Part 2. Discussions
Amy, Penny and Bernadette were walking down the stairs. Amy was wearing a new blue dress brought for this night.
"Nice dress, Amy", said Bernadette trying to step down as fast as she can. Penny seemed to be bored. She had to slow down her steps.
"Did you decide to prolong your prom memories?' asked Penny.
"Not at all. Sheldon advised me to wear a blue dress today. According to the researches, blue is a color of calm and helps to avoid gastric ulcer".
"How romantic of him".
"I wonder what boys will do without us?" asked Amy trying to be careful. Her new dress was too long, perhaps.
"Trust me, they'll be okay".
"Howard told me they would watch couple of their space-fantasy movies, but I saw through him. I always know when he lies".
"How did you guess?" asked Penny.
"Oh, it is easy! He starts to raise his voice while talking. Still confuses me with his mum".
"How romantic of him!" repeated Penny.
"Sheldon never lies to me. He just can't", noticed Amy proud of her boyfriend.
"May be, you should read Sheldon's manual carefully", advised Penny. "I think Leonard has already written it after all the years of their friendship".
"So what are they planning?" asked Amy.
Bernadette smiled.
"He said they are planning a surprise for us. It must concern Christmas gifts".
"Why do you think so? It's a lot of time before Christmas".
"It's plenty enough for you because you don't plan presents at all", noticed Amy to Penny.
"I'm sure it's Christmas… And I'm not sure Howard can remember any other occasion for gifts", Bernadette tried to be honest.
"I hope it's going to be something amazing", said Amy.
Penny tried to be honest too.
"I don't care. But Leonard and Raj shouldn't buy the same things for us or I'll kill Emily. I hate her so much!"
Amy turned out to Bernadette, smiling.
"I believe they can actually kill each other when they meet. It'll be the best Christmas ever!"
Guys were preparing for dinner. Leonard was taking out the food from paper bag. Howard was looking at the laptop screen.
"Take it", Leonard gave the container to Sheldon.
"Thanks", Sheldon looked happy. "I love this evening so much!"
Too happy. Something was wrong.
"Amy is trying to take you out to the unplanned date, right?" asked Leonard.
"Right. You've got to the bottom of me. May be, I haven't learned to lie yet".
"Thanks God".
Howard looked at them.
"Guys, I've found a nice website containing all "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" souvenirs. We need just to choose presents for our ladies".
"Let's see what we can choose. Emily's present must be unique", said Raj coming closer. "Well, except another thousand copies of these souvenirs, of course".
"Do you still believe in this idea?" asked Leonard going to fridge to have some water.
"I can't understand why you disagree about this", said Howard. He continued to open website pages.
"We've finally met our girlfriends. Do you think its okay to scare them away?"
"Don't worry. Actually, you need these presents most of all", noticed his friend.
"Why?"
"It's easy. If you want to keep your engagement with Penny give her One Ring!"
"We're getting married!" answered Leonard getting angry. He was tired of all these jokes.
"Yeah, but if she has it your marriage can be destroyed only by the flames of Mount Doom. Just think of it".
Sheldon's face lit up.
"Oh, that's brilliant! You should choose the same ring for your ceremony. It'll be awesome. So sad we had to destroy our old Ring".
Howard turned the monitor to them.
"So, let's take a decision. What do you like?"
"I know what to give Amy", Sheldon decided to impress his friends by his choice. "It's gonna be Aragorn's sword, of course. It will prove useful to my sword collection".
"You had better give her Aragorn. Or Legolas".
"I don't think Amy like swords, Sheldon", said Leonard taking his place.
"They are starting their squabble again. I missed it", Raj whispered to Howard.
"Why? Well, I hate to give presents", continued Sheldon without noticing anything. "But when I do – I make an excellent choice".
"You are wrong".
Sheldon looked at Leonard, amazed by his words.
"Do you really believe I can make mistakes?"
"Of course, you can".
Sheldon dropped his fork.
"C'mon, you are an ordinary person, Sheldon. Well, except all of our selfishness and madness, you know".
"It seems like Leonard is too attached to previous Sheldon's version. He should update him till next level", answered Howard to Raj.
"Aha. He stopped seeing danger", he absolutely agreed with him. "Like a zebra standing near the lake with an alligator".
Sheldon shrugged.
"You are wrong. You are just envious, that's all. I'm always right, both in physics and usual life".
"Right. That's why you don't study string theory any more", Howard rolled up his eyes.
"We all make mistakes, Sheldon. Just deal with it".
"Oh, I don't think so".
"Agree, you can't admit you are wrong", said Leonard getting angry again. Sheldon was too noisy today. "Even Stephen Hocking made a mistake!"
"How dare are you!" Sheldon was totally shocked.
"But this is the fact! He affirmed that the information caught in the black hole is lost for the rest of the universe. But later he could admit that black holes don't have event horizon which means that information is not lost completely!"
"And he proved that time travelling is impossible! He broke the dream of my whole life!"
Disappointed Sheldon ran away to his room.
Guys went on to have dinner.
"He seems to be really upset", said Howard. "You overtried".
Leonard took a deep breath.
"Someone should come for him".
"Someone?! I won't get into this alligator's lake!" said Raj.
"I'll talk to him".
"All right. We hope you'll survive this".
Leonard came to Sheldon's room.
"He became too relaxed after the engagement", said Raj shaking his head.
"Yeah! It's crazy to mention Stephen Hoking's name in that way", answered Howard.