Time for the girls to think about the night
I still own nothing
The girls sat around playing with Max and Jenny. Penny had told the girls that if they tired the babies out a bit before Penny fed them, the babies just might sleep a little longer. The night was starting to wind down, and Penny figured Leonard would be home a bit later. Hopefully, he would be able to help with the feeding before putting the babies down for the night. Penny had thought about what the girls said. Maybe she could spend some more time pursuing a career in communications. She also thought that she should talk to Leonard about it. Alex and Amy were picking up the glasses and the dishes from the coffee table while Penny and Bernadette bounced Max and Jenny on their knee. The Kids were really a help tonight. They seemed to soothe some feelings that the girls were having trouble with. Penny would have thought they could not have expected anything else. They were perfect. They were little parts of her and Leonard. Smart and beautiful, just like Leonard had told Sheldon on the very first day they met. Leonard was so smart to see it back then. Penny thought how incredibly lucky she was that she finally figured out that her future could only be tied to Leonard. He was so sweet and understanding. He was always so supportive and helpful. And SO handsome and sexy. A lot of people might not think so, but to her, compared to all those other jerks she went out with? Leonard was so much better than any of them, and that included the bedroom…. Oh my god… was Leonard better than any of them in the bedroom. She thought and then had a sly smile on her face before she turned Max and gave him a big hug.
Bernadette held onto little Jenny and just swayed from one foot to the other. She had never been comfortable around babies. Ever since she had to take care of her sisters and brothers, she had thought she didn't like kids and until Penny had Max and Jenny, she was sure that she didn't want any children of her own. Howard was a little sad that she didn't want any kids. He had grown up alone and would have rather had siblings to play with. Bernadette's mother had made some good points about not really understanding what the bond was between a mother and her child until you had one. Look at Penny, She was one of the most driven people to make some kind of a career in entertainment. If she had children? That would certainly ruin her chances. But now she has kids. She loves them so much. She wouldn't trade them for a room full of acting awards.
Alex thought that the night was going to be a disaster. She didn't really even know if she wanted to come. She was glad that she did show up. Her father said that Alex should find some friends that she could trust and ask them for some help. The help she needed had to do with two things, babies and Raj. The baby thing was pretty much taken care of. She had found a group of friends that not only has people worried about how children could affect your career, she had found some friends that had thought they didn't want children. And to top it off, she had found friends that HAD children and even though the babies were a surprise, and they did affect her career, and she wasn't married when she found out about them…. She loved them and would do anything for them. They were the center of her world.
Amy couldn't really understand what all the fuss was about. Sure Sheldon had said that he enjoyed her company. It really wasn't anything that he hadn't said before. He had often commented that she was a better conversationalist than Leonard, and Leonard was far and away better than the rest of the group. Sure Howard and Raj shared interests, but Howard didn't have a PhD and until recently, Raj was rendered mute most of the time unless his mind was being blurred by alcohol. Bernadette had a PhD but it was in Microbiology, a notion that Amy actually took offense at considering her own PhD was also from the "squishy sciences". And that left Penny. Sheldon had routinely commented on the inability or unwillingness of that Midwestern backwoods blonde to carry on the simplest of conversations, a statement that Amy also took issue with considering that Penny often added a stabilizing point of view to the otherwise air of academia within their group.
The four girls said their goodbyes after putting the children in the playpen. Each had agreed that they needed to have a heart to heart conversation with their significant other. Who knows each of them could have a dramatic change in their lifestyle. They had left promising to update their little group that had just grown from three to four. It was a tight bond that they had formed and one that each of them hoped would not be affected by the decision that were ahead of each of them.
Bernadette would have no problem getting a chance to talk with Howard. He would jump at the chance to have this conversation.
Penny was a little guilty at wanting to address the topic of her career with Leonard. He had just given her the two most precious gifts any man could have given to a women. And now, she wanted to change the fragile routine they had sent the last four months building. And then, what would happen to her relationship with her children. Would they hate her for abandoning them? Could she afford to take away more of the time she should be spending with her husband?
Alex was in a complete state of confusion about how to approach Raj. She had left him with the impression that she didn't want children or she didn't want children with him. She had no idea what hiss opinions were if she had to move for her career. The only thing that was clear to her was that she had developed very deep feelings for him and she didn't want to lose what feelings were growing between them.
Amy had no misgivings as to how she was going to handle her conversation with Sheldon. This was simply a question that needed to be posed and she was sure that the answer he gave would be honest and truthful. Sheldon had absolutely no pretense. He told it like it was. This particular attribute was a bit scary for Amy. While she understood that Sheldon was that way, and she had used the same logic to come to decisions in the past, the truth sometimes hurt and Amy did not want to be hurt by Sheldon. She was quite sure that she was actually in love with him. And for her, their relationship was NOT one of only intellectual pursuits.