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* The events of *The Rain of April* occur. *(March 17th, 2011 - May 17th, 2011)* (D-242)

## March

### March 11th

* Alex Peterson and her family move to Aberdeen, Washington after over a decade of living in Aurora Creek, Oregon. (D-242)

### March 13th

* Taylor Watson is killed in a vehicular collision with an inebriated driver.
* Justin Miller sneaks out of his house in the early hours to visit his friend and casual partner Hayley Anderson, he arrives home at dawn and assumes the police outside his house to have been searching for him, only to learn of his mother's demise. (D-242)

### March 17th

* The funeral for Taylor Watson is held. (D-242)

### March 18th

* Justin Miller's already unstable relationship with his family is shattered, particularly his relations with his father, who quickly takes to alcoholism and becomes prone to violent outbursts . Justin's sister Zoë also grows increasingly reclusive, near-mute, and begins engaging in self-harm and substance abuse, things of which Justin feels beyond his capacity to control, yet too ashamed and sympathetic to discipline or condemn her for. (D-242)

### March 21st

* Justin returns to school from spring break and meets Alex Peterson, a new transfer student who had just moved to Aberdeen from her hometown in Oregon with her adoptive parents. Justin's friends and faculty attempt to be lenient and easy-going to accompany his loss. (D-242)

### March 22nd

* Alex is severely shunned by her fellow student body after it is discovered that she is a lesbian, but she is then welcomed openly by Kurt and Hayley. (D-242)

### March 23rd

* Justin makes plans to commit suicide, but his attempt is halted at the last second by a phone call from the new girl, Alex, who invites him to hang out later that night. Alex soon meets with Justin, and the two connect and eventually vent frustrations to one another, discovering they share distinct feelings of grief, cynicism, alienation and disdain. (D-242)

### March 24th

* Justin continues to meet with Alex after school on a daily basis over the next several weeks, distancing himself from his life and responsibilities at home and school to get away and cathartically handle his mother's death on his own terms. (D-242)

## April

### April 22nd

* While walking home alone after sneaking out Ryley Summers is confronted by a larger older man who manages to easily pin down the physically anemic and begin sexually assaulting her. Initially resigned to the rape, Ryley takes notice of a large shard of broken glass in a nearby garbage bin and uses it to deter her attacker, stabbing him deep in the abdomen and leaving him bleeding out in the alley. Panicked by the traumatic series of events, Ryley quickly rushes over to Kayla's house, knocking on her window and sneaking in, Ryley opens up about what had happened, as well as confessing her abusive history. Kayla comforts her and allows her to stay the night. (D-242)

## May

### May 12th

* Jacob and Alex soon become acquainted and friendly with Ami Richards and her elder brother Zachary, who are themselves runaways, having fled from their abusive household in Canada several years prior as children, and had adapted to living in poverty as illegal immigrants in Seattle. (D-242)

## June

### June 2nd

* Ryley Summers and her friends form a riot grrrl band entitled The Diesel Dykes and practice biweekly at their drummer Talia Widelski's garage as an excuse to get Ryley out of her abusive house as much as possible. Ryley becomes fully engaged in the punk rock and lesbian subcultures and ideologies, leading to multiple suspensions at her school for inappropriate doodles, drinking on school property and handing out show flyers which promoted the controversial band and it's oft-misandrist and offending song titles and lyrics; in particular, *Ruptured Cunt* -- an abrasive song which spoke openly about Ryley's history with sexual assault. (D-242)

## July

### July 4th-7th

* Jacob, Alex, and Dawn travel to Gifford Pinchot National Forest for the annual Rainbow Gathering, during their time at the event, the trio engage in their first shared sexual encounter, strengthening Jacob and Alex’s relationship with Dawn. Alex also communicates with dozens of gatherers and is introduced to several radical political ideologies, spurring her to become involved in local activism upon her return to Seattle. (D-242)

## September

### September 27th

* On Alex's birthday, her, Dawn and Jacob take part in the Occupy Seattle protests. (D-242)

## November

### Undated

* Jacob takes up a job working as a machinist at Harlock-Weiss Manufacturing to help earn his and Alex's keep, being paid under the table due to his lack of documentation. (D-242)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 *Nihilist Apathy*: The Rain of April
2. ↑ *Nihilist Apathy*: Neurotic Atrophy
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *Blank Earth*
4. ↑ *Snow In Summer*
5. ↑ *Nihilist Apathy*: The Melancholy of Separation