Almost three hours later Sheldon and Leonard were finally back at the apartment building. "I can't believe you found one so quick." Leonard said
"I had put some thought into this beforehand and I did not find one, I just simply narrowed it down to the top three. Now comes the hard part, trying to pick which one is the best." Sheldon said pressing the elevator button
"Remember not a word of this to Amy" he warned Leonard, "make sure to remind your wife. She has a tendency to blab."
"Yes I know. How do you plan to keep it from here, you can't lie to save your life."
Sheldon shrugged, "I would change the topic. Hopefully that would get me through the next couple of days until her birthday."
When they opened the apartment door they saw both women on the couch in tears. Sheldon ran to his wife, "Amy what's wrong? He said placing a hand on her stomach, "We were watching over the last Avengers movie." Penny answered for her, "Tony's funeral gets me every time." She said wiping her eyes. Both Leonard and Sheldon relaxed, "Where were you guys?" Amy asked.
"Comic book store" Sheldon said the same time as Leonard said, "the university." Amy raised an eyebrow, "We went to the university and then the comic book store." Sheldon clarified. "On a Saturday?" Amy asked.
"Yes. But I got you a burger, with all your special stuff in there."
"Even the jelly?"
"I'm going to put it now." He said kissing her on the cheek. "Nice save" Leonard whispered to him as he passed by. They all sat down to eat and watch another movie. After the movie Amy started yawning, "I think I'm going to go take another nap" she said getting up from the couch, "Alright. Bye guys." Penny waved. As soon as the door closed, she turned to Leonard, "Did you guys find anything?"
"Yea he narrowed it down to three."
"This is so exciting" she squealed.
"Did you guys get anything done at the university?" Amy asked
"Oh yes. But I don't want to stress you with that when you're clearly tired."
"Okay. I don't even know why I'm so tired. All I did was sit around since my last nap"
Sheldon just shrugged and got into bed to hold her as she fell asleep.
Over the course of the next two weeks everyone was acting strange around Amy. Sheldon was being secretive, and was constantly at 4A. One time she went to eat lunch with the guys and she could see them talking with Sheldon showing them something on his phone, but as soon as Raj saw her approaching the whole table got quiet. Whenever she tried to talk to Penny or Bernadette about it, they just gave lame excuses and nervous laughs. Raj even reverted back to his selective mutism when she was in the room. She could to any of friends about it because they were all acting crazy, which in turn made her more skeptical.
One evening they were getting ready to go to 4A for dinner. She stepped in the bathroom for two minutes and when she came out Sheldon was gone. 'Probably already over there whispering' she thought. She locked her apartment and crossed the hall. She could hear talking coming from the apartment. She tried to press her ear against the door to see if she could hear better but it just sounded muffled. She sighed and pushed open the door and as usual, for the past two weeks, the conversation suddenly stopped.
"What the hell is going on?!" she yelled. She really didn't mean to question it but she just couldn't help it, this was all driving her mad.
"What do you mean Amy?" Bernadette asked
"I mean all the whispering, and secret meetings, and everyone shutting up when I'm in the room. Raj hasn't even spoken to me in the past two weeks and its all driving me mad. So I'll ask again, what is going on?"
Everyone just shifted their feet. Raj opened his mouth but quickly closed it. Howard suddenly found something very interesting on his shoe as wouldn't stop staring down, while his wife seemed to find something in the ceiling. Penny excused herself to check on Luke. While Leonard and Sheldon just stared at each other.
"So is no one going to tell me?" she asked. She waited for two minutes and there was still silence. "Fine have your secret meeting. I'm leaving" she said turning to open the door.
"Wait Amy don't go" Sheldon pleaded, "The truth is….