"Hey, you're home!" Penny greeted Sheldon cheerfully as he entered the apartment. She and Leonard were cuddling on the couch while watching the television.

"Of course, I am. Are you expecting me not to? I live here, remember?" Sheldon replied, puzzled.

"I mean I didn't expect you could go home by yourself. I thought you'd ask Leonard to pick you up somewhere," Penny explained.

"Oh, well, Amy drove me," Sheldon simply replied.

"Who's Amy?" Penny asked.

"Amy. Doctor Amy Farrah Fowler. The neurobiologist I'm currently collaborating with. I have told you guys about it." Sheldon sighed upon seeing Penny's blank stare. "Seriously, Penny, did you ever listen to what I said?" Sheldon asked putting his shoulder bag on his desk.

"Honestly, I tuned you out when you started talking about science or tv shows. So, basically like all the time," she chuckled.

"You shouldn't have, you could have learned so many things," Sheldon replied. "You might even have learned enough to graduate from the community college."

"Were you working late with her?" Leonard quickly asked him, trying to steer the subject back to Sheldon instead of Penny's lack of college degree.

"I was at her apartment but we were not working late. We were… working on another project," said Sheldon. He started to walk to his bedroom before he stopped dead in his track and turned to them. "By the way, if my mother asks any of you, tell her that Amy is my girlfriend. Good night," he said nonchalantly before retreating to his bedroom, not realizing that Penny's and Leonard's jaws had dropped to the floor.


"So, when he said another project, do you think he meant he was having sex with her?" Howard asked Leonard and Penny.

The gang was having dinner as usual in 4A without Sheldon who told them that he would be having dinner with Amy that evening. Penny had informed the news about Sheldon's girlfriend to the rest of the gang and they basically had the same reaction as Leonard and she had.

"Ew, I don't know and I don't want to know," Leonard responded.

"To be honest, I kind of want to know though," Penny commented.

"Let me guess, so you can tease him?" Leonard asked.

"You bet!" she replied.

"I didn't know Sheldon has a deal," Bernadette said.

"We all thought the same, Sweetie," Penny replied.

"I think that's beautiful. Sheldon, the robot, finally found the one who would turn him into a real boy," Raj said dreamily.

"Wait until they procreate. There will be a lot of Sheldons and the human race will extinct," Howard snickered.

"You may laugh now but it doesn't seem farfetched. He spent an awful lot of time with her for the last few days," Leonard said.

"Aren't you happy with that you don't have to drive him a lot lately?" Penny asked him.

"Oh, I'm having the time of my life!" Leonard replied.

They kept talking about Sheldon and Amy for a while until Bernadette asked Penny and Leonard about their preparation for the wedding, Sheldon and Amy soon forgotten.


Sheldon and Amy did spend a lot of time together ever since they agreed to pretend to be each other's girlfriend and boyfriend. Sheldon was teaching Amy to be his girlfriend. He taught her everything about himself and things she should had known if she was his girlfriend. He told her everything—his spot, his bedtime, his laundry schedule, his favorite food and beverage, his favorite comics and TV series, his favorite trains, and any other trivial facts and details of the one and only Sheldon Cooper. They had been doing it every night in Amy's apartment for they needed the privacy.

"Sheldon, I don't think your family would care enough to ask me what your favorite Star Trek is. Honestly, I didn't even know there are more than one," Amy complained after Sheldon spent almost the entire time that night to tell her all about Star Trek. "I don't need to know all the details. Can we move on to the next topic, please?" she pleaded.

Sheldon refrained himself from scolding Amy for her ignorance of Star Trek. "Fine. Just keep in mind that the key to a good lie lies in the details and if our clever ruse is revealed because you fail to answer a question about Star Trek, it will be all on you," Sheldon said, erasing the chart about Star Trek he had drawn on the white board in her living room.

"Ugh, I don't think I can handle anymore Chinese food," Amy said, clearing her coffee table from the empty boxes.

"Me too. But it's the closest and quickest take out we can get on our way here and you know we don't have much time. We have to be ready for when we face my family, especially my mother," Sheldon replied, shuddering at the thought of his mother. He had given up his meal schedule to perfect their plan and he hoped it would not be a waste. "Although, there's a Mexican restaurant nearby that I read from the review has the best guacamole."

"Can't have guacamole. I'm allergic to avocadoes," Amy said as she disposed the empty boxes to the bin.

"Amy, I didn't know!" Sheldon responded.

"Well, it's not a big deal."

"It is a big deal! What if I bring you something that has avocadoes in it? O-or worse, what if my mother cooks something with avocadoes and something bad happens to you? It would be my fault because I don't know my girlfriend is allergic to avocadoes."

"Sheldon, relax." Feeling that he was starting to panic, Amy rushed back to him and instinctively rubbed his forearm to calm him. To her surprise, he did not brush her off. "Maybe you have to learn a little about me as well. You know, part of being a couple is knowing each other," she said soothingly.

"You're right. I only know a little about you. I know you love English literature, Chaucer is your favorite. You play the harp, you love monkeys, French movies, and the color grey. After high school, you went to Harvard. Your paper on how a cooperative long-term potentiation can map memory sequences in dendritic branches made the cover of Neuron. By the way, I have read it and I think it's brilliant," Sheldon said.

Amy was taken aback. "That's quite a lot. How did you know that?"

"I listened when you talked and maybe did a little research on you before we started working together," Sheldon admitted sheepishly. "Now, is there any other information about you that might be fatal if I don't know?"


Raj, Howard, and Bernadette were about to leave 4A when the front door suddenly opened and Sheldon came in.

"Hey, Sheldon," Bernadette greeted him. "Working late a lot lately."

"Yes, we have a project to work on. Anyway, while you are here, I'd like to inform you that Amy Farrah Fowler, also known as Doctor Fowler, would join us for dinner tomorrow and I expect you all to be in your best behaviors," Sheldon told the gang. "Please, do not do something that might freak her out. It'd be such a shame if I lose any of you as friends."

The gang was too stunned to comment on his announcement.

"Well, good night. I'm going to bed," he said, frowning then leaving to his bedroom.

It was a moment later when Leonard finally said, "Is he for real?"

"I know! He already chose her over us," Penny replied.

"Sheldon has it bad," Raj said.


A/N: I must say, writing a multi chapter story is a one hell of a commitment. But it's kinda fun. Anyway, thank you for reading. Reviews are encouraged.