Beetlejuice character belongs to Tom Burton
Story and Tom personality/name belongs to me
New steps
Lydia was happy for her new friendship with Tom, he was a good friend and his advices of Beetlejuice attitude problem did help her a lot. He had told her to give Beetlejuice some space and so she did, letting him sort his probably very new feelings out, but even Tom recommend that she should give her best friend some space, didn't mean she would stay away from him.
"Though I know I should be wary, Still I venture someplace scary; Ghostly haunting I turn loose..." she closed the curtains and hesitated with the last lines, for what Tom had asked her for only a day ago, didn't get of her mind
"Are you in love with your childhood friend?" the truth was she didn't know. Sure she was the only person in both worlds who wanted to hang out with Neitherworld's biggest troublemaker. But that was old news. They have been friends for so long and Lydia couldn't see a future without Beetlejuice, so maybe…
"Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice" she said slow and the door to the Neitherworld appeared. She walk through it and jumped right inside Beetlejuice living-dead room.
He is not here. Maybe it was him I saw on the date with Tom? She looked around in the room and finally looked at the door to his bedroom but how much he saw, is another question. I really hope he didn't see me 'kiss' Tom she shakes her head, before she walked up to the bedroom's door
"remember. Take it easy around him" Lydia reminded herself, before she knocked on the door
"who is it?" she heard him grunt, he didn't sound like he was in a good mood today.
"It's me, Lydia" she said back and she heard something there could sound like a "just come in" but she was not sure and when she slowly open the door. She found Beetlejuice lying in bed(with still his suit on) with his back up towards the ceiling "why are you still in bed? It's over noon" Lydia asked him.
"I feel sick" he mumbled short with his jaw on his pillow.
"face it Beej" she smiled to him with crossed arms "you are always sick" it wondered her a little he didn't answer with a "hey good one" or just with a smile, but he only looked down in his pillow and looked almost lost for a second.
"how was your date?" that question surprised her. Not because he asked her, but in the tone he used. She could both see and hear on him that something tore him down.
"new" she told him and sat in the end of his bed, he turned a little to look into her eyes. There was no denial that he was sad about her going on a date, she smiled sad back to him and lay gently a hand on his shoulder "Beetlejuice. Sorry for I was so pushy at you lately. You just a big lump sometimes"
"am I still your best friend?" again that tone and she could still not figure out what it means. Lydia smiled friendly and said with so much power she could, to tell she meant it;
"always B.J. You will always be my best friend and I will be your partner in pranks, when you make the whole Neitherworld flip with your silly pranks" a little smile appeared in his face "and I will always be there to get you out of hairy situations"
"no matter what?" he asked when he raised more up from his bed.
"no matter what" she nodded back and with no warning took one of his hands and tired to drag him out of bed "come on, let us do something funny"
"hey! What happen with you won't be pushy around me?!" he yelled(not mad at her) and tired to suck himself to his bed.
"you can't lay around all day you lazy bump!" Lydia gave back and she keep pulling in his hand, there soon looked like a freaky snake "so get up!"
"I do it, because I can!" he yelled back and looked more like a big child there didn't want to get up in school.
"not anymore" and with those words she pulled as hard as she could, so he landed with a big "whha!" right on the floor with head first "ups, sorry" she couldn't stop giggle for his priceless grumpy-face on the floor.
"way put me out of been down in the dumps" he grumbled(still on the floor) and crossed his arms, so he didn't look so goofy anymore "so what is funny in your mind?"
"I should ask you the same thing" she joked with amused smile at him. He finally grinned back and a flier(with wings like a fly) came inside the open window. Lydia manages to catch it and read for herself what it was about. When she have read it she said to Beetlejuice "hey look, there is a flea market-"
"a flea market?" he grinned "sound like a great place to eat"
"ohh Beetlejuice" she giggled and helped him up "come one" they both walked out of the Road house and down to at the Lost Soul highway, to get to the flea market. Lydia couldn't stop looking at Beetlejuice, even he didn't see her doing it.
He don't look like he is in love with me. She thought, while she looked at him there looked at a fly over his head, he snapped in real frog-stile He still the same silly-head... but he did get sad over when I am with others than him, but that can just be his big airhead pride-
"Lyds?" her train of thoughts was interrupted by Beetlejuice, there maybe notice she was looking at him "why are you here anyway?" she raised a eyebrow at him and he said more in his own sorry tone "what about that boy you...is with?"
looks like I was right he don't like the idea I am with others, but is he really in love with me? Am I in love with him? She decide to let the time tell, for it was really new for her and probably confusion for him.
"I am not with him" she told him "he only want to be my friend" Beetlejuice frowned for that "and he was sat up to date me, bummer huh?"
"yeah... bummer" Lydia could swore she saw him smile for himself.
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"hey babes, check this out" Beetlejuice floated over to Lydia with a new box full of maggots and he said more joking with his British accent "now I never go hungry again... for the next two hours HA!" he laughed, but noticed that Lydia's attention was on something else "babes?"
"uh? sorry, I just found this book" she apologized and showed at little green book to him. Beetlejuice read;
"Jac and the steamstalk? hm, he most be in family with Jacques" he joked with a snort, while Lydia brought it.
"do you want me to read it for you?"
"really?" he was surprised for her offer, but he has always loved her read, for her voice could almost bring the story to life. He could do it literally, but just hearing her voice- Beetlejuice quickly snapped himself out from his thoughts and said so carefree he could "nah, I have already tried that"
"what? meeting the giant?" she giggled. Both of them walked away from the flea market, with the things they had brought. In Beetlejuice case, what he had scams people to give him.
"of course!" he grinned and make her sit down on the nearest bench "now you just gonna hear-"
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"-and that's how I took down the giAnt, got all that money and saved the Nietherworld" Beetlejuice ended his story and when he looked at Lydia, she looked at him with crossed arms.
"I don't believe a word of what you are saying" she smiled hopelessly at him "that's a old wives' tale"
"says who?!" he gave back and to his surprise Lydia just pointed at him, there funny enough have taken form after a old hag. With a sheepish laugh, he quickly changes back to his (ab)normal self "come one Lyds. You gonna believe me"
"oh yeah sure" her voice dripped with sarcasm, then added "after you tell me, what happen to all that money"
"ehmm... the GiAnt came back and took it back" he lied. Lydia crossed her arms, telling that she didn't believe that "no? Okay I used it all on Beetles"
"suure, and what about the thing you saved the whole Neitherworld?" she reposed back with rolling eyes at him "for that is hard to believe for where I am sitting"
"so sit there" he push her to the other side of the bench and he took her old place "Better?"
"no"
"heheh... you know how forgetful deadbeats is" he laughed sheepish
"oh I know"
"hey!" he notice she looked at him when she said it, when it was his turn to cross his arms and looked offend at her. Lydia only laughed at him
"goofball" she pushed him playfully and her sudden move surprised him but he pushed her playfully back. She giggled at him again and she notice what the clock was "is that really that late? I have to go back"
"already?"
"don't worry. I will come again tomorrow"
"really?"
"sure!" she gave him a quick hug "later Beej"
"later" he waved after her, when she said his name three times and disappeared back to her own world. He couldn't stop smiling that nothing have changes anyway.
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"hey Bertha, hey Prudence"
"hey Lydia!" the two girls greeted Lydia back, when she walk over to them. They was the only girls on Miss Shannon's school there wanted to spent time with her and she was grateful for that.
"we heard you have been out on a date" Bertha said and looked more interest than ever, she was just a hopelessly romantic.
"you can't call it a real date" Lydia tired to explain, but she saw Tom Knight came walking behind her two female friends "hey Tom!"
"oh... hey Lydia" Tom looked surprised to see her and even more when he saw hers company. She waved him over to them and thought this could maybe be the time she returned the favor.
"Tom. This is my two friends" she told him "Bertha and Prudence"
"hallo" T.K greeted hospitality
"hi" both girls said on the same time and Lydia notice that Prudence already looked interest in Tom, but unfortunately also very shy.
"Tom is really good with history, just like you Prudence" Lydia told her smaller friend and hope it could break the ice between them. If not? Then she done her best she could.
"r-really?" Prudence looked more curious at Tom "do you know what the Saxon is?"
"Prudence! Couldn't you give him a more-" Bertha began, but-
"you mean on the the tribes there was in both France and took to Britain?" Tom asked innocent and to Lydia's amusement she saw that Prudence was impress.
"yeah" she nodded "but there are more to the story than t-that"
"maybe... you will tell me about it" T.K began, but his shy nature was in the way "maybe over a cup of... well.."
"that sounds great!" Lydia interrupted him with a almost true copy of her mother's cheerful tone and lay a hand on both Tom and Prudence shoulder (even there was a big size difference) "you two can help each other with homework in the new café shop" both Tom and Prudence looked at each other and Lydia could see that Prudence blushed.
"Do you want to... ehm go?" Tom asked when Lydia patted him confident on the shoulder.
"s-sure" Prudence said and they both walked away, already in a history conversation.
"later!" Lydia smiled great after them and she notice Bertha's smile sly "what?"
"I didn't know you could play matchmaker" she giggled at her and looked after her best friend and Tommy "but they look cute together"
"it was a favor from Tom. I own him for that"
"what about you Lydia?" Bertha asked with a new smile "have you tried to play matchmaker with yourself?"
"me? Are we still have the talk with the prom?" she asked with a raised eyebrow
"sure" Bertha giggled rather silly and walk closer to her "so have you found someone? I already have and he's really cute"
"I not even thought about the prom" Lydia admitted, the thing there has been on her mind lately was Beetlejuice oddly attitude.
"Lydia, you better begin to find someone. You won't come alone won't you?" But Lydia didn't know what she should say.
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the same day she have make Tom and Prudence go on a 'date' together, she sat inside the classroom and listen to something really boring, For one of the teachers was been sick and a substitute teacher came instead, but she have a feeling she had heard that before. Lydia writing some notes down and saw she had dozed a little off and have began to write her words above each other, so she took her eraser and-
"hey!" she almost dropped her eraser, when she heard Beetlejuice voice and saw he has possessed her eraser.
"Beetlejuice?" she said surprised and lowered her voice, when some of the other students began to look up "what are you doing here?"
"didn't want to wait, so I just rub myself in" he joked in her hand, still as her eraser "what about letting me out?"
"I am in school"
"Miss?" her substitute teacher warned her "please be quite"
"sorry" she apologized and said quick to the ghost "I call you after school" he only came with a grumpy look before she have a normal eraser in her hand again.
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"Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice"
"bout time" the ghost said and when she came to Neitherworld's. She only have him a hopelessly look in response. He began to push her away from the cities roads "what about we spent some time outside the city today? you know-"
"BEETLEJUICE!" both the human and the poltergeist jumped a half meters up in the air of a bad scare, when someone yelled after the ghost... again. Both of them saw five police-cars came towards them with really angry police folks behind them.
"EPP!" Beetlejuice shrieked and took quickly Lydia's hand "run for it Lyds!"
together they both ran through the half of the city, before Beetlejuice found a empty house and quickly drag Lydia inside "in here" the room was dark and gloomy, but it was at least empty. He heard the police cars was near, so he pulled Lydia away from the light of the broken windows. They heard the cars came closer and closer.
"Beetlejuice, what if they found us?" Lydia asked him nervous and looked with wide eyes at the noise from the police cars.
"then you just say my name the two last time" he mumbled low when he saw two police men and the police cars, beside of them. He got slightly surprise when Lydia hugged him to found protection, he wrapped his arms around her to show nothing will happen... he hoped.
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Lydia knew it was a maybe a little childish to hide herself in Beetlejuice arms, but it was so easy to let him protect her in his own way. He has always protected her and ran after her, if he first thought that that she will be in danger of some sort.
"Are you in love with your childhood friend?" she heard the quotes Tom once said to her and she looked up in Beetlejuice eyes, he didn't look at her, but she knew even in his most selfish form, she knew that he always thought about her.
I... I think I am... also in love with him she thought slow and felt butterfly in her stomach, was this the reason she never really dated before? Because she didn't want to hurt Beetlejuice or because her heart already knew, it only beat for him. She felt her body shiver over those deep thoughts and she didn't knew they was unpleasant or a pleasant feeling.
"scared Lyds?" she looked flustered at Beetlejuice there smirked amused back.
"no, I am just freezing" she quickly said and looked down, so he didn't see her face turned red, because she blushed. Lydia hugged him a little closer over this new feeling she felt, but they still feel so familiar... just stronger. Even so close to him, she didn't find his stench so horrible anymore, she most have been immune for his scent with the ages. She realized that everything around him, makes her feel a certain happiness and joy
no... I know I am. He have always been there for me and we can't live with each other... she smiled over her own words in her head so to speak.
There was silent outside and she could feel that Beetlejuice relaxed, that most means the cost was clear. Fuel of her 'new-found' feelings to Beetlejuice, she looked into his green eyes there shined luminous in the dark. He watched her too and she was sure he was spell bounded too... just for a moment.
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like her, Beetlejuice watched Lydia, there looked at him with big black eyes and he was slightly confused why she looked at him like that? He watched her while she slowly and uncertain got closer to him, so he could smell her shampoo she used to her hair.
Damn she smells good he thought and- he realized that he was about to do a mistake.
"embladuu..." he babbled incoherent and that make Lydia look confused at him. Beetlejuice cleared his throat and tried again "Iiii think they are gone now" she smiled as always friendly too him and he has no idea she make the mood changes so drastic or it was only him.
What the hell did just happen? He thought, while he acted like the took a extra look to be certain that the police was gone Does... does she knew? That I'm-
"what did you do this time?" she interrupted his thought and he almost adored her for it.
"nothing" he lied immediately, it was second nature for him to do that.
"Beetlejuice"
"want to be send home?"
"no" she smiled over his smaller warning to say his name again, but he just knew he wasn't off the hook "but I still want to know what you did" he began to mumble incoherent words to misguide her, but she just walked over to him and took one of his 'stolen' goods up of his jackets pocket
"I didn't know you ate donut" she smiled sly at him, while waved a half-eaten donuts up in his face.
"heheh... guess you knew why they are after me huh?"
"you took the police donuts?" she giggled and rolled her eyes at him "and they got mad at you?"
"well, they just want any excuse to throw me to the sandworms, if you know what I mean?"
"I hope they never catch you" she smiled to him, before she gave him a new hug and before he knew it, she took the whole box, he has taken form the police station up from his pocket "share?"
"share" he grinned at her and took the most dirty at the donuts.
just some lose ends in this chapter, nothing big to tell here
