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

||Chapter Twenty Two|| Days Gone By

After about an hour and a half of reading through the Handbook (Adam and Barbara wanted to know other things about the dead, Betelgeuse wasn't sure why), Adam and Barbara decided to give it a go. But it was utmost impossible with the two of them just standing there and staring nervously at the door. Betelgeuse was growing impatient. How much longer was this going to take?

"Adam, you go first," said Barbara calmly, urging her husband forward. She had a gentle (mischievous) smile on her face.

Adam shook his head then held a hand out towards the door. "Nono, Barbara, hon, you go first. It seems only fair."

"You go first. I insist."

"No, you go fir-."

Betelgeuse seemed to have grown annoyed, his hair turning a fiery red as he snapped his fingers and teleported Barbara in front of the door. She seemed startled at it happening, as she shook her head a few times and turned to look in the demon's direction. "Bug, you sure about this?"

He nodded and Barbara looked to Adam, nervous.

"Hey?" Her husband teleported over to her and smiled as he rested a hand on top of her shoulder. "What happened to Barbara 2.0?"

Barbara had to laugh. "I haven't gone back to my old self, Adam. I'm just nervous because we haven't tried to leave the house since we died. What if what we just read is factually incorrect? That would be a dud."

"Then we'll just have to stay here and wait for Lydia, her dad, Delia, and Betelgeuse to get back from New York," said Adam with a shrug. "If that does happen, the week will fly by in a breeze. You know it's going to."

"Are either of you gonna give it a try?" Betelgeuse spoke up from where he currently was in the kitchen. "It's almost dark and-."

"Adam, Barbara, isn't it dinnertime?" asked Lydia, coming down the stairs and entering the kitchen. "I texted Delia to let my dad know that the four of us are going to meet up with them tomorrow and she said that's okay."

"That gives us a little more time to see if it's possible for us to leave the house for a short while then," said Barbara as she headed into the kitchen to start on some dinner for Lydia. "Lyd, you don't mind having the attic all to yourself for a little while tonight if you want to sleep up there, do you? The rest of us can stay down here and Adam and I can do a little testing on leaving the house for the first time since our deaths."

"Not at all," said Lydia, grabbing herself some silverware. Adam summoned a cup of ice water for the teenager and set it on the counter in front of where she was sitting. "I don't mind. You guys take as much time as you want."

Adam, Barbara, and Betelgeuse nodded and Barbara turned off the stove, possessing the pasta she'd made to float itself into a bowl for Lydia, whom she levitated over to and set down in front of. Lydia smiled at the female ghost and dug in.

After finishing her pasta and placing the bowl and glass in the sink to be cleaned later, Lydia sat on the couch and looked at her phone whilst the Maitlands and Betelgeuse went back to their earlier conversation (which they were sure they'd started when it was morning). Lydia was about to text her dad and Delia goodnight when she heard loud laughter coming from above her. Looking upwards, Lydia snickered as she spotted the Maitlands floating above her and grinning like crazy.

"Guys, what's going on?" she chuckled, though she already knew what they were planning on doing. Standing up and moving towards the center of the living room. She felt the ice cold hands of Barbara tickling her all over. Adam decided to join in on the fun, using his powers to levitate Lydia in the air whilst Barbara summoned a feather and used it to tickle the laughing teenager. "Guys, stop. This is fun but I'm not that ticklish."

"You sure about that?" Adam queried in a playful voice, also summoning a feather and using it to tickle the teenager.

"Guys," Betelgeuse shouted. "Isn't it around midnight?"

Again Adam and Barbara looked at one another and then over at Betelgeuse.

"Midnight already? Lydia, why don't you head upstairs?" asked Adam, levitating the teenager back down towards the ground.

Lydia nodded and rushed upstairs to get ready for bed. Upon hearing the teenager shout goodnight to them, all three deceased turned their attention back towards the door leading out to the back porch and Adam and Barbara went straight back to telling one another to go first much to Betelgeuse's annoyance.

At this rate, another day might as well have passed by before they could even know how long they could be outside for.