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In 2014, Zee realizes that he is in love with Cyrus. They make money together by doing odd jobs for a man named Jude, who they suspect has a fetish for watching them do manual labor. Cyrus and Zee joke about whether or not they have prostituted themselves by taking the job. Jude has two dogs, Noah and Shiloh, who Zee and Cyrus struggle to tell apart. On one occasion, they take fentanyl before going to Jude’s house and are high by the time they get there. Jude asks them to chop wood in his backyard. In the middle of completing the task, Cyrus hits his foot with the axe and begins to bleed. Insisting that he does not need to go to the hospital, Cyrus and Zee manage to bandage the wound up with duct tape and paper towels before going home. Jude pays them $120 to leave and never come back and gives them his windchime when Cyrus requests it. Later that night, Cyrus recounts the story to their friends in an increasingly exaggerated form.