There was better light coming into the garden house. That was a plus for Gavin to be able to sketch buildings for his architecture design business.There was enough room for his partner too. They left the office downtown but did their main sketchs at Gavin's house. Abilene didn't mind the men working on the premises especially during the summer. they could keep their eyes on the girls while she worked at the museum as receptionist..
Abby did finally accept her sister wasn't coming back but she told her therapist that when they were really young one girl could felt when the other one either hurt or was upset about something, They didn't even have to communicate with each other. It was like a women's intutition kind of thing. She just knew it in her gut. She told her grandmother. That was their secret. Her grandmother had told her it was okay to tell her things like that but it would just keep tearing up her parents.
Abby adventually accepted that Gabby wasn't in their lives for the moment. She survived her sister missing. Every year on their birthday she got her sister a present where her parents couldn't even buy her a present without breaking down. It was starting to get inbetween her parents. They finally split but still lived in the same with each other. Her father moved into the basement's little kitchenette while her mother had the rest of the house to herself