i would again like to thank Shamy4eva for her help with this chapter. Thank you for sticking with the story. I own none of this.
As much as Amy is trying to just stay in the now she is finding it hard. What she thought was going to be a session of shirtless kissing, is quickly becoming something more thrilling. As much as she would love to do it again her brain will not let her forget the fact that they have already used their one prophylactic. Although they had discussed it in the past she did not think Sheldon would appreciate it much if she got pregnant.
"Sheldon… we… should… stop" she says between kisses.
"You don't want to?" He asks concerned, staring into her eyes, his own looking fathomless and impossibly blue.
"I do, very much, it's just that, I thought you had only the one condom?" Amy says breathlessly as he maneuvers on top of her and produces one from the bed stand.
"I did, I stole these from my sisters room seeing as she won't have the occasion to use them for a while."
"You stole them from your sister, how devious of you." Amy laughs
"I am just getting her back for the myriad of things she has purloined from my room over the years. You know she once even stole a Mint in Package Batman figure from my room and gave it to some boy."
"Well if I had a brother I would steal his dolls and give them to you." Amy tells him looking into his eyes. He bites his lip looking incredibly sexy.
"Well, if you had a brother you would know that they are called action figures and not dolls." He says with mock seriousness bending down to kiss her again and stopping just short of her face.
"What. Is something wrong?" she asks
"Have I ever told you that I think you are incredibly beautiful?" he says kissing her softy on the tip of her nose.
"No, but to be fair not many people have. Even my mother describes me as being a handsome woman."
"Well she is wrong. You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen." Amy reaches up and kisses him deeply. They continue to remove their clothes, their actions, as they enjoy each other's bodies are easier this time. Slow and intense. Amy had once read coitus being described as the meeting and blending of two souls. At the time she had found the description ridiculous, sex was purely mechanical nothing else. Yet now she felt the truth of this in her joining with Sheldon.
Afterwards as she lays on her side with Sheldon's arm draped around her she wishes they could stay like this forever. However she knows they should get up, someone will be looking for them soon enough. Maybe when they get home… Then she stops that train of thought. As her mother always said, the best way to not get your hopes dashed is to have no hopes at all. Amy moves to get her clothes and sees the letter from Memaw's house laying on the ground. Amy panics and jumps up hastily getting dressed and retrieving the letter.
"I think I have distracted you enough. I had better go see what everyone else is doing in case they come checking on us
"It was a very welcome distraction, but I guess you are right." He says moving to get dressed. Unsure of what to say next and anxious to read the letter and dispose of it she hurries out of the door without further comment.
Amy hurries down the hall to get to the bathroom and bumps right into Leonard who is just leaving it. Leonard having seen Amy leave Sheldon's room asks "Hey Amy, were you able to make Sheldon feel any better?"
"What do you mean by that? How would I make him feel better?" Amy says flushing crimson and trying to move past Leonard in the hall.
"Well when I was with him earlier he was acting like a giant jerk and sometimes though he is a jerk to everyone else, you seem to be able to get through to him." Leonard tells her.
"I have no idea what you are talking about. Now excuse me I have to use the restroom." She stammers pushing past him to get to the bathroom. When she gets inside she quickly shuts and locks the door. Amy stares at herself in the mirror wondering if Leonard could see the evidence of her and Sheldon's activities. Her eyes seemed extra bright and her cheeks flushed. Amy combs her fingers through her hair and splashes water on her cheeks.
Pulling the letter from under her sweater, she sits on the toilet lid to read it.
Sheldon hears the door open and without looking up says with a hint of seduction in his voice.
"Back so soon, I thought you were done distracting me."
"Actually, it's someone new to bother you." Leonard says walking over to his bed and sitting down he notices that the bed is disheveled. "I've never known you to have an unmade bed." He comments. Sheldon slowly turns his head to look at Leonard.
"It isn't unmade it is made! The covers got messed up when Amy sat on it just like you are doing now. I really should get another chair in here for guests." with a touch of hysteria in his voice.
"Sheldon you are only going to be here a couple more days, I am sure it will be fine. Are you and Amy okay? I just ran into her in the hallway and she was acting really odd; like more weird than usual."
"Amy? She is fine, better than fine, nothing going on with Amy at all." Sheldon says overly casual, but his voice continuing to rise a little higher.
"Okay, now you are acting weird, and with you I do not use that term lightly." Leonard says.
"Oh REALLY Leonard, my grandmother with whom I was very close has just died. I have been ripped from routines that I have carefully crafted to keep my life in order. My brother is acting like a horny drunken sex fiend around both the woman I love and one of my closest friends and these are a few things that just may be affecting my behavior." Sheldon barks at him and Leonard puts up his hands defeated.
"I'm sorry, I know things have been rough for you the past couple of days. However don't forget that I have flown out here from Pasadena to support you and you have been irritated with me the entire time." Leonard tells him annoyed.
"You're right, but now the good news is that I think I am making progress on the eulogy." Sheldon tells him.
"Really, you were pretty stuck before."
"Yes, Amy has helped to relieve some of my tension. Now my mind feels freer to focus on what it needs to."
"Oh really? And how did Amy help relieve your tension?" Leonard says raising his eyebrow.
"Well you know, she delved into her neurobiological bag of tricks to soothe the savage beast as it were." Sheldon says spinning back around in his chair. "Now if you will excuse me, I have this eulogy to complete."
Penny is sitting in the kitchen having a cup of coffee with Missy and catching up.
"Missy what have you been up too the past six years?" Penny asks her eying her belly.
"You know staying busy". Missy laughs patting her belly.
"So tell me about your husband, I asked Sheldon but all he knew was his name was Ryan and he did something with oil."
"His name is Ryan Beudeux and he is, if you could not already tell by his name, from Louisiana. Ryan works on an oil rig, so he is gone a lot. I am surprised that Shelly knew as much as he did, you never know with him how much he is actually listening to you."
"Tell me about it, he literally told me that when I talk I sound like one of the parents on Charlie Brown to him. So how did you guys meet?"
"Oh honey, let me tell you it was like something out of a Harlequin book. I was working at this little hole in the wall place as a waitress. We were really slow so I was staring out the window bored out of my skull and dreaming about the day when I could quit. Then this big black motorcycle pulls up and on it is the most handsome man I have ever seen. Big broad shoulders, head full of black hair, and he walked with this swagger." Missy's voice is dreamy as she describes him.
"Hmm I know that type" Penny sighs.
"Oh, I am just getting started. He walks into the bar and sits down in one of the booths. We were empty so I was the only waitress on duty. Penny let me tell you, once I got up close he was so hot he was liable to make your teeth sweat. I could not even form a coherent thought around him, so much so that I brought him the wrong drink. I did not think I had a hope in the world with him. Then when he leaves, he leaves me a hundred dollar tip with his name and number written on it." Missy pauses to take a sip of her coffee
"Wow and you called. I had guys do that when I was a waitress but I never had the courage to call. I was afraid they would be axe murders or worse, players." Penny tells her.
"Of course I called, I figured even if he was a player it would be a hell of a pleasure to be played by him." Missy laughs. "On our first date he absolutely swept me off my feet. I was so disappointed when he told me that he was just on break from the rig and would have to go back in two months. We decided to make the most of the time we had and that I would wait for him for when he came back into town. However the week before he was due to leave to go back on the rig he said he could not stand the thought of some other man stealing me away while he was gone so he got down on one knee proposed. We went to the justice of the peace and were married the next day. Good thing too, because even though I did not know it yet little, Ayden was already cooking."
"Did your mom and grandmother approve of such a whirlwind romance?" Penny asks curious.
"Mama was a little hesitant at first, she did not want him leaving me high and dry. Memaw though, she was a surprisingly liberal lady. She had this saying "Boys ain't supposed to be pretty ; but boy oh boy do I love me a pretty man!" and Memaw thought Ryan was plenty pretty." Missy giggles and Penny laughs too.
"How did he win Mary over?"
"It helps that he is a bit of a charmer and was able to wrap Mama and Memaw around his little finger." Missy seems wistful before she changes the subject. "Enough about me! You've got your own big news. I heard you and Leonard got engaged. How did that happen? When I met ya'll it did not even seem that you liked him like that."
"Well that was six years ago and a lot has happened in six years. Leonard is my best friend and soul mate." Penny tells her.
"Speaking of soul mates here he comes right now." Missy says as Leonard walks into the kitchen and gives Penny a kiss on the cheek before sitting down in the chair next to her.
"Do you think Sheldon and Amy are doing alright?" Leonard asks them.
"I"ll say!" Penny says at the same time that Missy says "Better than alright."
Then they both look at each other and ask.
"What did you mean by that?"
"I just mean that, my brother who used to be an emotionless robot boy, has been walking around here looking at that girl like a starry eyed moon calf." Missy says
"I was with Amy earlier and she tells me everything. If anything was going on I would be the first to know." Penny says sipping her coffee casually.
"I don't know, Sheldon has been acting really weird since we got here. Something is definitely going on with him. Then I ran into Amy in the hall and she was acting even weirder than usual. I'm kind of worried."
"Maybe he has a secret he does not want you to know?" Missy says as Leonard's phone beeps and he bends down to look at it.
"What do you know?" Penny mouths to her.
"What do you know?" Missy mouths back. Penny glances over at Leonard and seeing that he is still occupied and makes a circle with her fingers with one hand and with her other hand she slides a finger through the circle. Missy covers her mouth to stifle a scream and holds up her right hand and points to the ring on it and taps it. Penny is unable to contain her excitement and screams out.
"What!" Leonard's head snaps up and he turns to give Penny a quizzical look.
"What are you doing Leonard? Don't you know it is rude to stare at your phone the whole time you are a guest in someone's house! Now if you'll excuse us, Missy has something to show me in her room right now." Penny and Missy get up and leave Leonard at the table with a baffled look on his face. He shrugs his shoulders and bends down to look at his phone again.
"Maybe it's not Sheldon, maybe it is just Texas." He says to himself."