Chihiro opened her eyes slowly.

Everything was fuzzy at first.

When the room cleared, Chihiro sat up and looked around her room.

Sunlight streamed in, and she had a horrible headache.

"Chihiro, honey! Are you awake?"

Her mother called her, and she scowled, which was immediately interrupted by a yawn.

She swung her legs off the bed, and stood up.

Pain shot through her foot and she collapsed onto the floor. Her body went limp as she cradled her foot.

OW. What on earth…?

She gently squeezed it, and the pain she felt had already dulled to an annoying throbbing.

She crawled on her hands and knees to the door and opened it.

"I'm awake!"

Chihiro slowly got up, testing her weight on her foot, which no longer hurt. She brushed her hair back and cautiously limped toward her dresser.

She examined her face in her mirror, reached for her brush.

Huh.

Her brush was not where she usually kept it. She quirked a brow, turning her head to look around her room. Her brush was nowhere to be seen.

Chihiro looked back at the mirror, but in the corner of her eye, she saw a shadow.

She whipped her head around, only to face an empty room. Her head hurt something fierce.

Didn't mother call me?

She turned to the door, only to catch her reflection in the mirror, and at a glance, it almost looked like she was a shadow. A shadow with a white, expressionless face.

"H-hey!"

Chihiro called as she did a double-take to the mirror. Her face looked foreign. Paler, but not white.

She began to shake slightly, she quickly walked to her door and opened it. She walked slowly down the hallway, toward the staircase.

"Mom?"

She descended the stairs, and found her mother in the kitchen, facing away from her.

"Good morning, honey."

Her mother turned slowly to face her.

Chihiro let out a loud, blood-curdling scream.

The face of a demented pig stared at her.

A pig's face, with her mother's hair, her mother's clothes, her mother's shoes, and even her mother's scent. Lemony fresh.

AN:

HI GUYS. I'm not dead, I swear. This chapter, and the last chapter aren't exactly the best, and I do apologize that they're so short. I know I said I would try to update weekly, but I was hit the worst writer's block. I will try to add a third chapter tonight, so you're not all like, 'Wait, what? Pig mom?"

I have a plot set up, but I hate the filler parts to get from A to B. XD.