•Cassidy

"Are you feeling better?" I asked Calum as I stepped into the kitchen, where he was currently standing as he munched away on a bagel. I was quite groggy from not getting much sleep last night, whereas Calum seemed to be perfectly awake.

He nodded his head, spreading his arms out wide to motion me to come in for a hug. I did without any hesitation, collapsing right against his chest as his toned arms held me tightly against his body. Calum pressed a kiss on the top of my head. "I'm feeling much better. And it's all thanks to my wonderful girlfriend for taking care of me."

I tilted my head upwards to press a kiss to his lips, loving the way they molded together with such ease that it had become such a natural movement for us now. "I love you," I blurted out, just simply because staring up into his brown eyes while he had a little smile curved onto his face just made my feelings for him so clear.

"And I love you," Calum responded, tucking a piece of hair behind my ear and letting his thumb drag along my cheekbones. "But we need to get going. I planned us a road trip. It will take us around like two hours to get there so we better get moving."

I furred my eyebrows together in confusion. "What? Where are we going?"

"You'll see," Calum stated, winking at me. "Go get dressed. I already packed us a bag because I figured we would want to stay in a hotel tonight."

"I mean, if you insist," I said playfully, hopping off towards the bedroom to get changed into something comfortable yet still presentable.

It didn't take me very long to get ready, mainly because I was anxious to find out where we were headed. I found it so adorable that Calum actually planned something for us to do together. Even if he was taking us to the most boring location ever, I was certain that it would not be boring because the two of us always have fun around one another.

I slid into the passenger seat of his car and Calum turned on the radio before his hands gripped onto the steering wheel. I let out a little squeal of excitement.

"Can you at least give me a hint?" I whined, letting out a yawn that I wasn't even aware I was holding.

He smiled at me innocently, reaching out to intertwine our fingers together as his car drove down the street to leave our gated community. He lifted our laced hands up to his lips, pressing a kiss against the back of mine. "No. It's a surprise. Why don't you go to sleep for a bit and when you wake up we'll be there?"

I shook my head. "But I want to talk to you. I don't want you to just drive in silence."

"There's music playing. It's not silent," Calum argued playfully, his grin never diminishing off of his sculpted face. "Come on, Cass. You took care of me when I was puking last night. Now it's my turn to make sure my girl has a relaxing and fun day."

"Fine," I agreed, reclining back the leather seat so I could find a more comfortable position to lay in. I was still very tired, even though I was quite excited, and maybe a light nap would be good for me.

My eyelids fell closed after a few moments, letting my ears zero in on the sweet sound of Calum's raspy voice sing along quietly to the radio.

•*•*•

"Here we are," Calum cheered, as our car pulled into the parking lot of the San Diego Zoo. I should have known he would take us here. He's such an animal lover and it's the cutest thing.

"Aw, Cal. You are literally the most adorable person ever," I complimented, getting out of the vehicle so I could join him in walking hand in hand into the zoo.

It wasn't very crowded today, but that still didn't stop me from sprinting towards the ticket booth, tugging Calum along with me, so we could get started on our day. He paid for the two of us like a total gentleman and I picked up a copy of the zoo map so we wouldn't get lost.

"Can we go see the tigers first?" I pleaded. I've always been a fan of the tigers and their vivid orange fur with the detailed layers of stripes covering the tops of it in various patterns.

"Sure, baby," Calum obliged, kissing my forehead as we followed the directions to the first exhibit.

The crowd of people who were looking at the tigers disappeared after a few moments, letting Calum and I get a front row seat at viewing them. Calum gasped instantly when he caught sight of the massive tiger and he dashed towards the glass to get a closer look at it. His palms pressed against the bulletproof glass and the sunlight reflected against it, making his beaming smile seem to glow even more.

"Oh my God! It's coming over towards me! He must like me," Calum cooed in an adorable fashion, letting out a little giggle as the tiger approached us and placed his face near the window we were peering through.

"Or he wants to eat you," I remarked, making him shoot a glare in my direction. I crouched down to get a better look at the magnificent animal, a smile managing to creep onto my own face. "Hi big guy."

"Cass, stop talking to my penis we're in a public place!" Calum hissed, pretending to keep up his serious façade to scold me, but ended up just bursting into a fit of a laughter at his own joke.

"You're an idiot," I told him, waving goodbye to our tiger friend as I pulled him along the paved road towards the next exhibit.

Calum slung his arm around my shoulder, as if it was the most comfortable resting position for him. "Do you want to go see the birds?" He suggested, motioning to the little building that we were standing next to.

I nodded, opening the door to it and stepping inside the much warmer building that had this peculiar odor to it. The chirping noises of different birds all pierced my eardrums as the contrasting sounds made a loud symphony that was horribly out of tune.

They were selling food for a dollar, so I rummaged in my pocket to buy it for the both of us. The worker placed a plastic cup in each of our hands and it was full of some special food that the birds must like to eat.

Within an instant, the colorful little birds flocked towards us. Two of them landed on my hand, one of them clutching onto my wrist with their feet. I jumped slightly by the sudden contact but then replaced the unfamiliarity with a giggle as their bright feathers tickled against my skin. 

"Cassie! Look!" Calum called, breaking my attention away from the birds that had landed on me to glance over at my boyfriend. He had two birds on his own hand, as well as two on his shoulders, and one that was resting on the top of his hat. He chuckled loudly. "I guess everyone is attracted to me."

I rolled my eyes at him. "Yeah, okay," I muttered sarcastically, which only made him grin even bigger.

"You jealous, baby?" Calum teased, making me snort at the fact that he was using birds as a way to provoke envy. "I bet these birds are all female. The ladies just love me and my ruggedly handsome body."

"Most of these birds are actually males," An employee spoke up, interrupting his joking.

I bit on my lip to stop from cracking up, while Calum's face grew red with embarrassment and he fumbled to find any words to say. "Oh, um, thanks for the info," He tried to say politely, but it ended up just spewing out of his mouth in a flustered fashion.

"I think we should go to the next exhibit," I told him, throwing the empty cup away and practically dragging Calum away from the scene.

By the time we got to the giraffes, his chubby cheeks were still bright red. I pinched them gently, trying to distract him from his faux-pas. "Look how cute the giraffes are," I said while tugging on the sleeve of his shirt, begging for him to pay attention to the long-necked animals.

I leaned onto the railing, trying to get one of the giraffes to gallop over towards us as I waved to it in a friendly manner. Calum laughed at me, standing directly behind me and wrapping his arms around my waist. "Look how cute you are," He mocked.

I could feel the heat radiating off of his body as he placed more pressure against my back, snuggling his head onto my shoulder so he could see the giraffes as well. "Giraffes are cuter though. Except I hear that before they mate the female like pees in the males mouth to check if she's fertile or something like that."

Calum began to crack up. "We should try that sometime, baby."

I pushed him off of me, pretending to gag as I made a sound of complete disgust. "You're so gross; do not talk to me ever again."

"You're the one who brought it up!" Calum protested, still giggling as if this was the funniest thing he had ever heard. His fingers laced together with mine again and he led us towards the monkeys.

"Okay, well still," I mumbled, trying not to smile, but I couldn't stop myself since I was having so much fun today. "We would have to be trying to have a baby to do that anyways."

Calum gulped, his face hardening into a stern expression. He let out a loud sigh. "Someday I'm going to get you pregnant. And you're going to have a perfectly round belly that I will kiss all the time and then a beautiful baby that we made together is going to crawl out of your lovely vagina and it's going to be the best kid to ever exist. But that won't be for a long time and I don't want to think about it now."

"It seems like you've done a lot of thinking about it before," I pointed out, feeling my face flush. I couldn't help but feel butterflies flutter throughout my stomach just from hearing Calum utter those sweet words about our future that I truly hoped would come true.

Calum shrugged as we continued along the road, passing by gift shops and big families and charming ice cream stands that were selling it at an overpriced rate. "Well I don't know. Anytime I picture my future I see you in it. So I just always think about you and I having a family together someday. But like not for a really long time, okay? I'd make a terrible father right now."

"No you wouldn't," I disagreed, swinging our hands together as we finally made it to the monkey exhibit. I did agree with him on the fact that we shouldn't start a family for a long time, especially since we are in the peak of our careers and are enjoying a care-free young adult life at the moment.

He opened his mouth to protest, but we were interrupted by a little boy crying his eyes out. We scanned the area to find someone who was with this child, but the three of us were the only ones at the entrance to the monkey habitat.

Calum bent down so he was at eye level with the kid, his skinny jeans tightening around his legs with the action. "Hey buddy. What's wrong?"

I crouched down beside the two of them. "I can't find my mom," The boy wailed, lifting his tiny little palms up to his eyes to dry up the tears and also as a method of ignoring eye contact with us.

"We can help you find her, alright bud?" I offered. I truly felt awful that he was abandoned here.

"Mommy said not to talk to strangers," The boy insisted, making me laugh lightly at how well behaved he was.

"I promise we'll take you to Mommy, okay?" Calum said in a patient and caring tone, his brown irises locked on the distraught child in front of him.

It made my heart clench because it portrayed how he was such a kindhearted individual and it was one of the main reasons I had fallen in love with him. I couldn't believe he was just telling me how he thought he would make a bad father almost seconds ago, and ironically, here he was proving that all of his theories were incorrect.

Calum scooped up the small boy into his arms, shifting him onto his hip as the child rested his head on Calum's bony shoulder. "Where should we go? Like find security?"

"That's what I was thinking," I replied, as the the two of us scrambled to find any type of police or security that could help us locate his mother. "Check over there."

The boy was still crying and from the corner of my eye I spotted Calum rub his palm against his back in a soothing motion. If we weren't in the middle of running around I would have taken my phone out and took a candid picture of him, just like how I caught Calum take one of me earlier today, but I pretended not to notice.

There was this little pavilion where some police officers were standing that we shuffled towards. A very uneasy looking woman whipped her head around as soon as she heard the commotion and her eyes went wide. "Johnny! I found you!"

"Mommy!" The boy, who must be named Johnny, called out, wiggling his arms towards his mother to clutch onto her body and escape Calum's grasp.

"Thank you so much," The mother told us gratefully. Calum let out a sigh of relief, turning to face me with a bright smile on his face.

"We did it," He declared proudly, leaning his head down to press our foreheads together, his lips only centimeters away from mine.

I grinned mischievously. "Yes we did, daddy."

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author's note: I WROTE THE LAST SENTENCE AS A JOKE BUT THEN I JUST LEFT IT IN THERE BC LIKE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT BEIN A DAD IDK JUST DONT TAKE ME SERIOUSLY OFMDH

this isnt like a foreshadow or anything they wont be having children anytime soon i promise you i just thought it would be a cute convo

shoutout to angelique for the zoo idea omg just imagine going to the zoo with calum he's prolly the type of guy to pay for your ride on the camel and then make it into some dirty joke

i hope you all have a lovely day i love you lots thank you so much for taking your time to read this its almost at 3m reads which is absolutely insane omg!! 

the next chapter will probably be in cassidy's pov again btw!! oh and make sure u follow me on twitter @calumfridge bc i may or may not post spoilers on there from time to time and you dont want to miss those bad boys

also roommates and afraid are both nominated for the 5sos watty awards so if you could go to the 5SOSWattyAwards page and vote for roommates (just by voting for the chapter) in the best calum book and vote for afraid (by voting for the chapter) in the best plot book that would mean a lot to me!!! love you guys ty

dedicatd to harinilyer2 for saying that she went through my reading lists and found some that she liked but still liked my fanfics more for having "a unique feature to them" aND THAT IS THE SWEETEST TING IVE EVER HEARD THNK U SO MUCH ILY