The Love of My Afterlife

Delphie takes the bus home, getting off at a stop near the library, and she realizes that she is more drunk than she thought after a few cocktails. She runs into Aled the librarian and tries to escape him, but when he sees the state she is in, he insists on helping her home. Cooper hears Delphie and Aled stumbling through the hall and comes outside to find out what is happening. Seeing how drunk Delphie is, he intervenes to make sure that she is safe with Aled. Delphie exaggerates the truth once again, telling Cooper that Aled is her best friend, an idea that excites Aled. Aled thinks that Cooper looks familiar and asks if they have met before, but Cooper quickly denies it and leaves before Aled helps Delphie into her apartment.

When Delphie wakes up early the next morning, she panics because she has forgotten to make sure that Mr. Yoon’s cigarette butts have been put out; this is something that she does for the forgetful man every night. While looking for a new ashtray in Mr. Yoon’s apartment, Delphie finds a photo of a young Mr. Yoon playing the violin. When she returns home, she finds two pieces of paper have been slipped under her doorway. One is a picture of her Jonah, looking exactly how she remembered him in Evermore. The other paper contains a note from Cooper, explaining that he found Jonah Truman after some more research and learned that he goes to a running club every morning. Delphie searches for some running clothes and stumbles upon a bag of clothing that her mother left behind. She is immediately brought back to memories of her mother struggling in the months after divorcing Delphie’s father. Afterward, her mother met a man and moved to an artists’ commune with him, leaving everything from her old life behind, including Delphie.

On her way to the running club, Delphie gets many stares because of her outfit, and she feels sexy for the first time. She spots Jonah running with a group and tries to catch up with him, but when she is close enough to call his name, she is tackled by a pack of dogs. Their dog walker apologizes to Delphie, explaining that the leash somehow slipped out of her hand. Delphie sees that the woman has been crying, and based on her behavior, Delphie believes that someone has just broken up with her. Delphie looks up at a bulletin board in the park to see a poster of happy people holding up their drawings, and she recognizes one of the people as Jonah.

The dog walker begins talking to Delphie about the art class advertised on the poster, inviting Delphie to attend with her. Though Delphie intends to go to the art class to find Jonah, she is puzzled by this request from the friendly stranger, and she tells her that she doesn’t really hang out with people. However, she recognizes the look on the woman’s face as the lonely expression she wore in the flashback of her life, and she agrees to meet the woman there. The dog walker introduces herself as Frida, then tells Delphie that her leggings are much more revealing than she expected. Delphie runs away, embarrassed to realize that this is why everyone was staring at her. 

When she gets to her building, she sees Cooper kissing a woman. When the woman leaves, Cooper asks Delphie for another favor, arguing that he did more work than he initially agreed to help with. Cooper asks her to pretend to be his date at a game night that his parents are throwing tonight. He reveals that his parents have been trying to set him up with their neighbor, so he sent them the selfie of him and Delphie to prove that he already has a girlfriend. Now his parents want to meet Delphie, or else they will invite their neighbor, Veronica. Delphie is appalled by the idea but agrees to go because she knows that Cooper did help her, and she likes the idea of him owing her something.

Delphie receives a text from Aled, who is trying to confirm that she truly meant her assertion that the two of them are best friends. Delphie checks on Mr. Yoon, whom she notices is needing more help as he ages. When she brings out the picture of him playing the violin, he angrily smashes the picture and demands that Delphie leave. Delphie cries, but when she goes to the bathroom to get a tissue, she finds Merritt, who tells Delphie that one of her coworkers has been suspicious of her texts. She warns Delphie that their activities must be kept discreet. Merritt admits that she was not exactly honest when she explained the Franklin Bellamy clause; she concealed the fact that she is only supposed to send people back to life in order to do something important like saving lives or preventing a disaster. Although her bosses are currently on vacation, Merritt says if they find out what she has done, she could get fired and Delphie could get banned from Evermore. Delphie asks Merritt if Jonah is actually her soulmate or if she lied about that too. Merritt confirms that he is but urges Delphie to move quickly. Merritt also says that she can no longer contact Delphie so often.

Delphie researches arranging care for Mr. Yoon but cannot make much progress because she is not a legal caregiver. She also looks up Gen Hartley and learns that Gen and Ryan are married with children and have recently moved back to London.

Delphie meets Cooper, who gives her an awkward ride to his parents’ house. Cooper notes that they need to pretend that they have been dating for three weeks, in accordance with the story he told his parents. To this end, he suggests that they get to know each other better. However, Delphie is hard-pressed to find anything to share about herself other than her age and her occupation. She explains that she likes art, though she hasn’t made any in years, and she learns that she and Cooper share similar tastes in art. 

She meets Cooper’s parents, Amy and Malcolm, as well as his uncle Lester, and is surprised to learn that Cooper had a twin sister named Em who died a few years ago. When the discussion turns to Em, Cooper tries to change the subject. After an intense game of Pictionary, Amy tells Delphie to take care of Cooper because he needs some happiness in his life. When they return to their building, Cooper thanks Delphie and mentions that he had a good time, but he grows cold again when she tells him that she is sorry about his sister.

Delphie goes to check on Mr. Yoon, who doesn’t seem as angry with her as he did the previous day. She notices that he needs even more care than she realized, so she helps him wash his hair while chatting about how annoying Cooper is. Back at home, she changes into one of her mother’s old dresses. Merritt had suggested changing her usual hairstyle of braids, and although Delphie has been insecure about her wild hair since high school, she does so in hopes that Jonah will like it.

At the drawing class with Frida, the instructor, Claude, informs them that Jonah is the model for the second session in an hour. As she waits for him, Delphie draws for the first time in years. She was bullied for her artistic interests in high school, but now she recognizes that she still has talent. After the first session, Claude compliments her drawing but informs her that Jonah has canceled the second session. She learns that Jonah is at an event at the Shard, but she is unable to get his number from Claude. Delphie leaves in a taxi, and despite her insistence that she can do this alone, Frida joins her. 

Delphie learns that the event Jonah is attending is a silent disco, but when she and Frida arrive, they are mistaken for dancers. Frida is able to carry the lie and gets them inside the ticketed party, but Delphie is horrified that she is expected to dance on a podium. Yet when Delphie has a platform, she can more easily look for Jonah. A moment later, a woman who has seen Jonah mentions that he was called in for an emergency at the children’s hospital where he volunteers. Though Delphie does not know where this hospital is, she admires Jonah even more after learning this fact about him.