I personally find this a start that makes more sense, gives a bit more insight while not spoilering away the exact relations of them, even if she expresses her belief that its just an imaginary friend but there are signs that there may be more than that, or not. Creates a suspene which you will have to manage well though in the future if you wanna keep this suspense while maintining a reason behind all this.
I'm glad that her surrounding is an actual home now, previously it felt more like some dream scene, and that her looks match her actual self-image. These were much needed changes which gives this start a more polished look. While it didn't grow in content but its very important to care about such details so i'm glad you did this redo. I checked the images, i applaud the new more natural looks but i disagree with those who found the unrealistic lighting bad the first place considering it can be used to simulate a different state of mind. Obviously such a thing should not be the default look to be fair.
I friggin' love those black lips and i couldn't help but notice how muscular her arms are in those praying pose.. but not quite as much on other images. Its just that pose that tricks the eye? Or you made her more muscular on those deliberately? That baseball bat still looks very blocky. You have to work on the clipping issue, basically half of her mini gets swallowed by her hip.