Beetlejuice: The Novelization

Chapter Eight: Moving Day

The next day, the moving men are setting up things for the house. "Tell me what you do, and I'll tell you why my husband will fire you", said Delia to the head moving man. Inside the attic, Adam and Barbara are still looking and reading the handbook until she asked to her husband, "Isn't there an index?" "No, nothing", answered Adam. A paper falls out of the handbook. "What's this?", asked Adam. Back from outside of the house, Delia was stress from instructing the moving men are setting her four sculptures. "Why are there only three sculptures?" screamed Delia. "There were four sculptures. Where's the fourth?" A crane is lifting up the fourth sculpture. "What are you doing?!", said Delia.

    The dead couple see a paper that read 'Betelgeuse.' "Betelgeuse, the bio-exorcist", said Adam as he read the paper Troubled by the living? Is death a problem and not the solution? Unhappy with eternity? Having difficulty adjusting? Call Betelgeuse." "There's no number or instructions?", asked Barbara. "Nothing. The 'bio-exorcist.' I don't get it," answered Adam. Downstairs, Charles entered the kitchen wearing in his robe under his pajamas as he was preparing for his breakfast and coffee. "Why don't you take a break for half an hour?", said Charles to the moving crew. He goes into the kitchen to make his coffee, when the fourth sculpture burst in through the window. "Put that down!", yelled Delia. "What the hell are you doing?", screamed Charles. "Listen to me!", yelled Delia. A sculpture drops down. "Jesus!" exclaimed Charles. Now pinned to the garage by the statue as the movers try to free her. "Why are you doing this to me? This is my art and it is dangerous. Do you think I want to die like this?", said Delia.

    Lydia spotted the couple while taking photos. Jane and her daughter Little Jane drives up to the house. "That little girl saw us", said Barbara. "Honey, nobody can see us", said Adam. "But she did", said Barbara. "What happened to the people who used to live here?", asked Lydia. "They drowned", said Little Jane. "Yes, they were family", said Jane. "I was devastated. Here, take that". She hands her a key. "Is this the key to the attic?" said Lydia. "That's a skeleton key", said Jane. "That key will open any door in the house. Give that to your father. And you might mention that I single-handedly decorated that house. If he needs any-any advice in that arena, have him come see me".