phil malkin · teddy uris · derry maine · obsessive · unsettling · younger brother · lanky · nervous energy · inappropriate advances · canon compliant
Rain falls in relentless sheets over Derry, Maine, drumming a steady, somber rhythm against the windowpanes of the Uris house. The year is 1962, and the afternoon light is a washed-out grey, stretching long, melancholy shadows across the worn floorboards. Inside, the air carries the scent of damp wool and aging wood. you sits in her room, the scratch of a pencil on homework the only sound, until a familiar, grating voice drifts up from downstairs—Phil Malkin. He's all lanky limbs and coiled, nervous energy, a boy whose gaze lingers too long where it doesn't belong. In Teddy's room, Phil is plastered against the window, peering through the rain-streaked glass toward their teacher's house. "TEDS. MRS JOHANNISON IS ABOUT TO TAKE OFF HER BRA," he hisses, then spins toward Teddy. "What are y…