The mother that went missing

Part 3

Candice was awaken by her alarm she tried to press snooze but instead of hitting snooze she hit the alarm of her bedside table. "Ughhhhh" she groaned and went to reach for it and turned the annoying alarm off. She got up and the time read 11:37am, she quickly got up realizing she slept in. She had all day today and tomorrow to search for her mum but she started back at school on Monday then she would have limited time of looking.

Candice picked out some clothes for the day then jumped in the shower and washed herself thinking where she would go looking first in the town centre, trying to remember her mother's favorite shops...
Once she got out of the shower she got dressed into a hoodie and some leggings and just left her hair how it was as the most important thing to her right now is getting out of this house, she slipped on some shoes as the ones she wore the following night and we're still soaked from the rain. She started walking to the bus stop hoping to catch the the bus straight away but she always ends up missing it, she got to the bus stop which was a 10 minute walk from her house and sat down and read the bus time it read, "3 minutes" she sat down on the uncomfortable seating of the bus stop waiting impatiently for her bus to arrive.
The time went rather slowly for Candice today it felt like she had been waiting for hours when her bus finally arrived she walked on to the bus straight away due to not many people were waiting at her stop. She walked up to the bus driver and asked,
" one adult ticket to the town centre please?"
She asked politely. " that will be £2.43" the older man asked her, she placed the changed she had in her pocket on the side for the bus driver waiting for her change and ticket " thank you" he said and gave her 5p change and her ticket. Candice walked to the back of the bus as no one was sitting there today to her luck, she put her head back and started looking at every house the bus took her past to try and pass the time. As they got nearer to the bus stop at the town centre Candice pushed the button to stop the bus after another minute went past the bus stopped and she slowly walked of the bus thanking the driver before walking into the centre.

She started looking into shops starting with pridmark and suderdrug. They were her mums favorites as she walked around the shops she kept thinking she saw her mum but it was always another lady that looked like her. Candice decided to stop looking in the shops as she felt she wouldn't be in somewhere so obvious after a day of writing me the letter. So she started looking around the centre near where the apartments were, she started asking people " hi sorry to bother you I was wondering if you know or have seen my mum her name is Laura Cartwright she is quite tall, brown hair, skinny, and wears glasses?" But sadly every time the person had responded with " no sorry" or just ignored her question. She was about to give up looking round the centre as it was already 5:25pm the shops closed about 15 minutes ago. She started walking back to the bus stop when she looked down this alley way and saw this man and woman smoking something out of a pipe as she looked closer she saw her mum with a guy in a hoodie her mum looked a mess her hair was knotty, she was in the clothes Candice had last seen her in. Candice started walking over then shouted at her mother and this strange man,
" MUM IS THAT YOU?"
Her mum and this man looked at her then dropped the pipe and the man looked pissed off at the fact Candice had found them. He grabbed her mums hand and they ran and Candice started chasing them " MUM DON'T RUN AWAY, DON'T LET HIM GET THE BEST OF YOU" she shouted as loud as she could while running but when she turned a corner they was gone, Candice went down to her knees out of breath from the running she had just done and broke down a bit knowing how close to her mum she was but her mum ran away, why? She started questioning and wondering who this hooded man was.
Candice was done for the day as she started walking back to the bus stop and catching her bus to make her way back home after this long day.