About halfway through their freshman year of highschool Jay gets recruited, picked up, by people interested in him because of his birth parents. He ends up working with them and becoming a musician. Over the course of the year he slowly cut contact with Cole, and everyone else (other than Ed and Edna, though he's distant) before they stop talking all together. Three years later, at a show people come for Jay's head. Cole, there because of some mixture of bitterness and longning is there and helps him escape. Theyre on the run from there.