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"Hi," Mew and Art said to each other at the same time.

AJ stared at Mew intently. AJ remembered him. He was the guy in the island over whom Art had burst into tears but Art had never explained to AJ why. Today AJ was going to find out why. He just needed to listen to their conversation carefully.

"I'm happy to see that you made it out of the island alive and well," Mew said after a brief awkward pause.

"How did you even know that I was on the island?" Art wanted to know.

"I knew, even while you were on the cruise ship," Mew replied, "I just watched you from afar."

"Why didn't you approach me?" Art asked in a sad tone.

"I wasn't sure how you would react," Mew replied.

"In the beginning I would have been a bit hostile," Art admitted.

"And now?" Mew prompted.

"I'm afraid I... I'm afraid that I..."

Mew suddenly became aware of AJ's presence. He was the guy against whose chest Art had been placing the burgundy shirt when Mew had stumbled upon them. In fact Art was still holding the shirt in his hand.

AJ sprung into action.

"Hi, I'm AJ, I'm Art's boyfriend."

Mew took AJ's outstretched hand and shook it lightly.

"I'm pleased to meet you, AJ," said Mew in a voice that was barely above a whisper.

Art's eyes were focused on the floor of the shop while the interaction between Mew and AJ were taking place.

"Well... Art...," Mew placed a hand heavily on Art's shoulder, "I wish you all the best for your future. I hope you will be happy always."

"I will make sure of that," AJ interrupted before Art could make any response to Mew.

Mew gave Art a quick hug and whispered. "Good bye, my dear," before quickly turning and walking away.

AJ grabbed the shirt that hung limply in Art's hand and threw it over the row of shirts in the aisle, and then pulled Art out of the shop with him.

"Let's go and tell your mom that we will go to that park with the manmade lake across the street," said AJ, "let's tell her that we will just go back home by ourselves much later."

Art just nodded wordlessly.

After AJ told Art's mom about their plans and the mom agreed, AJ led Art to the park across the mall. They kept on walking until they reached the end of the park where the manmade lake was.

AJ made Art sit with him under a tree that was right beside the lake, whose wide overhanging branches reached above the lake.

Then AJ turned to Art.

"You don't have to tell me who he was," AJ started to say, "I can tell he was someone special to you. I remember his face. He was the one you saw walking by the river with another guy just before you burst into tears. There's a big possibility that he is with that guy now, otherwise he would not have walked away from you that quickly earlier."

AJ did not mention the other possibility that the reason Mew had walked away was because AJ had introduced himself as Art's boyfriend. AJ was not going to mention that to Art. AJ was not going to turn against his own self.

AJ moved up closer to Art and hugged him tightly.

"We are going to be alright, you and I," he whispered to Art, "I will make sure that you will never regret being my boyfriend."

Art found himself hugging AJ back as tightly as AJ was hugging him.

Back in Nanon's apartment, Mean pulled back from Nanon, instantly regretting that he had kissed Nanon to comfort him. He did not want to give Nanon any false hopes.

Mean stood up from the couch.

"Listen, Nanon, I have to go," said Mean in a determined voice, "thank you so much for the delicious meal you cooked for me."

"Will I see you again?" Nanon asked, his heart weighing heavily.

"Nanon, I don't want to lead you on, I don't want to give you false hopes. I believe it is for the best that we no longer continue to see each other," Mean tried to make his voice sound as apologetic as he could.

Nanon let out a heavy sigh.

"Good bye then, Mean, I won't see you to the door, if you don't mind."

"That's perfectly fine," Mean replied.

As soon as Mean stepped out of Nanon's apartment, he tried to get in touch with Plan. He held his breath as he heard his phone ringing.

After several rings, when Mean thought that his call would get directed to Plan's voice mail, he heard Plan's voice at the other end.

"Mean?"

"Can we meet up now, Plan?"

"Yes, can you get here to the Siam Center as quickly as you can?"

"Plan! Your voice sounds like you have been crying! What happened?"

"Please just come here now, Mean. I will be waiting for you at the entrance of the building," Plan was talking between sobs and it was breaking Mean's heart to hear him crying.

"He had been cheating on me!" were the first words that came out of Plan the moment that Mean came within hearing distance of Plan.

"How did you find out?" asked Mean.

"His best friend JJ came upon us at the Food Court and they had a big fight. JJ accused Jaylerr of cheating on him. I don't wanna talk about it anymore, Mean! Please take me out of here. Take me somewhere, anywhere. Any place but here!"

"Let's go to that park across the street. There's a quiet place there beside the manmade lake," Mean suggested.

Mean led Plan to a tree beside the manmade lake and made him sit beside him.

As soon as Plan sat on the grass beside Mean, Mean grabbed the back of Plan's neck and pulled his face close to him.

He kissed Plan passionately, not minding that there was another couple hugging by another tree just a few feet away from them. Plan paid him back kiss for kiss. They were so hungry for each other.

When they broke apart for some air, Mean took Plan's face in his hands.

"I love you, sweetheart, I always will."

"Don't ever cheat on me," Plan responded.

"I won't. I haven't heard you say that you love me back yet."

"Because I don't," Plan said, quickly standing up and running away from Mean.

Mean caught up with him in a few seconds and tackled him to the ground.

In a few seconds, they were kissing again, unmindful of all the other people strolling in the park and looking curiously at them. It was a long, long while before the kiss ended.

"Let's go home," Mean said.

"Where is home, mine or yours?" asked Plan.

"Mine, of course," Mean replied.

When they got to Mean's apartment, Mean did not waste any more time. He went to a small drawer inside his room, unlocked it with a small key and took out a small dark velvet box.

Plan's eyes grew very wide when Mean opened the top of the box and knelt on one knee in front of Plan.

"Will you be my partner for life, Plan?" Mean asked, while still on one knee.

Plan was all choked up. He could only nod.

A/N: This chapter marks the end of this long running fan fic.  The reason I no longer touched on all the other couples in this story is because I wanted to assume, and the readers to assume as well, that everyone was able to get together and lived happily ever after together.

With the conclusion of this story, I will now focus on my other story called "Best to Say Goodbye" which is now on its second chapter. It is a KimCop/MeanPlan story. Although they will be the main characters, other pairs might come up in the succeeding chapters. I hope you will check this story out.

Last but not least, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of you who followed this story to the end and who have sent in your votes and your comments. You all have been my inspiration to keep this story going. 

Much, much love, Anneofwhitleybay 💕💖❤💚💙💜