"I promise Lydia!" the ghost words rang in her head as if he was still there. She shivered, she had never seen something so horrifying in her life. But still she seemed vaguely familiar to her. She felt a small pang of guilt in her gut at how she acted. She sprawled out on the bed letting out a long deep breath as her mother ran in.
"Lydia darling what's wrong?" Delia looked around "Where is Betty?" she asked frowning crossing her arms.
"Oh Mother!" Lydia wailed jumping up and out of bed running to Delia. She wrapped her arms around her mother sobbing. Delia was shocked.
"Mom that girl wasn't a girl at all! She turned into cheese then a wolf then a man! He had ugly decaying pale purplish skin, and his blonde hair stood on end and he wore a disgusting black and white pin striped suite and he flew and…."Lydia kept babbling sobbing between every other word. Delia patted her on the head.
"There there Lydia your just seeing things dear. It's from when you fainted the doctor said you were absolutely exhausted. And that you might wake up with a severe headache and a little confusion until your mind focuses sweety" Delia smiled down at Lydia as Lydia shook her head.
"No mom I know what I saw I'm not seeing things it really happened!" Lydia wiped at her eyes heaving a sigh of frustration.
"And I can't remember much of anything my mind has just gone blank!" Lydia's sobs turned into a full-fledged wail as she cried into her mother's shirt. Delia gave her a look as if she had gone crazy.
"Now now sweety I'm sure it will all come back to you. Now why don't you rest" she led the still heaving Lydia back to her bed.
"I'll go make you some warm soup! That will make you feel better." Delia said cheerfully almost skipping out of the room and down to the kitchen humming. Lydia sat on her bed leaning back resting against her black spider web head board. She pulled her knees up to her chin wrapping her arms around them. She felt like she had lost the most important thing in the world to her but she had no idea what it was. She wracked her brain trying to remember but gave up frustrated and angry. She continued to cry into her knees feeling lost and completely…alone.
Beetlejuice had slept up in a tree in the Deetz's back yard. But he hadn't really slept; he had stayed awake the whole night thinking about Lydia and her loss of memory. He tried to come up with some kind of reason or explanation to her actions but had no idea. He sighed sitting up stretching his back out in pain. He dangled his feet deep in thought. Everything Lydia said to him was replaying over and over in his head. BJ's heart sank farther at the memory of how she had moved away from him. He held his face in his hands trying to shake off the memory.
"Get out and never come back! I don't ever want to see you again!" her voice echoed in his head loud and clear. He sighed into his hands but it came out as a sob. He shook his head trying to forget the awful memory. Then it hit him, literaly a big red "I" and a "t" hit BJ smacking him in the middle of his forehead. He fell backwards off the tree branch he was sitting on.
"Ahhh!" he screamed as he fell, he hit the ground head first.
"Ooohh…" he moaned rubbing his head then he remembered.
"A potion" he exclaimed out loud "Someone must have given Lydia some kind of potion! It must have happened in the Neither World Ice-Scream shop" he said excitedly, he was finally getting somewhere.
"But how and who…" he pondered scratching his chin, and then a light bulb went off above his head.
"Bully" BJ growled becoming furious again. "It had to be him!" BJ declared "He must have put something on her Ice-Scream because Lyds passed out right after eating it" he felt angry at himself for letting Bully do that and not realizing this sooner.
"I've got to find a cure" he paced back and forth thinking, then he remembered.
"My Neither World Book of Potions and Cures of course!" he slapped himself on the forehead with his palm feeling stupid. He snapped his fingers and the book appeared in his hands, he flipped through it reading the names of potions. He stopped on a page and gasped.
"Beetle Catching Potion! Oh-Boy!" he licked his lips with his long purplish green tongue, then shaking his head.
"No time for that" he mumbled flipping through more pages then he stopped again.
"Love Potion? Hmmm…that might come in handy." BJ cackled thinking about Lydia. Then he frowned and shook his head.
"No I can't force Lyds to love me. If she does she does, if she doesn't…" he shivered he would rather not think about that now. He thumbed through more pages until he found it.
"Memory Potion!" he grinned skimming down the page and found the section titled Antidotes and cures. He smiled reading through the curs picking out ones that like they might work.
"Toe fungus mixed with dandruff" He read the first cure and chuckled "I've got plenty of that. Pft!" he said. "Pond Scum rap" he laughed "Mm! Sounds good." He licked his lips while grinning. He continued to read through some more silly cures and his eyes froze on one cure specifically. His heart stopped beating, if it had been beating in the first place. All of the sudden he felt really queasy and he gulped and read the last cure.
"If all else fails, try a simple fairy tale true loves kiss to break the potion. "He read out loud biting his lip thinking. What if nothing else worked? Would he do that? A grin formed on his lips as he thought about kissing Lydia, and how much he would love to do that. He pushed that thought aside rationing that something mushy like that was never going to work.
"Boy I'm becoming such a sap! Pft!" BJ turned into a maple tree with a tap pouring sap into a bucket, then turned back to normal.
"It's time for Dr. Beetlejuice to pay a little house call to the Deetz's " BJ juiced himself a black and white doctor's scrub and lab coat, with a big leather doctors bag and stethoscope to make himself look official. He licked his right hand then slicked his hair back while juicing it a dark brown knocking on the door. Hoping his plan would work.
