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

||Chapter Twenty|| Morning of Mischief

By the time the sun arose the next morning, Lydia awoke to find herself on the floor next to the couch with the black blanket Barbara had summoned for her tangled entirely around her body. Adam and Barbara were currently working to untangle it from around the teen, leading Lydia to guess that it must've just happened. Betelgeuse was leaned up against a nearby chair with the Handbook open and on his face. Lydia rubbed her eyes then focused her attention on Barbara.

"What... happened...?" Lydia groaned, resting a hand on her forehead and attempting to sit up.

"You fell on the floor and ended up getting tangled in your blanket," said Barbara as she urged Lydia to lay back down and went back to gently untangling the blanket from around the teenager.

"It... hurts... my back..." moaned the teen, laying on her back on the attic floor once Adam and Barbara finished up with freeing her.

"You need ice?" asked Barbara, summoning the said stuff and holding it out to Lydia, the teen taking it without hesitation. "You must've really hurt your back. We did happen to hear a loud thud. Mind if Adam takes a look at it?"

"Sure," said Lydia, sitting up (or at least trying to) at the instruction of Barbara. Seeing that she was struggling to at least stand up, Adam quickly used his powers to teleport the teen onto the couch. "Thanks, Adam."

"You're welcome."

Adam felt over Lydia's back, the teenager flinching a little when his ice cold hand brushed over the rather large, and painful, bruise she had gotten from falling. Adam retracted his hand and Lydia handed him the ice she was given so he could press it against her back. It made her injury hurt a little more but she was okay.

Adam and Barbara teleported themselves and Lydia downstairs to the kitchen so Lydia could have her breakfast. Betelgeuse would just have to join them downstairs whenever, hopefully he wouldn't mind. Barbara levitated a pan out from one of the cupboards and set it on the stove, using her powers to turn the stove on as Adam got the pancake mix and ingredients out of the fridge and the pantry and brought them over to her. Both ghosts used their powers to make the pancakes and Lydia was getting hungrier and hungrier as time went on.

Not even five minutes passed and Lydia was already bored, resting her head on the kitchen counter. "When... will the pancakes be ready?"

"Soon," replied Barbara, floating over to the bored teenager and resting a hand on top of her shoulder. Lydia looked up at her and smiled, but Barbara could tell she wanted the pancakes now.

"How soon...?"

"Now," said Adam, turning the stove off.

Adam used his powers to teleport the finished pancakes onto a plate for Lydia and Barbara levitated them over to her as Adam levitated some orange juice out of the fridge, pouring it into a glass for Lydia. Setting it down in front of her, Adam teleported into the living room and silently plopped onto the couch, summoning a newspaper and beginning to read it. Barbara stood over at the sink and was doing the dishes when she heard a smashing sound behind her. Turning around, she found Lydia face down on the counter with a pancake on her head and the rest of them surrounding her. The teenager's plate and glass were unbroken and on the floor, a puddle of orange juice not too far from the glass.

"Lyds, what happened?" Barbara had to ask, laughing quietly.

Lydia pointed upwards and Barbara's eyes followed the teenager's hand. She sighed upon seeing Betelgeuse hanging from the ceiling and smirking.

"What're you up to, mister?" Barbara asked, a smirk appearing on her face as she placed her hands on her hips. Betelgeuse's smirk became a grin and Barbara knew by now that she already knew the answer.

"Oh, nothing..." said the demon, shrugging as he teleported down from the ceiling and sat down in the chair that was usually Lydia's. "'Cept that I wanted to create some mischief and figured now was the time to do so. You must admit, it was kinda fun to teleport Lydia on top of the kitchen counter and then create a mess of her breakfast all over the kitchen."

"I don't think she would have thought it was fun," remarked Barbara, raising an eyebrow and scowling. Adam, who had teleported back into the kitchen, noticed his wife start to get angry and her eyes glow brighter and immediately calmed her down.

"C'mon B-Town, she's my chaos buddy and best friend. Of course she would have thought it was fun." Betelgeuse teleported out of the chair and teleported Lydia back into it, snapping his fingers and summoning a fresh breakfast of pancakes and orange juice for her. Lydia instantly began eating it in a manner that told Barbara the teenager, in fact, played a role in Betelgeuse's mischief.

"Lydia, did you ask Betelgeuse to do this or did he do it of his own accord?"

"Whispered it to him in secret so you guys didn't know what was about to happen," was the teenager's response.

"Bug, we should have told you sooner but one of the house rules that came with us allowing you to live here was 'no mischief'. Promise you won't cause anymore?" asked Barbara.

"I promise..." He smirked. "Not."

"BETELGEUSE!"

A/N: Sorry this chapter took a little longer than expected. I got noticed by both Sophia and Presley in a single week, two days apart.