Hi there! First of all, I want to thank everyone who commented and read the first chapter. I'm glad you like the story.
And now I want to thank my dear friend Emily who helped me write a part of this chapter and for the idea of something that also happens in this chapter.
By the way, there will only be about 8 chapters (maybe more) and I already have 5 written so I will be updating every Monday and Thursday.
The drive home was a blur. Usually, Sheldon stuck to the speed limits like glue and drove extremely cautiously, but this was no ordinary journey. The road leaving the cafe had a 30mph speed limit, and Sheldon's speedometer was nearing the 50 mark, but he didn't care. Rage had penetrated every fiber of his being: rules didn't matter anymore. He just wanted to get away from that place as fast as possible. Weaving through parked cars and jerking the steering wheel at corners, he seemed to have lost all focus. He passed countless houses and pedestrians at lightning speed, he was The Flash and nothing was stopping him.
Until it did. With seemingly no warning, a queue of cars accumulated in front of him, making Sheldon stamp on the brakes. As the car jolted to an abrupt stop, Sheldon thumped his fist on the steering wheel three times. "Why, why, WHY?" he exclaimed with each fist pound. While his world had come to an abrupt stop that evening, the city around was bustling with life. The sound of music and conversation filled the atmosphere.
People everywhere, merrily strolling the streets, couples in love holding hands. In each of these couples, he only saw his wife and the man who had stolen her from him. The look in their eyes was the very same look Amy had at the cafe - the deep, passionate gaze that was meant for him and him only. The look of unmistakable love. Sheldon's brain, usually providing answers to every problem, could only generate questions this time. Did Amy love that man? Does she no longer love him? What did he do to deserve this? While he had been disappointed by people in the past, nothing compared to the way he felt now. Betrayed by the woman he truly loved.
The rage that engulfed him turned into hurt. He had done everything he could to make his wife happy - he had even relaxed the Bathroom Schedule and modified the Marriage Contract to suit her. This is how she chooses to repay him? Sheldon knew he didn't always understand people, but he knew that this was not how to treat the person you love. Since that first meeting on the blind date, they had always just clicked. Sheldon knew that Amy was the only person he wanted to be with - he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her and there was no doubt about it. He had imagined them growing old together, cheering each other on in their careers, their successes, their happiness. He thought maybe Amy no longer felt the same way about him. Maybe her needs were being met by someone else. Maybe this man was giving her something he couldn't. Maybe Sheldon just wasn't what she wanted anymore. The very thought crushed his soul into a million pieces.
A couple of minutes later he found himself running up the stairs to go up to his apartment. Halfway through he remembered that the elevator had been working for months again. It struck him as ironic to think that the day he discovered that the elevator was working again, he felt as if his whole life was falling apart due to all the changes they were presenting, but none of that compared to what he was feeling in that moment.
He reached into his pants pocket to get his key and unlock the apartment door. Only he didn't find anything. He tried to think of when he might have lost the key, but he couldn't think of anything but Amy… and what she might be doing right now with that man.
He suddenly felt so furious as never in his life that he started pounding on the door, waiting for it to open. But it was useless, the door remained closed and the only thing he did was hurt his right hand. A tear spilled from his eye as he held onto his injured hand.
"What the hell is going on?" Asked a voice behind him. He turned around and saw Penny watching him annoyed. Sheldon collapsed against the door of his apartment and the expression on Penny's face immediately changed. "Oh honey, are you okay?"
"No, I'm not." Penny approached him and took his hand to help him stand up. "You're bleeding!"
"Yeah, I… maybe I knocked on the door to try to open it," Sheldon said without looking at her.
"What happened to your keys? "
"I don't know; I think I lost them. "
"And why didn't you come to the apartment and ask for the spare key we have here? "
"I didn't think about it," he answered. Penny walked over to the refrigerator and pulled a bag of ice out of it.
She returned to where her friend was. She took his hand to place the ice pack on his wound and stared at him.
"Sheldon, what is happening? " He did not answer "Leonard told me that you left him and the others because you had plans with Amy" upon hearing the name of his wife he couldn't help looking away "Honey ... something between you and Amy?
"She is... I think she's in love with another man. "
"That one is good" Penny teased, "But I'm not going to fall into that trap. Now tell me the truth. "
"That…" Sheldon took a deep breath "That's the truth. "
Sheldon told her everything. How Amy called him to tell him that she would be back sooner, how she seemed so excited to meet in that cafeteria and how she was dancing happily in the arms of another man.
"Okay… I know you don't like to talk about your sex life, but… Amy told me what you said on your honeymoon. That you had organized a schedule to have sex with her because you were afraid of forgetting it and that she would leave you for another man. "
"Which was exactly what happened," Sheldon said, looking down.
"Amy is not going to leave you for another man," her friend assured him.
"You didn't see what I saw ... The way Amy looked at that man ... " Penny wanted to say something else, but Sheldon kept talking "Do you remember that after getting off the podium when we won the Nobel prize, you said it seemed as if Amy and I were having eye coitus? "She nodded." I made fun of that for how ridiculous it sounded. It is physically impossible to have eye ... "
"I know, Sheldon," Penny interrupted him. "It was a way of saying that, by the way you looked at each other we knew you would end up having sex that night."
"Well…" Sheldon swallowed hard. "That's exactly what I saw in Amy's eyes today."
"I'm sure you are misinterpreting everything and what you saw simply ... "
"I know exactly what I saw," he answered, increasingly upset.
"Okay," she squeezed his hand to try to calm him down. "Tell me something. When was the last time you and Amy had sex?"
Sheldon blushed slightly. "I don't understand what that has to do with what I just told you."
"It has a lot to do with it. "
"Fine. Amy and I had coitus the morning she left to San Diego… and I was planning to have coitus with her tonight. "
"You see! Why would Amy cheat on you when you and she had been having sex more frequently than I thought?"
"I don't know, maybe ... "Sheldon opened his eyes in horror "Maybe she already felt something for him before. "
"That's absurd! If Amy wanted to have something with that man, then why did she told you that she was coming back to Pasadena earlier when she could have spent the night with him and you would not have found out? " Sheldon paled at the thought that at that moment Amy was in bed with that man.
He suddenly felt sick and ran to the bathroom. Penny yelled something at him but didn't hear what she said before closing the door.
Penny knew she should follow him so she stood up when she heard her phone ringing. She thought about ignoring the call but changed her mind when she realized who it was that was calling her.
"Hi, Bestie," said Penny trying to speak naturally "What's going on? "
"Hello. Do you know where Sheldon is? "Amy sounded concerned." We were supposed to meet at a cafe half an hour ago, but he hasn't shown up here. "Penny frowned at that." I've been calling him several times and he didn't answer any of my calls and ... I'm worried something's happened to him. "
"He's here in the apartment," Penny replied, not knowing what else to say.
"Then why does he not answer my calls? " it only heard silence "Penny, what's going on? "
"Sheldon felt a little bad and ... he has been locked in the bathroom for several minutes" she said a few seconds later.
"Oh ..." she heard Amy sigh somewhat relieved "It makes sense that he didn't answer, but it's nothing serious, right?"
"No. "
"Very good. I'll stop by to buy some things to help him feel better. Can you accompany him while I arrive? "
"Yes, don't worry. I'll take care. "
"Thank you, Penny. You're the best."
The woman hung up the call even more confused than she already was. Why had Sheldon told her that he had seen Amy with another man and why did Amy say that she didn't know anything about Sheldon? From what his friend told her, Amy had seen him in the cafeteria. So Amy was pretending she didn't know about Sheldon?
Just then the door to her apartment opened and her husband entered through it.
"I had to go to three stores, but I finally found the nuts you want," Leonard said, smiling with pride.
"Good that you are here" Penny dragged him to the bathroom. She stopped by the door and
stuck her ear to the door to try to hear something.
"What are you doing?" Leonard asked confused.
"I'll explain later." Penny opened the bathroom door and Leonard saw his best friend asleep on the floor. "Help me take him to his old room."
As best he could, Leonard holds Sheldon. He stuck his head below his shoulders and with difficulty lifted him off the ground.
They watched him for a couple of minutes while he slept until Penny waved him out of the room.
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Amy smiled when the elevator door opened. She walked with a bit of difficulty while she held all the bags with food and things that she had bought to try to make her husband feel better.
She put the key in the lock and turned it. She left all the things on the sofa and didn't see any sign of Sheldon so she imagined he might have been asleep in their room, but when she entered she saw the bed empty and perfectly arranged.
She figured maybe he was across the hall so she walked over there. She poked her head around the door and saw that Penny and Leonard seemed very concerned talking about something she couldn't quite hear, but when they saw her they fell silent immediately.
"Ames!" Her best friend stood up as fast as her big belly allowed and went to where she was standing to hug her.
"Hi Amy," Leonard greeted with a smile that seemed a bit forced. And he wondered if her husband's health was worse than Penny had led him to believe.
"Where's Sheldon?" They both turned to see each other and it was Leonard who finally spoke.
"He's sleeping in his old room. "
"Well, I'll go see him. "
"Yes, of course. "
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Sheldon stirred slightly on the bed and when he opened his eyes he found himself in the back of a cab pressed between Amy and Penny heading to a ballroom.
He tried to think of a way to avoid being forced to dance, but despite his brilliant mind, no idea occurred to him.
"So who are you going to dance with?" Bernadette asked, trying to keep her balance once they were in the ballroom.
He looked around and noticed the couples already dancing and the disgusting way they were touching. There was no way he would allow someone to touch him with their dirty hands that could have been touching all kind of disgusting things.
"I don't want to do this," he tried to run out the door, but Penny's strong arms stopped him.
"You're not going anywhere until you dance with at least one of us. "
"Okay," he complained as he wasn't ready to fight against the strong woman from Nebraska. She looked at Amy that she seemed to be less drunk than the others.
"Do you want to dance with me?" he asked her as he extended his hand, she quickly took it and they walked to the dance floor "Can you dance?"
"Like you, I'm also an excellent dancer." Sheldon raised his eyebrow in surprise at the information. "My mother took me to dance classes when I was little. By the way, what are you waiting to place your hand on my waist? "
"Oh, that's right." Sheldon placed a hand on Amy's waist and they began to dance. When the music stopped he saw Amy try to walk to where the girls were, but he took her by the
hand to stop her "That wasn't so bad… And if you like we could dance one more time.
"Yes" she smiled slightly "I would like that."
He took Amy by the waist again and everything went blurry.
When everything cleared up, he noticed that they were on the roof of his building at the prom the girls had organized.
Only Leonard, Penny, and Amy were left, who had offered to help clean everything. After several minutes of cleaning, the roof was back to normal.
"Well, my work here is done. I think I'll go to sleep" said Penny looking at Leonard who nodded slightly.
"Yes. Me too" he faked a yawn "I feel a little tired."
"I'm surprised everyone left so early," Sheldon commented once they were alone, "I thought they'd force me to stay up late."
"Possibly because everyone wanted to have coitus," she said.
"Oh… you… are you expecting us to have coitus?" Sheldon asked nervously.
"I told you earlier. I want to have coitus with you, but only when you want it" she took him by the hand -"I don't want you to feel pressured."
"Thank you for understanding. "
"We'd better go downstairs" Amy turned around, but her boyfriend didn't let go of her hand
"Is something wrong?"
"I was thinking we only danced once tonight and… the last time we danced together was twice so…" He shrugged, feigning indifference.
"I would love to, but there is no music."
"That's easily fixed" he took his cell phone out of her pants pocket and chose a song "Amy, would you do me the honor of dancing with me?"
"Always," she answered with a smile after taking her hand.
The scene changed again. Now they were surrounded by family and friends. Everyone was very happy while hugging and congratulating them.
"I suppose you regret not having secretly married us, right? " Amy whispered to her now-husband after Barry Kripke insisted on hugging him and inadvertently staining her suit.
"Well…"
"And now it's time for the happy couple to have their first dance as husband and wife" announced Raj who was the master of ceremony.
The guests began to applaud as they saw Sheldon take Amy's hand to lead her to the center of the floor.
They had been dancing for a couple of minutes without stopping looking at each other with a smile on his lips when Sheldon spoke- Responding to what you asked me, about if I regretted not having eloped, I was completely sure when I told you that I wanted us to have our first dance as husband and wife and now that we are here, with you in my arms ... my answer is no, I will never regret everything we went through to get here.
"Oh, Sheldon" Amy's eyes filled with tears and he freaked out.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry" he looked around for help "I shouldn't have ... "
"These are tears of happiness," she told him. "What you said was beautiful and made me very happy."
"Really?" Sheldon sighed in relief when he saw her nod.
"I want to kiss you"
"Well, go ahead" Amy raised an eyebrow "It's our wedding so it's socially acceptable to kiss whenever we want. "
"You're right." Sheldon leaned down a little to kiss his wife.
"And it is also socially acceptable that we dance several times together, so if you want ... "
"Of course I want. This was the first dance as husband and wife of many that we will have for the rest of our lives. "
The scene changed for the fourth time. After the Nobel Prize ceremony, all the laureates were brought to a banquet to celebrate their triumph. Sheldon and Amy were chatting animatedly with other honorees. From time to time they turned to see each other, smiled, and continued their conversation.
Sheldon was chatting with John Goodenough, one of the Chemistry Laureates, when he saw Michael Kremer, one of the Economics Laureates, approach Amy to ask if she would like to dance with him.
She glanced at her husband who was pretending to be paying attention to John's conversation. Amy nodded and Michael took her hand. She didn't know how long she had spent dancing with that man when Sheldon approached them and politely asked the man to allow him to dance with his wife. Michael kissed Amy's hand goodbye, much to Sheldon's chagrin, and then walked away from them.
"Why was that?" Sheldon asked after Amy kissed him on his cheek.
"Thanks for saving me from that man."
Sheldon frowned. "From where you stood you seemed to enjoy the dance and his conversation."
"I was just being polite," she shrugged. "His conversation was interesting, but he crushed my feet a couple of times."
Sheldon said, "He won the Nobel Prize in economics. I don't think his conversation could be that interesting."
"Honey, are you jealous that I danced with Michael?" Amy asked amused.
"Of that man? Of course not. "
"Okay, but anyway I want to remind you that you are the only man I really enjoy dancing with."
"I know, it's just that ... "
"Sheldon" he opened his eyes and saw her tenderly caressing his forehead "Hello" she smiled when she saw that he had finally woken up "How do you feel? "
"I'm fine. "
"I'm glad to hear that" Amy placed one of her hands on his chest and another on his cheek and approached to kiss him. For a second Sheldon kissed her back until he realized that the kiss felt very real, so he abruptly pulled away from Amy. She looked at him confused
"Sheldon, what's going on? "
"You lied to me," he said standing up to get away from her "And I don't want you to kiss
me again."