Leonard's head popped up from the back of the chair suddenly. Was that yelling he heard? Coming from Amy and Sheldon's? Oh, man. Just as quickly as the yelling started though, it stopped. Leonard leaned back again but then he heard a knock at the door. He thought it might be Sheldon, but wait…it couldn't be because it was just one knock. He went to answer the door.

When Leonard opened the door, he saw it was indeed Sheldon. He was hunched over clutching his heart. "Sheldon" Leonard said as he wrapped his arms around the taller man and helped him to his spot on the couch. "What is it? Are you hurt? Sick? Is it Amy?"

At the sound of Amy's name, Sheldon hunched over and put his face in his hands. "It is over Leonard. I cannot trust her anymore" he said through his tears.

Leonard could do nothing but put his arms around him and let him cry.


After some time, Leonard walked Sheldon to his old bedroom. Sheldon had shared with him what Amy told him. Of course, Leonard already knew because Penny had told him a few hours ago at the party but he couldn't tell Sheldon that information. So he just kept quiet and listened to his friend. Sheldon asked him if he could stay the night. Leonard immediately said that was fine. Sheldon asked if he would go next door and get his pajamas. He said he would as he left Sheldon curled up on his old bed and closed the door.

Penny was leaving the bathroom in her robe and ran into Leonard in the hallway. "What's going on?" she whispered. "Why is Sheldon here?"

Leonard grabbed her arm and gently led her to the living room. "Amy told him" he said simply.

"What?" Penny asked.

"Amy told him about the marine biologist that kissed her last year" he said.

"Oh god" she gasped.

"I know. He didn't take it well" he said.

"What did he say?" Penny asked.

Leonard let out a breath. "He said it was over between them. That he couldn't trust her anymore."

"WHAT! Oh no. No, no, no. Did he even take the time to hear her out? Did he listen at all?" she ranted.

"I don't know. He knew all the details so yeah, I think so" Leonard replied. "Listen, Sheldon asked me to go get him some pajamas for the night. He is going to stay here in his old room. Could you go get them? Amy's probably a mess and would rather see you than me."

"Yes, of course. You're right. Oh, man. I can't believe this is happening. Are they going to be okay?" she asked.

"I don't know" Leonard said. He could not believe this was happening either. While Leonard did not necessarily understand Sheldon and Amy's relationship, he knew they loved each other and were made for each other.

"What can we do?" she asked.

"Just be supportive I guess. Listen. Ask them what they need" he said.

Penny just nodded and silently headed across the hallway to Amy and Sheldon's apartment. She was dreading what she might find when she got there.


Amy had curled up on the couch with the afghan pulled up over her when she heard a knock at the door. "Amy?" she heard. "It's Penny."

Amy rose from the couch with the afghan wrapped around her and opened the door.

Penny frowned when she saw her best friend. Amy's hair was a mess, one of her false eyelashes had come loose and her mascara had run down her face in messy dark streaks. Penny had never seen her like this even when she broke up with Sheldon years ago.

"Oh Amy" she said as she brought her best friend in for a hug. Amy immediately started crying as they entered the apartment and Penny shut the door.

"He left me" she sobbed. "You were right. I should have told him right away when the kiss happened just like he told me when he got kissed. Now it's too late" she sobbed again.

Penny led her to the couch and they sat down. "Ames, it's not too late. Sheldon is just upset right now."

"No, you didn't hear him" Amy quickly said. "He said…he said…"she hiccuped.

"What did he say" asked Penny.

"He said he could not stay in a marriage based on secrets and lies. That he no longer trusted me. And then he left me, for good" Amy sobbed again.

Now Penny was mad. Penny knew what it felt like to be betrayed and hurt but this was not the way to deal with it. For someone who claims to be a genius, Sheldon was acting like an idiot. She knew Sheldon was going to be upset and overreact just like he always did when things did not turn out the way he expected them to, but this was ridiculous. If was going to throw away his entire marriage, leave Amy, the best thing that ever happened to him, then she could not support him in that decision.

"Look Amy, why don't you take a quick shower, I'll put on some tea and then we can talk this through all night if we need to. I'm going to tell Leonard I'll stay over here tonight, okay. I won't leave you" Penny said.

"Okay" Amy sniffed. She was in a daze from all of the crying and quite honestly, a little dehydrated. A hot shower and some warm tea sounded nice as she rose to the bedroom.

When Amy was in the bathroom, Penny quickly went to the dresser, grabbed some PJs for Sheldon and headed back over to her place. She met Leonard in the living room.

"Here" she said practically shoving the pajamas in his arms. "Hey" he said almost dropping them.

"Sorry but he doesn't deserve fresh PJs the way he's acting" she said with a snarl.

"Wait a minute, Sheldon didn't do anything wrong" Leonard argued.

"Oh really" Penny said angrily. "Amy is hysterical. I've…I've never seen her so emotional. I can't believe he would just leave her like this! Just throw it all away." Her face soften a little. "Look, I told Amy I would stay with her tonight, okay."

"Okay" said Leonard. "I'll stay here with Sheldon."

Penny turned to leave.

"Penny?" Leonard called after her.

She stopped and turned to face him. "Yeah?" she said.

"Are we okay?" he asked.

"What do you mean?" Penny replied. "Why would we not be okay?"

Leonard paused for a moment before continuing. He wasn't sure if the timing was right but he had to ask the question that had been on his mind since he found out the secret about Amy being kissed by another man.

"Why didn't you tell me about Amy's secret sooner?" he finally asked.

"She asked me not to Leonard" she said simply.

"Okay, but…but did it have anything to do with what happened to us? When…when I kept my secret about kissing someone else when I was away?" Leonard exhaled.

"Oh" said Penny. "I see. You think Amy's kiss while she was away reminded me of our situation."

"Yeah, kind of" he said hesitantly. "It's pretty similar."

Penny started to speak and then stopped to collect her thoughts. After a moment she said "honestly Leonard when Amy told me what happened I was more reminded of what happened to Sheldon with that Ramona chick. That's why I told Amy to tell him right away like he told her. But I will admit when I found out tonight that she never told him…that she had been keeping it a secret all of this time, that's when it started to remind me of us" she finished.

"And?" Leonard asked.

"And, we're okay" Penny said with a slight smile. "I was reminded of the hurt I felt about you keeping a secret but I also know that was years ago and we've moved past it."

"Okay" Leonard said feeling relieved. He embraced her. "I love you" he said kissing her.

"I love you too" she said returning his kiss. "Now go give those PJs to Sheldon. I'll deal with him later. Right now, I've got to go back over there and make a crap load of tea. It's going to be a long night" she said with a long sigh exiting the apartment.