I did not deny my interest in the story of the young man at the bar. Because his stories are really fun even though we only talk about them. “The stories he tells are fun.”
I don't deny being interested in the story of that guy in the bar, because his story is really interesting, even if we're just talking about it. The story he told is very interesting
I didn't refuse to be interested in the story of the boy in the bar, because his story is really interesting, even if we only talk about that, "the story he told is very interesting."