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Stranger Beetles

"I..." He looked stunned. Beetlejuice couldn't take all this in right now. His mind was too bogged down with worry for Lydia, the fact that his mom was gone, and now Ash was professsing their repressed love for him.

"I- uh- I don't know. I mean, er, I don't know if now is a good time to talk about this," he was flushing, "You can come. But we'll have to pick this whole discussion up later."

LYDIA

"Kill?! Whoa, hold on, we don't want to kill anyone!" Adam looked appalled. "And anyways, there's no one living in our house. We just died!"

Just as he spoke, the front door flew open, and two moving men came in and began roughly packing their things and hauling them out. Even the crib! After all, time passed differently after they died.

"Hey! Where are they going with our stuff?" He looked back at Lydia. "They can't just take our stuff, can they?"

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Beetlejuice looked taken aback. He took a step towards them. "Ash...where is this coming from?"

He thought they were over. Like, a long time ago. Did Ash still have feelings for him?

LYDIA

"Into our house? But why would we scare someone in our house, that's pretty mean," Adam wasn't catching on.

"5 o 'clock traffic!" Barbara hollered like it was the wining answer on a game show. Adam spluttered. Was this a test?

"Uh- the news! I can't tell what's real from fake anymore!"

"Oh, he's right. Can I change my answer?" Barbara tilted her head at the demon.

LYDIA

"A demon?! In our house?" Barbara asked.

"What do you mean by help us 'be ghosts'?" He still couldn't wrap his head around being dead, but Adam was skeptical of this woman. "We're already being ghosts, aren't we?"

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"No way, Ash!" The demons had taken their discussion outside. "Someone has to keep an eye on the breathers. What if this is some ploy to lure us both away? Besides, it's just Abby. I could take him with my eyes closed!"

LYDIA

Adam and Barbara exchanged terrified glances. "Who are you?" Barbara asked. "And why do you look like a referee?"

"And why are our bodies down there, while we're up here?" Adam gulped. "Are we...dead?"

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Tina looked bewildered. "I don't know, hun. Did Lawrence send you here?" She couldn't imagine why he'd do that. He seemed to have been pretty attached to this girl to just fling her into the Netherworld by herself.

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The newly deads were staring.

"Oh dear," Tina came out from around the counter and ushered Lydia back into her office. "I know this is hard sweetheart. Death is never easy." She tried to comfort the girl by rubbing her back gently. She wondered where Lawrence was. He'd been with this girl earlier; why wasn't he here to at least visit her?

LYDIA

Creeeeaaak.

"See Barbara, we can't raise a family in a house with creaky floorboard-woooaaaaaa!" The crash was deafening, and the two cries were cut short. Why was their basement so deep? The two Maintlands laid on the cold, concrete floor, broken and twisted.

But, upstairs, only minutes later, they came in the front door.

"See, I told you this house wasn't ready for kids," Adam said, looking across the room at the giant hole in the floor. "We'll have to call someone to get that fixed."

"Oh my goodness, it's so cold in here. Did we turn the AC back?" Barbara shivered. She walked over to the fireplace to try and warm up, but it wasn't helping. "Adam, why is it so cold?" She turned to look at her husband, who was pale in the face and looking down into the hole in the floor.

"I have a better question. Why are our bodies still in the basement?!"