Hurry Up, Get Happy (a Beetlejuice: the Musical Fanfiction)

Wait to Figure Out a Way to Help

The five of them again stood together in Charles's office, explaining to the living male what had just happened. Although they were just talking over one another.

Charles held his hands up to quiet the other four down.

"Now, Lydia," he said, turning to look over towards Lydia. "You were able to see the Maitlands earlier but now you're unable to see the Maitlands?"

Lydia nodded, looking sadly down towards the floor of her dad's office space.

Charles turned to face the Maitlands and Betelgeuse. "You guys may all go," he said with a sigh. "I'd like to talk to Lydia alone.

All three dead people nodded and left the room, Adam and Barbara heading back upstairs to the attic and Betelgeuse going back upstairs to Lydia's bedroom to wait for her.

Charles sighed as he sat his daughter down and sat himself on the office floor in front of her, looking the teenager in the eye. "Lydia," he said. "Do you have any idea as to what could've possibly rendered you unable to see the Maitlands?"

Sadly, Lydia shook her head and sighed. "I don't know," was her response. "I've been spending some time with them so I know that's not the reason."

"Could it be something else then?" her dad asked. "Like asking them to leave you alone?"

"No. That can't be it. I asked Betelgeuse to leave me alone as well and I can still see him."

"Can you think of any other reasons why you can't seem to see them anymore," Charles asked and Lydia shook her head again.

"Well," Charles said. "Why don't you go to your room for now. I'll think of something to help you. I'll tell Delia what happened and see if she can help and, if we're lucky, Betelgeuse will hopefully do too."

"Okay." Lydia smiled at her dad and turned to leave her dad's office room, heading back upstairs to her bedroom.

Lydia reentered her bedroom and closed the door behind her before turning around to find Betelgeuse sitting on top of her neatly-made bed and looking in her general direction.

"Beej?" she asked, making her way over towards her bed, sitting herself down on it next to her best demon friend and turning her attention towards him. "How long have you been waiting here for me?"

"Twenty minutes," was the immediate response. Betelgeuse continued, "Babs and sexy said you were ungrounded because sexy wants more reference photos for his town model."

"Adam and Barbara said I was ungrounded because Adam wanted more reference photos from me," repeated Lydia. "What did he say he wanted this time?"

"Said the high school."

"Oh, okay," Lydia said. "I'll go take those right now then I'll give them to you to give to Adam the next time you decide to go up to the attic of the house."

"Sounds like a good plan," Betelgeuse said, stretching. "Shall I teleport us to the high school?"

Lydia nodded, then grabbed her camera.

Betelgeuse snapped his fingers and, in a flash of light, he and Lydia were both gone, teleported over to the high school so Lydia could take pictures.

Lydia and Betelgeuse reappeared a few feet away from Winter River High School, Lydia clutching her camera in one hand and her Brown eyes focused on the school in front of her. She stepped a few hundred feet away from the front wall of the high school and aimed her camera at it in order to take her best photograph. Then she moved onto one of the side walls, then the back wall, and finally, the other side wall. She eventually met up with Betelgeuse again and smiled up at him.

"That should just about cover it," she said. "Shall we go home."

"You took the words right out of my mouth, Scarecrow," Betelgeuse said with a laugh as he snapped his fingers to send himself and Lydia home.

They appeared back in the middle of Lydia's bedroom, which had earlier been cleaned up of all the pillows that had been covering it from the pillow fight that Betelgeuse and Lydia had had earlier in the day. Lydia sat herself down on her bed and turned, refocusing her attention back over towards Betelgeuse.

"Did you want to go and explore someplace abandoned and look for ghosts," Lydia asked her best demon friend. "That's all I feel like doing right now."

"Hey," Betelgeuse said as he bent down to look Lydia in the eye. "Why don't we focus on helping you figure out a way to be able to see Babs and sexy first then go out and look for lost ghosts. How does that sound, Scarecrow?"

"Okay...I guess," was all Lydia said as she looked to the side.