"The entrance to the dungeon is blocked by the rocks, but you manage to open it, only when you enter you run into a dragon" Sheldon looked up from his notebook to observe Howard-What are you doing? "
"Well, I suppose I could try to take the sword that I found in the corner of the dungeon and... "
"Leonard," Penny yelled from the hall, "I'm craving. Can you buy me a burger and honey fries?"
"First of all, you promised you wouldn't interrupt our game," Sheldon told her when the woman stood next to her husband "And secondly, fries with honey sounds disgusting.
"It's not my fault" she pointed to her bulging belly "I just fulfill the wishes of this little one."
"Do you want something else?" Leonard asked as he stood up. He touched the back pocket of his pants and realized that he didn't have his wallet "I'm going to our room. "
"We're in the middle of an important game," Sheldon complained.
"Yes and my pregnant wife has a craving. "
"And is it more important to fulfill her craving than to continue playing? "
"Exactly. "
"And is it necessary for you to be the one who is going to buy the food? "
"I don't care who is going, as long as I get my burger and the honey fries," Penny said.
"Excellent" Sheldon searched in his wallet and took out a credit card and a paper with a number on it "Call that place and ask for whatever you want. "
"Really?" Penny smiled excitedly when she saw her friend nod.
"Just don't interrupt our game again. "
"Very good." Penny returned to her room still smiling.
"This is going to cost you dearly," Raj commented once Penny disappeared.
"What do you mean?" Sheldon asked without understanding.
"At this moment she is probably ordering a lot of clothes for the baby that she will pay with your credit card," Howard answered.
"She wouldn't do that. "
"I'm sure she is doing it right now" Raj was thoughtful for a few seconds "I'll send her a message asking for something for me. "
"Very funny" Sheldon rolled his eyes "But please focus on the important, we have to keep playing. Howard was about to face a dragon. "
"Yes, as I was saying, I try to grab the sword and… "they heard the noise of a ringing cellphone so Howard stopped what he was saying.
"Now what?" Sheldon was beginning to get annoyed. The others took out their cell phones, but they kept hearing a cell phone ringing.
"I think it's you, buddy," Leonard told him.
"Oh… " Sheldon took out his cell phone and saw that it was a video call from his wife "Hi Amy. "
"Hi dear," she said smiling "Are you busy? Because I wanted to tell you that I couldn't stop thinking about what you told me in the morning and ... "
"I'm at Leonard's house," he raised his voice a little and his friends looked at him curiously.
"Oh, yes. I just remembered that you told me that you were going to our neighbors' house to play Dungeons and Dragons. "
"That's right," he noticed his wife's gaze change "Is something wrong? "
"No, what happens is that ... I can go back to Pasadena today and I wanted to go out with you to a new cafe that I saw that they opened recently, but we can go another day. "
"No, we can go today," he assured her. "We were already finishing the game." His friends began to protest but he warned them to keep quiet.
"Really?" He saw his wife's eyes light up.
"Of course. "
"Great! I'll text you the location of the cafeteria. See you in a couple of hours. "
"Very well. I love you. "
"I love you, too" Amy blew him a kiss and a second later she hung up the call.
"What happened to the "we are going to play without letting anything or anyone interrupt us" that we agreed on yesterday? "
"You were going to interrupt the game because of your wife's whims. "
"I was only going to leave for half an hour and I was going to come back, you are completely abandoning us. "
"Is different. "
"How? "
"You were with Penny all morning. I haven't seen Amy in five days… and I miss her. "
"That's so cute," Rajesh said.
"Surely he wants to have sex with her "Howard commented amusedly when he saw the expression of his friend.
"That's not ... I just ... "
"Oh yeah, he definitely wants to have sex," Leonard confirmed. "You must have seen his face when we saw Amy's lecture last night."
"I just thought that Amy responded appropriately to the questions of the horrible Dr. Drusso'" He stood up annoyed.
"Are you really going to leave us? "
Yes, and it is none of your business whether or not I have coitus with my wife when she returns.
"Okay, but you realize that if you leave, we will tease you to death" Sheldon seemed to hesitate for a few seconds.
"It doesn't matter what lower minds like you think of me. "
He opened the door and left the apartment. A few seconds he stuck his head out the door and looked at Leonard.
"Ah, and please tell your wife to give me my credit card back. And if she made a charge other than food, you'll pay for it" he slammed the door and went to his apartment.
"And I thought that when he gave that beautiful speech and apologized to us he would stop insulting us" Leonard took a hand to his chest feigning pain at the words of his friend.
" I know Sheldon and Amy have been having sex for several years now, but it still amazes me that Sheldon can quit a D&D game to have sex.
"It's the kind of thing you'd expect from me, not from him," Howard commented amused "And that's exactly the reason that he never going to listen to the end of this."
Sheldon entered his room somewhat annoyed by the comments of his friends. He knew Leonard was serious when he warned him that he would be continually harassed.
But if everything went well and he carried out the idea that he had after seeing Amy's lecture it would all be worth it, he thought as he smiled.
Suddenly he wondered. At what point did he become someone who would do anything to make his wife happy? He sometimes surprised him how Amy could convince him to do things that she wanted simply by smiling at him. But the truth was that even though he feigned annoyance by doing certain things, he immensely enjoyed seeing her smile.
He had just gotten out of the shower when he received a message from Amy with the address of the cafeteria and saying that she would see him there and that she had a surprise for him.
For the next few minutes, he was wondering what might be the surprise that his wife had for him. Perhaps she had gotten the limited edition train that he had been trying to buy for months, which increased his desire to see his wife.
Part of him wanted to send her a message and ask her to come directly to the apartment, but he knew that the moment he saw her come in, he would not want to leave her and he doubted they would leave the room and for some reason that he did not know, she seemed very eager to go to that new cafeteria, so that would be what he would do.
Leaving the building, Sheldon walked to where his car was parked. After so many years of refusing to drive, he had had no choice but to use some of the money they were given for winning the Nobel Prize to buy a car.
Amy constantly had to travel to different parts of the country to give lectures and on occasions, she would go in her car while he stayed in Pasadena. At first, Leonard took him everywhere, but due to Penny's pregnancy, his friend was no longer available to take him everywhere as before.
At first, that bothered him, but after a conversation with his wife, he understood that Penny and the baby were Leonard's priority and that it did not mean that Leonard was a bad friend.
Minutes later the map indicated that he had reached his destination. He looked for a place to park and was glad there was a space near the cafeteria.
When he got out of his car, he noticed the car in front of him and realized it was his wife's. He smiled imagining that she was already waiting for him in the cafeteria.
He walked to the cafeteria door and tried to open it but he couldn't. He frowned as he took out his cell phone to confirm that he was in the right place. After confirming that this was indeed the place and he checked the cafeteria page for the schedule and apparently it was three hours before closing, so he did not understand what was happening.
A couple of minutes later he finally managed to open the door of the place.
"I hope the attention and the drinks are excellent or they will only get a star and an unpleasant comment from me on Yelp," he muttered to himself.
He scanned the place to find her wife, but he didn't see her anywhere. In fact, the place seemed to be completely empty.
He was about to leave when he noticed that on one side of the cafeteria there was a couple dancing. He watched them closely for a few seconds and was surprised to see how well they danced.
Before Amy, he thought Salsa dancing was something he wouldn't do, there was too much touching. Which seemed gross and unnecessary, but now… maybe he should suggest to Amy that they go to a ballroom for their next date.
The couple finished their dance. The woman had one hand resting on the shoulder and the other on the man's chest, while he held her tightly by the waist with one hand, and with the other he held her leg under her skirt.
Sheldon felt that he was interrupting an intimate moment between the couple so he decided to leave, but just at that moment, the man realized his presence so he separated a little from the woman who had her back to him, adjusting her clothes.
"Hi, the cafe is closed. But if you want something I suppose we can prepare it for you" said the stranger with kindness.
Sheldon thought about complaining about the place being closed when his website indicated that it was still three hours away to close, but changed his mind.
"No, I was just looking for someone whom I thought was here. "
"Maybe that person was here earlier," he commented. "We closed about half an hour ago. "
"She told me that we would meet me here, but maybe ... " the woman turned around and what he saw left him cold "Amy... "
"Hi," she smiled trying to look relaxed. But after so many years with her, Sheldon knew how to recognize each of her expressions and what he saw in Amy's eyes was a clear sign of desire. She clearly had enjoyed being in the arms of that man "Do you want a coffee?"
"I… What are you doing here?" The stranger man and she looked at each other for a second.
"He offered to help me practice salsa and…" The way she smiled at the man made him feel sick. He couldn't stay another second in that place "Wait!" His wife yelled.
He doesn't hear if she said anything else because he ran out of the place. In an instant, he was inside his car and he was driving away as fast as he could and hoping that Amy wouldn't follow him.
He did not know who that man was, nor how Amy knew him or why she was dancing with him, nor did he know if something else had already happened between them or not, but after what he saw in the cafeteria he was completely sure that his wife wanted to be with that man.
And Sheldon knew he couldn't handle that.
