Your mother still had long red hair worn in a ponytail but there was something seriously different about her. She was now a 12ft tall turquoise-skinned hippopotamus. Her average build had been replaced with an obese frame that had to weigh at least 5000lbs. Her belly was wider than she was tall and her butt was even bigger than that to the point where only the lower part of it was covered by her jeans. Surprisingly, she still had breasts and she also had curves that while less than noticeable due to her blimpish body, still made it clear that she was a woman. You can’t help but watch as her minuscule tail wags back and forth. Your mom was about to place your breakfast on the table when you look up and see how huge she was. “Morning, Jesse.” Your mother places a plate of pancakes in front of you and then places her own breakfast on the table before she sits her enormous butt down in 5 chairs that creek and even start to come apart as she sits down.
You can’t help but stare at your massive mother as your father and siblings dig into their breakfast. “Mom?” you think to yourself. “What happened? People just don’t turn into hippos overnight.” You then look and see that neither your father nor Andy nor Kira are paying any heed to the fact that your mother is an enormous hippopotamus. You then see your dad kiss your mom on her snout and get even more confused. How could he be taking it so well that his wife was now a hippopotamus big enough to use two cars as a love seat.
Kira notices you staring and grunts. "Jesse? Are you going to eat your pancakes today?" You nervously start to eat your breakfast but you continue to stare at your huge hippopotamus mom. "Jesse?" asks your father. "Is something bothering you?" "Uh," you say. "Dad, don't you notice anything peculiar about mom this morning." Your mom just blinks while your dad gives an uneasy look. "No. I woke up this morning, saw her first thing and nothing seemed out of the ordinary." Your mother opens up her mouth, showing the frightening, large and sharp boat-destroying teeth a hippopotamus is known for. "Is there something in my teeth? Oh no! I don't have any gray hairs do I?" You give a cough and then you finally say what's on your mind. "Mom! You're a hippo!"
Your mom raises an eyebrow at that statement and your little brother just gives a scoff. "After 17 years you finally noticed that?" asks Andy sarcastically. Your parents look at you in concern. "Jesse," says your dad. "Your mother has been a hippo since the day she was born. Heck, I don't even know how you, Andy or Kira came out 100% human." "But I distinctively remember her being human yesterday." Your mother then grabs your forehead and you grunt. Your mom's skin was somehow rough and flabby at the same time and her fingers were like thick sausages ending in painted gold fingernails. "Y'all must be getting a fever, hun," says the huge hippopotamus lady. "Your memory obviously is acting up.”
You push your mother’s hand away. “Mom! Don’t you find it strange that you’re a hippopotamus who can talk?” Your mom shrugs her shoulders and then devours her entire stack of pancakes (and her plate) in one bite. You couldn’t believe it. Everyone was behaving as if your mother was always a hippopotamus and that it was perfectly normal for her to be one. You even look back and see some photos on the wall that leave you further confused. One of which depicts your parents’ wedding and your mother is depicted as a hippo in that photograph with her wedding dress barely fitting her obese body and even tearing in the seat as she bends down and kisses your father. You don’t know if it’s everyone else who’s wrong or if you were the one who was wrong. Even weirder was that in that photograph, your mother’s bridesmaids were all African animals.
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