Gabi sits in her motel room, aimlessly staring out the window at an empty pool outside her room. She's been in El Paso for almost a week now and she feels absolutely miserable and completely alone. Why did I let that witch run me out of town? How could I let her take away my life? She thinks out loud. Gabi remembers the weeks before her wedding day and how tortured she was feeling about thinking of both Ricardo and Antonio. How could she want both men? What was wrong with her? With her thoughts racing through her mind, Gabi finally stands up and walks up and down her room, pacing with a fury trying to decide what to do. Her thoughts of both men enter her mind again. The same images she's had burned in her memory since leaving one week ago.

Gabi finally sits on the bed and slowly the tears come racing down. She misses him so much. So much she can barely hold herself together. Her time away from him made her realize just how much she really loves him. How much she wants to be a part of his life and never let him go. She never realized she could feel such yearning and desire for him. She never thought it possible. As Gabi contniues to sob, she grabs her wallet and takes out a picture of him. As she stares at this beautiful face, his warm smile gazing longingly at her, Gabi desperately wants to run back to him. Back in the arms who love her in return. She brings the picture up to her lips and kisses him lovingly and Gabi says... "How could not realize it before? I'm sorry to have put you through so much. I didn't know. I didn't know how much I really love you....Ricardo." Gabi continues to stare at Ricardo's picture until she falls asleep with the picture clutched to her heart.

She begins to dream, a dream which takes her back to Sunset Beach. Gabi escapes to the beach and encounters Ricardo walking toward her. Her heart skips a beat as she sees him approach her. No words are spoken. He simply caresses her face as she caresses his until their hands intertwine together. As the sun sets, Ricardo pulls Gabi down to the sand and gently begins to make love to her. Gabi feels their bodies meet as one and relishes his touch and his soul. She has never felt happier. This is the same dream she has had since she left her life behind. The same dream that made her realize just who she really loved.

The power of the dream awakens Gabi. She is still shaking from the mere imagination of Ricardo's touch, upset that she is once again facing reality. A reality that does not include Ricardo. She wishes she could forever stay in the dream where she and Ricardo are together and so in love. As Gabi tries to sleep again in order to recreate the magical trance she's been under, she says out loud, "That saying was always right, absence does make the heart grow fonder."