Scene - Emily in Jillian's Office before the Party at Chu's

 Emily smells hot chocolate, her eyes close.  She’s afraid to open them.  If she does, she’ll leave the birthday party that hasn’t happened yet, and she might miss her boyfriend.  She hears the psychic put on her coat.  And it is as if Jillian reads Emily’s mind about the drink.  Emily’s eyes get wide as if she knows what Jillian knows, but only for a few seconds.  If life worked perfectly, Emily discovers the great secret about how to communicate with a ghost and how to eat the free food at Chu’s when she isn’t really there.  Isn’t Jillian supposed to teach her this kind of stuff?  She imagines Jillian isn’t making a Keurig hot cocoa but is in the future and sipping the chocolate at Chu’s house.

Emily sits in a foggy reality between the empty party and Jillian’s office.  She’s plopped down at a picnic table in Chu’s yard, and she sees her boyfriend, the same as she did at her Aunt Ally’s house last year.  He stands in an imaginary line at the pizza truck and brags about his new car like he is talking to a group of his best friends.  He even lounges at Emily’s picnic table.  As a spirit, he exists in all of these places at the same time.  Her expectations rise, and she believes everything her mom Grizzly believes about the power of psychics.  Except her boyfriend never talks to her.  Emily moves to sit next to him and make eye contact.  She isn’t sure why he doesn’t see her, and she turns to ask Jillian, but Jillian seems to be hyper-focused on something else going on that has nothing to do with the spirit world.