Beetlejuice: The Maitland's Daughter

Chapter 6

The three are upstairs in the Attic. Barbara and Adam decided to tell her about themselves, the house, and how they died. "You did this? You carved all these little houses and things?" Lydia asked in awe as she stared at Adams work he made of the whole town. Adam nodded and grinned in victory that somebody loved this work other than his wife and daughter.

"And this used to be your home? Why do you want to scare everybody?"

"Well, we wanted to frighten you so you would move out" Adam said causing Lydia let out a sarcastic laugh.

"You don't know the Deetz very well. My father bought this place. He never walks away from equity" She shrugged her shoulders as she stares at the Christmas lights who seemed to be as stars then looks back at the couple "Why don't you leave?"

"We can't. We haven't left the house since the funeral...And if we're being truly honest I guess we're worried for our daughter" Barbara looked down sadly, the thought of Darla lingers her mind. Lydia saw this a pitied Barbara.

"You two had a kid?"

"We do, She around your age I believe"

"Is she dead?"

"Gracious no! She's definitely alive. The last time we seen her is the day of the accident. We were making a quick run to Adam's shop to pick up a few things and I guess..." Barbara stopped talking know tears were forming in her eyes. Adam rubbed her back trying to calm his wife down and continued for her. "The last thing we said to her was that we loved her" he said sadly. Lydia felt bad for them. She knew that feeling when her REAL mother died. "Im sorry to hear...What your Daughters name?"

"Her name was Darla" Adam replied as Barbara suddenly sat down on the whited sheeted couch trying to calm down. Lydia's eyes lid up in realization.

"Wait you mean Darla, ya know the girl with Brown messy hair and brown eyes, Wears a lot of floral dresses and a Locket key necklace?" she asked.

This caused the two ghost to jump up and towards Lydia. "You know Darla!?" Adam exclaimed.

"Yeah. We met this morning, She came to collect her stuff in here but you blocked the door."

"Is she alright!? Does she talk about us?" Barbara too jumped and ask.

"She seems fine and yeah she talks about you guys and how she lives her and stuff."

"Oh Adam, Darla was here. Our baby was here right in front of us and we block our chances of seeing her again" Barbara cried to her husband. Adam kissed his wife's forehead calming her down telling her that everything is alright and it wasn't there fault.

"Hey I invited Darla over later after she done with school, Maybe you can meet up with her then?"

"I don't know I mean, what if she also cant see us, You're the only one who can and read our book"

"Trust me I know a thing or two about Darla. Plus I think she be happy to see you two" Lydia smiled at the two as them looked at each other with hope and happiness. "Its amazing, you guys are actually dead, ghosts. Its so unreal" she exclaimed making the two ghost smile. Their little celebration was cut off from Charles calling Lydia. Lydia sighed with annoyance. " I better go."

"Wait!" Barbara grabbed Lydia's attention. "Don't tell your parents that we're up here." Adam jumping in as well.

"Unless you think it'll frighten them away. You tell them that we are horrible, desperate, ghoulish creatures who will stop at nothing to get our house back" He said. Lydia stared blankly at them and think back.

"What if this is a dream? Can you guys do any tricks to prove I'm not dreaming?" she asked.

The couple looked at each other and shook their heads in response. "Well, If you are real ghosts, you guys better get another routine because those sheets...they don't work" and with that Lydia went back to bed leaving the two ghosts to find a plan on getting their house back. Better yet build back their relationship with their breathing daughter.