The Big Bang Theory - Bang Goes Sheldon's Pride

It was that time of year again. The time of year when Sheldon's niece would have to spend the weekend with him in that tiny apartment. She would be breathing his air, eating his food, refusing to move from his "spot". To any normal person this would sound perfectly reasonable. His sister was going away for the weekend on a romantic break with her husband and was in a jam so, naturally, you would ask your brother to babysit. Sheldon however is no ordinary brother. MayBelle arrived at the door of Sheldon and Leonard's apartment. After knocking several times, Sheldon (who was sitting in his "spot") let out a sigh. Leonard glared at him hoping Sheldon would get up and open the door. After MayBelle knocked several more times Leonard realised that Sheldon was being stubborn as usual and decided to let MayBelle in himself.

"Ah, you must be MayBelle, am I right?" questioned Leonard.
MayBelle replied, "Ah, you must be my uncle's girlfriend."

Sheldon and Leonard looked towards each other both confused and speechless. The last time Sheldon had seen MayBelle she was nine years old, had pig-tails, wore frilly dresses and spoke with a very heavy Texan accent. Since his sister and her husband had been busy the past few years they hadn't needed Sheldon to look after MayBelle. MayBelle was now fifteen, wore extremely short-shorts, a VERY tight t-shirt and seemed to have a never-ending piece of bubblegum in her mouth. Her attitude had also changed. She had gone from a little country bumpkin to an audacious, bossy little miss all together!

"Where is he?" MayBelle shouted at Leonard.
"He's right over there." Leonard was jesturing to the couch.
"Hey, Uncle Sheldon."

Sheldon lightly arose from his seat on the couch and began to apprehensively approach his estranged niece. He already hated her, as Sheldon would put it, "Typical Texan ways", now, not only did she give Sheldon that reason to hate her but also added to the hatred by becoming annoyingly conceited.

"MayBelle. You're looking...bare."
"...SPEAK LIKE A NORMAL PERSON WOULD YOU?"

The resentment Sheldon had towards MayBelle was clearly reciprocated.

"Try putting some clothes on and maybe I'll consider it."

Sheldon retreated to his bedroom leaving MayBelle and Leonard standing on opposite sides of the couch in quite an awkward situation.

"So..." said Leonard.
"So..." replied MayBelle.
"MayBelle, I hear you're a dancer?"
"I used to be."
"Well, what happened?"
"I was apparently 'gyrating in an inappropriate manner' next to a judge at the state fair and my dance teacher said until I learn to gyrate responsibly I'm not allowed back to the Christian Youth Dance Team."
"Oh. Well that's...too...bad."
"Yeah, not really. OH! It's the Gilmore Girls! I love this show."
"Oh, yeah, Sheldon's been TiVoing it. He can't find season five on DVD anywhere so he just records the re-runs."
"Yeah because a grow man watching the Gilmore Girls is totally normal."

Sheldon came back and saw that MayBelle was in his spot. After several moments of standing beside her he realised she had to be moved.

"You're in my spot."
"So, sit somewhere else nerd!"
"How dare you speak to me in that ungrateful tone. I will have you know I..."

She shoved a spoonful of half-melted Ben & Jerry's ice cream into Sheldon's mouth in an attempt to silence him. Sheldon looked around himself for a few moments trying to find a prime spot to spit out the ice cream that he didn't want to eat at this time.