The Girls' Night Intervention - The other side...


Sheldon sat at his desk before his Gollum statuette amid red vine packets, half- eaten brownies and empty tea mugs. Occasionally, he would open his desk drawer and stare at the little box sitting there, wondering what went wrong.

He missed the hours of discussing, dissecting and playing games with Amy. He relished those peaceful hours spent in parallel play. He kept thinking about her scent, her voice, her beautiful green eyes and her lips.

But the emptiness of the apartment now formed a strange contrast to what used to be filled with her laughter and smiles.

He sat silently, solemnly pondering his own thoughts about life. Until he met Amy, science had been his one true love. He was utterly devoted to it and everything else was trivial to him. For him, science was the search for rules to understand a vast and complex universe, which forced those who lived in it, to understand it. Unfortunately, those creatures who found everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, were in grave peril.

This, to be concise, was exactly how Sheldon felt for most of his life. He had depended on his knowledge of science to guide him, to help him make informed decisions, never one to do anything irrational, never one to embrace the chaos. He utilized his brain to the maximum but in turn, shut down another part of him that was equally vital to sustain oneself in the real world: his heart.

As of late though, he was gradually realizing that having no one, particularly Amy, to share his heart and life with was…unbearable.

For fourteen days after their 'break', this was Sheldon's routine. He spent his time either at work where he was able to accomplish very little or alone in the apartment, sitting quietly at his desk. From time to time, he would glance at the door hoping there would be a soft knock from his beloved.

It never came though… until that night.


What? You thought I would just give you the answers...no, that would be too easy. :)

I needed to explain Sheldon's frame of mind before I actually continued the story.

Up next, there's a knock at the door... then what?

(The explanation of science is from "Can We Know The Universe? by Carl Sagan)