I Categorically Deny

Chapter 1

The Night of the Party in Question

Third Person POV

Since the Love By Chance series of season one had just ended, all the actors and everyone else involved in the series decided to hold a party to celebrate.

After the party, while they were still sober but on the point of tipsiness, Mean and Plan decided to continue the party at Mean's residence. Mean had invited all the three other couples who were paired in the series. They all headed to Mean's house.

Mean's parents were out of the country for business purposes so Mean had the house all to himself.

Along the way they had stopped at a liquor store to buy assorted drinks but most of them were beer of assorted brands.

Although Perth was part of the party, he knew enough not to drink. The rest of the guys bought him some snacks and soda.

They spent the night listening to music, while drinking and reminiscing about the series that they had just finished filming.

They shared jokes and teased each other about bloopers committed during the filming. Perth was mostly at the receiving end of the teasing because he and Saint had to re-do so many scenes especially their kiss scenes and bed scenes and locker scenes.

By way past midnight, every single one of them, except for Perth, was totally wasted.

They all continued to talk drunkenly and to share jokes drunkenly.

At one point, Perth noticed that Mean's arm was around Plan's shoulder and was nuzzling his face into Plan's neck. Plan was drunkenly trying to push Mean away from him but Mean had attached himself to Plan like crazy glue.

Perth felt that he needed to go and use the bathroom.

He uncurled Saint's arm that had been wrapped around his waist and tried to stand up from the couch where Mean and Plan were also half seated and half lying on it.

Just as he managed to stand up, Perth clearly heard Mean mumble into Plan's ear, "Plan, sweetheart, if only you knew how much I love you."

Perth stood rooted to the spot, forgetting about his need to use the bathroom.

Of course Mean was drunk and did not know what he was saying.

Perth, however, was old enough to know that it is when people are drunk that their inhibitions fly out the window and they are able to say what they normally wouldn't say if they had been sober.

Perth wondered if he should just forget about it and dismiss it as just drunken talk.

He decided to dismiss it and went ahead to use the bathroom.

By mid morning everyone was slowly waking up and returning to their senses.

Everyone, except Perth of course, was holding on to their heads and grimacing from the throbbing headache that accompanies a hangover.

Earth, who was the oldest among the guys present, went to the kitchen and started looking around for something, anything, to make some hot soup to dispel the hangover.

He managed to find several styrofoam bowls of assorted ramen noodles.

He took out a large cooking pot and half filled it with water and placed it on the stove. He turned on the flame and waited for the water to boil. When it did, he dropped the noodles from all the styrofoam bowls that he found. When the ramen noodles were cooked, he opened all the packets of seasoning and scattered the contents into the pot.

After everyone ate the noodles, one by one they thanked Mean and took their leave.

Perth and Plan rode in Saint's car.

"Tell me your address again, P'Plan so that I can direct it to my GPS," said Saint.

"Are you dropping me off first?" asked Plan. "Wait, no, why did I even ask? Of course, you're dropping me off first so that you can have Perth all to yourself later."

Plan winked at Saint and Saint smiled and blushed but did not contradict what Plan was saying.

"Well, pretty soon, it will be you who will be getting feasted on by P'Mean, judging from what I heard him whisper in your ear last night," said Perth.

"What did he whisper?" Saint and Plan asked at the same time.

Perth slapped his mouth at the slip of the tongue.

"No, no, no, I didn't hear anything," he said.

"You better tell me or I will kill you," said Plan in a very serious tone that made Perth really nervous.