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Plan's POV

"I'm gonna call our building manager now to see if I can go back to my unit," I said to Mean after breakfast and after thanking him for putting me up for the night.

"You wanna spend another night with me?" he replied, instead of saying "You're welcome"

"Um ... " I was taken by surprise with his invitation. I wasn't expecting that.

I asked myself what he would think of me if I accepted his invitation. I also asked myself what his motive was. Was it a sympathy invitation? Did he think I did not have enough money to support myself? Was my salary too low compared to his salary? After all, being the HR manager, he knew how much every employee in Chao's company was receiving.

Yeah, that was it. He was thinking that I did not have enough money to buy myself food.

"No, thank you, Mean," I finally replied. I could tell he was waiting intently for my answer to his invitation.

"That's fine, then," Mean said.

I'm not so sure if that was a hurt expression that I saw briefly on his face. Maybe I had just imagined it.

"I have no other intention except to enjoy your company," Mean spoke again. "If I had a bad intention towards you, I would have asked you to sleep in my bed instead of letting you go to the other room. And believe me, there are no ghosts in that room. We can inspect it later tonight so that you can be assured that there are no ghosts there."

Wait, what is he going on about? I wasn't thinking about ghosts. I was thinking about how he thinks I'm too poor to buy food for myself.

"Look, if you're thinking I'm too poor ..." I started to say ...

"What are you talking about?" Mean asked in surprise. "Who said anything about you being poor?"

"But isn't that why you're asking me to spend another night with you? Because you think I don't have enough money to buy food for myself?" I asked, trying not to sound defensive.

"What the hell, Plan!" he exclaimed, looking very much offended now. "I have a good mind to give you a painful flick on your forehead. I don't know where that idea of yours is coming from."

Yes, come to think of it now, I don't know where that idea suddenly came from.

"Well, then ... I wanna accept your invitation, thank you," I said, with a happy smile. "But I don't wanna sleep in that other room."

"Okay, you can take my room and I will sleep in the other one," he said without hesitation.

"No, no, no!" I exclaimed. "I'm not going to sleep in your room alone. What if your room also has a ghost in it!"

"But you slept there last night and you saw that there wasn't any ghost in it," Mean tried to reason with me.

"Only because you were there with me," I patiently reasoned back with him.

I noticed him suppressing a sigh.

"If that's how you want it," he said finally.

"I'm sorry for being difficult," I tried to apologize. "After all, I'm not the owner of this unit. I'm just a guest."

"No, you're not being difficult, Plan," he replied. "I just don't want you to think that ... "

"That what?" I prompted when he stopped in the middle of his sentence.

He studied my face for a while before replying.

"Nothing," he finally said, then with a bright smile and a cheerful voice, he continued, "So let's plan our day! What will be today's agenda, hmm? A home movie, video games, card games, board games, guessing games? You name it, I have it!"

"Let's start with a home movie," I replied.

"A home movie coming up," Mean said, walking towards the living room and turning his TV set on.

"Yay!" I exclaimed happily. "Choose a horror movie! I love watching horror films!"

"I thought you were afraid of ghosts," he looked at me in surprise. 

"As long as I'm watching a horror film with someone, I won't feel afraid," I said with a sheepish smile.

"To be honest, I don't like watching horror movies," Mean said, but I saw him already scanning the list of movies that he had on the TV screen.

Just then, my phone rang.

I pulled it out of my pocket. Chao was on my screen.