Chapter 5

A/N: This is a short little chapter, that is leading up to bigger things in the next few chapters.

The morning sun had started shining into the living room of the apartment. Sheldon was lying on the couch, with one of his long legs resting on the top of it. He had lay there all night replaying the events of the previous night in his head. Two days ago, he had his date night with Amy, which was fun and ended in a sensual kiss. Today, she was questioning whether she wanted to be with him anymore. How did they get to this place?

As angry as he was with Penny and Bernadette, he knew that he couldn't put all the blame solely on them. If she had felt more secure about his feelings for her, then she wouldn't have believed what Penny and Bernadette had told her. Why couldn't he express how he feels to her? Why did he feel completely filled with panic, every time things started to get steamy between them.

"Oh what the hell is wrong with me?" Sheldon whispered to himself. He used to enjoy being different from the others, thinking differently, acting differently. His being different had never really hurt anyone, it may annoy others, but never hurt them. But now, he was feeling that his physical intimacy limitations were hurting Amy more than he had realized.

"Sheldon? What are you doing out here? Are you ready for work already?" Leonard asked as he shuffled into the room in his bathrobe.

Work? What time was it? Sheldon glanced at his phone, stunned that it was 6:30 am. "I'm not going in today. I'll email work and let them know" he whispered.

"Buddy, did you find Amy? Was she ok?" Leonard asked.

"I found her, and no she is not ok" Sheldon replied. He swung his legs down from the couch and moved into a sitting position. "She doesn't want to see me for a while…two weeks, to assess her feelings about us."

"What? Why? Did you two get into a fight when you found her?"

"No, but she believes all the garbage Penny and Bernadette told her. She thinks I'm not attracted to her. She thinks I can do better than her. The whole thing has sent her into a tailspin." Sheldon looked up at Leonard. "Why are you home? I thought you'd be at Penny's taking care of her."

"Yeah well, Penny is not exactly on my 'nice' list right now."

"Penny is supposed to be my friend. Why would she hurt me like this? Why would she hurt Amy like that? I don't understand…."

"Honestly, I don't really understand what is going on with Penny right now. She was in no state to talk last night, so we are going to have a long talk tonight. Listen buddy, things will be ok with Amy. You guys love each other, you just need to show her more."

"I wish it were that simple."

"It is that simple, you just overcomplicate everything."

Sheldon stared at him and whispered "Yes, well we all know how fucked up I am". He grabbed his phone, plugged in his headphones and started up an app. He lay back down on the couch and closed his eyes.

Leonard thought to himself that Sheldon never swears. Oh boy, this is not good…this is not good at all.

Sheldon opened the app Spotify on his phone. He looked scrolled down to the categories and set it to MOOD: Sad. He hit play and let the slow sad songs fill his ears. The exhaustion of all the nights events were beginning to take over his body, he slowly drifted off to sleep.

Penny opened the apartment door, holding her coffee cup. She tripped over Sheldon's messenger bag which was laying by the door. "Ouch!" she yelled.

Sheldon jumped up from the couch startled.

"Sheldon Oh my God!" Penny screamed and dropped her coffee cup. "What are you doing home?"

"What am I doing here? This is my home! What are you doing here?"

"I just needed some"

"Milk." Sheldon finished.

"Yeah….I'm not feeling so hot today, so I called in sick " Penny looked at Sheldon. He was wearing the same clothes from last night, he had bags under his eyes. His eyes were a little pink, like he had been crying. "Sweetie are you ok?"

Sheldon looked at Penny, she looked like her normal morning self. A little disheveled, but perfectly normal Penny. "Why don't you ask your bestie that?" he muttered.

"Oh Sheldon, listen….we were all having a bad day, and we all said stuff that we shouldn't have. Girls fight like this all the time. It's not a big deal. We will all give our I'm sorry texts today, and things will be back to normal in no time."

"Yes, well I think that this fight is not going to be one that is so easily resolved." Sheldon looked at Penny, "She's questioning whether to continue our relationship, we are on a two week break."

"Oh Amy! I will talk to her and sort her out. She can be a bit oversensitive sometimes.."

"Unbelievable….Un-fucking-believable"

"Sheldon you swore!"

Just then Sheldon's phone went off. It was a text from Leonard.

Sheldon, can you please come down to the university. Gablehauser wants to speak with you and he says that it is quite urgent.

Sheldon quickly typed a message back.

Tell him I will be there in one hour.

Sheldon turned to Penny, "Please give me the apartment key back."

"Why?"

"Because I no longer wish to have you in this apartment."

"You can't just take the key from me. It's Leonard's apartment also. He wants me to have a key"

"Wrong. It is my apartment, my name is on the lease not Leonard. Thus it is my apartment, and I want your key back." He snatched the keys from her hands and ushered her towards the door.

"Sheldon, just because you and Amy are having problems, don't put the blame square on me. She obviously wasn't happy with how things were to go on a break so easily."

"I know it." Sheldon said quietly as he shut the door.