Weeks went on, turned to months. Beetlejuice and Lydia would talk at least twice a month after she got home from school. He was still bored being under house arrest. He tried a lot new things to keep himself busy. There was everything from learning a new language, cross stitching, and even trying to learn how to river dance. There was also that unfortunate peanut better and spaghetti accident.

It was nearing the end of the school year and Lydia came home. Her hair was in tangles, tears streaked her face, and her face was so unfriendly the scariest serial killers would stay away from her. She blew her nose and tried to wipe her eyes out. She walked into the house and threw her backpack down and stormed up to her room. Dylia told her to stop throwing things and that made Lydia even madder. The two of them yelled at each other as Lydia went to her room. Charles heard the noise and tried to calm the two women down. That didn't work and just made things worse. That turned into a three person war until Lydia got to her room and locked the door behind her. Barbra heard the arguing and went into the room to investigate. Lydia turned around and glared at her.

"Couldn't you have knocked?"

"Sorry Lydia. I just wanted..."

"Well I don't want to talk ok? I came into my room to be alone."

"Alright. Adam and I are here if you want to talk."

"I DON'T WANT TO TALK! I WANT TO BE ALONE!" Lydia roared as Barbra left. Lydia slammed the door behind her. Charles heard the yelling and asked Barbra not to interfere when Lydia is that upset. That caused a fight between the two families. Barbra stormed up to the attic. Charles and Dylia getting fed up with all the fighting left the house to have a night to themselves.

Lydia grabbed her pillow and chucked it at the mirror just as Beetlejuice came into it. He wanted to talk to her. Just as he came into view the pillow flew by and he jumped in surprise.

"Babes! Wow. Take my head off why don't ya?" He exclaimed.

"Hi BJ." Lydia said and she plopped herself down on her bed. She took the other pillow on her bed and laid her head in it.

"You ok?" He asked.

"No. I am not. I don't want to talk right now."

"Well. Ok. I was hoping we could."

"I don't. Why can't you just drop it? Why won't people just leave me be?" She got up and pulled her hair up into a pony tail. She turned and walked to her door.

"Where are you going?"

"I don't know. I am going for a bike ride. Is that ok or is that against the law now?"

"Why are you ripping my head off? I just came to talk."

"Oh just leave me be." She said and walked out of the room. The door slammed and Lydia went downstairs and hoped on her bike.

"That girl is upset. I have a feeling I am not going to like the outcome." He mumbled to himself.

Upstairs in the attic Adam and Barbra were trying to calm down from all the shouting that was going on in the house. The TV in their room seemed to turn on by itself. The only time that happened was when Beetlejuice possessed it when he put on his fake commercial for his "Bio-exorcism" service. They looked down and sure enough Beetlejuice looked like he was pressing his face up to the glass from inside the TV itself.

"What?" Adam said not sure how to react. Since time went on he started to trust the other ghost slightly but he always is on guard when Beetlejuice is involved.

"Lydia went off on her bike. She is really upset. I have this feeling she is just going to find trouble."

"I think you are just being paranoid."

"Maybe I am. Never the less I think someone should go after her."

"How? We can't leave the house. We can just go back and forth from here and the Neitherworld."

"Oh. I forgot. I cannot come back over there. I am under house arrest." He said.

"I don't know how we would know what is going on. There is no way of seeing what she is up to." Adam said.

"I figured as much. I guess I will have to take care of it." Beetlejuice said and disappeared from the TV.

"Well that was uncalled for." Adam said to Barbra. In Beetlejuices absents they decided Adam should go to the Neitherworld and get help and Barbra would stay in case Lydia came back.

While the ghosts were arguing about her Lydia was bike riding on the bad part of town. It was getting dark and she decided to take a short cut down an alley. She figured that would shave a half hour on her trip back home. It instead proved to be her downfall.

She was riding and it was getting hard to see. She tried to stay in the light from the street lights but being near the country there were very few of them. A man approached her and she slowed down in case she would have to stop to let him pass by her. He grabbed her arm and she almost feel off the bike.

"Ouch!" She exclaimed as he gripped her hard. She pulled away and he backed her up to a wall in the alley. With what little light that was there she could just make out how tall he was and a few parts of his coat and some features of his face.

"Give me all your money." He demanded.

"I don't have anything on me." She said. He instead of backing off kept harassing her.

A dark form started to appear in the alley. It was darker than the shadows. It looked like a stretched out person with other matter around it that made the form look like it was wearing a cloak of the same color as the rest of it. It moved and changed shape like any other shadow except it seemed to actually have a personality of its own. It then started to form red burning eyes that seemed to be able to look at your very soul. More features took shape but the whole form was of the same color and shade. It looked more and more human like as time went on.

The form appeared to be standing and closed in on the two inhabitants of the alley. It grabbed the man, eyes glowing and shoved him away from the girl. The alley seemed to get darker when the form was there. The air seemed to cool around the two people.

The man fell and rolled over and looked up at the form before him. The form closed in so it was almost touching his face. It formed a face and spoke in a deep with a threatening tone.

"Go now or I will decide what to do with your internal organs later." The form said eyes in close proximity with the man. He didn't need another warning. The man got up and ran away. He moved so fast he lost his balance and fell a few times. The form laughed gleefully after him.

Lydia was in the meantime curled up in the fetal position protecting her head. The form changed shape again. This time it became a ghost with a black and white stripped outfit on.

"Lydia. It's me." Beetlejuice said. Lydia stayed curled up, scared to death. He knelt down and touched her arm. She got so frightened she started to cry and curl up tighter.

He sat down beside her and rubbed her back gently and talked in a soothing voice. Eventually she relaxed bit by bit and very slowly turned her head and looked at him. He smiled at her and pulled her close to him and just held her. Once she realized who it was she relaxed a bit. She was in shock still after she witness what she just saw.

"Lydia I am sorry. I didn't mean to scare you too. You have to admit I did get my point across." She very timidly giggled at his last remark.

The two of them sat in the alley and Beetlejuice kept holding her. After a few minutes she finally calmed down enough to get back on her bike.

"I better tell someone back at your place that you are ok. They must be worried sick about you by now." Beetlejuice said. Lydia giggled.

"You sound like a parent." Beetlejuice cocked his head and looked at her.

"I am a parent. Before I died I had children. They died and I pretty much gave up. I didn't care about a lot after that. That was until I met you." Lydia didn't know how to take that. She decided later to take it as a compliment.

Beetlejuice asked Lydia five times she is ok riding back home alone. He then left to go back to her house to tell someone that he found her and she is ok.

Barbra was in the attic looking out the window hoping to see Lydia ride her bike back home. The Deetzs were in the kitchen trying to figure out where she could be. Adam was still in the Neitherworld trying to find someone that could help them. Beetlejuice appeared full size standing in the attic. Barbra turned around and jumped in surprise.

"Still got it." He said with a smirk. Barbra, after getting over the shock of him standing there was happy that he finally came back. It must mean he found Lydia and considering he was happy it must mean that she was ok.

"Where is she?"

"I found her downtown down some alley." He explained. The door slammed and there could be voices heard from the kitchen. There was a joyous homecoming downstairs. Barbra and Beetlejuice made their way downstairs. Lydia was explaining what happened. She was telling her parents the part where she went for a bike ride. She continued to where she was being robbed and then turned to Beetlejuice.

"Tell them what happened." Beetlejuice blushed. It was very awkward for him to be thanked. He related his side of the story. Lydia's parents and Barbra saw him in a new light. Sure he was gross, rude, perverted but he did have a soft side. There really was a good side to him.

"Of course now I bet I am in a lot of trouble. I was under house arrest." He explained. Suddenly it was like he was being sucked up by a tornado. He leaned over and grabbed the door frame. He was being pulled away. His hands were on the frame but his feet left the ground and he felt himself being taken. Lydia jumped up and grabbed his arm and pulled. Charles also pulled him away from whatever that was fighting to take him away. Dylia looked around and tried to find out what was pulling him. She couldn't find whatever it was. Barbra pushed his backside away from whatever it was. He struggled but he managed to fight it.

Just then Adam came back from the Neitherworld. As the two worlds open into each other the forces became ever more unbalanced and Beetlejuice lost his fight and flew back into the Neitherworld. Adam ducked and Beetlejuice got pulled by him. Adam tried to grab him but Beetlejuice went by too fast for Adam to catch him. The worlds closed up and there was no sign of an opening ever being there.

"BJ!" Lydia yelled. Charles tried to grab her but she got past him. She ran her hands where the opening was. She couldn't get it to open. She ran upstairs to the attic. Everyone ran after her. She found the door that was drawn on the wall. She pushed a little. It opened. She took a deep breath and ran through it as Adam reached to grab her. He missed and Lydia ran through the Neitherworld trying to find Beetlejuice. She saw part of his outfit and then he disappeared.