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Unfortunately for Sheldon, date night going to Old Town ended up being cancelled as Amy was in a meeting that overran and as a consequence it was now 630pm and he was still waiting to hear from her since she had text him to say she would be late and he had taken the bus home. He had ordered a pizza and managed to get some work done whilst he was waiting for her, when she eventually arrived they had a lovely evening as usual and Amy told him about the meeting and that she had to go to a fundraising event in two weeks time and asked Sheldon to accompany her which he accepted

Friday night

The group except Amy who was running late again were together again on their regular game night and Sheldon asked them about going to the beach

'Amy I were thinking of going to Long Beach tomorrow, if anybody wants to join us'

Everybody except Kripke said yes

'What time do you want to leave Sheldon, it probably takes about an hour to get there' asked Howard

'Well if we leave at 830am we can still have plenty of time to spend most of the day there and return home in good time, there is plenty of things we can do and we can go on the Queen Mary ship again and visit the aquarium' said Sheldon excitedly

Just then Amy walked in and Sheldon greeted her with a cuddle and a brief kiss

'Hi everybody how you doing?

Everybody nodded and said fine

'Amy I kept your food warm in the oven for you, whenever you are ready'

'Thank you Sheldon, I'm going to need a shower first though, one of the rabbits threw up over me and I can't get the smell out'

'Ok we will all be here when you are done' Sheldon smiled at Amy and hugged her again happy to see her

'You guys carry on for a moment, I want to talk to Amy alone'

He walked with Amy to the bedroom and then locked the door

'What do you want to talk about Sheldon? Asked Amy confused

'Nothing much just this' and he pulled Amy into his arms and kissed her passionately

'I wanted to do that when you came in but not with everybody watching!'

'Well thank you for that, it was a very warm welcome' Amy was smiling at Sheldon and took his hand and they lay in each others arms on the bed kissing for a few minutes before Amy got up

'Thank you Sheldon I needed that'

'Always a pleasure Amy, now you go and have your shower and I will see you in a few minutes'

10 minutes later Amy walked into the living room feeling much better and very refreshed after her shower, Sheldon gave her the food and she sat at the kitchen bench eating and chatting with Bernadette, Penny and Alex

'So Penny are you still going to Hollywood tomorrow?

'Well seeing as Sheldon has invited us to the beach I think I can go Sunday'

'Yes and I'm going with her and coming back on Wednesday and because of that, Penny has booked a double room and I have paid half for it and she will go to a single room when I leave' said Bernadette

'Well I wish you good luck' said Amy truthfully

'Thank you I have a feeling that I may need it! I've looked at a few casting agents down there and have made appointments but I don't know how successful I will be but I can always find out more when I get there, I know its not far to go but I think if I show my face and what I can do then I might get something'

The boys were playing video games but they noticed Sheldon was distracted as he kept looking over at Amy and of course Howard had to ask

'Sheldon what are you looking at Amy like that for?

'Like what?'

'Like you want to do the nasty with her and don't think we don't know what you took her in the bedroom for'

'Howard let me tell you now, I don't just want to do that with her, Amy is a very special girl, I want to spend the rest of my life with her and what we do in the bedroom is no concern of yours' replied Sheldon very animatedly

'I never thought I would see Sheldon in love' cackled Howard

'Yes well I have changed and for the better'

'Yes we have noticed and you no longer mock me over my lack of PHD so please let that continue!'

'Any more comments like that and I can always revert back to type' said Sheldon

The group laughed and carried on playing video games

Later in the evening as the group were getting ready to leave Sheldon brought something up

'We need to decide who is going in what car, I am obviously going to be with Amy so we can take two more people and one other person can drive the remainder of the group' said Sheldon

'Well I can come with you' said Alex

'Yes me too' said Raj

'I will drive my car with Howard, Penny and Stuart' confirmed Bernadette

The group left around 1030 and knowing they needed to be ready early the next morning they went straight to bed.

The next morning both Sheldon and Amy were awake early enough that as Sheldon was feeling particularly horny and Amy responded to that by kissing him very hard and wrapping her legs round his as they rolled around in bed enjoying each other until they needed to get ready

'Amy do you think we need to take lunch with us or should we just get something out'

'Well I imagine there are plenty of restaurants that we can choose from'

'Yes but they are not Sheldon approved' complained Sheldon

'Well what can I say Sheldon, it's up to you but I will probably go to a restaurant'

'Your right I'm being silly, I should be over that compulsion to have everything just so'

'That's more like it! Laughed Amy as she kissed him

The group all arrived at 830 and they were ready to go and Sheldon had decided after much persuasion that the use of the walkie talkies was not needed

They arrived in Long Beach at around 930am and they all agreed to go and visit the aquarium centre first, though because it was so big they split up and went round by themselves

The group had agreed that they would meet up at 4pm to leave

Sheldon was fascinated by everything and he Amy had decided to watch the shark feeding session and had been told that some of the sharks were tame and that they could be touched which they both did and then Sheldon was even happier and to find that there was a restaurant on site so he and Amy had lunch while the others ate elsewhere

After lunch Sheldon & Amy went to the Queen Mary ship and paid for an official tour which they had both enjoyed immensely then they had a walk around the town for the rest of the afternoon

Saturday evening was laundry night as usual for Sheldon and as he did that Amy was working on some brain analysis from her laptop and Bernadette was staying the night at Pennys so they could leave together in the morning

The boys went to their regular paint ball event on Sunday morning and as there was no regular Sunday Morning breakfast with the girls Amy went into the lab to check on the rabbits and to catch up on cutting some brains that had been delivered with tumours in them

Sheldon arrived back at the apartment at 1pm with Howard and Raj as Amy had offered to cook Sunday dinner for them and had also invited Alex so she could at least have a girly chat with somebody while she cooked and the boys played card games

Amy had also made a dessert for afterwards and the group went home feeling very full

After the group had left Amy turned to Sheldon

'Sheldon I wont be able to see you until I come over Tuesday after work ready for our trip away and even that will be quite late, I need to organise the staff rotation in the lab for the rabbits and I have a couple of meetings to go to

'Amy that's ok, we will have plenty of time together when we are away and I also have plenty to do, I also have to give two lectures on Tuesday which will eat into my time'

They went to bed later excited for their trip ahead

Kind of sucky ending I know!

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I can promise you the next chapter will be much longer and full of stuff, I just wanted to get this one out of the way