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A/N: I hope everyone had a pleasant Thanksgiving and Fall break. I just want to say one thing- BLACK FRIDAYS SUCK. I had to be one of those unfortunate cashiers that worked THURSDAY night and FRIDAY morning. And people were rude, pushy, and downright ugly to one another over saving an extra 40% off of boots and electronics. Don't be a part of the problem people, be nice. And for those out there who don't have to worry about BLACK FRIDAY you are so lucky.

Okay I'm off my soapbox, enjoy this next chapter

Invitation

"Um, Sheldon could you…" Angela stood with her back to Sheldon pulling her red hair to one side so that he could unzip her wedding dress.

"Oh, ok," he stood nervously but stretched his fingers a few times to keep them from shaking as he pulled down the zipper.

They had been settling into the room that they were staying in for the duration of their honeymoon. He had managed to stick to tradition as much as possible and carried Angela over the threshold for good luck, but once inside the room they both came down with a case of the nerves.

They busied themselves by putting away luggage and Sheldon went about checking for cleanliness. But now it was all put away and the bathroom cleared his checklist and he still found himself overcome with anxiety.

Angela turned around to face him, wrapping her arms around his shoulders, "are you ok?"

He noticed that she was also shaking a bit, "are you?"

"I'm a little nervous; we've never done this before."

He nodded his head, "…um should we do something to prepare? Light aromatherapy candles? Stretch? I hear that the locals use…"

Angela started giggling and placed her head down on his shoulder, stopping him from explaining a tradition he read about on the internet.

"What's so funny? I was serious."

"I know, I know you're serious, that's what's funny."

"I'm glad I amuse you."

"I'm sorry, ….sorry. It's just if we were like any other teenage couple they would probably have already torn each other's clothes off as soon as they opened the door."

He couldn't help but pull back from her a little. Being two of the youngest students at a college and not to mention his own lack of social understanding, he knew that Angela sometimes wished that they could interact like other couples around campus, complete with makeout sessions in the stacks and college parties on the weekends, "Does that bother you that we're not like other couples?"

She shook her head frantically, "no, that's not what I meant. I like that we're different, everything is new to us, and you light up like a little kid when you plan new things for us to do."

"I'm not a little kid."

"Uh sorry, that's not what I meant either." She stood up on her tip-toes and pecked him on the lips in apology. "We are not like other couples, we're special." Sheldon tilted his head and waited for her to finish, "I know what I want and that's you," she caught his eyes and waited, "and you want me too right?"

"We're married aren't we, so of course I do …more than anything."

She sighed in relief, "good, for a second there I thought you only wanted me for my abnormal brain for testing," she giggled at the confused look on his face, "I'm kidding."

She kissed him to get the scowl off his face as he wrapped his arms around her waist. "Do you remember how long it took us to begin kissing after we started holding hands? You tried to put specific protocols in place, no lip-gloss, no French kissing until after a dental exam, only when greeting or leaving. And don't forget that crazy time-table you tried to put us on."

Sheldon shook his head; she got rid of it as soon as she read through it, "I never forget. You ignored them all. If we would have kept the time-table, coitus wouldn't have been addressed until 2004, after our yearly discussion about the state of the relationship."

"Oh, God! See, that's what I mean, you make contracts for us and timetables, even though I ex- nayed that one, but we go about things differently, well except for this, this was just awesomely spontaneous," she smiled up at him. "This is really out of character for you and nothing like the time that you set up our study schedule which included everything from bathroom breaks to reading algorithms. And not to mention the calendar of events pertaining to our anniversaries and the cross-checking of exam dates…" She giggled a little more, "What I mean is …sometimes we think too much, being geniuses we tend make things harder than they should be. This is a relationship; we don't have to cure cancer."

"We have no medical degrees between up, what does curing cancer have to do wi…" she stopped him with a kiss.

"Sorry bad expression, what I meant was we over complicate things we should 'go with the flo', I mean, just let it happen, you know," she tilted her head.

He had always thought that his planning actually made things easier, kept them from making decisions on a whim, or leaving things to the last minute, which was a bad study habit of hers. But she did always seem to make things fun when they were veering off schedule.

He bent a little wrapping his arms around her tighter, lifting her as she giggled into his shoulder for just a moment as he finally began to relax. She was right, they were special, she was patient with him like no one else besides his grandmother and she was fun and warm. He should let the natural course take over.

He nestled his nose into the crook of her shoulder and neck and took a deep breath.

They stayed that way holding each other in silence.

"Sheldon, …I love you, you know," she whispered into his shoulder.

He wanted her, he cared for her, but was having a hard time turning that into words, what could he say that would explain it all, how much he needed her, he hesitated a second too long, and Angela continued, "You don't have to say it back, I know you do, but …I just needed to say it out loud."

He nuzzled her neck and left soft pecks down her shoulder until he reached the straps to her dress. It interrupted his trail and was in the way. He wanted that offending strap gone so that he could continue. Gently he reached up from her back taking note of the prickled flesh around her neck and slid it from her shoulder, dropping another kiss on the creamy exposed skin.

He looked up into her jewel eyes and found nothing but warmth and unconditional love staring back at him. It was Angela that finally pulled him down for a firm kiss that was now free from nerves on both their parts.

"Hey Sheldon, so did Penny help you out with your problem last night?" Leonard asked as he finished building his turkey wrap in the university cafeteria. He looked up at Sheldon waiting but all he got was a glazed look as Sheldon stirred the pudding in his cup.

Howard snickered as he watched Sheldon, "he seems to be in La La land," he raised his hand up and waving in front of him. Nothing. He shrugged his shoulders before turning back to Raj and their discussion about the upcoming double date to Lego Land he wanted to go on with him and Amy.

Leonard watched as Sheldon's face twitched a smile every few seconds as if he was thinking of something rather pleasant. "Hey!"

Sheldon jumped dropping his spoon and his pudding cup, "What?! Good lord man was it necessary to make me drop my pudding cup, it was the last one Leonard?"

Ignoring his questions Leonard squinted, "where were you just now? I asked you a question and you seem to be day-dreaming."

"I know what it is," Raj interjected, "he's been sneaking smiles all morning, he's got that 'new relationship' look."

He nudged Howard with his elbow and then began to sing-song, "Sheldon and Penny sitting in a tree…" then Howard decided to join in, "K-I-S-S-I-N-G." The two egged Sheldon on by making kissy faces while they laughed, only pulling apart when they realized that their lips were inches apart from each other.

Leonard made a face before shaking his head trying to ignore Sheldon's blush.

"What I do with Penny, no matter the location even in the precarious branches of a tree, is none of your business."

"Ah, but you don't object to the notion that there is business between the two of you, even the type of business that may be had in said tree resulting in marriage and then a baaaaeeeebyyyy carriage," Howard leered at him, while Raj was sitting forward hoping for some juicy gossip to tell Amy.

"Like I said, none of your business, but if you must know I was having an unscheduled flashback," he tried to ignore their shocked looks.

"You schedule your flashbacks?" Leonard squinted.

"When one has an eidetic memory, one must make time or they will interfere at random moments, although that one was scheduled for 2:00 but popped up anyway like a jack-in-the-box."

"Do you put them on your calendar? 'Ah yes I can schedule our department meeting in between my 2:00 flashback and 3:30 nap time," Howard giggled.

"Don't be absurd, if I wanted a nap I'd do it at home," he shook his head. He went back to finishing his dessert when he heard his phone begin to ring. He looked down at the screen. He sighed before answering, "Hello Jr."

"So, did'ja get it in?!" his brother shouted through the phone loud enough to get the attention of the others at the table, two of which were now leaning forward trying to hear the rest of the conversation.

"In? Get what in? Into where, what are you asking me? Is this is some kind of new slang used by urban youth? I'm unfamiliar."

"Seriously, Sheldon, what happened last night wit' yer girl? Did'ja?"

Howard and Raj eyes bugged and tried to get closer to the phone, "Jr. that is not something I want to discuss right now," he tried to cup the phone with his hand to dissuade the others from listening in and hopefully leaving his personal space. He looked back at his friends and smiled sharply before turning his back to them.

"Alright alright, fine. But get your gurl flowers, they like that shit. Oh and Missy wants to know if you plan on bringin' my niece here sometime soon so we can meet'er, cuz momma was parading some pictures around town and now everyone is dyin' to see her for themselves, most of them trust Momma but well, there wondering if she's real."

"I haven't planned that far into the future, but I will see if that would be something that she would like. I've got to go, bye."

He put his phone back into his side pocket trying to ignore the knowing grins on Howard and Raj's faces, and the scowl on Leonard's.

Penny was smiling and humming California Girl to herself as she lifted one piece of clothing after another, looking it over to see if it's clean or not. She tossed a pair of shorts onto her bed (clean) and then a pair of socks into the basket (dirty).

She found the hoodie she was wearing last night that she tossed across the room and she started giggling.

God she was acting like a little girl. She shook her head and put it on the bed.

That morning she heard Sheldon as he was leaving and was too tired to wake up more than just to give a sleepy smile in his general direction as he kissed her on the cheek goodbye. It was all so…normal.

She shrugged her shoulders at herself. Why did she expect him to do something weird, like Lysol the room, or was she expecting him to leave and scrub the night away?

Kinda…yeah.

After cleaning up she made her way to work and tried to keep her mind from replaying all the good parts of her night. And keeping the too-happy-smile off her face was just too much work. She managed to screw up only two drink orders during her shift.

When she got back home late that night, too late to go see Sheldon, she was all too surprised to see a small vase with a few spring flowers sitting on her counter with a small note with a kitten drawn on it.

Lee Ann was leaving school and was waiting for Joe to pick her up when she noticed the Jag coming up the parking lot instead. She wasn't expecting her grandfather to pick her up. After last night she was expecting him to make himself scarce for a while.

Was there a scheduled parent/teacher meeting she didn't know about? Was he going to make a big fuss about what she did the day before? She didn't have time to think about what else it could have been to cause him to come to the school before he pulled up in front of her and motioned for her to get in.

"Hi," she got in on the passenger side and tried to put a smile on her face but it turned out to be more of a confused leer, "did I forget about an appointment or something? Do we have a meeting with my teachers?"

"No, no I uh …just felt like picking you up from school," Robert put the car in gear and took the long way home. "So …how was school?"

"It was fine, I guess," Lee Ann muttered. After last night's talk their seemed to be some tension in the air between them.

"Good."

They drove in silence for a while until Lee Ann asked the question she knew would get him talking. "You remember the stuff we were talking about last night at dinner, well i was just thinking, do you think I could see my dad sometime this week?" She heard him take in a deep breath, she wasn't sure if that was a good sign, "just for a little bit. I uh, just want to um…"

"Ok."

She wasn't sure if she heard him right she turned down his blues music he was playing, "did you just say ok?"

"Yes, I'm not quite as evil as you may think me. You may invite him over…tomorrow …at our home." Robert cleared his throat, that was hard for him to say, but he couldn't alienate her more, she was so much like Angela, he didn't want to drive her away, but he could still set some parameters on his terms.

Lee Ann didn't know if this was a test of her character or not, "how long can he stay?"

"How long do you want him there?"

"Can he stay through dinner and then a movie?"

The idea of sitting through a whole meal what that…boy was testing his nerves, he was about to say no, that an hour, hour and a half, would be more than enough time. He stopped at a red light and made the mistake of turning his head to look at her.

"Please," Lee Ann pleaded. He didn't always fall for that, knowing too well how she worked but she laid the puppy dog eyes on thick with an extra helping of pouty lips for good measure.

He almost wanted to laugh at how much like her mother she could be, then sighed, "Dinner and dessert and that's it," he would take his dessert with him to his office.

Lee Ann could hardly contain herself, she shrieked with joy and attempted to hug him if it weren't for the seatbelt. She unbuckled herself and lunged at him, "Thankyouthankyouthankyou!"

He was caught off guard but patted her on the back and shook his head. It wasn't until the car behind him blew their horn that he realized that the light had turned, and she sat back down and he was able to drive them home.

As soon as they got home she ran up the stairs to her room only giving a drive-by hello to Mrs. Patterson. Throwing her bag and pack by her bed she sat down and called her dad.

He picked up after a few rings, "Hello Lee Ann."

"Hey Dad, guess what?" she was so excited.

"The TARDIS landed in the school cafeteria and you went on a crazy adventure with The Doctor and are now back to invite me to join you to help solve a tear in the space time continuum," her dad deadpanned.

"Pssshhhh I wish, but no. I can see you tomorrow!"

"Oh really, is Joe bringing you by?"

Nope, Grandfather said that you can come over here and have dinner with us. It's going to be so awesome, I can show you my room and science fair awards and UIL medals and we can talk and share stories and have dessert. It's going to be so cool!" Lee Ann was practically vibrating with excitement, "oh and Dad bring Penny I want to show her my room too. We are going to have so much fun. I'll text you the address and dinner time and menu so that you and Penny will be prepared."

"…um Ok."

"Don't worry Dad it will be fine, he said it would be ok, so it will be." She started telling him quickly about her day at school and didn't think twice about the short one worded answers she was getting back from her dad. She just figured he was too excited himself.

"Ok Dad I have to go downstairs to dinner, I'll text you later ok."

Sheldon took in a deep breath, "ok, goodnight Darlin'."

"Goodnight Dad."

Sheldon hung up the phone and set it down next to him on the bed, "oh good grief."

A/N: alright a dinner with the grandfather. Hmmm will this be good or bad? I don't know yet it could go either way.

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