Chihiro woke up on a soft bed. "Sen, honey, please sit up and drink some tea." Chihiro sat up and rubbed her eyes. She then saw two familiar faces.
"Granny, No-face, I've missed you so much," Chihiro said as she ran to give them each a hug. "No-face just went out for a walk and saw you. Then he covered your mouth so you wouldn't scream. We missed you so much and he was really happy to see you." A woman with a blue dress with a bun ontop of her head came over with a teapot on a tray. "Would you like some more tea?" She asked. "Thank you Granny. So much has happened that I need to tell you. I started school and I hate it."
"How is it that bad that you hate it?" "I have no friends and no body talks to me." "O, well honey, you need to talk to more people and get to know people more." "I try but, today was my first day." "Well it will turn out better. Now tell me something good thats happened to you."
"I have made a new friend, I named him Ko-Haku after Haku, he is a dog that I found in the forest." "Now thats something good." "I have been seeing Haku lately, he comes to visit. Ever since I helped you get him healthy, he has repayed me by helping out around the house and just visiting. That dog you talked about, was he large and black?" asked Granny. "Yes, he was and he is very nice to me," answered Chihiro. "He is my dog, I named him Girho, he is a spirit dog."
"Will I get to see Haku?" Chihiro asked eagerly. "Actually, he will be dropping by soon, he needs to chop some fire wood for me and he stops by at night."
As the day sped on Chihiro waited as patiently as she could for Haku to come. Occasionaly helping Granny water plants or make tea and cookies. No-face and Granny went to the market for a while but Chihiro couldn't go because she was a human. Chihiro wandered the house until she became too bored to even wait for Haku. So, Chihiro left Granny's house to walk back to her own house. As she was walking through the all familiar forest, she saw smoke and tons of spirits running toward the spirit town. Chihiro began running as well until she saw to her horror the bath house on fire.
Some of the chicken spirits stood looking up at the burning mess as Ubaba and the frog spirits ran to get water out of the river beneth the bath house. Chihiro grabbed a bucket near by and ran to the river as well. As she bent down to gather up some water she fell into the river. She floated to the bottom as she couldn't swim. Soon she fainted.
Soon she woke up under a bush. She sat up and saw no one other than Haku. "Chihiro, I can't believe after all that happened that you would come back. I freed you and you came back to the danger. Now here, eat this so I can bring you back to the edge of the woods," said Haku quickly. "Did you save me out of the river?" Chihiro asked before Haku could lecture her some more. "Yes, like I did when you were little," said Haku, bringing up old memories.
Haku remembers finding Chihiro at the bottom of a river, his river. He swam down and set her on his scaly back. When he reached the shore, he set Chihiro down and swam back to the spirit world. Chihiro woke up with one of her pink shoes, one was missing, but Chihiro ran home.
Haku changed into his dragon form and Chihiro climbed up on his back. Holding tightly, Haku flew off to the edge of the forest. Over the river that the spirits were on. At the edge of the forest, Haku stopped and set Chihiro down, then he turned into spirit form so he could say good-bye to Chihiro.
"I will always remember you and you will remember me with this," said Haku handing Chihiro her missing pink shoe. With tears running down her cheeks, Chihiro asked, "Will I ever see you again?" "Yes, I will come visit you with Girho, Granny's dog, I think you've already met him. Now run along, its almost last night when you were taken by No-face; time never stops when you're in the spirit world."
With one last good-bye Chihiro began running back to her house without looking back. When she got home her mother met her at the door with an upset look in her eyes. "I was so worried, I wish you would come right when I ask you. Now sit down, its time for dinner."
After dinner, Chihiro wanted to go back to find Ko-Haku, but she had to study for a test in school tomorow. She soon fell asleep and into dreams of her and Haku. She wanted to go back to the spirit world, even if it meant working somewhere. Why couldn't she be a spirit? Even if she did go back, she couldn't work at the bath house because it burned down.
The next day at school, Chihiro had to go up to the front of the class to present her over night essay. After class, the blonde haired girl with pigtails came up to her. "Great report, I was wondering if you wanted to come to sit with me at lunch? By the way, my name is Ling, if you didn't know." Chihiro followed Ling into the cafeteria and to the lunch lines. Watching what Ling was getting, she followed by getting a romaine lettuce salad and a coke. She then followed Ling to her table. Five other kids their age were sitting all talking. "This is Randy, Paisley, Thomas, John, and Serena," said Ling pointing to the five children. They each returned the introduction with "Hey."
Chihiro sat down and listened to the gossip and talk between each person occasionaly putting in her opinion when asked to. Other than that, she sat quietly eating her salad. When the bell rang, she grabbed her books and followed Ling toward their next class.
"Ling could you please spit out that gum," Miss Caroline whined. Ling stood up and spit the wad of gum into the trash and returned to her seat. Then when Miss Caroline turned around to write the lesson on the board, Ling stuck another piece into her mouth. John giggled quietly. "We will begin our lesson with the music scale. Sing do, rey, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do while using your hand," sang out Miss Caroline. Ling offered Chihiro and John each a piece of gum. "Chihiro, spit that gum out and come to my desk," said Miss Caroline strictly. Chihiro did as she was told while Ling and John giggled. Chihiro was almost in tears as Miss Caroline handed her a pink slip to the detention office.
At the end of the day, Chihiro ran up to Ling as she stood waiting for her car. "Why did you do that and then laugh about it," said Chihiro angrily. "Why I would never do that. Say, do you have a pool at your house," asked Ling. Serena and Paisley came from around the corner and stood next to Ling. "I have a huge lagoon thats as clean if cleaner than any pool," Chihiro replied. "Well, when does your mom go to work," asked Ling. "She works at night from ten to seven in the morning," said Chihiro. "I was thinking that to get more popular you should host a party, and those times will be perfect. How about just you, me, Serena, and Paisley." "Sure, but no boys, my mom would freak out." "Fine," answered Ling, I'll see you at ten tomorow night, how's that sound girls?" Ling asked Paisley and Serena. "Sure," they replied in unison.
The next night Paisley, Ling, and Serena did show up after Chihiro's mom left for work, but they brought Randy, Thomas, and John with them. Chihiro had ordered one large pizza and only had enough snacks for the four girls. She thought having a few extra people wouldn't matter though. She would just order another pizza.
Soon, the doorbell rang. Chihiro answered it thinking it was the pizza man, but was suprised to see ten other people at the door. More people were coming up the walk way. "Why are all these people here," asked Chihiro in disgust. "I just invited a few friends," Randy answered. Now Chihiro was in for it. She asked all the uninvited guests to leave but they ignored Chihiro and shoved through the door. Chihiro began surrveying the mess of people trashing her house, going through her things, and heading out to the lagoon. Soon she saw a car pull up with more people in it.
Chihiro ran into the house prepared to scream at Ling and her stupid friends, but Ling introduced her to a guy that she had met earlier. Won over by a crush, Chihiro settled into the couch with the guy. "Hi, my name is Mark and your name is Chihiro, right?" asked the guy. "Yea, you're in my lunch period," Chihiro said giddily. Mark then grabbed her hand and led her out of the house. They began following some other kids until they reached the lagoon. Some one had put a radio by the lagoon and it was blasting a club hit. Mark took off his shirt and shorts revealing blue plaid boxers and dove into the lagoon. "Come on in, the water's fine," yelled Mark. "I don't have my swimsuit on," yelled Chihiro back. "That's okay, just get in with your clothes on." Chihiro took a deep breath and dove into the crisp water. "There, that's not so bad, is it?" asked Mark. They spent until six o'clock in the lagoon until most of the people began to leave. With one passionate kiss Mark left the party with, "Great party; you sould have one again soon."
Chihiro found Ling asleep with an older teenager in her bed, but woke them up telling them they had to leave. "Yea, that was a great party, I'm gonna leave now," said Ling sleepily.
After all the people left Chihiro surveyed the mess. She was tired and her mom was going to be home in an hour. So, she got to work. Soon her mother's car pulled in. Chihiro was finished with the whole house and the yard except for her room. She quickly went into her room and closed the door and locked it. She pretended she just woke up and went out into the kitchen to visit her mom. "What are you doing up so early," her mother asked. "Nothing, I just got a great night sleep and I didn't want to wake up with a head ache." "Okay, are you okay." "O, yea, fine."