On the cape of an old fishing village lived a man, his wife, and his daughter. The wife was overly optimistic and the husband went out on the sea everyday to provide for his small family. The daughter would help her step mother because her mother died in her sleep long before she could remember even seeing her face. The girl had ebony hair and eyes that were dark yet shining at the same time nevertheless they were lovely all the same. The step mother was not wicked at all if anything that might have been better than being insufferably uppity twenty four hours a day and seven days a week. The father was the exact opposite it even made the girl wonder what her father really saw in such a woman. One day while she was wondering and sauntering back home from a walk to gather various herbs for her father when she saw someone talking to her stepmother and her father about something… The person was on a horse and she saw her father fall onto his knees. Upon seeing this she ran to him and screamed "FATHER!!" The person on the horse turned to look at her from beneath a hooded cloak. She knelt down and placed her hand on her ailing father's back and asked "Father what's wrong?!" He looked up at her with the most sorrowful eyes then his wife urged him "Charles you have to tell her!" The girl looked at her stepmother then back at her father "Father what is she talking about?"
The girl's father clasped her hand and said "….You have to go with this man… I have too much debt and can't keep you with us… I'm sorry…" She stared at him in complete shock and disbelief it gave her a personal that only she would know. The girl started to sob and mutter "you can't be serious." Delia's eternal happy face was gone for the first time since the beginning of time the girl saw her step mother that way… They looked at each other until the girl was scooped up onto the horse with extreme prejudice. She gasped when she was jerked away from the arms of her loving father with a look in his eyes that said 'I'm sorry.' She watched as her family started becoming a distant memory while she was carried away with tears in her eyes and a heavy heart. A man held her tightly to make sure she wouldn't escape just a man nothing really special about him in anyway… She couldn't even make out his face. They rode hard for hours and she became weak due to hunger. Father and Mother would be eating their small but somewhat satisfying meal trying to ration as much as they could. She started falling asleep until they came to a hard stop and she was pushed down from the saddle. She fell to the ground on her knees scratching them on her grey dress that was formerly black. She heard the man's voice for the first time tell her "Get up girl…" She stood up then was pushed into a house and through some rooms until she was in a room with a bunch of other girls. The girls were all upset and crying like they had went through their own personal hells.
She was pushed into the lineup then a group of men came in and grabbed a few of the girls gave a woman that ran the place money then took their leave. The girl this tale is built around however… was not snapped up at the first chance. Instead when the other girls were cleared up a man who showed up late looked around the room then his eyes went to our leading lady he said "I'll take this one." Then reached over to take her arm she saw a pale hand and red fingertips. The old woman cawed at him "Alright then give me my money!" He threw a small satchel at her and said "Bye Hags!" The woman gathered what spilled from the tiny pouch and clutched the precious gems in her hands. The man took our girl outside to his horse and put her on it with care. He seemed to care a little more than the last man that put her on a horse. He was in the light now so she could see his features more clearly. He had pale skin it was not just his hands being ashy and his hair was a matted blonde mess that looked like something lived in it. The man was peculiar no doubt but he also wore a purple button up shirt beneath a black and white striped suit. This was a weird outfit for anyone to wear but the suit seemed to fit him like a glove. After she was safely on the horse he got on behind her and they were off.
She was too alert to fall asleep she had been traded for jewels and this was the man she was sold to… This was turning out to be a 'wonderful' day this word would be used very lightly. She started to tire from the ride and began to fall asleep. The man that held her looked down noticing the weight distribution had changed when he noticed she was sleeping he thought she actually looked…lovely. Although his thought was more precisely that she was a babe but he kept going until nightfall then touched her shoulder "Babes get up…Come on get up." She groaned and opened her eyes with a sluggish disposition and muttered "What…?" He lifted her up off the horse and set her on the ground "We're making camp here." He started to make a fire not that he needed it she noticed his skin was just as ice cold as it looked. He turned away from her and when she noticed his focus on her waned she started to tip toe away. However he apparently had ears like a fox because he said "Don't try to run away Babes…You wouldn't get that far." She paused in mid step and sighed. She wouldn't make it far of course he had a horse and she didn't. He finished with the fire and motioned for her to come over so she walked over to warm up. He sat across from her as she watched the fire. In it she saw the face of her father and his eyes full of regret. Soon enough she started to sob then sobbing gave way to a fully fledged cry. Of course he took notice of her tears then went over "Babes what's wrong?" She looked up at him "I was taken from my family and sold what you think?" He couldn't just sit there and watch her cry so he took to transforming into a fool and started juggling to make her laugh. She was amazed by him and her tears ceased then she began to take interest in his display. He smiled at this and made them both float while the music played so they could dance. This was fun and she danced with him in mid air she then finally asked him "This is so fun! You're not human are you?" After the song he let them float gently to the ground then told her "I'm the ghost with the most Babes." She giggled a soft nearly inaudible giggle "I knew you weren't human. You seemed to cold to be human." He looked at her then leaned his back against a tree "That's right Babes."
She smiled "So you're dead?" He was still acting 'cool' and said "That's right Babes. Now what I can't figure out is how a girl like you ended up in a place like that?" The girl's smile was replaced with a frown then she gazed at the ground that looked like it wanted open beneath her feet and swallow her up. Now he had done it the girl was just cheered up and he had to bring that up. She sighed and said "My family was in debt and didn't tell me so I was taken." He looked over at her saddened "Sorry Babes…" The girl shrugged and looked down at the ground with a renewed feeling of dread. It was as if the realization of everything had washed upon her again she was sold, her family was not coming to help her, and one more thing she didn't know what was going to happen to her. Although he seemed nice enough she couldn't help but wonder why he bought her… Whilst thinking of all these things he noticed her shivering so he got up and draped his jacket over her shoulders. She looked up at him surprised but still grateful even though the jacket was musty. She pulled it closer to herself and said "thank you…umm… What is your name?" He sighed "I can't tell you." The girl tilted her head and asked "Why?" He thought for a minute "I can't tell you but maybe you can guess…Charades?" She nodded and they did the little game to figure out his name then she said "Beetlejuice?" He smiled triumphantly when she spoke his name then stopped to think he didn't even know what this girl's name was…. So he asked her "Babes what is your name anyways?" She smiled in such a docile way and said in the softest of volumes "My name is Lydia."