If Mary was right, She could remember that Gabriel once has a close friend who worked at the same factory he was working at, and on that fateful day he died, that he had been planning on going out to drink with him that night, before the problem about Marissa not back from school under the heavy rain started.
At first, she didn't find it suspicious that his friend didn't attend the burial, since the next day rumours had it that he had relocated from the town. But now, thinking about this, only made her see that she's was one stupid lady.
They never really found the hit and run driver who killed Gabriel, and Marissa who was there, has gone into shock that the memory she had that night was locked away, as the doctor had said that that's her way of coping with the loss since she doesn't want to remember the ugly incident.
