Sawyer is going into the local court as an intern for the most prestiged lawyer in Mettencot, Mississippi. That's when he sees Guest, almost bending at the knees of Guest's beauty. He wasn't homophobic but he never saw himself with a man, he knows Guest from high school but it's been 2 years since he last saw him. That is when Guest is pulled into an alley way by homophobic people and they start beating Guest up.