The Land Of The Living

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Another day, another 150,000+ recently deceased people for Miss Argentina to check in to the Netherworld. "Numbers 69,000 and 69,001" She said and tried to hide a giggled when she saw who the people were "Hello you two. Back so soon? I thought that you were staying in your house, are you not?" She said looking at the couple and then back at her checklist "Yeah we are but we found something out" Adam said "We were told by Beetlejuice that if we wanted to stay in the land of the living we had to do a weekly service or a monthly service and then you get to go back" Barbara added and Miss Argentina looked up "Ahh yes I didn't tell you about that. You have to sign that line there and then you will follow me" She said pointing a long red nail at the dotted line on the piece of paper. "Alright. So do we choose which one to do?" Barbara asked picking up a red pen off of Miss Argentina's desk. The Beauty Queen nodded. "Yes you do, the weekly service is you stay for one day each week and the monthly service is you stay here every day for one month". They looked at each other for a moment.

"Uh we'll go with the weekly service. I couldn't bare staying here for a whole month" Adam said moving his hand out of a small puddle of blood from where Miss Argentina was resting her hand earlier that day. Barbara wrote her signature and so did her husband. "Good. Sorry about the blood. I had a mental breakdown earlier no big deal. Would you like a towel to clean your hand?" She asked Adam feeling a little insecure and unprofessional. He accepted and then returned the now red towel. "At least the towel matches the theme of everything you have" Barbara said hoping it would lighten the mood earning her a small realistic fake smile from the Beauty Queen. "Right then let's get you two to work" Miss Argentina said getting up from her seat. She stood up and towered over the both of them then she grabbed something from under her desk. They were her heels. They were her heels! She wasn't even wearing them before then. With shoes on she stood in front of the couple. The Beauty Queen must've been between 5'12" and 6' without her heels so god knows how tall she was with them.

Barbara looked up at her and she looked down at Barbara. Adam couldn't look he was already terrified of the dead green-blue woman and now she was 6 foot something. "Follow me" She voiced walking through the doors at a quick pace. "How does she walk that quick in heels?" Barbara whispered to her husband. "I don't know" He replied the both of them running to catch up with Miss Argentina who was now in another room "Here. This is the contract room it's where all the monthly, weekly, yearly and other sorts of contracts stay. You have to sort them out in chronological order as in weekly, monthly, yearly and miscellanies. It should take you around 5 hours there are a load there. See you soon" She said before leaving quickly and swiftly. They turned to each other metaphorically still very out of breath. "So contracts" Barbara said "Yes contracts lots of contracts" Adam replied. So they begun sorting chronologically.  

While Adam and Barbara were in the Netherworld Beetlejuice was up in the attic, Lydia had just been telling her Dad over the phone that she would convince Delia to stop buying crystals, Delia was with Lydia ordering more crystals, Charles was at work knowing that Lydia was helping his wife buy crystals. "Delia you've met Miss Argentina, right?" Lydia asked "Well of course I have once or twice" Delia replied looking at Lydia smiling "What did you think of her?" Delia sat and thought "She's alright" "Whose alright?" Beetlejuice said popping in from nowhere "Jesus Christ Beetlejuice" Delia squeaked as the ghost entered. "Your supposed to tell us when you're coming into a room, remember" Lydia said and Beetlejuice just laughed "Sorry darling" He said putting his hand on Delia's shoulder and it shocked her "Did you just electrocute me?" She asked "Yeah I did" Lydia looked at Beetlejuice annoyed "Do you have to injure my step-mom?" Lydia asked "Oh come on Lyds it's all a bit of fun. Me and Delia get on great" Beetlejuice said "Anyway who is alright?" "Oh Miss Argentina" Delia replied to him and he froze. "As in receptionist of the Netherworld Miss Argentina?" "You know any other Miss Argentina?" Lydia questioned sarcastically "No you stupid bitch" He said.

"Yes Miss Argentina is alright. We have only met a couple times and we don't really like each other ok" Delia told them both. "Yeah I signed a contract with her that'll be coming up in like 2 months so yeah" Beetlejuice said leaving the room in silence.

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