(This started out as a role play with a friend of mine and then it turned into something bigger. This story is only 50% mine and the rest belongs to my friend. I was only responsible for the character Amber {who is not Amber from Welcome to the MadHouse. I just like the name Amber.} My friend has been making the art for this story and you can find her on deviantart as PhantasmShadow. You really should look up the comic she's doing! I hope you like this story; it really was just for kicks and I thought we should put it on fanfiction. I have permission from her to post this, so I guess I just have to say that I do not own BeetleJuice!)

Chapter One

"I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack!" Amber sang out as she entered through the door of the Deetzs' family home.

The sound of Delia Deetz, Lydia's step-mother, rang out musically from the living room. "Lydia; your friend's here!"

Amber poked her head into the living room to see Delia working on another one of her weird sculptors. At the moment it looked like some kind of mutated spaghetti spazzing out. Delia nodded 'hello'. "She's upstairs in her room," she told Amber.

"Thanks Mrs. Deetz," Amber said and headed for the wooden staircase. She quickly clambered up the steps and took a hard right, using her hand to grab onto the stair post and pushed against it to give her more speed. Amber didn't even bother knocking on the door, she just turned the knob and burst in.

"Greetings Earthling!" she cried, cheerfully.

A figure was curled up in bed and pulled the covers over their head. "UUuugh...,"they grunted.

"Whoa... What was that; a caveman trying to communicate?"

The lump of human under the sheets shifted positions but didn't emerge. "Ha ha; very funny."

Amber moved towards the large canopy bed and plopped down at the foot of the bed. "I try to be."

The girl underneath the sheets still didn't come out of hiding.

"Lydia Deetz, show your face," Amber joked while trying to poke at the lump under the sheets.

Lydia groaned and tucked even further into herself. "Nooooo."

"This just goes to show you that you shouldn't stay up all night trying to take photographs."

"It wasn't all night."

"What time did you get to bed?"

"… Around three…"

"I rest my case."

Lydia let out another little groan and a pale hand slipped out from under the covers. It made a shooing motion at Amber. "Away with you; must rest. Must be prepared."

Amber quirked an eyebrow. "Prepared for what?"

Lydia finally stuck her head out from under the blankets; her black hair was messy and all over the place. She stared up at Amber as she said, "For BJ."

Amber sat straight up and pulled herself onto the bed to be right next to her friend. "He's coming," she asked uncertain she'd heard right.

Lydia yawned and nodded. "Yep; I promised him that I'd spend some time with him today."

"And instead of resting up like any relatively normal person would, you had to go out and be a night owl." Amber pretended to give her a wild applause. "Oh brilliant, Sherlock," she cheered sarcastically. Lydia threw the covers over Amber's head. Amber's head made little motions of looking from side to side and casually said, "Hey look, it's night time already."

Lydia giggled and helped Amber tug the blankets off her head. Lydia sighed and lifted herself from the bed; her black, messy hair covering her eyes, and partially her face. She sat on the edge of the bed for a moment and fell back on the bed. She looked up at Amber and sighed. "Should I get dressed?" Before Amber could answer, she got up. "No matter, I'm getting dressed anyways."

She walked to her dresser and picked out a black and red mini skirt. A cat call was heard from the mirror behind her. She turned around and sighed. "Hello, Beetle Juice."

The Ghost smiled and pressed his nose hard against the mirror. "Two more and I'll...," he looked to see a surprised Amber, still sitting on the bed. "Hey…Babes..," he motioned Lydia to come a little closer.

"What?" She sat down in front of the mirror, and leaned closer.

BeetleJuice scowled and pointed to the girl. "Who's that?"

Lydia glanced at Amber. "Oh, that's Amber. She's my friend."

The Ghost looked suspicious of the girl. Lydia smiled. "It's okay, she's cool." She got up from the mirror and walked towards the bathroom.

"WAIT, WAIT! Where are you going?" BeetleJuice yelled.

Lydia turned around. "I'm going to get dressed."

"Aren't you going to call me out first?"

"No. Not before I get dressed."

BeetleJuice pouted. "Can't you stay in that cute little gown for a little longer?"

"I said no. I'll be right back." And with that Lydia disappeared into the bathroom.

Beej pouted a little longer before looking at Amber again. "What are you looking at?" he asked in his gruffish voice.

Amber gaped at the Ghost in the mirror. "Y-you're real?"

The Ghost chuckled and lit a cigarette. "What do you think, Sherlock?" He blew out the smoke which escaped through the mirror and billowed out, filling the room.

Amber coughed and waved the smoke from her face. "I thought...I thought that…"

"What; that Lyds was making it up?"

"Well… sort of…" Amber got up and moved towards the mirror, her green eyes wide with shock and awe.

The Ghost sat up straight. "You thought wrong."

Amber took her time to study him. He was deathly pale, an ironic choice of words but he was, and he had a head full of wild, long, yellowish white hair that he didn't seem to take care of. He was dressed in a black and white striped suit with a black tie and black boots that had a bit of dirt covering them. In fact, he himself looked like he had just dug himself out of his own grave from the patches of dirt and grim that covered his skin and clothes. His face was a bit harder to describe. The teeth were greenish yellow and a bit crooked, and there were dark shadows around his eyes. His eyes seemed to be a complicated mixture of green and yellow with flecks of brown thrown in at random. If eyes were windows into the 'soul' so to speak, then this ghost was nothing but mischief and insanity.

Amber was shaken from her thoughts when Lydia walked through the door and called the ghost out. "BeetleJuice, BeetleJuice, BeetleJuice!"

Amber watched as the Ghost was in the mirror one moment and then in the next, he was standing right next to her. "Hi; how ya doin'?" he asked with a mischievous grin.

Amber yelped and jumped nearly a foot in the air at his sudden appearance and bumped into Lydia. "Lydia!" Amber cried and wrapped her arms around the girl's neck. "He's in the house!"

Lydia giggled and gently pried her arms away from her neck. "I can see that," she said good naturedly.

"Boy, she's bright isn't she?" BeetleJuice snorted out a laugh as his head began to glow like a light bulb.

Amber's eyes grew as big as saucers and her mouth hung open. Lydia had forgotten to mention that he could do that. In fact, Lydia had purposely failed to mention how great his powers were so as not to frighten Amber.

"Okay, BJ; stop showing off." Lydia went up to him and pulled a string attached to his head, making the light click off.

BeetleJuice pouted and began to float a few inches off the ground with his hands stuck inside his white and black striped suit. "Ah geez, Lyds, what's the point in being a ghost if you can't have any fun with it?" he whined.

"She's not used to you like I am."

Amber was still staring with wide eyes at the ghostly being in front of her. BeetleJuice glanced over at her and back at Lydia. "She does blink, right?" he asked.

Lydia looked at Amber and snapped her fingers in the girl's face. "Amber!"

"Wha?" Amber shook her head and slowly got out of her daze. "Sorry, it's just that…he's not just a story anymore…he's, he's, real."

"I'm as real as it gets, kid," BeetleJuice boasted loudly while floating higher in the air. Lydia rolled her eyes. "Well, Babes, let's get going!" He flew down to Lydia's level, his feet never touching the ground, and grabbed her by the hand. Lydia was lifted from the floor and she grinned.

"Where are you two gonna go?" Amber asked curiously.

"To the Neither Worlds! That's where BJ lives…so to speak; we go there all the time. It's a lot of fun," Lydia explained.

Amber's smile faltered for just a split second before recovering. "I better get going and let you to be." She turned and shoved her hands into her jeans pockets as she walked to the door.

"What are your plans for the day, Amber?"

Amber paused and faced them, shrugging. "I don't have any plans for the day. I'll probably…uh…read or something."

"Sounds boring," BeetleJuice replied, examining the dirt under his fingernails.

Amber pursed her lips at him but decided to ignore his comment. "It keeps me entertained. Bye ya'll."

BeetleJuice suddenly burst out laughing. He hugged his middle as he rolled head over heels in the air. "She said 'bye ya'll,' Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha *snort snort* ha ha! You didn't tell me you had a redneck for a friend, Babes!"

Amber's cheeks burned from embaressment. She had moved from Alabama to New England not very long ago and she had been made fun of by Claire Brooster at the all-girls school just because she had a very slight country accent that decided to peek out every now and then.

"I'm not a redneck!"

"Riiight," BJ teased. Amber stuck her tongue out at him and turned to go.

"Wait a second, Amber," Lydia called. She floated back down to the floor and stood next to Amber. "Why don't you come along?"

"What?!" Beej cried.

"Oh come on, Beej; it could be fun! You'd have someone new to show the Neither Worlds to. Remember how much fun it was for you the first time you showed me around? I don't want to leave Amber all by herself with nothing to do."

Beej sat on an invisible chair of air and crossed one leg over the other with his arms folded over his chest. His eyes were closed as he tossed his head up, nose in the air. "Nuh-uh."

"Pleeeeeaaase, BeetleJuice," Lydia begged.

"Nope."

"BeetleJuice."

Beej quickly looked down at her and motioned for her to stop. "Hey, nah-ah-ah-ah! Don't say my name again!"

"Either we take Amber with us or I'm not coming with you."

Beej frowned and folded his arms again; his body slowly began to turn as he floated over to Amber. By the time he got near her, he was looking at Amber upside down. "I hope you're happy," he grumbled at her. Amber tried her best to hide the smile that wanted to show itself and managed to succeed. "Alright then! We'll take her along," Beej huffed, straightening to be right side up.

Amber received an excited hug from Lydia. "This is gonna be great," she squealed.

Amber and Lydia's feet started to rise from the floor. Amber gave a yelp of surprise and heard Beej chuckle. "We're off," Beej announced.

"Where will we go first, Beej?" Lydia asked.

"To My Place; just say those magic B words!"

"BeetleJuice, BeetleJuice, BeetleJuice!"

Amber blinked and suddenly her surroundings changed from inside Lydia's room to a place that was something for more complex than her own imagination could create. They were standing outside of a bulding that had a sign that read, 'BJ's Road House'.

Amber blinked and turned around in circles a few times to look at what surrounded her. "Uh…What just happened?"

Beej cackled wildly and threw his hands out in front of him like a showman displaying an item. "You Just Got Zapped to the Neither Worlds, Girl!"

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