Reader's Note-This is my first story so please be easy on me. I do not own the characters Beetlejuice, Lydia; Judge Mantel, and the rest of the characters in Beetlejuice cartoon and movie. This is based on both cartoon and the movie of Beetlejuice. Principal James and Ari is my character :D

Chapter 2

Judge Mantel was shocked by Beetlejuice tears. He got off the seat with hesitation, but then rushed to comfort Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice start to speak through sobs "How long….until… the contract is ov….er?" Judge Mantel stopped on his tracks.

He was an arm's length away from Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice recollected himself quickly. "How long until the contract is over?" Beetlejuice said with anger rising in his voice "How long much time until I see Lyds again, Judge Mantel?" He stood up and walked towards Judge Mantel with an evil look in his eyes.

"Quit it, Beej." Beetlejuice turned around in hope it was Lydia except it was Juno and her usual stench of cigarettes. "What do you want?" Beetlejuice growled. "This isn't about that. This is about the contract. Judge Mantel, will you please leave us alone?"

Judge Mantel, not trusting his voice, simply nodded and disappeared. "Is that what Lydia called you?" Juno asked curious "What?" Beetlejuice said confused "Don't play dumb with me. Your file just keeps getting bigger and bigger and then once this," Juno said shaking a piece of paper in her hand "Came in I thought it was a lie."

Beetlejuice looked away and Juno chuckled. "I guess it isn't. Love is such a mysterious thing and out of all the possibilities you had in this world, you chose Lydia Deetz. A human girl who is out of boundaries and has a pure soul. You're very selfish, Beej." Juno mimicked Lydia's voice on his nickname.

Beetlejuice heart was beginning to break along with his control. "Shut up, Juno. You don't know anything. Just because an old hag like you hasn't been in love, that doesn't mean you can ruin everyone else's chance." "Don't you dare call me that."

"What just because I failed to fulfill everyone's dreams especially yours doesn't mean that you have to castrate me. Just because you're my grandmother doesn't mean shit." Juno eyes widened at the remark and threw the piece of paper at him "I don't give a bloody hell about that. You have six years to get your fucking shit together." Juno spat and went away. Beetlejuice grabbed the piece of paper as the last piece of hope he had….

Six years later...Graduation day…

"Lydia Deetz." Called Principal James, Lydia automatically walked across the stage and grabbed her fake certificate and shook hands with the school's staff. Finally Lydia sat down on her chair only to hear the ceremony was over. She quickly got up and dashed on her way home. No one had come. Everyone was busy except for Adam and Barbara, who couldn't leave the house under circumstances.

Then she bumped into someone. "Oof." Grunted the stranger. Lydia looked down to her feet and shyly said "I'm sorry I bumped into you. Please forgive me." "A beautiful girl like you shouldn't apologize to someone like me." Lydia looked up to examine the curious guy. He was tall, blue eyes, black hair, had some muscle, but not too much to seem beefy. His skin was like the color of caramel and a dazzling smile that could blind any girl.

"Well, if it isn't Lydia Deetz?" Claire said in a mocking tone walking over to where Lydia is. "Come on, Ari, let's leave this skank alone." "She is not a skank, Claire. You want to know why?" Ari said annoyed. Lydia looked at him strangely excepting him to say something worse to her. "Yes, I want to know why." Claire said rolling her eyes. "It is because you're a slut, Claire. Lydia is my future beautiful girlfriend."

"What?" Lydia and Claire exclaimed in unison. "UGH! I will like so totally get you skank! Just watch your back because I will make sure you suffer." Claire hissed and stormed off to be with her little group of friends. "So.." Ari started "I got to go. My parents are waiting at home for me. Bye…uhhhhh…" "Ari." "Oh.. Bye Air." Lydia shouted because she was already running off. "It's Ari!" Ari shouted back cheerfully.

Lydia couldn't hear him already and didn't want to go home. So she decided to take the long way home. The long way home was through the dark alleys which always suited Lydia. Lydia started to walk into the first long alley and began humming her own tune.

After a few seconds, she started singing quietly "Rain drops start to fall. My heart begins to crack. Something isn't right. Something is way off. Maybe it's just me or Maybe it's the world. Who had caused me to lose the one I love." Lydia sang the last verse and stopped singing. Surely, she didn't just sing that. Lydia was never in love with someone. Never before or that she could remember.

The wind suddenly started to pick up in the alley and Lydia wrapped her arms around herself. "Lyds.." the wind said while caressing her cheek and blowing through her hair softly. Then she felt a hand on her shoulder and she immediately stiffened. She slowly turned around and met…

"Hey." "Oh my.. gosh," Lydia exclaimed putting a hand over her heart in relief "I thought you were someone else, Air." "It's Ari and who did you think I was?" "I thought you were someone named Be..I thought you were Beck. Ai..Ari." "Ahh, you got it right." Ari said cheerfully, Lydia blushed a little by his smile. "So this is how you go home? By taking alleys and singing like an angel."

"You heard me sing?" Lydia said wide eyed and worried. "Yes that's how I found you. Don't even say you sound horrible because you don't. I mean I'm lucky. I bumped into you and figured out you are a beautiful person inside and out and that you sing amazing." Lydia's face began to turn red and she looked down on her feet.

"And you even look cute when you're blushing." Ari said smiling a million dollar smile. "Bonus." Lydia began laughing and then somehow tripped over herself and fell into Ari's arms. "Uh.. I'm sorry." Lydia said blushing and looking up. Ari looked at her eyes and started getting closer. "I'm not." Ari said and reeled in for a kiss. Lydia was surprised, but she actually kind of liked it. She wrapped her arms around his neck and began to kiss him back. "Good thing because I wasn't sorry too." Lydia murmured. She felt his tongue started to taste her lips and that's when she pulled away. "Was I going to fast?" Ari said worried. "We both were. I'm sorry, but I really got to go." "I will walk you home." "No." "Aww, come on. Please!" Ari begged and put on his puppy face. "Fine. Only because you really did look like a puppy." Lydia said walking away while Ari was following behind her…

"Are you serious?" Beetlejuice thought. He was close until that guy, face sucking guy, who kissed Lydia, who distracted her. She was close to remembering. He looked at his hand and remembered how Lydia's skin felt. Her cheek was so soft and the way she looked now. "She really was a good choice," Beetlejuice thought "Perfect curves, Long raven black hair, Wide dark brown eyes, heart shaped lips, small delicate hands.." Beej went on with the list until he looked up at the sky. It was evening and he didn't have much time left. Beetlejuice sighed "Babes, don't fall for that guy. He smells like trouble." He shoved his hands into his pockets and began walking…

Lydia was dancing non-stop around the dining table. "Barbara, he is amazing. Simply amazing. He has the most dazzling smile and clear ocean eyes. His hair, his black luscious hair, is natural and his muscle," Adam cleared his throat "Well doesn't the weather seem lovely today?" he asked uncomfortably trying to change the subject. "It is. It was hot at first, but then in the alley, this breeze came by and it felt like it whispered something like," Lydia said pondering for a bit "Lyds. Yeah that's what it said and it felt like it caressed my cheek. It was weird, but it cooled me down a lot." Adam and Barbara quickly exchanged glances at this comment. "Oh look at the time, Lydia, I know your eighteen, but you still need your sleep. So off you go." Barbara said rather quickly "But I still want to tell you about Ari." Lydia complained "Tell us tomorrow, Sweetie. We will be all ears tomorrow, but we need our sleep too." "Okay, Barbara. Goodnight." Lydia said kissing the Maitland couple on the cheek and going upstairs to her bedroom…

"Do you think," Barbara asked nervously "No, it can't be. The contract he made was forever." Adam said calmly. "Juno." Barbara said firmly. In a instant, Juno showed up with a cigarette in her hand. "The contract was over yesterday." "What?" Barbara and Adam exclaimed "Though Lydia has forgotten about him. She can still remember him with some help. If you don't want that, then protect her." "He won't try to remind her, will he?" Adam asked "If Barbara forgot you and you had to wait six years to remind her, would you?" "That doesn't answer my," "Think about it. For now I got to go. Important meeting. Bye." Juno left leaving her stench around.

"I don't get it." Adam said pacing around. Barbara looked at him with mixed feelings. Feelings like nervousness, anger, sadness, happiness, and hopelessness. Adam stopped pacing and looked at her. "What's wrong, darling?" "If I forgot about you and you had to wait six painful years, knowing I forgot, to remind me of what we had, would you do it?" Barbara mumbled "Yes, of course. I would." Barbara's eyes started to water. "Then if Lydia forgot about him and he had to wait," Barbara's voice cracked "He would remind her. So he," Adam finished it off and Barbara nodded. "We need to tell Delia."…

Lydia wasn't going to sleep after what a day she had. She was still daydreaming about the kiss. She wouldn't tell anyone in the world about. Lydia got on her bad and sat cross legged deciding she should write in her journal. She opened her nightstand drawer only to find it jammed. "Stupid piece of shit." She murmured. She kept tugging though till it gave way. Lydia looked inside her drawer that had nothing inside except for a piece of note. The note had scrawny handwriting, but Lydia was curious so she read it.

I promised I would never forget you.

I promised that if you forgot me, I will remind you of the good times we had.

You said I was the other part of your soul. Do you now remember?

We may not be able to see each other, But we still have the key, We may have the door closed, But we still can see through the peephole, No matter how hard it was to get here, My feelings for you will never go away, so hopefully you can sing me a lullaby so I can remember this time of my life.

I promised and I'm keeping it till you remember and till you can choose knowing of what you have and what you had.

-Beej or Bj

Lydia reread the note once and then ten times more. Every single time she reread it, she remembered a little piece of memory. Seeing a body with a black and white striped jacket and pants. Remembering piercing green eyes that could make anyone melt. Seeing a skeleton with a judge hammer thing and a judge's wig and seeing…

"LYDIA!" Delia came bursting through the door frantically looking for her. She found Lydia sitting on her bed frozen and eyes rimmed with tears. "When were you going to tell me, Delia?" Lydia said rising from the bed and planting her feet right in front of her "When were you going to tell me about HIM? How we were close friends and more? How I fuckin' love him? WHEN?" "Don't dare raise your voice at me? I was saving you from that thing. I was." "Trying to be a mother? And that thing has a name."

"Yeah, Dels. I have a name." "Yeah, exactly. His name…" Lydia stopped and looked behind her. "Hey Babes. How ya doing?" Beetlejuice said grinning ear to ear…

I just had to end it there. This took me a long time to get around since I'm lazy. Anyways, Please leave a review that can be a comment or constructive comment on how to make my story better. Thanks a bunch!