The Dual Celebration Opportunity - Chapter Two

Sheldon had his laptop open and ready on the table in front of the couch waiting for Amy's call. As he was waiting he was making himself a cup of Tea and reading a Comic Book, turning the pages one by one with a keen interest.

It was Amy's 'turn' to initiate the call, they took turns being the one who would be the one to call the other. Amy at first thought Sheldon's suggestion was a silly thing to do but she went along with it and actually started to find it endearing. After another five minutes or so passed the familiar Skype incoming call noise flooded the apartment and Sheldon quickly moved over to the couch with a freshly brewed cup of Tea in his hand and sat down in front of his laptop screen.

"Hello" Sheldon said with a smile as Amy's face appeared on his screen.

"Hi Sheldon" she replied with a matching look on her face.

"How is Princeton today? I was checking my phone earlier and the weather is supposed to be really hot there, a heatwave according to my phone app?!" asked Sheldon.

"It is, a nice warm late summer day. The weather is beautiful though I have been in the lab for most of the day so I haven't really been able to enjoy any of it" she answered.

"Is the project all finished? You only have a couple of days left" he asked.

"Yes the research is all done. I'm just making sure everything is complete before I leave. I have some forms and papers to fill out and then I have a meeting with the faculty before I leave the campus. And then of course I have to pack!" she answered.

Sheldon had been to visit Amy several times over the summer, a day or two every few weeks. But when the project started to enter the final stages and with Amy being noticeably less busy he spent a full week there as well, so he knew the work was on track to be completed.

"So how has your day been?" she asked him.

"Nothing as exciting as yours. I was over at Leonard and Penny's, we had some lunch and then I played some online video games with Leonard" he replied.

"That's good, keeping yourself busy" she said. Part of her still worried about Sheldon being on his own even though he seemed fine both when she saw him in person and on their Skype calls. Penny and Bernadette also had said he was coping fine without her being around even after the Ramona incident which had upset Sheldon greatly. The worrying had eased a lot over the time she was away but a small part of it was still there.

"I am looking forward to coming back home" she said. "It was a great opportunity to work here during the summer and I feel that we did some groundbreaking research, but I just have that urge to come home now" she added.

"I am looking forward to you coming back home too" he said smiling.

"We have a lot to catch up on" she said with a beaming smile and sounding playfully suggestive both with her voice and her matching body language.

"Indeed we do, I haven't been to the train store for a while and they have some new model trains in. Oh and I could do with restocking some of the medical supplies, I did have a cold some weeks back and haven't got around to replacing them yet" he said.

"Sheldonnn I wasn't thinking about that" she said with a chuckle.

"Oh" he said as he suddenly realized what she was hinting at.

"Yes we do have a lot to catch up on" he said with a slightly lower voice. Amy said nothing but her reaction and her smile said it all.

"So, two days" he added.

"Two days and we are back together" she replied.

"So we will talk about the plans tomorrow for me meeting you at the airport? I was thinking of getting Leonard to drop me off at the airport and then when you land we can get a cab back to our place?" he said.

"That sounds perfect" she said smiling.

They then carried on their conversation talking about some of the smaller things that had happened to them during the course of the day. Amy was telling him about some gossip around the lab and some promising new research being carried out by another Dr in the same faculty. Sheldon was more interested in the research but started to get into the gossip a bit especially when it involved someone he had met several times during his visits. Sheldon brought up the film Amy watched last night on his Netflix account, they talked about the film and Amy said it was very good. After a while of talking about a range of minor subjects that they found interesting Amy changed the subject.

"Sorry Sheldon but I will have to cut our call a bit shorter than usual, my colleagues have organised a meal before I return home. They booked a local restaurant and there are 20 of us going" she said.

"Ok then, you have fun" he replied.

"I love you, talk to you again tomorrow" she said.

"I love you too, speak to you tomorrow" he replied.

The Skype call ended, Sheldon closed his laptop and took another sip from his cup of Tea. Thoughts and plans started to go around in his head, so Amy is back in two days which is Friday and I was thinking of throwing this party on Saturday. So that gives me a couple of days to come up with something and organize it before she gets back. Then I will have to come up with a plan to get her out of the way on Saturday morning for a couple of hours to make sure everything at the apartment is ready for the party.

Sheldon took a final sip of his Tea, he then got up off the couch and he went over to one of his whiteboards. Wiping the board clean with his whiteboard eraser he then started to scribble on the board and plan this party.