Someone Answered Before I Called

This happened when I was 17, and I still cannot explain it.

I was about to call my mother. I picked up my phone, opened her contact, and before I pressed the call button, her voice came through the speaker.

She said, “Hello?”

The phone screen still showed her contact page. No active call. No timer. Nothing.

I froze and said her name. The line went silent.

A few seconds later, my phone started ringing. It was her actual call. When I answered, she said she had just been thinking of calling me.

I asked if she had called before that. She said no.

I know phones glitch. I know people imagine things. But I heard her voice clearly, and it came before the call happened.