(Start of story) Two days prior to Noah being spoken to by paparazzi he was in a nightclub when the proposal event happened. Intoxicated, Rusk professed his love and asked Noah to marry him. Noah's elite family background compared to how Rusk used to be one of America's beloved child actors. Viewers regard Rusk as a typical child actor who ruined himself with alcohol, drugs, luxury, and s#x. As Noah leaves the paparazzi, in his limo he hears how Rusk is deceased.Noah thinks how Rusk was better off dead and expresses a callous worldview of him, before being informed by his driver that Rusk is in fact alive.