5SOS Preferences

Nervous - Calum Hood - P4

Does she want it to be a date? Is she hoping I'll say no? Or maybe...
I try to clear my head of all the thoughts and focus on the one thing I want to say: yes.

[Y/N] is staring at me expectantly, her beautiful eyes wide and her lips curled into a cute smile.

"I- ye-" I stop myself, worrying that her expression is going to fall and she'll tell me she just wants to be friends. "Do you want it to be a date?" I eventually sigh, deciding that's my best option.

"Cal, you know you don't need to be nervous around me, right?" She replies, reaching over and grabbing my hand to comfort me. Her fire engulfs me again, almost leaving me at a loss for words.

"I- I just really like you, I mean I- you're you, you're perfect and I'm just-"

"You don't see how much I like you, do you?" She interrupts me, a smile toying on the edges of those beautiful lips.

I feel shaky all over. Did I hear her correctly? Surely she didn't just tell me she liked me? I can hear my heartbeat in my ears, it's quick drumming drowning out the noise of the restaurant. I need to say something.

"You- you what?" I whisper, unable to raise my voice any louder.

"Calum, I've been crushing on you since the day we met."

This can't be happening. I'm dreaming, I must be. The idea of her - beautiful, amazing, perfect her - liking me - plain, simple, nervous me - is almost laughable.

"You're amazing. You're funny, kind, talented... You're everything I would want in a boyf-" she begins, stopping mid word. She was about to say boyfriend. Her cheeks are rosy coloured again: it's as if she thinks she's said something wrong, when in reality everything she's said has been perfect.

"A b-boyfriend? You want me to be your b-"

"I- I didn't mean to freak you out. I'm sorry. I just... I've wanted that for such a long time, and my thoughts ran away with me. If it's too sudden for you then-"

"Be my girlfriend, [Y/N]."

I grin. I managed that without a single stutter.

[Y/N] is grinning too. She looks less flustered now, as if she's finally realised that she has nothing to worry about. How could she think that I didn't love her? It baffles me.

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I walk her back to her house, and even manage to lace our fingers together while we're walking there.

We reach the door and she turns to face me. She's so close I can feel her cool breath on my cheeks. Her eyes slide down to my lips momentarily, and I can't help but steal a glance at hers. They're begging to be kissed, and I have to fight every urge in my body in order to restrain from pushing her up against the wall and kissing her until our mouths feel numb.

I can feel the chemicals moving and mixing in my body again as the familiar anxious feeling sets in. I take a shaky breath to calm myself, and slowly move in. I'm praying that she doesn't move back.

Our lips meet and there's some kind of explosion in my head. Her fire is coursing through me at a million miles an hour, and I never want it to slow down.
The kiss starts of slow, but our lips gradually move faster against each other, getting hungrier by the second.
My heart is pounding heavily in my chest, but the minimal space between the two of us means that I know [Y/N]'s is beating at exactly the same pace.
I'm not really sure what to do with my hands, so I rest them on her waist. She links her arms around my neck, and I help to bring her closer by pushing her into me. I never want to let her go.

After a few minutes she pulls away, and I can't help but notice how beautiful she looks with swollen lips and flushed cheeks.

"Thank you for tonight," she whispers, her voice hoarse, "I had a really great time."

"You're welcome. I did too. I- uh, I'll call you later on?"

She nods and smiles again. "I would love that."

I watch her walk to her door, and before I can stop myself I'm shouting her name.
She spins around, the smile still lighting up her expression.

It's now or never Cal. I take a deep breath.

"You know I love you, right?"

I really hope that my eyes aren't playing tricks on me when I see her smile widen.

"I love you too, Calum."

That stops me dead. I didn't expect her to say the words back - I just had to tell her. But she did, she said it back. My thoughts are coming at a million miles an hour again.

I'm pretty sure this is what true happiness feels like. I finally have her.

And she loves me. Whoa.

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