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This is a timeline of events that occurred in 2013.

## April

* After almost two years living together with Alex and Dawn, Jacob Delsin suddenly begins having recurring night terrors, insomnia, and panic attacks and becomes increasingly distant and self-destructive; feeling an overwhelming sense of guilt for having abandoned his younger sister.

## June

### June 26th

* After a long argument, Alex and Jacob soon come to the mutual conclusion that their relationship had been based around a dependency for one-another that had no longer existed and call quits on their relationship. Jacob soon after makes the decision to move out of the household and instead move in with Zachary, while the latter’s younger sister, Ami, takes up residence at Dawn's. Alex, overwhelmed emotionally, embarks on a lonesome soul-searching journey down the west coast, reuniting with her parents in Aberdeen, and her friends and teachers in Aurora Creek. Equipped with only a pen and paper, Alex begins a loose string of nostalgic writings and poetry that will soon become her first memoir.

### June 30th

* Ryley Summers, now seventeen, performs a show with her band to a particularly negative reaction from the audience. After a physical altercation with one of the patrons, Ryley is subsequently kicked from the venue without pay. As she flees, distraught, she is followed by Kayla who eventually finds Ryley drinking in a secluded alleyway and attempts to comfort her. After speaking for a few moments, the two share their first private and therefore "real" kiss. Ryley pushes onwards however, confessing that she wants to take advantage of the moment of comfortable intimacy and have sex while intoxicated so that her father's abuse would be unable to "steal this from her", but the momentum is cut short, as Kayla halts Ryley from proceeding further. Seeking equal validation in this moment of vulnerability, Kayla confesses clear discomfort about being sexually active, opening up as being a closeted transgender male, instead of gay as Ryley had previously thought. Kyle speaks in the hopes that Ryley will accept him as 'Kyle' and still love him regardless. Unfortunately, this couldn't be further from reality, as Ryley becomes agitated and drunkenly struggles to understand what Kyle is telling her.
* Overcome by a strong feeling of betrayal from the person she had loved and trusted most, Ryley, hurt and conflicted, shoves Kyle off and flees home, whereupon arrival, she is immediately confronted and shown hostility by her father. Ryley is informed that the police had, shortly before, shown up at the house due to the bar altercation that night with the intent of pressing charges. Panicked and emotionally distressed, Ryley reacts in self-defense and violently attacks her father, knocking him to the floor and harshly thrashing him in retaliation before quickly rushing to her room to collect a bag of clothes and the money she had been saving. All the while, Ryley's mother pleads for her to stay and reconsider. Ryley, without hesitation, brushes off her mother's cry with little more than spite for her years of compliance in allowing her own daughter to be raped and abused, and with a final breath, Ryley abandons her life in California forever.

## July

### July 1st

* The events of The Melancholy of Separation take place.
* Sneaking on board a freight train heading northbound, Ryley Summers decides to continue with her and Kyle's former goal of starting a new life in Olympia and crosses paths with Alex Peterson, who had also been travelling illicitly along the west coast after a rather harsh breakup, using the experience to soul-search. Ryley and Alex deeply connect on that late-night train ride and upon learning that she has no other place to go, Alex cordially invites Ryley to take up residence with her and her two roommates at their home in Seattle where Ryley is warmly welcomed with open arms.

## October

### October 13th

* Jacob's previously harmless experimentation with drugs under Dawn’s roof, now manifests into a full-blown addiction to opiates that both he and Zachary Richards mutually engage in, alongside Zach's on-again, off-again girlfriend Kim Min-Ji. Jacob and Zachary soon become romantically involved and dependent upon each other. At this point, Jacob has practically become a hermit, spending the majority of his days indoors, shooting up, engaged in sex with both Zachary and/or Kim. Jacob and Kim soon hatch a scheme to distribute their homemade sex tapes as a means of making a quick buck to varying degrees of success, but the business venture is short-lived, however, as the VHS recorder used to record and duplicate their tapes ultimately craps out.