Chapter 2: Like father, like daughter
(The next morning)
(Briana hears the buzzer and tries to turn it off but she is still floating)
Briana: What is up with this damn alarm (turns toward the table and realizes she is floating) O my god! Mom! Mom!!
(Lydia enters)
Lydia: Oh no
Briana: I can't get down… god I wish I longer arms ( her arms start to grow and they reach the end of the bed and they get a mind of their own and pull her down and then back to normal) O my god… I could really use a ( sees a cockroach reaches for it and stuffs it in her mouth and then realizes what she was doing) What is wrong with me!
Lydia: It's nothing. I'm sure it's nothing.
Briana: I just ate a bug.
Lydia: In some cultures it's a delicacy
Briana: We do not live in those countries
Lydia: I'm sure nothing else will happen.
Briana: That ghost must have done this to me.
Lydia: What ghost?
Briana: Nothing never mind.
Lydia: You didn't go near the mirror last night did you?
Briana: Why would I go near the mirror?
Lydia: Well alright.
Briana: I mean you're probably right it's probably nothing but I'm gonna go check in the bathroom in just case. Anything else has changed
( runs to the bathroom mirror and at her face and then at her hands and screams)
(Runs down the stairs and into the kitchen where Allan is sitting at the table and Lydia is preparing food) Mom, I'm staying home today… ok?
Lydia: Home? Why aren't you going to school?
Briana: Well let's see I was floating, my arms grew to an abnormal length… I ate a bug and… and well (shows her red tipped fingers) Mom, I'm can't go to school like this.
Lydia: Sweetheart, I'm sure it's nothing but if you want to stay home today alright.
Allan: I think you should see a doctor today.
Lydia: A doctor won't help.
Allan: How would you know
Lydia: I just know… alright motherly instinct
Allan: Motherly instinct? Lydia your motherly instinct should tell you to get her help… she's your daughter don't you care about her?
Briana: Mom, don't you.
Lydia: What kind of a question is that of course I do! Why would you think otherwise.
Briana: Then you'll tell me what's wrong with me?
Lydia: Nothing is wrong with you
Briana: I'm going to my room
(Briana stomps room)
Allan: What's motherly instinct telling you now?
Lydia: Shut up, Allan. You'll be late.
Allan: O god, see you later, baby.
Lydia: Bye, Allan.
(Allan exits)
Beetlejuice, why did you do this to me? My daughter is upset and why because you had to be dead… you had to seduce me for a cheap laugh… I have no choice I'm gonna have to tell her… maybe tomorrow. I'm going to go photograph a few things.
(Later that day)
Lydia: Briana, lunch is ready.
(Enter Briana)
Briana: I'm not hungry, Mom.
Lydia: You have to eat something
Briana: I'll catch something afterschool with Roger. O god, Roger! I forgot to call him back last night. ( the portable phone floats towards her) Did I just do that… Mom, now you can't deny that something is wrong.
Lydia: This house has been known to be haunted
Briana: It's not the house, mom. It's me I'm possessed or something. I'll forget about calling Roger anyway he's probably at lunch. I wish I could be there with him. ( suddenly she disappears)
Lydia: O I gotta tell her… tonight. I'll bring him over and tell her tonight… why bother him at night… I'll have him pop by in the morning.
(Briana ends up in at a table in the cafeteria next to her friends Diane, Judy, and her boyfriend Roger)
Briana: O my god
Diane: Hi, Bree, where did… where did you come from?
Briana: My kitchen table.
Judy: You don't have a contagious disease do you?
Briana: No… I don't think so. Roger, I'm sorry I forgot to call you.
Roger: That's alright. What happened last night.
Briana: Come on, I'll tell you… just follow me.
(She takes him to an empty class you)
Before you freak… let me tell u that I… I love you and I hope you trust me enough to know I would never lie to you.
Roger: Why would I freak?
Briana: I saw a ghost last night
Roger: In your house?
Briana: In my bedroom mirror… he thought I was my mother. And when I woke up this morning I was floating over my bed… and then I wished I could get down and my arms grew longer… and then I ate a cockroach… then my hands looked like this… and the portable phone came to me and then I wished to see you and here I am…
Roger: (laughs) O that's a good one
Briana: Roger, this isn't funny I'm possessed
Roger: O come on!
Briana: I can't believe you don't believe me! My mother thinks I'm nuts my stepfather thinks I should see a doctor… what do you think Roger… What do you think? Do you think I'm nutz! Do you… Do you! You do don't you… you ass I hate you… I hate this I hate all this!! I could I could ( screams and her head starts spinning really fast literally spinning all the way around and she stops her head and puts it back to normal) That felt good.
Roger: O my god… Who are you what have you done with my girlfriend
Briana: I told you something is wrong with me.
(Roger runs out of the room)
Roger, wait! Roger. ( picks up her phone) Mom, Hi it's me. I'm at school could you come pick me up.
(Lydia comes by and picks Briana up and takes her home)