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Chapter 4

Penny closed the door and thought 'Go, Shamy!'. She giggled and went back to the party. Emily should be back any minute with Raj's makeup set and she couldn't wait to help Sheldon and Amy recreate their costumes. She found Raj talking to Stuart, holding a cup of champagne.

"Hey, Raj, where's Emily?"

"She went to my apartment 15 minutes ago, but she's taking a while to return... I think I'd better go check on her. I'll be right back."

Stuart looked at Penny, a bit uncomfortable for having nothing to talk about.

"Err... Nice party, uh?"

"Yeah." She nodded, looking at the other side looking for Leonard. She spotted him next to Bernadette and Howard. "Bye, Stuart." Penny crossed the pool and joined the trio, leaving Stuart staring at his own cup.

She greeted Leonard with a kiss on the lips and wrapped her arm around his waist. Leonard smiled and grabbed her waist as well.

"So, how are they?"

"I'd say better than fine!" She answered with a proud smiled.

"Oh, did you catch them doing anything?"

"No, but Sheldon shooed me quickly twice! I guess he couldn't wait to be alone with her!"

"Ahh, that's nice to see our Shelly in love!" Leonard sighed, hugging Penny closer.

"Yeah, who would say that our Tin-Man would finally find a real heart?"

Raj arrived at his apartment door, feeling a little tipsy.

"Emily, what's taking you so long to-" Raj stopped as he saw her with sitting on his couch with her bare feet up on the coffee table, and her dress up to her thigh.

"I'm sorry, Raj, but these boots were killing me! just needed to take them off for a while."

"Ohhhh, why didn't you tell me that before? I could give you a foot massage!"

"Well, you could do that now... Do you mind?"

He sat beside her and pulled her legs up on his lap. "Come here, my lovely Scarlet Witch, let me perform my magic."

After breaking a passionate and long kiss, Sheldon took a deep breath and started talking again.

"Oh, Amy, you have no idea how much I wanted to say that I love you."

"I know."

"How?" He raised his eyebrows, staring at her with curious eyes.

"Well, the first time I wasn't sure about it, but in our second rehearsal I knew you wanted to tell me that. When I gave you a... well, you know, and you looked at me and said 'Amy, I... I wanted to say... I need a shower'. Didn't you think I would notice?"

Sheldon blushed a little. "I... I didn't want to say it in bed."

"Why not?"

"Because of Leonard."

"Leonard? He almost walked into us twice, but did you think he would hear us?"

"No, it's not it."

"So why?"

"Because... When he told Penny he loved her the first time..."

"They were in bed together and she didn't say it back." Amy completed his sentence. She already heard that story more than once, and she knew her Bestie felt insecure at that time.

"Yes."

"And why didn't you think I would say it back?"

"I didn't think... I mean... I couldn't risk to lose you... It happened to Leonard, so maybe-"

Amy cut him in the middle of his sentence, pulling him for a heated kiss. She untied his robe while Sheldon untied hers. They felt their bare skin touching, Sheldon's hands wandered from her waist to her legs and up to her breasts. Amy grabbed his buttocks, giving it a little squeeze.

"Vixen." He giggled, giving her a final peck before breaking apart.

"Well, we should get dressed, Penny will return in no time!"

"Unfortunately she will... I wouldn't mind if she didn't come back at all..."

"Me neither." She smiled at him, and they started to put on their costumes.

"I have a proposal!" Amy held Sheldon's arm, stopping him from putting on his shirt.

"All right."

"You could dress me and I could dress you, just like we did in our third rehearsal... I liked it very much." She blushed a little."

"Me too." He removed his shirt again and they both stood just in their underwear, facing each other.

"Can I go first?"

"Of course." He gave her a little peck on the lips, and she grabbed his shirt and walked behind him, pulling a sleeve at a time on his arms. She turned him to her and slowly started to button it up. He brought her closer and kissed her neck.

"I love your hands... And how you are so precise and gentle at the same time."

"Hmmmm" She felt him nibbling her ear, and lowered her hands to his hips, bringing a hand to meet his erection. "Precise and gentle like this?" She gave him a little stroke, moving her hand inside of his briefs.

"Ohhhh yeah, exactly like that!" He grabbed her buttocks, pulling her closer as he kept assaulting her neck. Her hands were like magic to him, and he was quickly losing control. "Amy, we need to get dressed."

"Ohh.. it's a pity..." She slowly removed her hands off him.

"Maybe I should help you with your dress now."

"Ok."

He picked up her dress from the basket, and crouched by her feet to help her to step on it. As he slid the dress up, he caressed her legs, planting little kisses on his way up. When he reached her waist, he stopped a little to kiss and suck her nipples, hearing Amy moan. After a while he let go and finished pulling her dress up, starting to put on the sleeves on her arms. Then he walked behind her and instead of zipping it, he brought his hands to her shoulder and started massaging her.

"Hmmmm... I love your hands too..."

"What can I say, I've been practicing..."

"Yeah, I remember when you started training."

Amy was lying on her stomach on her bed and Sheldon straddled her, lowering his body next to hers and planted little kisses on her shoulders.

"Are you sure you want this?"

"Yes, you remember when I told you where you should press?"

"Of course, it was the best massage I've ever had! And you know I don't forget things, I have an eidetic memory." He started pressing her shoulders, just like she taught him.

"Ohhh Sheldon, this feels amazing!"

"Of course it does, get ready to cross this item out of the list, because I'm about to excel in it!"

"Yeah, now we have only more 45 items left."

"It's good that we included also the items we have already done and crossed them out from the beginning... It feels like we're being efficient."

"Well, it was your idea to have a list of 73 items... We had to add them to complete it anyway."

"Are you complaining about it, little lady?"

"Of course not, I love our list. Aaahhhhhhhhhhhh"

She felt Sheldon press harder on her, this time not with his hands.

"Hmmmm... Ohh Sheldon, if you keep doing that we'll move straight to the end of the list in no time!"

"You're right, I don't want us to speed things up and skip things." He slowed his movements and placed his hands back on her shoulders. "But it feels amazing."

Penny and Leonard were sitting on the stones, talking to Howard and Bernadette.

"So, when Sheldon and Amy come back, you apologize to them again!" Bernie pinched Howard's arm.

"Ouch! I've already told you that I will!"

"I will apologize again too, what happened was partially my fault as well..." Leonard was feeling guilty for starting the confusion. It was not nice of him to bet on Sheldon and Amy having sex. He squeezed Penny's hand, and she looked at him with comforting eyes. After a moment of silence, she checked the time on her phone and realized that Raj and Emily hadn't returned yet.

"Wow, Raj is taking too long to come back! It's been 20 minutes since he left to his apartment to look for Emily!"

"I could go there to check on him if you like. That way I could also be helpful."

"Thank you, sweetie! I'd like that! I walked a lot already and these shoes are starting to hurt my feet."

Leonard left the group and walked in the direction of the elevators. In the middle of the way he recognized someone in a great Beetlejuice costume holding a glass.

"Hey, Kripke! I didn't know you were invited to the party!" Leonard teased.

"Vewy funny, Leonawd. I like your costume, zombie man!" Kripke answered close to his face, and Leonard could smell his breath of alcohol.

"It's zombie Han Solo! But I guess you'd have to be a fan of the franchise in order to recognize it..."

"Yeah, though I have to say Penny looks much better than you as a zombie. And she looks hoooooot!" He added, giving him a small punch in his arm.

"Ehhh... right, excuse me." Leonard left quickly, already regretting that he left Penny alone and that drunk ogre is out there at the party. 'Let me find Raj quickly and go back to her side.' He passed through the door and walked towards the elevators. He pressed the button and impatiently waited for it to arrive. 'Come on, elevator!' After a few seconds the door opened and he entered quickly, selecting Raj's floor. When it reached the destination, he walked fast to his apartment and knocked on the door.

"Raj!" He heard no answer. He tried again. Nothing. He got concerned and tried the door handle. The door was open.

"Raj?" He entered the apartment, and saw Emily's boots next to the couch, hearing noises coming from the bedroom. "Oh, no, not again!" He remembered the last time he entered in his apartment to get his inhaler, and as he passed through Sheldon's bedroom he heard him and Amy moaning. He tried to run away from the apartment and hit the coffee table, making a loud noise. Sheldon left his room after a few seconds and found him sitting on the armchair fondling his shin. Now it was happening again. Leonard didn't know what to do. He looked around a little, thinking how it would be the best way to interrupt his friends' amorous activities. He decided to get out at the apartment and knock really hard.

"RAAJ! EMIIIIILY!" He laughed a little, hearing footsteps in the other side of the door.

Raj was startled by the sound, and jumped off of the bed, Emily stood up as well, both quickly getting dressed again.

"Oh, no, Emily, we lost track of the time! Get dressed and I'll answer the door."

When the door opened, Leonard saw a very disheveled Nightcrawler breathing heavily.

"Hey Leonard, what's up?" He tried to sound casual.

"Penny is waiting for the makeup set..."

"Right!" He turned his face to his bedroom. "Emily, hurry up, Penny is waiting for the makeup set! Did you find it?"

"Well, I'll wait for you at the party-"

"Here! I found it! Let me just put my boots back!" She sat on the couch and put on her boots fast, kicking Raj out of the apartment and closing the door behind her. "Let's go back!"

The three friends entered the elevator and the few seconds of the ride seemed to be hours. Leonard noticed nervous glances between Raj and Emily, but decided to ignore, he didn't want to make the situation even more uncomfortable.

"Hey, Penny, here's the makeup!" Emily handed her the case.

"Great! Can you help me?"

"Well, I'm not really good at it, in fact Raj made mine."

"I can help!" Raj prompted himself. They both walked towards the restroom.