Chihiro watched as the car pulled away from the strange tunnel entrance in the woods. It was so odd, that old tunnel. As Chihiro looked back at it, she felt a strange feeling of deja vu. She dismissed it, and not thinking about where she had been while on the other side of the tunnel, looked forward confidently toward her new house on the hill.
As all three of them pulled into their driveway, a look of shock spread over Yuuko and Akio's faces. "What's going on? Where are the movers?" Chihiro looked over at her house to find all of their old things spread out on the back porch, nothing being moved inside. "They were supposed to wait for us to arrive so we'd tell them where to put everything." Akio said angrily. "We shouldn't have stopped, I told you." Yuuko sighed. Chihiro got out of the car and went up into her new home with her parents. The house was large, with a cozy living room and a kitchen toward the back of the house. Chihiro walked through the house, examining it thoroughly. "So this is my new home?" She asked herself slowly. Chihiro looked up at the recently unpacked clock. It was about 5 PM. Hadn't they left around 10 AM?
Later that evening, once they had gotten everything settled in, Yuuko and Akio watched the news in their new living room while Chihiro went up to her new room. Her parents had helped her unpack everything, and her room was a quaint lavender color. She smiled, liking her new surroundings more than she had expected. "I guess it's not so bad after all." She said to herself. Chihiro flung herself onto her bed and yanked off her hairband, not looking at it as she threw it onto her dresser. She felt tired for some reason, very tired, like she hadn't slept in a day or two. The purple band sparkled.
"WHAT!" Akio bellowed throughout the house. Chihiro got up and ran downstairs to see what happened. "Yuuko, this can't be! What's going on?" He continued to rant. Her mother stood in front of the TV, her jaw drooping. "That's it for the evening news for May 31st, 2001..." The reporter said. "It's May 28th for God' sake! Look at my watch!" Akio said, his face turning white. Yuuko looked at his watch, and it was indeed said the 28th, not the 31st. "I remember leaving our old apartment this morning. We couldn't have spent 3 days traveling..." Yuuko protested. Chihiro was puzzled as well. "It's like we just lost 3 days off of our lives..." She could hear Akio saying in the background of her thoughts. Chihiro didn't get it either.