"Wow!" Penny and Amy said in unison. Bernadette looked beautiful in her gown.

"So you like it."

"You look beautiful Bernadette" Penny replied. Despite her own shambled love life, Penny was truly happy to see Bernadette so full of joy.

"Lovely Bernadette like a vestal virgin, despite the obvious irony."

"...thank you? Now it's your turn. I hope you like the dresses." Bernadette said full of excitement. Penny and Amy shared a look of trepidation. Bernadette had chosen to surprise the girls with their bridesmaid dress and both feared the worst.

"I imagine that you are afraid Penny," Amy said "that the tradition of unflattering bridesmaid dresses is going to make you appear less attractive to Leonard"

"Kind of" Penny replied "but I don't think it really matters anyway. Priya is going to be there. I won't even be able to talk to him after the ceremony thanks to her."

"Oh unrequited love" sighed Amy as she entered the dressing room,"We are, as the saying goes, in the same boat."

Penny was shocked to find Amy empathizing with her. "What do you mean, 'in the same boat?'"

"Maybe I've used the idiom incorrectly" Amy said as she began to put her lavendar dress on."What I mean is that your unrequited love for Leonard is similar to my unrequited feeling for Sheldon"

"What?" Penny said sticking her head out of the changing room puzzled and shocked.

Amy, surrounded by purple taffeta, stepped out of the dressing room "I assume by your look of disbelief that you are surprised by my statement. I also detect a sense of shock at my confession that Sheldon is, as they say, the object of my affection"

"Uh-huh."

"Yes! I'm on a roll." Amy replied.

Penny returned to her dressing room still trying to understand Amy. "So when did this start or more importantly why?"

"Well let me think. I believe I was assured of my romantic attachment to Sheldon when I tried to hold his hand; the feeling was pleasant and gave a sense of giddy happiness that I'd never experienced unfortunately all he displayed was discomfort. It was only after I kissed him that I was sure my feelings were not reciprocated."

"Bernadette!" Penny called not knowing what to say.

"What's wrong," Bernadette said approaching her bridesmaids "Don't you like the dresses?"

."No, no, Bernadette, their lovely," Penny said trying to smile as she straightened a large lavendar bow.

"You won't believe what Amy just said."

"What did you say?"

"She has feelings for Sheldon!" Penny replied for Amy.

"She, what?"

"She even kissed him!"

Bernadette sat down dumbfounded. "I can't believe it," Both women were shocked that anyone could see Sheldon that way. He was so strange, so uptight, so peculiar, so Sheldon.

"I don't understand why you are both so shocked. Sheldon has many qualities that would make him a suitable mate. He is intellegent, he shares my love of science and board games, he excells at so many things, and when I least expect it he can be very considerate" Amy said "and besides he is an attractive man ."

"What..um.. wow" Bernadette said in disbelief, "I can see that...I guess.

'Honey, I get that you would like him but.. are sure he doesn't like you ?" Penny knew the answer before Amy said anything. It was hard to believe that Sheldon was capable of romantic feelings.

"I assure you he doesn't " Amy said. "When we kissed I believe he was uncomfortable. When I spoke to him the next day I claimed to have forgotten everything in order to avoid further embarassment. He suggested we reboot our relationship to the point when it last "functioned", I knew then that there was no possibility that my feelings were reciprocated."

"Oh, Amy!" the girls said in unison as they hugged their friend.