The deadly truth

Study date:

It was a Sunday and so there was no rush to get up early but she had a study date with Gabe, they had a History quiz tomorrow and they both needed to study.
She got up slowly and walked straight to the bathroom. Thank god she didn't cry last night or else she would be looking like an ogre. She took a nice warm shower because getting up on a winter Sunday morning out of your warm bed isn't the best thing. She wore a dark purple turtle neck, had a black leather jacket as a layer and black leggings with joggers. She kept her hair up in a pony tail and as usual skipped the makeup.
Scarlett went outside her room. Everything was dead silent only the distant chirping of the birds. Her aunt was still sleeping, and despite the weird circumstances yesterday,everything seemed normal. Scarlett went over to the kitchen and made herself a hot cup of coffee along with a bagel. She grabbed her textbooks and bag and thus she stepped out the door to Gabes house...

Gabe only lived three blocks away so she walked till his house. The weather was pleasant and there were not much people or cars around. Scarlett took out her phone and plucked her earphones in her ears. She put on her mother's favourite song and walked along to it. It was rare moments like these that Scarlett thought that life was more than her disturbed childhood or her horrible aunt. As she skipped along the side walk she stumbled over a rock and fell. (Uh , just peachy). She got up and came face to face with a lady. She had the perfect red hair and her face,it couldn't be,she was not , she was missing? Her eyes were emerald green....
"Mom?",Scarlett asked tilting her head. Then all of a sudden she felt a very painful punch,from a very strong arm, on the face and being knocked to the ground. It was all too confusing. She fainted right in the middle on the road and she just saw her own missing mother....

When Scarlett woke up she was in Gabes room. She got up instantly and put her hand to her head.Scarletts head was aching really bad. On her left she saw Gabe Jump up as soon as she did.
"Letty are you okay? You were getting very late and so I thought I come and see if everything's ok and I found you fainted on the sidewalk,there was no one else with you so I got you to my house. Will you tell me what exactly happened?",Gabe asked quickly he was very worried and concerned so Scarlett decided to vent out to him.
"I don't know,I tripped over and when I got up I saw my mom? I don't know,I was listing to her favourite song and fell because I stumbled over a rock and then I saw i her like literally ,but how she is dead?",with that Scarlett wondered if her mother was really dead, she disappeared,didn't die? That wasn't possible.
"Letty I don't think you saw your mom,I think you just imagined her , because you were listing to her favourite song and you were maybe thinking about her and you just hallucinated." Gabe logically explained and honestly that sounded like the truth.
"Yeah but why did that lady punch me?"Scarlett asked ,just because she called her mom accidentally it dosnet means she should hit me.
"Maybe she was just a rough person and didn't like you bumping into her and you calling her mom?" He said and that sounded sensible. "Honestly Letty I don't want you loosing your marbles so I'm pretty sure it wasn't your mom and that you just imagined her , because remember eleven years ago she went missing and there is 1/10 chance she may be alive but the odds are ridiculous!" Gabe explained. Scarlett just nodded her head , he was right the last thing she needed was to go crazy and believe her mother was actually alive.
"Yeah,you're right. I'm all better now let's do some studying how about that?",Scarlett asked him .She wanted to shift her mind to something else and not want Gabe to become her psychiatrist.
"Ok whatever you say", Gabe said holding his hands up and bringing out textbooks and his things. Scarlett took out hers as well.
During studying she was concentrating but at the back of her mind she couldn't stop thinking about today, maybe she won't be able to get it out ever, her mother would never punch her,right?