Out of Sight, Out of Mind//A Beetlejuice Fanfiction

||Chapter Twelve|| Second Day News

"Lydia, it's time to get up for school," said Barbara around three hours later.

"Already..." mumbled the teen, slowly starting to wake up.

The teenager shifted in her spot on the couch in the attic and sat up, rubbing her eyes. She stood up and hurried back down to the second floor of the house to get herself ready for school that day whilst the Maitlands teleported downstairs to the kitchen. Barbara started a nice breakfast of eggs, bacon, and toast for Lydia because the teen had kept mumbling that she wanted it for the last half hour whilst Adam used his powers to sort Lydia's lunch and backpack for the day, putting things in the appropriate folders, zipping it up, and setting it over by the door to the garage.

Barbara set Lydia's breakfast down on the counter in front of Lydia's usual spot and she and Adam sat across from it. Lydia's footsteps sounded from the upstairs hallway and down the stairs. She entered the kitchen in not her school uniform, but her usual everyday black dress and combat boots. She sat down at the counter and started to eat as Barbara confusedly looked over at her.

"Uh, Lydia, why are you wearing your everyday clothes on a school day instead of your uniform?" she asked. Lydia stopped mid bite and put her fork down.

"I... thought it was the weekend?" she clearly lied.

Barbara rolled her eyes playfully and snapped her fingers to change Lydia's clothes from what she was wearing to her school uniform. Lydia looked down at it and gave Barbara a playful pout when she refocused her attention onto her.

"Gee... thanks, Barbara..." she teased. Barbara didn't catch that she was teasing her. "Where are my dad and Delia? They're usually down here by now."

"Oh. About that, they came up to the attic around three this morning to tell us that they were needed at the hospital your grandmother's at as soon as possible."

"I thought they were supposed to go next week?" Lydia sounded confused.

"Apparently the dates were mixed up," replied Adam. "They were accidentally told to come next week instead of this morning and were only told right as you came upstairs to the attic to sleep."

"Did they say when they'd be back?" asked Lydia.

"When and if your grandmother is well," replied Barbara. Lydia nodded.

She smiled at Lydia as the teenager finished up her breakfast and carried her plate and her cup over to the sink, putting them in. She picked up her backpack and headed out the door to go to school. As the sounds of her starting up the Maitlands' old car were heard, Barbara stood over by the sink and began washing abc cleaning Lydia's plate with her powers.

"I wonder how a certain demon's going to react that Lydia leaves this early in the morning to go to school."

"I don't know. We'll have to tell him soon and I know he's gonna want to pull a prank of some kind with her this afternoon. I could hear him mumbling about it as he teleported back into the attic," replied Adam.

Speak of the devil....

Betelgeuse teleported into the kitchen and looked in the Maitlands' direction. "Where's Lydia at a time like this? I was going to need her help with something."

"She went to school like yesterday," replied Barbara, not looking up at Betelgeuse.

"Again? Let me guess, she's going tomorrow as well?"

"Yes. And the rest of the week," said Barbara.

"All week?" asked Betelgeuse, teleporting up onto the counter.

"You'll be able to do whatever it is you need her help with at any point in the weekend. As long as it's not too dangerous."

"Dangerous? Nah. It was just going to be a small, harmless prank," said Betelgeuse with a playful smirk. "Anyway, it's already after two in the afternoon. When does Lydia get back from this... school?"

"I forgot time moved fast for us now. Just ten minutes ago, it was breakfast and she headed on her way to school," said Barbara with a laugh as she glanced from Adam to Betelgeuse and back. The sounds of Lydia pulling their car into the garage and the garage door closing were heard and Betelgeuse teleported straight up to Lydia's bedroom in an attempt to scare her.

Lydia entered the house with a sheepish look on her face and Adam used his powers to levitate her backpack off of her and onto the counter. She sat down and looked at Barbara with a worried expression.

"What's wrong, Lydia, sweetheart?" she asked.

"My friends want to meet you guys by the end of the week but they don't know you're dead and I don't know if they can see you. So, I've run into a few problems and don't know if I can invite them?"

"Lydia, they're your friends for a reason. You befriended them because they were goth like you. Of course they'd be able to see us. Invite them over and we'll find out by the end of the week," said Barbara, floating around the counter and wrapping her arms around Lydia in a hug. "We'd love to meet your friends too and I'm sure we'd make a good first impression to them, right Adam?"

Adam nodded and Lydia sighed.

"You told them about Betelgeuse?"

"Yeah. They think having a demon as a friend is pretty cool and that's basically the reason why they wanted to meet you. And him. I'm going to go upstairs, text them that it's okay for them to come over and meet you guys and get a start on my homework." She grabbed her backpack and headed up the stairs, calling over her shoulder, "Let me know when dinner's ready!"

The Maitlands nodded. The rest of the week was going to go by in a flash and it felt like tomorrow was going to be the day they met Lydia's friends from school.

A scream, followed by a bout of laughter, was heard from upstairs and the Maitlands looked at each other and giggled.