A/N: Wow is all I can say and thanks. You guys make me feel so great with all your reviews.
Okay so now we are going to go back to Pasadena. There will be some angst in this chapter but please don't hate because I promise it will get better in the next one. Our Shamy will be just fine.
I wish I owned this stuff because this is what we would see on tv.
"Wow Raj, this place is really amazing." Emily said as they were seated at the restaurant.
"Wait until you taste the food." Amy said. "Raj has good taste. I must admit."
"I can't wait." Emily said.
The waiter came over and the couples ordered a bottle of wine. Sheldon just ordered an ice tea. He was the driver and even though he knew they would be there for a while he was not going to have even one glass of wine. He had just got his driver's license and he didn't want to lose it just as fast.
"So what is good?" Emily asked as she perused the menu.
"I had the steak last time I was here." Sheldon said. "That was very good."
"I had salmon. It was terrific." Amy said.
"Hey they have a surf and turf meal for Valentine's Day for two." Sheldon said. "Would you want to get that?" He asked Amy.
Raj stared at him in shock.
"What?" Sheldon asked him.
"You are going to share your food?" Raj asked him.
"I've seen them share food." Emily said to him.
"When?" Raj asked her.
"On Thursday." She answered him. "He had a burger with onion rings and she had a sandwich with fries. They were eating off each other's plate all evening."
"How did I not notice this?" He asked.
"It's not like we are hiding it Raj." Sheldon said. "Everyone else has seen it."
"I thought it was normal. I mean they are a couple." Emily said.
"It may be normal for most couples but this is Sheldon we are talking about." Raj said.
"Why is it such a big deal?" Emily asked.
"Because he is crazy. A few years ago Penny took an onion ring off his plate and he banned her from the apartment." Raj answered.
"First off, I am not crazy, my mother had me tested. And second, I did not just ban her from the apartment for touching my food that was her second strike, then she sat in my spot. And third, Penny is not my girlfriend, nor has she ever been. Amy is and I can tell you she is meticulous when it comes to hygiene plus we kiss why can't we share food?" Sheldon said to him.
"Oh." Raj said. "I guess I never thought about that."
"So Amy, surf and turf, yes or no?" Sheldon asked.
"Yes." She said.
"Emily, how do you feel about surf and turf?" Raj asked.
"I'm allergic to shell fish so I can't have lobster." She answered.
"Oh I didn't know." He said.
"Well we haven't gone anywhere it could be ordered so no big deal." She said to him.
"Well what are you going to have?"
"The steak sounds good so I think I will go with that." She replied.
"I think I will go with that as well." Raj said.
The waiter came over and took their orders.
"So over the summer when Bernadette invited me over to hang out with you guys I heard a lot about what a jerk Sheldon here was." Emily started.
"Excuse me?" Sheldon said.
"Sheldon I was angry at you for leaving. Bernadette was my sounding board. I couldn't talk with Penny. I wish she would have called when they went to the train station but then I realized that they went there to bring you home so why would they call. It took me a while to realize that you know. Actually it was Emily and Raj that made me realize it." Amy said.
"I called you as soon as I was on the train." He said to her.
"I know. I don't want to rehash this but Emily, Bernadette and I hung out a lot over the summer and we all know how Bernadette can be sometimes. She was as angry with Penny as was I for a while. So we had some trash talk. It is old news. Please don't get upset, we are in a good place now. You know how I feel and I know how you feel, bringing up the past isn't going to help."
"I'm sorry I said anything." Emily said.
"Not your fault." Amy said.
"So as I was saying, all I heard were negative things so let's talk about some positives. How did you guys meet?" Emily said.
"Dating website." Amy and Sheldon said together.
"Really? You guys don't seem like the type that would use a dating website." Emily commented.
"I wasn't." Sheldon said. "I was blackmailed into going to meet Amy."
"Really? Who blackmailed you and how?" Emily asked.
"Raj and Howard with a dirty sock." He answered her.
"A dirty sock, I don't understand." She said.
"Well it's simple. A few days before I met Amy, we were on the roof of our apartment building. We set up an experiment to bounce a laser off the moon. Well there was a dirty sock up there and I had Howard move it. Later that week when they told me about the dating website and I told them it was complete hokum, they informed me they had hidden that dirty sock somewhere in my apartment. Unless I went and met this woman that was scientifically chosen just for me, they would not remove it."
"That is kind of sweet." Emily said. "So Amy why did you join the dating website?"
"Well I had an agreement with my mother that I would date once a year. Sheldon was my yearly commitment."
"Wow, so you two hit it off and started dating. That's pretty cool. Certainly better than Raj's first encounter with me."
"Well not exactly." Amy said.
"What do you mean?" Emily asked.
"I mean we were friends first and only communicated via text and Skype. We didn't go on our first date until 4 months later. And that was only because Penny insisted we get to know each other if we planned on having a baby together."
"Excuse me?" Emily said coughing on her wine.
"Amy and I discussed having a child together. We wanted to gift humanity with our progeny." Sheldon said.
"Yeah Howard and I were ready to kill him to prevent that from happening." Raj interjected.
"Ha ha." Sheldon said.
"So Penny said we needed to get to know each other first. After our first date we were still ready but then Sheldon's mother was going to be called in for an intervention." Amy said.
"I don't understand." Emily said.
"Well my mother is extremely religious and having a grandchild out of wedlock would have killed her at the time." Sheldon answered.
"That makes sense. So then you kept seeing each other? I've meant to ask, how long has it been since you met?"
"It will be 5 years in May." Sheldon answered.
"Wait you guys have been dating for 5 years?"
"No, we've been officially dating for 3 years but our first date was 4 and ½ years ago." Sheldon answered.
"That makes no sense. You had a date 4 and ½ years ago but have only been dating for 3 years. Can you explain that?"
"Oh let me, please." Raj begged.
"Now how would you know how to answer that question?" Sheldon inquired.
"She's a girl who's my friend but she is not my girlfriend." He answered.
"Oh yeah." Sheldon said.
"We were friends but not in a relationship. That happened a year later when I went out with Stuart." Amy answered.
"Oh, I see." Emily said. She didn't say anything more. She had promised Amy that she would not mention the kiss to Sheldon and she hadn't even told Raj.
Dinner arrived a little while later and the couples enjoyed their meals together. They continued the small talk and then decided not to order dessert because Sheldon and Amy had made the brownies. The men paid the check and the couples headed back to the apartment. Emily and Amy made Sheldon stop at the store quickly so they could pick up another bottle of wine before they went back.
When they arrived back at the apartment, Amy got the wine glasses and poured everyone a glass. She cut the brownies and the couples enjoyed their dessert.
"Oh Amy, I almost forgot, here is the Neosporin for that burn. Let me take a look at it and see if it needs the prescription." Emily commented.
Amy showed her the burn and Emily deemed it minor.
"You're lucky, you may not even have a scar. Just keep in clean and dry and you should be fine." Emily said to her.
"Thanks." Amy said.
"So what game should we play?" Sheldon said heading over to the closet. "We have so many."
"Why don't we let the ladies pick?" Raj said to him.
"Okay, so what would you ladies like to play?" He asked them.
"Why don't we do something different, how about Truth or Dare?" Emily said.
"Really, what are we teenage girls?" Sheldon whined.
"I think it sounds fun." Amy said.
"Of course you do, you like all that hippy dippy girly stuff." He said to her.
"I think it sounds like fun too." Raj said.
"I am beginning to understand why Leonard keeps asking you if you forgot your Y chromosome." He said.
"Well it's three to one, so it's settled." Amy said. "Since it was your idea, why don't you go first Emily."
"Before we play, should we set some ground rules?" Sheldon asked.
"Like what, Sheldon?" Raj asked.
"Well I think we should think about things we aren't comfortable doing if we are dared." He answered.
"Sheldon, no one is going to force you into doing something you really aren't comfortable doing." Amy said to him.
"Fine, but if I don't want to do it, I won't." He said.
"Agreed. Now go ahead Emily." Amy said.
"Okay, Raj truth or dare?" She said.
"Truth." He answered.
"Have you ever kissed another man?" She asked him.
"Yes." He answered.
Sheldon looked at him in shock.
"Who?" Sheldon asked.
"Really, you have to ask that?" Amy said to him seriously.
"I don't know who Raj would kiss like that, I know it wasn't me." He said.
"Come on we all know it was Howard." Amy said.
"Oh." Sheldon said. "Sorry, I didn't think about that, continue."
"Okay, Amy truth or dare." Raj said.
"Truth." She said.
"Have you ever kissed another female?" He asked.
"Yes." She said.
Raj was shocked. "You have?" And then looked at Sheldon who did not seem surprised. "You aren't surprised she has kissed another girl?" He asked.
"No, I was there." Sheldon answered him.
"What?" Both Emily and Raj asked shocked.
"Relax, guys I kissed Penny. It was back when Leonard was dating Priya and you guys were dissecting the Roommate Agreement. Sheldon went out drinking with us. I was a bit drunk and when Penny asked Sheldon about his scientific curiosity about kissing I volunteered for him to his and when he didn't respond, I kissed Penny. No big deal."
"And you didn't freak out?" Raj asked Sheldon.
"Why should I have? We weren't dating and I got a kiss from her later that night." He replied smiling.
"You did and you said it was fascinating." Amy said.
"I thought you didn't remember that night?" Sheldon inquired suspiciously.
"The next day, I didn't. But then things started coming back to me. I just let it go because we had reset our relationship to where we were both comfortable. I didn't want to put any pressure on you."
"Why didn't you say anything? I really wish you had." He said.
"Would that have changed anything?" She asked curiously.
"It might have. I reset the relationship because I didn't want to be the only one who remembered our first kiss."
"Well now I remember it and I remember you didn't gargle for 10 minutes like with Beverly. I also remember that you took good care of me while I was vomiting."
"I put a towel under your head when you passed out." He said.
"You did way more than that." Amy said.
"I didn't." He said. He looked at her with pleading eyes. He didn't want the guys to know what he did for her that night.
"Well I am still a little fuzzy about that night. Maybe I was hallucinating." She said, taking the hint from Sheldon. "So it is my turn. Sheldon, truth or dare."
"Truth." He answered. He knew she wouldn't ask him anything too crazy.
"Hmmm….this is tough. What do I want to know about you that I already don't?"
"There isn't anything that you don't already know. So go ahead and try and stump me."
"Can I help her?" Raj asked.
"I have no issues with that. I don't think Raj is going to tell Amy something I haven't already." Sheldon said to him. The truth was he wasn't sure if there was anything or not.
Raj whispered a question in his ear and Amy's face fell. Sheldon had a feeling this question was not going to go over well.
"Okay." She said taking a deep breath. She was really playing this up because Sheldon had already told her this but she wanted to see if he would squirm just a little bit.
"Give it your best."
"You told Penny that I was your first date, but Raj here says you had a date with someone else before me, who was that date?" She asked.
"That's the best you got?" Sheldon laughed. "Her name was Martha and we had a good time on 2 dates. Nothing ever happened except she did sleep in my bed that second night because Raj and Abby were getting busy on my couch. I slept in Leonard's room."
"Abby, that was the girl from the university mixer right?" Emily asked him.
"Yep, so Amy you knew?" Raj asked.
"Of course I knew. Sheldon told me that story while we were still talking over that first summer. I asked him if he ever had gone out on a date before me and he told me the truth about Martha and that crazy woman Ramona. When Penny mentioned I was his first date, he clarified later by telling me I was the first one he ever actually asked out on a date. Martha was a date that he was bribed into going. You still have those crazy Hulk hands right?"
"Absolutely." Sheldon answered smiling. "So see you can't even get her to be angry. I told her everything. So my turn, correct?"
"Yep go right ahead." Emily said.
"Alright, Emily, truth or dare."
"Dare." She answered quickly.
"I dare you to kiss Raj." He said.
"That's not a dare. I do that all the time. A dare would be more like this." Emily lunged over and kissed Amy.
"Well now." Amy said laughing. They had both had a bit too much wine. "That was unexpected."
"It certainly was." Sheldon said. "Oh well. I guess that means it is your turn Emily." Sheldon wasn't fazed at all. Raj was shocked.
"Dude, my girlfriend just kissed your girlfriend and you aren't upset?" Raj asked.
"Why should I be? It's not like they are going to start a relationship or anything because of it. I would be more upset had you kissed her."
"Me too." Emily said.
"You are just doing things tonight that surprise me." Raj said.
"So Emily it is your turn again." Sheldon said. He was actually enjoying this game, although he blamed the wine.
They played a few more rounds and they learned some interesting things about each other. All the while the girls were drinking wine while the guys were sobering up. Raj was going to ask the final question of the evening before everyone was to leave.
"Amy, truth or dare?" He asked.
"Truth." She answered. She had already done enough dares for the evening.
"Okay, before Sheldon, how many guys have you kissed? And what were their names?"
"3." She answered. "Michael was the guy with the insulin, Justin was a guy I went out with once and Eric."
"Liar!" Emily yelled. She was slurring her speech.
"What do you mean liar?" Sheldon said. "I knew about all these guys."
"She kissed someone else and never told you about it." She said.
"Okay Emily I think it is time for us to leave." Raj said getting up.
"No I want to hear what Emily has to say. You said Amy is lying. Who do you think she kissed besides these three?" Sheldon asked.
"Stuart." Emily answered.
Raj was shocked. He had no idea if this was true or not. Amy had never mentioned it before at girl's nights. This could be something Emily was confusing with Penny.
"Emily, I think you have Amy mixed up with Penny. Penny kissed Stuart before dating Leonard." Raj said.
"I know about that. But Amy admitted to kissing him the other night." She said.
"You kissed him the other night?" Sheldon asked getting angrier and angrier by the second.
"No!" Amy said.
"So when?" Sheldon asked her.
"After our first date." Amy admitted. She couldn't believe that Emily had just blurted it out like that.
"I see." Sheldon said. "Excuse me." He said and he walked out of the living room and down the hall to his room. Amy heard the unmistakable slamming of his door.
"Well I think we should be going." Raj said. "I had fun."
"Me too." Emily said.
"Yeah thanks a lot." Amy said sarcastically.
"You're welcome." Emily said.
"I don't think she meant that Emily." Raj said. "I'm really sorry. Go talk to him. Everything will be fine."
"I hope so." Amy said. "Goodnight."
Raj and Emily left with Raj holding her up as she stumbled through the door.
Amy walked down the hallway and stopped in front of Sheldon's door. She raised a hand to knock but paused for a minute. What was she going to say? She had sort of lied to him. Well she omitted the truth. What was going to make it better? She figured she might as well get it over with and knocked.
"Sheldon?" Amy said. "Can I come in?"
Okay I know I ended it on a cliffhanger but my words were getting the best of me so I needed to split this up into two chapters. Like I said have no fear they will be fine. Just a bit of jealousy and hurt because of the lie. And I like Emily and but I wanted her to be the one to spill the beans. She was drinking a bit too much, maybe she won't remember.
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