A/N: I wasn't planning on posting today, but I'm not a big fan of Tuesdays. I thought that I might entertain you and me by posting an extra chapter this week. I'll see you guys again tomorrow. Enjoy!
Neither Sheldon nor Amy said much as they had their oatmeal. They didn't know what to say to each other after their make-out session. Amy thought about thanking Sheldon for his obsessive cleaning schedule since she never anticipated kissing him while lying on the floor of the bathroom. Instead, Amy just took Sheldon's bowl and washed it along with her own.
There was a knock at the door that was Leonard coming to drive Sheldon to work. Sheldon went to answer the door and was about to follow Leonard out to his car before he turned around and walked back into the apartment. He wrapped his arms around Amy's waist and pulled her in for one more kiss. It was sweeter and softer than the kisses in the bathroom.
"We need to talk about this morning, so I'm going to pick you up from work today," Amy whispered in his ear.
"Okay," Sheldon said cheerily before kissing the top of Amy's head. "I'm looking forward to it." He had been nervous about talking about his relationship with Amy and where exactly it was going, but if it was going where it had gone that morning, he was looking forward to it. Also, he felt like they could use some boundaries before they just let their animal hind brains take over.
Sheldon walked back over to Leonard who had just sort of watched Sheldon act so lovingly with his fiancee. It was like seeing Bigfoot, but he was happy for his friend. "Amy's picking me up from work," Sheldon said.
"Yeah? Maybe she can start driving you to work too," Leonard said.
"Maybe," Sheldon said, not noticing Leonard's sarcasm.
Amy left for work, and even though she thought a lot about Sheldon, she didn't think that people would notice her ring. She was wrong. She was really wrong. In fact, it seemed like her whole morning was spent accepting congratulations from her colleagues. Amy didn't think she would get any work done, so she did something she very rarely did; she ditched work.
Amy went out to her car and drove around for a while. She found herself at a bookstore with an armful of bridal magazines. She thought that Sheldon would probably want to wait years before they would actually get married, but Amy wanted to look at magazines anyway. When lunch came around, Amy collected her magazines and decided to drive over to Cal Tech to find Sheldon.
She found him in his office. Amy knocked on Sheldon's door, and heard, "Alex, I told you to take the day off."
Amy opened the door, "It's me," she said.
"Amy? What are you doing here?" Sheldon asked.
"I'm playing hooky from work. I thought that you might want to have lunch together."
"Hooky? Really, Amy? Penny is such a bad influence on you," Sheldon said.
"I wasn't going to get any work done. Someone should have warned me that this ring would act like beacon to every person with whom I've ever had a conversation at work. I stuck around for three hours, but people kept coming in to congratulate me. I thought that I could find some corner to hide in until you were ready to go home," Amy said, holding up her magazines to show Sheldon.
"I understand. I had to send my assistant home after she tried to hug me," Sheldon said with a little shiver. Then he put down his marker, and said, "Can we make one stop before we go to the cafeteria?"
"Yeah. What's up?"
"Kripke didn't believe me this morning, but now that you are here, I can show you off. We might have to kiss in front of him. Ever since he found out that I lied about having sex with you, he has started questioning if we are even in a relationship," Sheldon said. Even though it was over a year ago, he was embarrassed that he had lied about his relationship with Amy. She had been very mad at him when she learned of the lie, but they had worked through it.
"Let's go catch him before he gets to the cafeteria. I have colleagues who work here, so let's try to keep any scenes confined to a smaller audience," Amy said as she grabbed Sheldon's hand.
They found Kripke in his office. "See, Kripke, Amy is here and she has my grandmother's ring on her finger. Is that enough for you to believe me?"
"No. You cawed hew hewe to pway a pwank on me," Kripke said. "I'm not fawing fow it. It's a pwetty wame pwank too."
Amy sighed and grabbed the collar of Sheldon's shirt and pulled him down to her before she kissed him. She pulled Sheldon's bottom lip into her mouth and bit it slightly as she pulled back. Kripke looked shocked as she released Sheldon's lower lip and it snapped back into position. It was fast and Sheldon needed a second to get his bearings again.
"Prank or not, he's getting more action than you are. Let's go, Dr. Cooper," Amy said as she grabbed Sheldon's hand again and led him back out the office door.
Sheldon blindly followed Amy to the cafeteria as she led him by the hand. He didn't realize that she was speaking to him at first. "He was never going to believe you. He probably still doesn't, but we can invite him to the wedding anyway," Amy said.
"What?" Sheldon asked.
"I was just apologizing to you because of my display. Though, to be honest, your deer in the headlights look is giving me the impression that you didn't mind it much. Should we skip lunch and go back to your office and revisit this morning?" Amy teased. She still showed him a bravado far beyond her experience, but she didn't actually mean anything by it. It was just habit at this point.
Sheldon thought about it, but shook his head. "Not until we've amended the Agreement."
"I know," Amy said. They had reached the cafeteria by then, so they got their food and found the guys. Raj got up and grabbed an extra chair and moved to the end of the table when he saw that Amy was with Sheldon.
"Thank you, Rajesh," Amy said with a smile.
"No problem. What brings you by?" Raj asked.
"It seems that if you are newly engaged, people will come out of the woodwork to congratulate you even if you are an accomplished neurobiologist," Amy told them. "People were getting on my nerves at work, so I came here to have lunch with Sheldon. You'd think there would be more for them to discuss than my personal life, but I guess not. Sheldon, perhaps we should elope and not tell anyone."
"Really?" Sheldon asked. He looked intrigued by that idea.
"Sheldon, I was joking," Amy said. Sheldon looked a little disappointed.
"You let the elopement thing go, or I will call your mother," Leonard said.
"Fine," Sheldon said grumpily. He knew his mother would never forgive him if he ran off to the germ ridden, hell hole Las Vegas and married Amy with no family included.
After lunch, Amy walked Sheldon back to his office. "I'm going to go find somewhere to hole up until you are ready to go home. Just send me a text when you are ready to go," Amy told him.
"You can stay in here if you would like," Sheldon told her. "You will have more privacy if you stay here than if you find some table in the library."
"Thank you," Amy said. She curled into the corner of his office and started flipping through her magazines. She didn't even know where to start when it came to planning her wedding. It seemed like she just did as she was told when it came to Penny and Leonard's wedding. She didn't know how to choose colors or food or clothes. We still have time, Amy thought. They hadn't even chosen a date yet.
Still Amy sat there quietly circling things that she liked. She got pretty wrapped up in it, so she didn't notice when Sheldon sat down next to her and started looking over her shoulder. She jumped when Sheldon asked, "Can we have chocolate cake?"
"Do you mean right now or for the wedding?"
"The wedding."
"Yes. Well, I suppose the answer to both of those questions would be yes. We can have chocolate cake for the wedding," Amy said. "Are you ready to go?"
"Yes."
"Okay."
Then they sat there on the floor of his office just looking at each other for a moment longer before getting up and walking to Amy's car together.
