Dom's POV:

"What's the point of a birthday party without the person who's birthday it is?" Callum looked up at me.

Nico had still not shown up yet. I knew he was probably just busy with Sasha, his girlfriend but being late to your own birthday party was a new low. Nico cared very little about any of this but I did. I wanted this party to be great but not just because of Nico.

Looking at my friend Callum just made me realize how much I needed to do something. I was sick of being Callum's friend, it had been so long and I still had yet to be able to tell him how I felt.

"Nico will show up, Sasha would never let him miss the whole thing." I replied.

"That's fair, you want a drink?" He asked.

"Yes please." I grinned widely at him. "And don't make it too strong, the last time I swear it was almost as bad as one of Connor's cocktails."

"Nothing is as bad as whatever the hell Connor has in his cup and I'm insulted by the comparison. I'm a fantastic bartender." Callum glared playfully.

"Yeah sure." I rolled my eyes knowing it would rile him up just enough.

"Just for that I'm going to let Connor make your drink."

"When you do can you ask him if he stole my pants?"

I eyed my roommate who seemed to be trying to start his night off with more alcohol than anyone should be drinking. Luckily it wasn't all going into his cup and he was sharing the love. But I'm pretty sure the jeans he had on were from my closet. The guy stole everything but as long as it wasn't one of a band tees I knew better than to try to fight it.

"You really need to put a lock on your closet." Callum laughed.

"It's not funny, I'm starting to run out of things to wear." I pouted.

"You know Connor has never stolen any of my clothes." Callum bragged.

"That's just because you're so small." I patted his head playfully.

Callum swatted at my hand with a frown. Callum wasn't that short but he reached only my chin and it was fun to tease him about it. Sometimes when I annoyed him he'd shove into me or one time he tried to tackle me. All I cared about was how close his body was to mine. The violence was an afterthought.

"I hate you."

"Oh please we both know you love me." I tried to win him over with my gorgeous smile.

"In your dreams maybe." Callum grumbled.

"Only in every single one." I winked.

"I'm leaving." Callum turned and stomped towards the kitchen.

I just laughed at his retreat. God I loved that boy. It was getting totally ridiculous but maybe one day I'd be able to say the words out loud.

Once Callum left to get our drinks I scanned the room for one of my roommates. I'd been so busy hanging out with Callum lately I had barely seen any of them. Instead of one of my roommates my eyes caught Evan, Jake's new boyfriend. Evan was the captain to the rival football team and just started dating my roommate and captain Jake. If I hadn't known how much Jake was into Evan I would have been surprised at the news. But I'd listened to my roommate drunkenly ramble about how hot Evan was and how pretty he thought his eyes were too many times to actually believe there was only hate there.

I decided to make my way over to Evan and officially introduce myself.

"He really threw you to the wolves didn't he?" I said to Evan gesturing to where Jake was talking intensely with two of my teammates.

"He didn't mean to." Evan shrugged not looking all that bothered by being ditched.

"I'm Dominic, the idiot's much smarter roommate." I introduced myself.

"Evan." He smiled looking much more relaxed than when I first approached.

"If you say this is too strong I'm going to throat punch you." Callum returned interrupting the conversation and not even paying a single second of attention to the boy next to me.

"As if you could even reach my throat." I joked taking the cup from the redhead.

"You're asking for it." Callum glared.

"Callum this is Evan, Jake's man and the captain to the Westerly football team." I turned the attention back to Evan not wanting him to feel left out.

"Hi." Evan smiled slightly.

"Please don't talk football with me, I've had enough of that for like a lifetime." Callum groaned.

I couldn't hold back a low laugh. Callum had endured plenty of football talk. I usually avoided it whenever I was with him but Callum was at the house enough to be dragged in by at least one of my teammates. And he'd been forced to sit through plenty of Sunday's where all we did was watch the games. I'd seen him sitting there looking bored out of his mind plenty of times.

"Trust me I won't." Evan said truthfully.

"Hmmm I like you." Callum smiled.

"Sorry I had to deal with some idiots fighting." Jake made his way back over looking at his boyfriend with a large smile.

"Don't worry about it, I kept your man company." I beamed at my roommate throwing my arm over Evan's shoulder.

"Your turn Dom." Jake gave me a meaningful look.

I knew what he meant. Anytime Jake had tried to get me to make a move on Callum I'd always countered with the fact he never tried with Evan. Now that Jake had made his move it looked like he was done with my excuses. I needed to do something about this thing between Callum and I.

I left the couple and practically dragged Callum away. I didn't want to take any chances that Jake would say anything. Not that I think he'd ever cross that line but it was better to be safe.

"What was that about?" Callum questioned glancing back at Jake.

"Nothing, it was nothing." I rushed out.

Callum eyed me suspiciously but thankful he didn't get to question anything further because the door opened and Nico and Sasha walked in. I was thankful for the distraction. I didn't need Callum trying to push anything.

With Nico finally showing up I was able to get swept away in the birthday celebration. I hung out with my roommates and tried not to think about the fact I really should try to make a move on my best friend.

When the excitement died down slightly and everyone piled into the living room to turn on the football game it finally gave me an opening. I could easily pull Callum away and finally talk to him. Just the thought had my nerves racing to a thousand.

I didn't think I could do this. Maybe I was supposed to just stay in the friend zone forever. It was less scary than trying to put myself out there.

"Hey are you okay? You look totally freaked out." Callum just stared at me.

Oh jeez. Stupid stupid stupid. Of course Callum could read me with ease. We'd been friends for so long it was ridiculous that he could read me so well and not know how in love with him I was.

"I'm fine." I stood up totally freaking out more than I needed to. "I'm going to go to the bathroom."

I then proceeded to run out of the room. I was obviously being very smooth right now.

I didn't even have to go to the bathroom. I just wanted to avoid Callum and telling him how I felt. It was too scary and I wasn't one to make the first move. It was probably why I've been single for so long.

Well besides the fact that I've been pining over my best friend for years. That was probably why I'd actually been single this whole time.

Instead of going to the bathroom I just hid in the room for a few minutes and then splashed some water on my face trying to calm myself down.

It didn't work.

I just needed to get through this day and then regroup and make a plan. Preferably one that didn't include me pouring my heart out and being rejected.

I opened the bathroom door to go back to the living room to see Callum leaning against the wall opposite of the door.

"Callum! Hi! You need the bathroom?" My eyes were wide and I probably looked totally crazy.

"No." He shook his head just studying me.

"Oh well that's okay. Just hanging out in the hallway, seems fun. I should get back to watching the game, you know football and all that." I turned and tried to run off again.

"Dom." Callum didn't even need to raise his voice and my body stopped waiting to hear what he had to say next.

"Yeah?" I turned giving him a sheepish smile.

"Are you going to tell me why you're being all weird or am I going to have to bribe it out of you?"

"Bribe?" I raised my eyebrows curious on what he had to bribe me with.

"Don't make me reveal all my secrets, now tell me what's going on with you." He crossed his arms giving me a stern look.

"Explosive diarrhea." I blurted out.

Callum just gave me an unamused look.

"Fine but now I feel like I've ruined the mood." I complained.

How could I follow up diarrhea talk with a love confession. This was really not going well. I really wish Nico was here so he could punch me. I knew he would if he had to witness this conversation. Nico didn't need much to decide to result to violence.

"You're going to make me do it aren't you?" Callum sighed.

"Do wha-?"

I was cut off by lips pressing against mine. It took my brain too long to reboot as I realized what exactly happened.

Someone was kissing me.

Not just someone, Callum.

Callum was kissing me.

ON THE LIPS!

I screamed at myself and it took all of a few seconds after the realization to respond. I moved my lips against his and pressed him against the wall. Kissing Callum was everything I thought it would be and more.

I was finally kissing the boy I loved. This was what heaven was. Why hadn't I done this earlier?

Well technically I still didn't do anything. I'd just waited until Callum made the first move but still why hadn't I done this sooner? 

I couldn't wait any longer. I took over the kiss practically devouring his mouth with mine as I pinned his body with my own. I needed to feel every inch of him against me. I wanted to know what his body felt like under my hands. Wanted to see what kind of reactions I could coax out of him.

Callum seemed to be just as desperate as I was. His hands gripped onto me tightly as he tried to pull me closer to him. It was a back and forth and I never wanted it to stop.

"I love you." I panted against his lips as I pulled away.

"I love you too." He responded and I felt nothing but joy fill my body at the words.

I closed the distance wanting to feel his lips against mine again. I wanted to get lost in him forever. I didn't think there was anything else I'd rather be doing than this. Being with Callum was the only thing I cared about.

"As much as I love this I'm not a big fan of doing it where anyone could just walk by." Callum pulled away.

I didn't want to stop so I grabbed at his legs pulling him up. He didn't hesitate to wrap his legs around my waist clinging onto me.

"I forgot how strong you are." He said staring at me with awe.

"I do play football." I smiled and then walked into the bathroom.

I didn't want to be not kissing him a second longer so I set him down on the counter and then dove back in.

I could do this forever and not get sick of it. 

A/n:

I felt inspired to write something for you guys since we hit 1 mil reads. When we hit that I can't even describe how overwhelmed I was. I had never expected for people to love this story like they have. So since you guys have been so amazing I decided to grace you all with a chapter that has nothing to do with Jake and Evan. Lol but seriously I saw some people ask about a sequel following Dom and Callum or some type of content with them. I thought it might be fun to do a bonus chapter of them getting together.

I don't have any other plans to write a book on them or anything but if you really want to see more of them they will be featured more in the sequel The Path To You.

Thank you all for all the love and support. I couldn't have done anything of this without you guys keeping me motivated to write more.

Hope you all enjoyed this chapter!
-Cora Leigh