Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole

Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound

But while you debate half empty or half full

It slowly rises, your love is gonna drown

Penny flung the door to 4A open, without knocking. She found Sheldon in the fetal position, in his spot.

"Sheldon?" Penny walked over to him slowly.

"Sheldon, sweetie, what happened?" She sat down in the chair adjacent to the couch.

"Did you and Amy have a fight?" Penny asked only to be rewarded with Sheldon's sobs. After a few minutes Sheldon picked his head up off the couch and looked at Penny, his eyes red and puffy.

"She left Penny. She broke up with me. She's not coming back." He said, nearly hyperventilating.

"What happened?" Penny was truly worried, she had seen Sheldon in nearly every state of crazy, this was different.

"She…She said I am not trying to work on my physical affection." He paused for a beat. "She asked me if…I loved her."

"And what did you say?" Penny knew the answer based on the scene that had just unfolded.

"I told her no."

"Oh Sheldon!" Penny pressed her palms to her face. "Does everything have to be spelled out for you? You love Amy."

"How do you know?! You didn't even graduate college!" Sheldon screamed.

"Sheldon, I think I have more experience in relationships than you do. Based on your reaction to her breaking up with you, I would say that you love her, sweetie."

"Really? How do you know?" Sheldon sat up wiping his eyes.

"Well, let me ask you, when Amy isn't here, do you think about her?"

"Yes. I worry about her all the time. We had an agreement to text each other every two hours to ensure each other's safety."

Okay, that's a little much. Next question, can you picture your life without her?"

Sheldon started to sob again. "No, I can't. I need her."

"Sweetie, that's because you're in love with her." Penny rested her hand on his knee. "Come on, let's go to her apartment so you guys can work this out. I'll go get dressed, you go get yourself together."

"Okay." He replied softly and headed to the bathroom.


"Sheldon, sweetie, let's go. "

"Penny, what if she doesn't take me back? What am I going to do?"

"She'll take you back, she is my best friend, I know she will." Penny soothed.

"Okay, then let's go." Sheldon breathed heavily as they headed down the stairs.

Penny pulled out on to Los Robles, noticing traffic was heavy. "That's odd, it's nearly eight, what's all this traffic about?"

"It is rather strange." Sheldon concurred.

Penny rolled down her window and stuck her head out to see what was going on. A mile or so down the road she could see the blinking lights of emergency vehicles.

"There must be an accident. There is an ambulance, two firetrucks, and a bunch of police cars."

As traffic crept at an agonizingly slow crawl, Sheldon was growing wildly impatient. They were finally approaching the accident, Sheldon sighed thanking a deity he didn't believe in, that they would resume normal speed. He looked at the scene that held them up an extra fifteen minutes and for the second time that night, his heart nearly stopped.

That was Amy's car.