Demons of a Different Time (A Beetlejuice Highschool AU)

Chapter 1: Hello Handsome

-Beetlejuice's PoV-

Lawrence Beetlejuice Shoggoth walked slowly up to the front doors of the school. Here he was, his first day at this new school, Roaring Tiger's High School. With a shrug, Beetlejuice pushed open the front doors.

The front hallway was crowded with students of all grades. He double checked his paper: locker 278, that seemed to be in the middle of cautious. Just his luck. 

He started making his way forward, shoving past people until he got to his locker, he opened it and placed his stuff inside. Apparently his first class was science so he picked up a blank notebook, his pencil bag, and his phone and shoved his way to class. 

He entered the busy classroom and stared around, he was only just barely not late, so the only seat available was next to- 

"Holy shit," he whispered to himself, there was a boy with short light brown hair and an adorable face. Fuck, he was super cute. Beetlejuice put on a smirk and sat down in the seat next to the boy. 

He glanced over at his newly found love interest to see him reading quietly. The boy looked up and caught his eye for a moment. Beetlejuice winked and said, "hello handsome~"

-Adam's PoV-

"Hello handsome~" the hot guy sitting next to him said with a wink. Adam Maitland blinked, did he hear that correctly? Did this hot new guy just call him handsome? 

He blinked again and whispered back, "what?"

"I meant what I said," the grinning boy told him, leaning back in his seat, "what's your name sexy?" Woah, did the guy just call him sexy? He cleared his throat softly and scratched the back of his head, blushing.

"P-pardon?" He said, silently damning himself for stuttering. 

"I said, what's your name sexy?" The boy said calmly, running his eyes up his arms. Adam shifted in his seat. The new, hot guy had taken a liking to him? Him, of all people? Adam had never been flirted with before, not like this...

"Um, it's Adam." He said softly and the hot boy smirked. 

"Sexy name, sexy face, sexy bod, you're just a sexy being huh?" 

"Um..." Adam stammered, "thanks... What- what's your name?"

"Name's Beetlejuice~" The hot high schooler purred and Adam cocked his head.

"Beetle- Juice?" He said.

"My middle name. My first name's Lawrence. Lawrence Beetlejuice Shoggoth at your service." 

"I-I-"

"Adam Maitland!" The teacher scolded and he sank back in his seat, looking down, "I'm disappointed with you Adam, you're not usually a talker. Do you need to move seats?"

Adam opened his mouth to say yes when the new kid interrupted, "no ma'am." Adam looked over at him in surprise but he was smiling sweetly at the teacher. 

"Good," the teacher said and pointed to the board, "now, we're going to do a little math. Who can tell me what the logarithm of this equation would be?" 

Adam raised his hand but the teacher instead picked Delia who answered, "log base two of three?"

The teacher shook her head, "not quite, Adam?" 

"Log base three of two equals nine." He stated matter-of-factly and Beetlejuice looked over at him in surprise.

"Yes. That's correct, now can someone besides Adam tell me how he got that answer." The teacher started writing on the board and Adam watched with interest until he felt a tap on his shoulder.

He turned to look at the new boy and raised his brows as if to say "what?" 

Beetlejuice leaned in close to his ear Adam shivered as the hot kid's breath travelled down his ear canal, "you're boring,"  he whispered and Adam blinked, "but you're sexy."

Adam pulled back, his eyes wide. He stared at the grinning boy and he could swear that his face was red as a tomato. What was this kid's problem? No one ever even bothered with him so why was this kid trying so hard?

Adam turned back to the teacher to see her matching people with others for the science project. Uh oh, she was matching them by tables. Adam looked over at Lawrence and tried not to stare. No one but his mom knew he was gay. Why was this guy flirting with him? 

He was... He was hot yes and Adam was kind of digging the green in his hair and his black and white striped hoodie, but still, what was going on?

The teacher walked up to their desk and said, "and you two will be partners. There's no problem with that right?"

"No ma'am." Beetlejuice told her and then looked to him, "right Adam?"

"Um... Yes, there will be no problems."  Adam may have just made the biggest mistake of his life but he was going to go with it because maybe this guy wasn't a pervert. Maybe he just wanted a friend. 

The teacher nodded and walked away. Adam turned to the new kid, "let's start over. I'm Adam." He held out his hand.

"Hello handsome, sexy, smart Adam, I'm Beetlejuice." The spiked green haired boy said, his grin growing as he lifted his hand to his mouth and kissed it gently.

Adam felt his cheeks flush, "um... Th-thanks." 

"Just telling the truth," Beetlejuice said.

Adam took in a deep breath and looked down at the papers they had been given. He started reading, "it says here that we need to make a science project. You have any ideas?"

"Yeah, I do."

"Oh, what is it?"

"Going back to my place and you know..." Beetlejuice winked and Adam stared at him in horror. He just needed to ignore him and maybe he would stop.

"We could do the classic volcano," Adam suggested.

"Oh, I'll give you a volcano," his classmate smirked. Adam shifted in his seat.

"Um..." Just keep ignoring him, he told himself, "I have some supplies at home. We can meet after school at one of our houses and work on it?"

"My place," Beetlejuice said just as the bell marking the end of class rang, "address is in your pocket, I'll see you at six Adam."

And with that, he stood up and walked out of class like nothing had happened.