i think the band thing would work excellent, especially with her influences list (deftones and mike patton were definitely central to his hs days.) he could've rolled with her quasi-muteism pretty well i think. but yeah getting together after she came back from college is a great idea, he was bumming around a lot at that point and not been the best bf by a longshot. which kind of works with her finding a decent guy and getting engaged later on.