Out of Sight, Out of Mind//A Beetlejuice Fanfiction

||Chapter Thirty Two|| In High Spirits

Barbara float-paced around the hotel room she, Adam, Lydia, and Betelgeuse were staying in. Adam sat on the edge of the bed that would've been his and Barbara's, reading through the Handbook for the Recently Deceased and trying to find out more information he could about mediums, that prophecy, and visions (so far he wasn't having any luck, much to his chagrin). Lydia rolled over in her sleep, and Barbara could've sworn she heard the teenager mumble something about their house back in Connecticut catching on fire.

She sat on the edge of Lydia's bed, reaching a hand out towards the teen and effectively waking her up, the teen sitting upright in bed and rubbing her eyes before focusing them directly on Barbara. "Is.... something wrong?"

"I should be asking you the same question." Barbara reached a hand out to gently move a few strands of Lydia's short black hair out of her eyes and the teen looked out towards the wall opposite her bed. "You were mumbling something about the house catching on fire. It wasn't yet another one of your visions, was it?"

"No, it was a dream luckily. But it certainly felt more like a vision to me. Maybe it's a mix of both?"

"What if it was a nightmare this time around," Adam spoke up, both females, looking equally as confused as one another, turning their attention over to him. "It says here that mediums can sometimes encounter nightmares in addition to the dreams and visions that they usually encounter. The subject of these nightmares can often, but rarely ever, relate to something bad happening. Most often, it's something bad that happens to a house that ghosts inhabit if said ghosts are away from it too long." He turned his attention over towards Betelgeuse, who was lounging in midair and wearing sunglasses for whatever reason. "How long is too long before something bad happens to our house?"

"Should be a really long time from now." Betelgeuse snapped his fingers and his sunglasses disappeared into thin air as he turned his attention to the male ghost. "We'll all be back there before anything bad of sorts can happen to the house."

"That's a relief." Adam shut the Handbook for the Recently Deceased and, with a wave of the male ghost's hand, it placed itself back right beside Lydia's book on mediumship.

"But shouldn't we go and check to see if nothing bad's even happened to the house? Just to be sure," Barbara inquired, looking from Adam, to Lydia (who had fallen back asleep but was still kicking like crazy and mumbling to herself), to Betelgeuse, and back towards Adam, who now looked like he was worrying like crazy.

"We've only been here for a day," Adam had ceased 'pretend-worrying', as Barbara herself hilariously termed it back when they were alive, and turned his attention over towards the snickering female ghost. "I'm sure even if we do che- what?"

"Sorry... sorry... I was only giggling because you were 'pretend-worrying' like you used to do back when we were alive."

"Are you ever not going to refer to that as me 'pretend-worrying'?" Adam teased back in an ever so playful tone of voice, standing up and adjusting his stance into a-sort of play-fighting position, the same stance he used to assume any time Barbara would playfully mess around with him back when they were still alive.

Barbara knew what was coming next, making the same adorable squeaking noise as she did back then and diving out of the way as Adam leapt towards her, giggling just a little. Barbara made sure not to end up phased halfway through the wall of their room and the wall of the room right next to theirs, knowing full well that whoever was staying in said room would freak out big time over the fact that dead people were staying in the exact same hotel as them... if they could even see them that was, which Barbara hoped and knew was more likely.

She dove behind a chair, peeking out from behind it as Adam looked around for any signs for her and eventually spotting a few strands of her clear blonde hair peering out from behind the same chair Barbara had been hiding behind for not that long. He quickly turned himself invisible, moving stealthy towards Barbara's chosen hiding place without her knowing for the moment.

Barbara peered out from behind the same chair that she had been hiding behind when she thought she hadn't heard Adam make any sort of noise or movement towards her, only to jump backwards in surprise when Adam suddenly made himself visible again, revealing himself to be standing on the chair and peering down towards her with a slightly amused and goofy grin plastered on his face.

"Got ya!" he teased, bending over the top of the chair and pretending to tickle her.

"Adam! You joker!" Barbara teased back, bursting into what seemed like a never ending bout of joyous and bubbly giggles, which Adam still found to be amusing yet adorable. Barbara's giggling eventually came to an end and she gave Adam a sly look, to which he replied to with a playful gasp-like noise. "I'm gonna get you back!"

"Barbar-!" Adam started to say, still managing to sound a little bit amused and playful, being cut off when Barbara floated out from behind the chair and back down towards the carpeted floor, taking a running leap at her husband and tackling him to the ground. The both of them burst into equal bouts of laughter as Barbara moved to tickle her husband all over nonstop and Adam playfully tried to push her off of him, to no avail.

"This is what you get for pulling that playful surprise attack on me," Barbara spoke up in a amused, playful, joking, yet sly and goofy tone of voice, playfully pinning her husband down to the floor and holding his arms against the sides of his form, preventing him from getting away from her. She let go of one of his arms and he started to pretend to crawl out from under her as she went back to tickling him all over and making him chuckle endlessly. This was one of their favorite games to play back when they were alive and it truly felt that way doing it yet again.

However, their playfulness quickly toned down at the sight of the sunlight filtering through the window, bathing Lydia's face as the teenager woke up. Barbara scrambled off of Adam and allowed the male ghost to stand up as she went to sit on the same chair that she hid behind when Adam had surprised her hilariously with his invisibility jump scare joke. Lydia stretched and rubbed at her eyes, focusing her attention onto the Maitlands and noting that they were giggling and looking amusingly at one another.

"What's going on, guys?" Lydia asked in an amused voice as she climbed out of bed and walked around it, coming to a stop in front of the Maitlands with her arms crossed and what sounded like playfulness in the tone of her voice.

Adam and Barbara exchanged another amused glance then returned their attention back over towards Lydia.

"Oh.... nothing," was Adam's response as he and Barbara stood up. "Barb and I just had a little fun, that's all."

As the sound of Charles knocking on the door and asking if any of them wanted to join him and Delia in the hotel's restaurant, Lydia let out an amused laugh. "That must have been really fun for you guys. You used to goof around like that back when you were alive?"

After Lydia got dressed and the four of them went to leave their hotel room and followed Charles and Delia down to the hotel's dining room, Adam laughed as he said, "yeah, it was one of the things that brought Barbara and I together. The first time she did it at summer camp, it amused me a little too much."

"Adam!" Barbara playfully elbowed her husband.

"What?"