Sheldon and Amy are in bed, sleeping, until they hear a rumbling in the kitchen. Amy pokes Sheldon with her fingers.
Amy, still half asleep: Stop it, Sheldon. I want to sleep.
Sheldon mumbling: I'm sleeping.
Amy wakes up: Who is this? Sheldon, there is someone in the kitchen.
She shakes him, while she is sitting up in bed now.
Amy: Sheldon.
He doesn't move, keeps sleeping.
Amy: Sheldon. I think I see Einstein.
Sheldon sits up, excited.
Sheldon: You do? Can we talk to him? Oh, you have to ask him about...
Amy puts her pointer on his lips.
Amy: Hush. That wakes you up? I was screaming, I was shaking you. Someone could have hurt me.
Sheldon: I would have known when someone dared to hurt you. It's not my time to get up yet.
Amy: I know. It's 5am. But there is someone in the kitchen. Do you hear that?
There was another rumbling.
Sheldon pulls his cover up to this chin.
Amy: Seriously? Go look.
Sheldon: Why me?
Amy: You are the man here.
Sheldon: And you are the woman here. What's your point?
Amy realizes that Stephen isn't in his bed. She gets up, runs into the living room, Sheldon follows her.
Amy yells: Stephen? Nobody is going to hurt my baby.
Sheldon: So, who ever is in there can hurt me but not Stephen?
Stephen was in front of the couch, gathering some stuff on the table. Amy runs to him, and hugs him.
Amy: Oh my baby, you are all right. I love you, honey. Why are you up so early?
Sheldon: I go back to bed, knowing that nobody is getting hurt right now. You will see me when it's my time to get up.
Amy turns back to Stephen, when Sheldon goes back to the bedroom.
Stephen: I have a museum. I found so many old things.
Amy: We don't have anything old here.
Stephen shows her some square shaped plastic cases.
Amy: Oh, my CD's. Yes, I love listening to them. It's Mandy Moore. She is a great singer. Her music is not old. It's timeless, and beautiful.
Stephen: Music is on the phone.
Amy: Yes, but not even ten years ago, I could not do much with my phone other than calling or texting. I am sure I still have my flip phone somewhere.
Amy sees the pile of stuff on the couch, and finds it.
Amy: That is it.
She flips it open and pretends to speak to someone over the phone.
Amy: Hello? Yes, he is here and he wants to talk to you.
She hands over the phone to Stephen.
Amy: You can play with it. I am sure it still works after it's charged again.
Stephen jumps up with a big smile on his face.
Stephen: Now I have the whole knowledge of the world.
Sheldon comes back and sits on the couch as well.
Sheldon: I get your excitement. I was like that when I got my first computer and could finally communicate with people of my intellect. I had some inspiring conversations that I could never have with anyone in my family.
Amy turns to Stephen: But you cannot go online with this phone, sweetie.
Stephen: What? But it's a phone? I wanna do Tik Tok.
Amy: You want to sing that Kesha song? Penny showed it to me a while ago, I guess it was shortly after we met.
Stephen looks confused and turns to Sheldon: Who is Kesha? What has she to do with Tik Tok?
Sheldon: Let's stop this nonsense, and focus about something really important, my first Super Mario game.
Amy: You just have no idea what we are talking about, Mr know-it-not-all.
Sheldon: I only know relevant stuff, Amy. This used to be the highlight of my childhood.
Stephen: Can I play that on my new phone?
Amy: No, honey. You can just call with it.
Stephen: Video call? Awesome. Then I can teach other kids about science directly. Reaching less people than on Tik Tok, but okay. Who of your friends has kids now?
Amy: You know aunt Penny and aunt Bernadette. And no video call, honey, just a regular voice call. That's how people called each other 20 years ago.
Sheldon: Going online was exciting. Oh I remember these thrilling few minutes every day. It was expensive, so I wasn't allowed more than half an hour every day, generally. My mother told me that was a lot and most of my friends got that time in one week. I still don't believe that.
Stephen: How did you survive without a phone to watch videos, or play games?
Sheldon: Like I said. I used my Super Nintendo or I played with my trains.
Stephen: You needed so many different things for having fun. That's weird.
Amy picks up a video tape she finds while going through Stephen's pile.
Amy reads what's written on the tape: "Sheldon after dentist. Funny!" What is this?
Sheldon takes the tape: We are not going to watch this. Missy filmed this after I got a teeth pulled out and couldn't really talk for a while. She took our dad's camcorder to film this and showed me the video over and over again. Said "why can't you talk like that all the time?" and laughed. This is not funny at all.
Stephen: I don't want my teeth to get pulled out.
Sheldon: That is no fun either. The dentist was so unfriendly and the tools he used,...
Amy stops him and talks to Stephen: The dentist, honey, is not that scary. It's nothing to worry about. And look I found my old VCR. We can watch the tape.
Sheldon: No, we are not watching it. We are...
He looks around and finds his modem. He picks it up and smiles. Stephen looks confused.
Stephen: What is this now?
Sheldon: We went online with this. It's called a modem. It used the landline to call the internet. Took a few minutes until it made the connection.
Amy: My mother went crazy when I was online too long, and blocking the landline.
Stephen: What is a landline?
Amy: Every house had it own telephone number. When you wanted to call someone, you called the number of his home. Then somebody picked up and handed you the phone or if it was for you, then you talked.
Stephen, astonished: Not every person had a phone?
Amy: No, and when nobody was at home, the answering machine could record a message from the caller.
Stephen: Like the mailbox in a phone.
Amy: Yes, exactly.
Stephen: How could you call someone when you were out of the house?
Amy: There were phone booths every where, for everyone to use.
Sheldon: They look like the Tardis. Do you remember when we were watching Dr Who?
Stephen nods: Yes, I do.
Amy, excitingly: My discman! Oh I loved listening to my CDs with this.
Stephen: Like that Kesha singer?
Amy: No, I had never heard of her before Penny told me, but I did love Britney. But honestly, I liked Mandy Moore more, as I said before. She was the best, so sweet, and beautiful, with a great voice. Somehow everyone only focused on Britney and Mandy was left out. Mandy is much better than Britney. Who is on "This is us" now? I'm just saying.
Sheldon: Do you know who is great, or super? Mario here.
Sheldon points at the game.
Sheldon: I think we should play. I plug in the Nintendo. This is going to be fun.
He smiles and starts sorting the cables.
Stephen: Why doesn't it have wifi? It's better without cables.
Amy: Sweetie, why don't we look at these pictures until your Daddy has set up the game?
She took a photo album with pictures of her as a child.
Amy: See, that's me with my mother and her old gramophone. That is something old, honey.
Stephen: I saw many vinyls. I know them.
Amy: That's something you know? Sheldon, are we getting old?
Sheldon pauses, turns around to Amy and Stephen who are still sitting on the couch.
Sheldon: I want to play Super Mario right now. If I was old, I'd listen to jazz music in a rocking chair.
Amy: A rocking chair is...
Stephen: ... a chair on which a person can rock forward and backward, I know, Mom.
Amy: How can you know the real old stuff, but not a discman or camcorder or VCR?
Sheldon gets up and takes a book from the shelf. He gives it to Stephen.
Sheldon: Here. It's one of my favorite books. It's about the Big Bang Theory. It's old in some way, but the beauty of science is that it never gets old.
Stephen shrieks of excitement, and takes the book. He flips through it.
Amy: Sheldon, he cannot read yet.
Sheldon: I will read him. It's better than Bernadette's astronaut story anyway. And I will teach him to read. Maybe we will start with comic books. Less texts might be easier to read.
Amy gets up and whispers to Sheldon, while Stephen is looking at the book's pages.
Amy: I feel old now, Sheldon. He doesn't know any of what we grew up with.
Sheldon: We are not old, Amy. We are finally cool. Everyone loves the cool kids. That cannot be different now, can it? Though I never wanted to be popular.
Amy: Maybe, you are right.
Sheldon: And besides, old stuff is vintage and that is cool.
Amy laughs: We are not old, we are vintage.
She moves closer to Sheldon.
Amy: And you are still sexy. Maybe we could...
She lays her hand on his chest, and rests her head on his shoulder.
Sheldon, blushing and slightly irritated: Amy. You haven't finish the sentence.
Amy: You know.
She looks at him and smiles.
Amy: Don't tell me you don't know?
Sheldon: Of course, I know, but you have to say it.
Amy: We have been there, Sheldon. You just have to finish the sentence in your mind.
She smiles, sits down next to Stephen on the couch and looks at her photo album again. Sheldon sits next to her.
Sheldon: I have never seen those. You were and still are cute and beautiful.
Amy blushes and smiles: Aww.
Sheldon: I think it would be wonderful to have a little Amy here.
Amy looks at him.
Amy: What do you mean?
Sheldon: You already have the pleasure of having a little me around.
He points to Stephen, then whispers into her ear.
Sheldon: You just have to finish my thought in your mind.
He smiles, and continues plugging in the Nintendo.
Thank you so much for reading. I hope you enjoyed it. New chapter is coming soon.
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