Chapter 9

"So, why didn't you tell me about him?" Leonard asked.

"Well, Leonard, in the last three weeks since we met," she started to speak real quick, "we have spent a total of ninety three point three minutes together. Not including the twenty-minute interrogation with your mother. In that time we had to cover our total sum of sixty years of life. And despite the fact that eighteen of my years were chronicled in a book, there was a lot of explaining to do which made for three times the amount of information but we will ignore that fact and stick to the twenty-five years of my life and thirty-five of yours. Besides, I knew nothing about you. But it averages down to seven point six eight months per minute."

And at this point in the episode, the audience would erupt in cheer for the amazing math she just did in her head.

"It's understandable that we hadn't covered everything." She finished.

Leonard stared at her.

"Okay, I understand." Leonard nodded, trying to do half the math in his head. He could figure it out, but the actual equations were too much for him that quickly.

"You understood that?" Embry asked. "You must be related." He grinned and Pris giggled.

"Oh he's making a joke," Leonard said after a smile broke on his face too.

"Gandalf." Embry turned to Pris. "I have to go. I will be back after the meeting."

"Yeah. Okay." She stood on her toes and kissed him.

Leonard frowned. "Did he call you Gandalf?"

Pris grinned. "Yes. I'm the wizard. It's our thing."

"Cute." Leonard teased her a little and she actually blushed.

"Well, he calls me a lot of things." She said.

"I probably don't need to know that." Leonard wondered where she was going with this.

"Moon of my life." Embry quoted. "Angel of music, Juliet, Snow." He continued. "There is just no way to describe her in a single sentence."

"Stop talking about me like I'm not here." She blushed even deeper.

"I have to go, Love." He leaned in and kissed her again before waving to Leonard and walking down the stairs.

Pris stared after him with a far-off look in her eye. Leonard eventually laughed, shaking her from her thoughts.

"What?" she asked.

"With that look on your face, it's strange that he isn't the only thing you talk about." Leonard joked. She frowned at him for a second. "I'm just teasing you."

"The term: 'out of sight, out of mind' applies."

"What do you mean?"

Pris stared down the stairs quickly and then looked back at Leonard, a curious look on her face.

"I think I can actually explain this in a way that you may understand." She said.

"Explain what?"

Pris started walking towards his door. "Embry is like Oxygen to me." She said and he followed with a cute "awww".

"It's essential for my life. He's a constant. But when I don't think about it, I'm not even aware that I'm breathing."

"So you did forget about him?" Leonard teased.

"Just because I don't always think about oxygen, doesn't mean that I forgot to breathe."

Leonard's jaw dropped. "Wow." And he nearly walked into his door. He bumped his foot against the closed door as he stared at Pris and collected himself.

"No measure of time or distance can change the way I feel about him. When I'm not around him that pull he has on me, that magnetic force, is gone, but it…"

"Doesn't mean you're not attracted to him or feel any different." He finished her sentence as they walked into the apartment. "That's really romantic, Pris."

"What is romantic?" Sheldon asked. He stood in front of the giant Jenga game with the three dimensional chess game on the coffee table behind him.

"She used Oxygen and Magnatism to describe her relationship with her husband."

"You're married?" Sheldon asked, shocked. "Someone vowed to put up with you 'til death do you part?"

"Shocking, huh?" she joked.

"Sheldon." Leonard tried but Pris smiled and shook her head. Sheldon didn't bother her as much as he wanted to.

"Whatcha doin?" Pris asked Sheldon as she stared at the assemble Jenga tower.

"I want to challenge you to a few high tech games." Sheldon said with a sneaky smile.

"What's this?" she pointed at the 3D chessboard.

"3D chess." Leonard answered as he rolled his eyes. He didn't know what Sheldon's point was, but perhaps this was him trying to be nice.

Pris looked down at the strange looking board and turned her head a few times as she stared at the white and black blocks.

"I have wizard's chess." She mumbled.

"What?" Leonard asked excitedly. Sheldon almost jumped out of his skin, it was an exciting thought, but he contained himself.

"Yeah. Life size pieces, Giant board. Voice activated movements too. I made it myself. It's installation art."

"Cool." Leonard grinned.

"So, 3D chess?" Pris looked at Sheldon. "Challenge accepted."