Leonard's Mother Visits

by NatashaS99

After Leonard's mother comes for a surprise visit, she becomes much closer to Sheldon. Amy becomes upset as he spends more time with Leonard's mother than he has done with her, causing much controversy between them. Meanwhile, Howard visits Bernadette's parents for dinner but this results in an argument between him and her dad, and she is forced to choose between them or him.

4. Chapter 4

In Amy's apartment the next day

"I can't believe you ditched me at the cinema yesterday to go and get your brain scanned with some random woman I just..." Amy screamed, but was interrupted by Sheldon who was trying to make an excuse "firstly, she was not a random woman, she was Leonard's mother" "and secondly, it was important for her work" "and lastly..." Sheldon said with some hesitation towards the end. "lastly what?" Amy questioned him. "lastly... I apologize for my actions" he said, as if he was in great pain while doing so. Amy's face suddenly looked more sympathetic, and almost happy. "I guess I could give you another chance..." she told him.

"meet at the cheesecake factory tomorrow, at 5:00pm, and we can have dinner together" she excitedly continued. "But... but... I'm busy, I already have an appointment, I mean a discussion of... work, I mean a..." Sheldon objected, " A what, Sheldon? What could be more important than this? This is your last chance to show up or... or I'm breaking up with you!" Amy said angrily, before walking up to the door at a rather slow pace and managing to choke out "please don't disappoint me Sheldon" and then walked away.

'What am I supposed to do now? I certainly can't skip dinner with Amy, but I already organised a meeting with Mrs Hofstadter.' Sheldon thought to himself, to which he then replied to himself aloud "what if I do both? perhaps I could switch between both events and not have to disappoint anyone" He smiled and brought himself a notepad to write his plan.

meanwhile when Howard and Bernadette are eating at a restaurant

Both Bernadette and Howard were poking at their meals, too anxious about what this meal would adjudge. Neither one of them had spoken to the other for the past day unless it was entirely necessary. Eventually, Howard finally murmured "I can't believe you are actually thinking about this. I am your husband and I am staying here, so you should too if you want to keep this relationship. We all know that long distance relationships never work out..." Bernadette stopped playing with her peas and put her fork down. "and I can't believe how selfish you're being! my parents are moving to the other side of the world and all you worry about is what it will mean for you... this is a life changing decision for ME, Howard!"

Howard also placed his cutlery back onto the table and looked Bernadette in the eye. "This is a life changing decision for ME too, you know what? I think that you are the selfish one! you think that you're the one with the big decision to make, you don't even take into consideration on how this might affect me. Maybe you should move to Australia with your parents!" Bernadette's eyes filled with anger... "well maybe I will", "fine" said Howard. They both left the table and drove home, without speaking a word to eachother.