In the morning you drive over to Anuja's house. It's the same house she's lived in the entire time she's been in Arbor Isle. Both of her parents liked to work in the garden, so there used to be flowers surrounding the house, and a vegetable garden to the side.
Since her father disappeared, though, the garden has grown smaller. It was too much work for one person. That, and you're sure it must be hard to keep a project like that up when the person you worked on it with, your husband, is gone.
Life has changed considerably for Anuja since her father went missing. Karna was of the anxious brand of fathers, and he worried about his daughter hanging out with the wrong crowd. Her parents had heard nightmare stories about Anuja's cousin in Boston being bullied and manipulated by so-called friends until she had to switch schools. In Arbor Isle, there was no other school to switch to, so if Anuja's friends turned on her she would have to endure it until she graduated. Because of this, Anuja's parents would overanalyze her friends' comments and behavior and inevitably find something to be concerned about. It took some work for you just to get to see her outside of school.