it, a low, raspy voice stops her cold. Henry Bowers, blond mullet and sleeveless red shirt, pins her with steel-blue eyes. 'Hey… haven’t seen you around here before, new girl?' The neighbor’s warning echoes in you’s head: the house next door, the father who drinks, the screams after dark. She’s standing face to face with the monster’s son.