Chapter 3: Return to Normal
Lydia watched as Ginger covered Beetlejuice in webbing. Jacque grabbed onto the web bundle, which covered Beetlejuice from the mouth down, and dragged him into Beetlejuice's bedroom. Lydia followed and watched as they left him on the floor. Ginger was saying something about her webbing holding ghosts and Jacque was berating Beetlejuice for taking a living girl.
Beetlejuice looked like he could care less. Lydia made eye contact with him and watched the webbing easily expand and break away. Beetlejuice floated up, looking fairly pissed off. He took something from his pocket and threw it at Ginger, trapping her in a small cage. He looked over at Jacque and snapped and pointed at him. Jacque collapsed on the floor in a heap of bones.
"Beetlejuice!" Lydia said disbelievingly.
"I'm the ghost with the most, babe" Beetlejuice said. "One more time."
"Lydia, go through the –" Jacque said before a metal place covered his mouth. Lydia looked at the skeleton, then at Beetlejuice.
"Mirror!" Ginger shrieked. "The Mirror!"
"Aw! Shut! Up! Ginger!" Beetlejuice screamed. He threw something towards her and the sound coming from Ginger stopped. Lydia looked at Beetlejuice, then at the large mirror behind him. She ran towards the mirror, hoping to run past the ghost. Beetlejuice sighed and caught her as easily as he escaped his webbed cocoon. "Babes, Lyds, really. You think it's that simple?"
"I think you should just leave me alone" Lydia said. "I just want to go home."
"You ain't going nowhere, babes" Beetlejuice said with a smile. Lydia inwardly groaned to herself and glanced behind Beetlejuice at the mirror. She looked at the ghost before her that looked like he was about to go berserk on her. "At a loss for words, huh? How about I--!"
Lydia pulled him in for a kiss. The act threw the ghost off balance with his plans. Lydia inwardly cringed at what she was doing. She felt Beetlejuice put a hand at her waist and make a small gruff noise. Lydia moved him around, slowly and stretched her foot towards the mirror. She felt Beetlejuice's tongue find its way into her mouth and tried not to gag at the thought. Some inward thought told her that she was a necrophiliac now, or as close as she would ever dream of getting.
Lydia felt her foot touch the mirror and turn cold. She moved her foot back to her stance. She broke the kiss with Beetlejuice and looked up into his face, which was looking pretty pompous for a dead guy. She gave him a small smirk and stepped backwards, through the mirror.
Lydia landed on her butt on her floor in her room. She had fallen out of the large mirror that Delia had bought for her. She stood up and looked at her reflection. She had changed back into her regular clothes and her skin was back to its normal shade of pale. She watched as the reflection rippled, as if it was water, and changed into Beetlejuice.
"Hey!" Beetlejuice yelled. "Why'd you do that?"
"I wouldn't want to stay there with you if you were the last guy in the entire universe!" Lydia shrieked. She turned on her heel and raced out of the room. "Barbara!" Lydia raced upstairs. "Barbara! Adam!"
She burst into the attic to find her two ghostly friends in a loving embrace.
"Lydia?" Barbara said when she saw Lydia's face.
"I-I got away" Lydia said. "He…BJ…didn't want to let me go."
Adam pulled Lydia to the couch and tried to comfort her as she began to tear up. Lydia told them mostly everything, leaving out the part about the kiss. She told them about Jacque and Ginger, who the Maitlands agreed were decent ghosts for doing what they did.
"Lydia, honey, we're so glad that you're okay" Barbara said holding onto Lydia's hands.
"I need to figure out what he's capable of when he's still…unreleased" Lydia said. Adam looked at Barbara.
"Well, we first saw him on the television, then in the model" Adam said recalling their first experience with Beetlejuice.
"Yeah, that's right" Barbara said. "He shrunk us into the model. Then, I called for home three times. That got us back here."
"You mean that creep could appear in the house or in the model or in…in my room?" Lydia asked. Barbara and Adam both nodded 'yes'. "Dammit!"
"Language!" Barbara chided. Lydia got up and looked at the two.
"Just…don't say his name, okay?" Lydia asked. The ghosts both nodded.
Lydia, disgruntled, made her way to her room. She saw the mirror and frowned. She grabbed a wide scarf and draped it over the mirror. Feeling somewhat better and safe from ghostly eyes, she quickly changed into her pajamas.
'I need a shower' Lydia told herself. She grabbed her towel and headed for the bathroom.
The hot spray of the water and the calming scents of her shampoo and body wash made Lydia feel a hundred times better. She brushed her teeth and felt completely rid of Beetlejuice's touch. She smiled at herself through the foggy mirror and retreated into her bedroom.
Feeling that she wouldn't have any problems, she popped a movie into her tv and crawled into bed.
As the movie, 'Dawn of the Dead', went on Lydia started to feel the tugs of sleep pull at her. Before she knew it, she had drifted off to sleep to the sounds of mall music and zombie groans from the movie.