•Cassidy

My eyelids fluttered open, feeling the mascara that still lingered on my lashes from the night before stick to the bags that were clinging underneath my eyes. My entire body felt sore with each one of my muscles aching. I was immediately confused by my surroundings, but soon remembered we had all crashed in Michael's man cave after the party.

I also realized my head was not laying on a squishy pillow. It was resting on Calum's butt.

I giggled softly to myself, trying to carefully climb off of his tall body without waking him up, or without stepping on Luke who was sprawled out on his carpeted floor. Calum groaned loudly as my knee accidentally dug into his back when I tried to crawl over him. "Sorry," I whispered, hoping not to wake anyone else up.

Calum kept his head pressed into the arm of the sofa, yet still managed to rapidly grasp my wrist and tug me back onto the couch. I fell back on top of him, and Calum, with his eyes still shut, managed to tug me closer to the tiny spot on the couch next to him. "Where are you going?" He muttered, his morning voice clearly more raspy than usually.

I pushed some of his hair out of his sleepy face, inspecting every detail of him. He appeared to be just as tired as I was- the five of us had stayed up pretty late together after all- and his cheeks were flushed with a bright shade of red. I'm assuming the discoloration had to do with his face being squashed against a leather couch all night.

"I was going to go take a shower," I explained, keeping my voice as low as possible. I could still faintly hear Ashton snoring, and I didn't want to ruin his deep sleep that he was finally getting. "I smell like toe fungus."

"You're disgusting," Calum whined, finally allowing his eyelids to pry open and adjust to the late morning sunlight. He groaned again. "It's so early. I feel like shit. Why did you have to wake me up?"

I frowned, feeling guilt creep over me. "I didn't mean to. I just didn't want to stink up the place."

Calum sent a lazy smile in my direction. He lifted up his arm that was not wrapped around my waist and tilted his head to the side, getting a whiff of his own armpit. He scrunched his nose up afterwards. "Looks like I need to take a shower too."

"I called it first," I protested, jutting my bottom lip out.

Calum raised one of his eyebrows. He brought his face even closer to mine than it already was on this cramped little couch, and let his lips drag along my face until the reached my ear. "Maybe we should just shower together."

I slapped his chest. "Calum!" I whisper-hissed. "We're at Michael's house! All of your band-mates are going to be right downstairs!"

His nonchalant expression did not falter. He simply smirked at me, shrugging his shoulders without a care in the world. "Your point?"

"The point is that's rude and I don't want one of them to hear us," I stated, still attempting to keep my voice down.

Calum chuckled at me, as if he found this entire situation incredibly casual and amusing. "Babe, we literally had sex when my entire family was downstairs just a few weeks ago."

"And look what happened," I said, referencing the pregnancy scare that was just resolved not too long ago.

"Well I brought a condom with me. One that's not expired this time. And you're on the pill again," Calum persuaded. "We don't even have to have sex though. We can just shower together to save time. You've never showered here before. You probably need some help figuring out how to work it, right Cass?"

I rolled my eyes at him, trying to bite back a smile. "I just don't want them to get like weirded out."

"They're not going to care. Oh my God," Calum complained, tilting his head, which was probably pounding from a hangover headache, backwards and making his jawline seem even sharper. My ultimate weakness. And he wasn't even aware he was doing it. "Cass, they're asleep right now. Can we please just go take a shower before they wake up? We can start off our 2016 right. And I promise I'll even make you breakfast afterwards."

"Alright, you know the way to my heart," I declared, carefully leaping off of his body and heading towards the staircase. I couldn't deny that showering with Calum did sound inviting, I was just a little weary of one of the boys embarrassing us about it afterwards.

Calum slowly followed behind me, walking in a sluggish and lethargic manner, with his shoulders slumped over slightly. I motioned for him to move quicker up the stairs. I was immensely paranoid that one of them was going to wake up and have the urge to use the upstairs bathroom and I didn't want his slow stroll to blow our cover.

I stepped inside of the bathroom, closing the door shut as soon as Calum crept in. He smiled at me, placing his hands on my hips. "You know, waking up this early in the morning with a killer hangover isn't so bad when it's with you. Even if you do smell like toe fungus."

"Charming," I replied quizzically, kissing the top of his nose. Calum didn't respond, he merely grasped the bottle of mouth-wash that was resting on the pristine counter and dropped it into my hands. "What? Does my breath stink too?"

"I know you, Cass. Your morning breath is almost as bad as mine. So I'm not making out with you until you rinse," Calum ordered. He sent me an innocent grin afterwards. "Sorry, baby. I love you, but, I still get grossed out."

I placed my hand on his chest, giving it a gentle push. "Who said I even wanted to kiss you?"

He cocked his head to the side, a smirk overtaking his features. "Cassie, please. You know you just can't get enough of me."

I scoffed, taking a step closer to him. "Oh really? Who's the one who begged me to let us shower together?" I questioned in my best intimidating, and sultry voice. I kept my eyes locked on his, but I could still see his jawline clench at my words, his little façade slowly diminishing. "So let's play a little game, yeah? I'll drink this mouthwash to cure you of your little germ fears, but let's see how long you'll last in there without kissing me. While I'm naked. And dripping wet."

Calum's Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed hard. His eyes visibly widened. "Cassidy," He whined. "That's not fair!"

I raised my eyebrows at him, enjoying the control I wasn't usually accustomed with. I unscrewed the plastic cap of the mouthwash bottle, water-falling some of the green liquid into my mouth. Calum stared deeply at me as I swished it around before spitting it out into the sink, while he simply pouted.

"Come on, let's have some fun. We used to always play games together when we were little, baby," I teased, pinching his chubby cheeks. "You better drink some of that mouthwash too, though. You're gonna cave so fast."

Calum exchanged his brooding stare for a peppy smile, taking the bottle out of my grip. "No I won't. We're just taking a shower together. Nothing sexual at all about bathing."

"Good. Also nothing sexual at all about clothing. So would you mind helping me unzip this dress?" I asked innocently, batting my eyelashes at him.

Calum gargled the mouth wash in his mouth, nearly choking at my request. He shook his head at me. "You've got to be kidding me," Calum complained, smacking his hands against the counter-top. "This is so stupid. Why are we even doing this?"

I lifted up his hands, guiding them towards my back. "Well you got to make fun of me for my bad breath. So now I get to tease you for your lack of self-control. Come on, Cal. I think the zipper is stuck."

He began to unzip the dress, letting out a heavy sigh. His cold fingers dragged across my entire back, causing goosebumps to rise at his touch. The dress slipped off of my shoulders with ease, exposing me to the cold breeze from the air-conditioning, and leaving the dress in a pool at the bottom of my feet.

"What happens if I lose?" Calum immediately blurted out, his eyes scanning over my half-nude body.

I spun around, reaching behind me to unclasp my bra. I let it fall to my feet as well. "Nothing will happen if you lose. I'm not that mean. It's just a game. Might as well spice things up, right?"

Calum tried to hide his smile. "You're such a pain, you know that?" He pulled on the collar of his t-shirt, peeling it off of his body, and revealing his toned stomach that I would easily drool over. "However, if I win, you have to help me make breakfast for everyone."

I nodded my head, taking a step closer to him and reaching for the button of his skintight jeans. "Okay. That's fair," I agreed, unzipping his pants and pulling them down to his feet. My eyes travelled down towards his boxers, where there was already a noticeable tent that had been pitched. I giggled. "You already have a boner?"

He gripped onto my hips, yanking my body closer to him. "Well how do you expect me not to when you are talking like that?"

"Like what?" I repeated, tilting my head to the side.

He swallowed again, appearing very nervous. "Like that! You're acting all sexy and confident and you're already really hot and your boobs are on complete display and I'm just a guy, Cass. This is so hard."

I patted his crotch. "Yeah, we know."

Calum surprisingly laughed at that, moving his hands down to my butt to slide my underwear down my bare legs. I retreated away from him to turn on the water, as he took the time to pull his own underwear down. I winked at him.

"Okay, can we just get in there already?" Calum asked impatiently, pushing the shower curtain back so he could step inside. He held his palm out for me to grab, escorting me inside the shower.

The water was felt strikingly hot against my body. It pelted against my bare skin. Steam was rising from the warm water, smothering the entire bathroom with its cloud-like appearance and clinging onto the marble tiles that lined the walls of the shower.

Calum and I could not take our eyes off of each other. Neither of us said a word, we merely scanned each other's bodies like a price gun. I viewed the way the rushing water ran down Calum's body, making his muscles seem to glisten as the water droplets stuck to them.

"It's getting pretty steamy in here," I joked, motioning towards the visible steam, while actually referencing the sexual tension that was clearly evident.

Calum's brown eyes transformed from a look of pure lust, to slightly amused. He let out a slight laugh, shaking his head at my dumb attempt to be funny. His hand extended out to grasp the bottle of shower gel. "May I?"

I felt my cheeks flush to a shade of pink. "You may," I mumbled, watching him dispense some of the apple scented gel into his calloused palms.

He cautiously brought his hands closer to me. Calum slowly lathered my nude body with the gel, making heat rise with his tender touch. He started at my shoulders, slowly massaging them, before dragging his soap-coated palms down my chest, making sure to cup each breast in his hands. Calum continued down my stomach and my back, sliding down even further until he reached my butt, giving it a tight squeeze. I could barely breathe.

"You are so beautiful," Calum said in a low tone, never breaking eye contact with me. He ran his hands over my body one more time, running them along my sides until he touched my armpits, making me squeal and jump away.

"And ticklish," I replied, making us both laugh. I took the bottle out of shower gel out of his hands and squirted some of it out. I started at his broad shoulders as well, working the body-wash into his skin while simultaneously kneading his strong muscles. "You know, this is kind of nice."

"What? Making me have to swallow my pride just to kiss you?" Calum teased, his lips curving into a small smile as I travelled further down his body.

I rubbed in a circular motion down his back, making a quiet moan escape his mouth. I moved back to his stomach, feeling the outline of his faint six pack protruding from his skin and the raised hills and valleys that were formed from each muscle on his abs. "No, just being here together. We haven't taken a shower together since the night before you broke up with me. And before that was the time you spit toothpaste on my neck and I made you clean it off."

Calum grinned at the memory, leaning his body closer to me. "We've come a long way since then," Calum declared. "I always thought us rooming together would end up with one of us murdering the other. I never in a million years expected to fall in love like this."

"That makes two of us," I admitted, standing on my tippy toes to hoist down the shower head. I held the coiled cord in my hands, holding it out to spray Calum with it and rinse off all of the excess gel. He opened his mouth in his signature goofy manner, and I chuckled before spraying some of the water in it, as if it was the nozzle to a soda fountain.

Calum took the shower head out of my hands, motioning for me to spin around so that he could rinse off my backside. I'm sure it was just another excuse to stare at my butt though, and this was confirmed when he gave it a nice slap.

I rolled my eyes at him, while he just laughed, and stole the shower head away from him. I propped it back up onto the holder, lining it up so the water would fall directly over where the two of us stood, and so I could get a perfect view of Calum's body dripping with water.

His wet hair clung to his forehead, the water making each lock lengthen out so it nearly touched his bushy eyebrows. I pushed it off to the side, letting my hands linger on his cheeks and having my thumb skim across his prominent cheekbone. "I really love you, Cal. This has been a crazy few weeks having you back in my life again and with the whole pregnancy scare and everything. But it was all worth it. I can't picture myself ever showering with anyone other than you. Actually, I can't picture my life at all with any other guy. I know I usually leave the cheesy stuff for you to say, but I'm so in love, Calum. 2015 was a great year for us, but I'm even more excited to see what the future holds."

"You've turned me into such a sap, Cassie," Calum responded, his cheeks blushing bright red. "I love you even more. I can promise you right now that I'm never going to make the mistake of letting you go ever again. I can't be without my best friend. Now, can I please kiss you already?"

I laughed, shaking my head side to side. "Not unless you want to be a loser," I said playfully, sticking my tongue out at him. Calum just gave me an irritated sigh, but I could tell he found this game thing rather entertaining. I reached for the shampoo bottle that was next to us. "Let me wash that greasy mess."

Calum scoffed. "At least it looks better than your rat's nest."

I giggled. I poured some of the shampoo that was in Michael's bathroom into my hands, adding a little water to it so it would foam up into bubbles. I blew some towards Calum, staring in awe as the shiny bubbles floated towards him. Calum swatted them away, taking the bottle out of my grasp and whipping the shampoo at me.

Soon enough, a war was commenced between the two of us, Calum using shampoo as his weapon of choice while I stayed loyal to the bubbles I had created. The hair product was still flying everywhere, pelting against our naked bodies. Laughter echoed throughout the shower. That is, until I slipped on the shampoo that lingered on the tiled foor.

Calum's strong arms gripped onto me quickly, before I was even able to let out a shrill. It was as if he was anticipating this very moment. His biceps pressed against my back as he tugged me closer to him, so close that I could feel his heart beating against my own. Calum's gaze travelled from my dilated pupils to my plump lips. 

His breathing grew heavy. As did mine. Calum nearly retreated away from me, but instead let out an exasperated sigh. "Screw it," He murmured, rapidly slamming my back against the steam-ridden marble tiles. His hands moved from my back to my butt instantly, barely giving me any time to react. And then he finally collided our lips together.

I smiled in the midst of our kiss, reaching behind his neck to diminish the gap even further. I let my fingers languidly run through his wet tresses as he deepened the kiss, letting his tongue carefully explore my mouth. "Took you long enough," I whispered breathlessly.

Calum moved his lips to my neck, sucking on the skin in a passionate manner. He peppered kisses down my neck and all over my collarbones, his hands never failing to skim across every inch of my clean skin. "I love you so much," Calum mumbled against my shoulder, his finger now dangerously dragging along my slit.

He backed away from me, giving both of us time to pant. Calum sloppily reached outside of the shower, grasping the condom that he had conveniently brought inside the bathroom with him. He slid the latex over his length before hastily returning back in front of me, lining himself up at my entrance. 

"Cal, I really think we are too clumsy for this," I admitted, giggling innocently as I rested my hands on his hips.

Calum merely shrugged, instructing me to jump up so my legs were wrapped tightly around his waist and eliminating any space between us. He leaned my back up against the tiled walls again, as if I was a piece of artwork that needed to be pinned onto it. I gripped onto his muscular shoulders to steady myself. He looked up at me through his water-coated lashes just to make sure, and I gave him a confident nod. And then he rammed into me.

My back arched off of the wall, a loud gasp escaping my mouth. Shower water was still raining over us as Calum concentrated on his thrusts, with one of his hands placed firmly underneath my butt and the other hand pressed onto the wall behind me. He was moaning and muttering profanities under his breath in the raspiest tone I had ever witnessed, and it had to be one of the hottest noises my eardrums had ever been blessed with.

"You're the only girl I ever want to do this with. Hell, you're the only girl I ever want to be with at all," Calum told me, his eyes clamped together. I rocked into him a little bit. "Shit. Cass. You're the best."

I kissed him on the lips again. Maybe this stupid game wasn't such a bad plan after all. It led up to this very moment. It was passionate and messy and only minutes before had we been tossing around shampoo like two children. But that was a perfect sum of our relationship. It might be a little dysfunctional and it might have taken awhile to get here, but we understood each other in an indescribable way, and that made everything worth it.

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author's note: i dont really like this chapter tbh but y'all wanted some smut before the end so here is a tiny bit of it

the next chapter will sadly be the last chapter :( but then there will be an epilogue! remember i am purposely updating slow to make this story last longer bc i really dont want this story to be over but hey all good things must come to an end right?

ive been writing a little bit of a new luke fic but im still not sure if im going to post it or not after roommates ends. i need to take a little wattpad break and focus on school for a bit. but follow me on twitter @ calumfridge for any updates on whats to come!!

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