I Categorically Deny

Chapter 18

Third Person POV

On the day of the fan meet, Plan could not make up his mind whether he would attend it or not. He dreaded having to do fan service with Mean. What if Mean realizes during the skinships that they had to make to please the fans that Plan was actually enjoying his touches?

He thought of texting Mean that he wasn't going to attend the fan meet.

Before he could even start his text, he received one from his manager. It was actually a group text that the manager had sent to all the cast of the Love By Chance series except for Mean and Saint who had different managers.

"Please be at the theater building by five o'clock this afternoon. I need to give you instructions and you need to do rehearsals."  Their manager instructed everyone under the same agency.

Plan could not make up his mind whether to go or not. He wondered if his manager would believe him if he lied that he was not feeling well enough to attend the fan meeting.

Although everyone else texted back his agreement to the instruction, Plan did not send any text reply. He was still trying to make up his mind.

By four o'clock Plan received another text from his manager, this time to him alone, not a group text.

"Plan! I need to know if you're attending the fan meet or not!"

It sounded like a frantic message, so Plan decided at the last minute to text his manager back to confirm his attendance.

During the fan meet he tried his best not to have to do any skinships with Mean and somehow he felt that Mean was also trying to refrain from doing the same.

Plan decided that he better try to take away the awkwardness that was going on between him and Mean, so when the fans insisted that his choice should be Mean to be stranded on a deserted island with, he held out his hand to Mean and when Mean took it, he led him out of the stage and told the fans that they were leaving to go and be by themselves on an island.

It delighted the fans of course but they were expected to go back to the stage and continue to interact with the fans.

He stole a glance at Mean and was relieved that Mean was smiling.

They bid each other a hasty good bye after the fan meet.

Mean would have wanted to ask Plan if he wanted to hang out with him the next day but he had noticed how Plan seemed to be avoiding him, so he discarded the idea.

The following day, Mean woke up with a congested nose. He was having his nasal allergies again which seemed to always come around this time of the year.

He looked through his medicine cabinet for some anti-allergy pills but could not find any. He decided to drive over to the pharmacy that was inside the nearby mall.

He tried to put off going to the pharmacy, but by afternoon when his stuffy nose would not go away, he grabbed his car key and jumped into his car and drove off to the nearby mall.

After he found the pills he needed, he went over to stand in line to pay the cashier.

He was stepping out of the pharmacy after paying the cashier when he heard some stuff falling to the ground behind him.

He looked around and saw a young lady picking up the items and trying to put them back into her shopping bag.

Mean went over to help her pick her items up.

The young lady looked up to thank him.

"Mean!"

"P'Nat!"