Mom looked up from the kitchen table and smiled. She had a beautiful white toothy grin as usual.
"Tohru honey, sit down and join me, have a snack will you?"
Tohru sat down beside her mom and smiled. Everything was as it should be, nothing was strange or weird or wrong.
"Mom, " Tohru questioned, "How have you been lately? For some reason I don't remember seeing you."
Mom picked a Big juicy black jelly bean from the candy dish in front of her and popped it into her mouth.
"mmm.. Tohru dear, " she chewed as she talked and made squishing sounds as she ate, " you really.. Should try these-she swallowed-their so good!"
Tohru smiled her innocent smile, "No mum I'm fine thanks. By the way you have something stuck in you teeth." Atsuko picked something long and black from her fangs. 'wait, fangs? Mom never had fangs before! I must be going crazy!' Tohru did a double take and looked at moms smile, it was as she thought- FANGS!
"M-mom!"
"hmm, yes dear?" she coolly popped another bean into her mouth squished its juices out.
"mom you have fangs! Why do you have fangs?"
Mom stopped smiling. "Tohru dear I have no idea what your talking about." Her black eyes flashed red.
The feeling that something wrong was slowly creeping up into Tohru's stomach. That cold white feeling that starts by your navel then slowly creeps up into your arms and into your chest. It made her shiver. She tried to peace together what exactly was bothering her. The answer came quickly, Mom. Everything about her seemed wrong. Why couldn't she remember mom? In fact she couldn't remember anything, it all seemed hazy and muddled.
She studied her mother closely. She rested her head on her hand and continued to happily stuff black jelly beans into her mouth. Every once in a while the beans would wiggle and try, from what Tohru interpreted, to escape from moms clutch. Then the would be defeated my Atsuko's sharp fangs and their insides would squirt. 'But why are her eyes black? It's scary the whole eyes is black, and come to think of it Her hair is too! And she looks pale!' The more Tohru realized something was wrong, the more she noticed. It was like some type of spell that was slowly fading.
She was ripped from he train of thought when one of the beans jumped from the candy dish and crawled up her arm.
"Ahh! Bug!" Tohru screeched and flicked the beetle off of her. When it landed on the ground She stomped it. SQUISH!
In an instant Tohru realized that this wasn't her mom, her Lady butterfly was dead, And that this mom, who was certainly a freak of some sorts, and Un-mother, was eating live beetles in front of her!
"Your not my mother! Go away!" She ran across the room toward the door.
The un-mother caught her by the wrist and held struggling Tohru in a vice like grip.
"YOUR not going ANYWARE DEAR! Come back here and sit down! NOW!" With her final word The beast yanked Tohru over to the table and sat her down.
"Dearest we need to have a talk. Though I'd hoped you wouldn't have seen through my illusion so quickly. My aren't you a smart girl?" The un-mother moved to stroke Tohru's cheek.
Tohru slapped her away. " Don't touch me. Your NOT my mother."
She chuckled, "Well OBVIOUSLY I'm not your REAL mother, but I am going to be your mother Soon. That's why we need to have a talk." She brushed he long black hair behind her ears.
Tohru wanted to cry, by now she had remembered the nightmare she was currently living in, and hated it. But she had to be strong, and get back to the ones she loved.
"Fine, we'll talk."
The beast smiled its fanged toothy grin and spoke, " In this world I play the mother, and you will play the daughter. Because I love you Tohru, and soon you'll grow to love me as well, and we can all become one big happy family."
Tohru retched at the word love. 'disgusting bitch, ' she thought. "A just how do you plan to do that lady?"
"Oh please call me mother Dearest." 'Mother' reached behind her and pulled something out from a cabinet. It was a small black sewing box. She set it on the table and looked up into her would-be daughters eyes.
Tohru stared at her reflection in Mothers cold black orbs. 'how does she see with those? Their like bug eyes, if I popped them they'd explode like a beetle'
"What do you plan on sewing Mother?"
Mother smiled and opened the kit. Inside were two large black buttons…that looked a lot like moms eyes. And a small needle with black thread.
"what do you plan on sewing those buttons on to lady?" The cold white feeling was starting to creep down into Tohru's legs now, and her ears were starting to get cold.
"I lured you here with that apple of mine. Don't you remember snow white? Here you will stay with me forever. I will sew these into your eyes and you'll become just like me. You'll forget all about that other place." Mother started to thread the needle.
"No! I'm not going to forget! Everyone wants me to forget and leave them behind! I'm not becoming your child that's impossible! You only get one mother and I have mine! Your not her!" She panted- "and drop that needle!"
Mom frowned and slapped Tohru across the face. "shut your mouth! Go to bed if your this cranky. We will have to correct you later."
Tohru took that as her cure to get the hell out of there, so she did. She flew up the stairs and straight into her room. The door slammed behind her and she quickly locked it.
"Gods, I feel Like I'm having a heart attack!" She felt tears on her cheeks and realized that she was crying. 'must be from all this stress.' Tohru took off her socks, she hadn't the luxury of shoes, and crawled into bed. It was cumphy, but she still pulled the sheets up to her nose and left the light on.
'I don't think I'm safe even behind locked doors.'