#it chapter 2

Bev: Dude seriously!

Bill: Jesus Christ!

Ben: What?!

Stan: We do like the room to be clean yeah

Mike: Granny Smith? What, you got an oven in your mouth?

Bev: Huh?

Mike: Pie apple, it’s a pie apple

Bill: I like a good Red Delicious

Mike: Oh, does your mouth have a lid on it?

Bill: What are you talking about?

Mike: That’s a garbage apple, may as well eat a Honeycrisp

Ben: What’s wrong with that one?

Mike: Science apple, made in a lab with test tubes and beakers

Eddie: Well what apples do you like?

Mike: Fuji for eating, Crab for hucking, that’s a prankster’s apple

Bev: Gosh, Mike, I had no idea you knew so much about apples

Mike: Hm did you ever ask?

Bev: No, I guess I didn’t

Mike gets the one wish willow as a last minute birthday gift from his granddad and uses it to wish that Henry couldn't bully him anymore and had to like him, that instead of Henry seeing Mike as his enemy he would see him as his best friend forever. Then he breaks it and obviously shit hits the fan.

At first it's very small, at school the next day Henry walks up to Mike but instead of bullying him he seems oddly friendly. Then after school Henry says he's sorry for bullying him all this time, and when Mike asks what's with the sudden change of heart he says his dad got really sick and it's making him rethink some things. Mike expresses sympathy and walks off to go hang out with his friends, but Henry asks if he can come too. Mike says it would be super awkward but if he's still hanging around here after he gets back then they can hang out. When Mike starts walking home later it's like ten PM at night and he finds Henry is standing in the exact same spot as he left him, perfectly still like a statue. What's worse is he's clearly covered in vomit and pee so he's been standing there for a while. Mikes all horrified but all Henry can say is "Miiikeee! You're baaaack!".

Mike tells him that he needs to go the hell home and clean up but Henry says he can't stand to be alone right now, and he starts crying about his dad getting sick. Mike tries to comfort him by grabbing Henry's hands and telling him it's gonna be okay and it seems to work for a second, until Henry suddenly takes his hands away and starts freaking out out of nowhere. Mike asks what's wrong but then Henry snaps back to normal and just smiles. "Sorrrryyyy, I had a panic attack.".

Mike says they can have a sleep over since his grandparents aren't home if he really is scared to be alone and Henry seems over the moon at the idea. The actual sleep over is fine, they just have a normal time. it's when mike wakes up in the middle of the night and sees Henry's watching him sleep in the corner of his bedroom that he gets concerned. The next morning Mike walks into the kitchen to find that Mr. Chips has been taken out of his grave they dug and placed in the kitchen in a weird make shift memorial. Mike is obviously appalled but Henry seems confused as to why Mike doesn't like it. "I thought it'd be sweet... it's an apology... since we're friends now.".

At school the next day all of mikes real friends ask what the hell is going on with Henry and Mike says his dads sick and dying, to which Richie points out that he saw butch the other day patrolling the town and he seemed perfectly fine. After school Mike meets up with Henry at the capital theater and they have a normal fun time playing games and watching a movie like friends, until Mike asks him if he lied about his dad being sick- to which Henry has a public melt down in front of everyone. It is then and only then Mike realizes what has happened and that the one wish willow has worked. Still, he's not totally concerned yet. I mean, even though Henry is acting a little crazy at least he's not bullying him anymore. That's gotta count for something, right?

Then shit gets really crazy. Henry starts being extremely possessive over his bff, he refuses to be apart from him for even a second, one night henry is hanging out with the losers club and he gets so mad at Bill for sitting next to mike he drags his chair back and sits in his spot, every once in a while Henry will have these moments where he seems to be terrified at how he's acting, as if he's been possessed. He even cuts up bits of Mr. chips and feeds them to mike in a breakfast he made him. He's uh... not doing too well.

Eventually the real Henry manages to talk to Mike and tries to beg for him to kill him, to which Mike asks what's so bad about him being a better person now, to which Henry says he hasn't actually changed, someone else has just taken over and it's excrutiating. Still, Mike does nothing because he doesn't feel too bad for him in spite of all he's done. It's only when Henry starts killing Mike's other friends so they could be the bestest friends in the world that Mike starts to think maybe wishing away Henry's autonomy has some bad consequences. I mean, the opposite of hate isn't love, it's indifference. Bro could have wished for that and he would have been fine.

Yes, those two scenes in the second movie and one quick scene in the first about homophobia (2 involving and about Richie and no one else) was just a coincidence. Just as it’s a coincidence that Richie’s scene has Stanley saying “Be who you are” as Richie carves the letters

It’s also a coincidence that Eddie’s last words about fucking Richie’s mom is something Richie has done multiple times. It’s not just a joke to say: “look at these Bros” it’s Eddie telling Richie he knows what Richie meant.

Also what the fuck else could “I know your dirty little secret” mean? I’ll give people a pass for the first movie because i only noticed the scenes because I love Richie and I found stuff on tumblr and Reddit looking deeper into what Richie is terrified of (Eddie dying in that bed, Eddie’s voice leading him away, Eddie being hurt), but the second movie might as well have called him the f-slur…oh wait, it did! It even had a kid saying “I’m not your boyfriend” immediately afterwards as well as a weird hand touch that really looks like Richie wanted to hold the other boy’s hand. Like, do you think Richie’s secret is that he’s straight? He’s crying while writing those letters because he was hoping he was gay?

But she presents as masculine in most cases. Like being a male clown or a male werewolf. It could be a strategy but I’m wondering what could possibly be her identity.

Genuinely I’m curious. It’s not really clear in the book.

I mean she probably doesn’t care but I care. She constantly refers to herself as IT in her POV.

To clarify I mean Pennywise/It/the spider