A Life without…
Late summer 1993
Present time 4:56pm
'Though I know I should be wary…still I venture someplace scary…ghostly haunting I turn loose…I turn loose…' Lydia replayed the little chant in her head as she stared down at her sketch book, doodling absent mindedly. Here she was in college, sitting in her last class on the day before summer break and she was stuck listening to her loser of a professor complain and rant about how his marriage is a failure, and that he thinks his wife is cheating on him, blah, blah, blah…actually that's all he ever did this whole year. Lydia sighed and noticed she had been once again drawing memories of past adventures she had with her best friend…'it's been 5 years already…I can't take this horrid place anymore…and does he ever shut up!' she frowned and clenched her fists tightly. All she wanted to do is go home, back to peaceful pines, to get out of this god awful city.
A loud beeping chimed through the room making the professor close his mouth and clear his throat, "That is all you may leave have a p-pleasant summer…" he grabbed his suit case and timer and left the room, leaving the class cheering.
"Finally!" Lydia smiled and closed her sketch book, shoving it carefully in her backpack and hurrying out of the class, and out to the bike racks on the edge of the main entrance. She quickly unlocked her bike and raced home this time taking the easy way home, she wasn't in the mood to fight off idiots and wanna be gangsters, to be honest she missed the crazy adventures she had in the Neitherworld…so going through downtown new York was the closest thing she could get, but not today. Today was the day Lydia Deetz was going back to peaceful pines and back to Beetlejuice.
Deetz's Home in New York
5:15 pm
Lydia screeched to a halt in her front yard and ran up the steps flinging the door open," I'm home!" she yelled before rushing past her father who was resting on a recline sofa chair watching the news," How was school pumpkin?" he asked as she hurried past him. "It was ok Dad, I got to get packing though!" she jogged up her stairs and into her room before stopping dead in her tracks, her things were already packed neatly in a large black duffel bag. She looked up from the bag to see her mom sniffling into a pink handkerchief," Oh Lydia sweet heart, are you sure this is what you want? You won't reconsider staying here with us will y-you?" she hiccupped and wiped her eyes.
"Mother I made up my mind already, this place isn't for me…and I put have up with it for as long as I could. I'm sorry but I need to go back…I hope you can understand mother…" she walked up to Delia and hugged her getting a hug in return from her sniffling mother. "I promise to call whenever I get the chance okay?" she smiled at Delia and grabbed her duffel bag placing it over her shoulder. "Goodbye mother." She hurried down stairs to her father who was waiting for her at the house entrance.
"Ready pumpkin?" He asked smiling sadly. "As ready as I'll ever be daddy, thank you for understanding...I'll visit whenever I can." He nodded and took her duffel bag, putting into the back seat of the car and getting in the driver's seat. Lydia opened the door to the passenger side, looking back to see her mother crying at the window, she sighed and waved goodbye, she was going to miss her parents, but she sure wasn't going to miss this crummy city 'goodbye New York, hello Peaceful Pines.' She slid into the passenger's seat and shut the door, as the car drove away to the airaport.