After they had eaten Thai food and laughed and talked and drunken tea, they decided to watch a movie. And by "they" Sheldon and Jody were meant. Amy had only eaten half of her food and refused the tea. Now she sat on the sofa and watched Jody freak out over Sheldon's huge collection of dopey space movies. Awesome. This evening couldn't have become any worse.

That's what Amy thought… when she realized that Jody somehow brushed Sheldon's finger every time she took another DVD from him. And the fact Sheldon cringed didn't make Amy feel any more comfortable. No, there was something going on.

As they had finally decided on Star Gate, they came back from the huge DVD shelf and Sheldon put the movie into the player and sat down at his usual spot. Amy watched with a pleasure how Jody was looking for a way to set next to Sheldon but couldn't find one because Sheldon's spot was on the very left side of the sofa and Amy sat right next to him – and definitely wouldn't move.

So Jody sat down onto the chair where Leonard usually sat and threw her legs up the armrest before turning to the TV. But just when Amy was about to turn her looks to the screen, she realized that Jody was eyeing Sheldon. In a very weird kind of way that Amy couldn't really analyze or define. All she knew was, that she definitely didn't like it. She felt something competitious rise inside of her. Well knowing that Jody still hadn't taken her look off of Sheldon, Amy moved closer to him, put her own legs onto the sofa as well and rested her head onto his shoulder. She ignored that he stiffened and cleared his throat. But what she could not ignore, was the peeved smile Jody now fired her way. It seemed like the game was on. And the so called game took two full hours in which Amy wouldn't get away from Sheldon's side – which confused him to a point where he would stare aside to her nervously in a 5 minute rhythm. But she didn't have time to explain and she didn't have time to hesitate. She had to mark her territory.

After the probably longest two hours of her life, Amy was satisfied, as Jody stood up from the chair and announced she'd leave.

No one tried to hold her back, Amy for obvious reasons and Sheldon just because he wanted to jump under the shower, into his pajamas and finally go to bed into his vampire position and sleep.

"So, thanks for the nice evening!" Jody smiled broadly at Sheldon. "And Star Gate is really a masterpiece!"

"I agree" Sheldon nodded and walked Jody to the door, followed by Amy.

"See you guys at the University tomorrow" Jody turned to Amy. "Good night"

Then she sent such a soft smile her way, that Amy was confused to bits. Had she overreacted?

As soon as the door was closed, Sheldon turned around to his girlfriend and it was more than obvious that he wanted her to leave as well. But she decided to ignore this, at least until she could be sure that Jody was gone.

"That was a nice evening, Sheldon, thank you" She just tried to steal time.

"Yes… a little touchy-feely, but… quite pleasant." He kept standing in front of the door but Amy wasn't angry. He clearly didn't have a sense of what was impolite and what not sometimes. And it was way past his bedtime.

"Anyway, I better get going…"

"Yes"

"Good night, Sheldon. See you…" She swallowed the last word down, knowing he would go to lunch earlier than her again tomorrow.

He didn't seem to notice that she was kind of sad. "See you, Amy!"

With one last smile he opened the door and Amy went out and let go a big sigh when the door snapped shut right behind her back.

Leonard was probably the happiest man on Earth this morning. Since he had decided to not ruin Sheldon's movie night, Penny had invited him over and nights spent at Penny's were always something special. So no one was wondering that he had arrived with a huge smile on his face. Even though he was working alone in his lab, he was whistling the whole day and he also didn't stop, as he put on his earmuffs for some experiment.

He had never been so sure that Penny was the woman he wanted to marry. She was just perfect for him. She might not have been into comics and superheroes, but she tried so hard for him and he realized and appreciated that more than she would ever know.

Still completely lost in his thoughts, he didn't even realize the door to his lab swung open and someone came in. Just when he randomly noticed a shadow on the wall, he let go a high-pitched scream and turned around, dragging his earmuffs off.

It took him a few seconds before he realized, it was Jody that was standing there with a huge cheeky grin on her face. "Dr. Hofstadter, I'm sorry if I scared you"

"Leonard. And no, you didn't, I mean, I was just… surprised…" He smiled insecurely. "What are you doing here? I thought you're working with Dr. Cooper?"

"I was but he went into thinking process… he called it 'the zone'… so I thought I might as well look around while he doesn't need me." She started to walk towards Leonard slowly, looking left and right, touching some things here and there, which almost made Leonard cringe. He wasn't as OCD as Sheldon but he certainly didn't like it when someone touched stuff in his precious lab.

"So,… show me something!" Jody suddenly stood in front of him like a little school girl, impatiently waiting for the physics teacher to mush together two liquids and make a huge foam creature.

Not having any idea what else to do, Leonard turned the 3D viewer on and showed Jody a few of his works. She eyed it with such interest and joy that Leonard couldn't help but smile. And besides that, she was really pretty. Even a blind guy would have been able to see that.

'Even a Sheldon' Leonard thought to himself and then grinned.

"This is simply perfect. And it's a proof that the prejudice of intelligent nerdy guys being ugly is a simple lie…" Jody's look directly pierced through Leonard's glasses and he gulped.

He wasn't an expert for body language but the way she bit her lips made him feel uncomfortable, so he stepped back and turned around to a stack of paper. "Well, Jody, it was nice to have you here but… I need to get back to work, because… you know… uhm…"

"I get it" Her angelic smile made him gulp again. "See you later, Leonard!"

"Yeah… later" Leonard sighed and drove a shaky hand through his hair when she had left the lab.

Amy arrived at Bernadette's apartment door and rang the bell. She usually was okay with being alone but tonight she needed company, still confused about what had happened yesterday – and Sheldon was the wrong person to talk to about all that.

"Oh, hello Amy" Howard had swung the door open and smiled at her. "Come in"

Amy walked past him and let her bag sink down. "Is Bernadette here?"

"Not yet. But I just made a sandwich, care to share?"

No matter how much of a jerk Howard was most of the time, Amy was more than happy to also count him to his friends. He could be really sensitive and sweet and that was probably one of the main reasons, Bernadette had even married him. "I'm actually starving!"

Any went to the sofa and sat down while Howard went to the kitchen and cut his big sandwich in half before returning back and handing Amy her half.

She started eating it with a passion and they both just sat there and enjoyed the incredible snack Howard had made.

After they had finished, Howard cleared his throat and looked at Amy. "Are you okay?"

Amy weighed the odds of him understanding her problem with the new hot student and then decided to tell him about it. "Jody was there last night"

"Where?"

"At Sheldon's and my night together"

Howard choked for a moment and stared at Amy with big eyes. When she realized that and followed his train of thoughts, she vigorously shook her head. "No, I mean at our movie night!"

"Ohh" Howard nodded. "And?"

"I don't know, she kept looking at Sheldon and something inside of me didn't like that at all…"

Now it took Howard a few seconds to understand, before he started laughing. When he realized though that Amy didn't seem to find that funny at all, he got himself back together and looked at her. She looked really concerned and that didn't happen often when it came to Sheldon – he was quite a handful and she was aware of that.

"Come on, Amy, you mean a lot to Sheldon and he would never do anything to hurt you!"

"You think so?"

"He'd rather chop his own arm off, than hurting you on purpose. And I think even a moron like him understands that cheating would kill you… so don't worry too much about it, okay? Besides, do you really think Jody would be interested in someone like Sheldon, I mean look at…" Amy's grumpy look streaked him and he snapped his mouth shut.

But then the young neurobiologist couldn't help but smile. "Thank you, Howard. It really made me feel better to talk to you…"

He nodded. "So, do you want me to call Bernie…?"

"No" Amy got back up from the sofa. "I just needed some comfort, I guess, and I got everything I needed. Thank you."

She pulled him into an awkward short hug and let go then, before she turned around and grabbed her bag. "Bye Howard"

"See you, Ames"

She smiled while walking down the corridor. She was happy to have him as a friend. And it was the first time he had called her Ames. Just like her bestie Penny.