Since it was a very mean cliffhanger, here's another update. But I'm afraid it's just another cliffhanger :P

Bernadette was the first one who had made it through the crowd. Raj and Howard had come back to the others already.

"Hello beautiful" Howard smiled and kissed his wife. "You look stunning"

"Thank you, Howie" Bernadette squeezed his side a little. "How is it going so far?"

"Great"

"It's horrific" Sheldon put his grumpy face back on and finished his water.

"OH FOR GOD'S SAKE, WOULD YOU FINALLY LET US PASS?" It was Penny's voice. "Come on, Ames!"

The crowd parted a little and the two women stumbled across their group of friends and boyfriends.

"Finally. It's like their freaking feet are glued to the floor…" Penny sighed and kissed Leonard hello before smiling. "Ames, come here"

Amy stepped next to Penny and smiled insecurely. She absolutely didn't know what to think of her styling. Of course she felt sexy but it wasn't really her. At least not until now. She was well aware that Raj, Howard and Leonard had eyed her curiously and that they probably couldn't believe it would have ever been possible to make something like that out of her. She was flattered. Kind of.

"Hey, great music! We should go dance!" Penny turned around and walked up to the dance floor, followed by Leonard, Raj, Howard and Bernadette.

Sheldon and Amy were left behind. They looked after their friends and how they started dancing. Then Amy turned around and smiled. She was highly insecure. "Hello Sheldon"

"Hello Amy" He tried his hardest to now eye her from head to toe – again. He still couldn't believe it.

"Well" Amy pulled her dress down a little. "How are things going so far?"

"Terrible drinks, terrible music… terrible people."

She pulled down both eyebrows. Charming as always.

"You look…" He swallowed. "Nice"

"Oh" Amy smiled, felt her cheeks blush and hated herself for that. "Thank you. So do you. Nice tuxedo!"

"Leonard forced me to put it on. But when I look around here, I could have as well come in my Flash T-Shirt. Or naked. No one would have noticed."

"I would have"

Sheldon looked at her in astonishment.

"I mean…" This was awkward.

The song 'Do You Love Me' started playing and you could hear someone scream in excitement from the dance floor. Before Amy could even turn around, Penny had grabbed her wrist and pulled her to the dance floor. Sheldon shook his head but grinned. Then he sat back down onto the barstool and eyed his friends. When Bernadette pointed at him and the dance floor, he furiously shook his head and Bernadette shrugged before she kept on dancing.

Leonard looked kind of lost out there, since Penny had decided to try a Dirty Dancing scene with Amy. She had slung one of her arms around Amy's waist and they danced and Amy felt more and more secure with every second, clearly.

Sheldon had to admit that she definitely was capable of pretty sexy dance moves – even if he would have never said it out loud.

It only took a few seconds until Bernadette was involved in the dance, too. Leonard, Raj and Howard had been defeated – they went back to the bar and, just like Sheldon, eyed the ladies with both, amusement and appreciation.

"What happened to Amy?" Howard was the first one to burst it out.

"She definitely is smoking hot" Raj took a sip from his grasshopper and Sheldon looked at him with pulled down eyebrows and widened eyes.

"HEY"

"Well, dude, she is!"

"Yeah, not even you can deny that" Leonard agreed and grinned, as he looked back to the girls and waved to Penny.

She smiled at him and blew him a kiss.

"If I was you, I'd lay her tonight. Before she drowns in her million layers of cardigans again."

"Howard, that was rude" Leonard bit his lips and looked over to Sheldon.

But he didn't seem to listen anyway. He was too busy staring at his girlfriend. That's why he also didn't realize, that Jody had come near again and before he knew it, she had pulled him off the barstool and to the dance floor. Her arms swung around his neck and she danced with him.

Amy had finally found fun in what she was doing and she was glad to have the two best friends on the entire planet. Bernadette and Penny brought out so many new features in her. Three hours ago she hadn't even thought about being here and now she was: looking absolutely gorgeous and dancing with her two besties in a rather slutty way. If it had any impact on Sheldon?

She looked over to the bar but she couldn't spot him. Her eyes kept wandering around and there he was… with arms around his neck – and it obviously weren't hers.

Amy immediately took a step back and got out of Penny's one-armed hug. She tip-toed a little and found that it was Jody to dance with Sheldon back there.

The young neurobiologist didn't know what to do. For an awkward moment she just stood there, insecure what to do. Then she ran off to the toilet.

Bernadette and Penny were both equally confused but then Bernadette spotted the reason. She elbowed Penny and nodded over to the strange scenario that was going on just a few feet away from them.

"You go after Amy, I'll solve this thing over there" Bernadette started heading over to Sheldon and Jody, well knowing, that Penny probably would have knocked Jody out.

Oh yes, how she would have! Penny was outraged and she didn't have time to explain, even though the guys were asking her what was going on, when she rushed past them.

Penny went through the little hall, that led to the toilets and kicked open the lady's room door. "Ames?"

She heard someone quietly sobbing and detected where it came from. "Amy"

Penny put her hands against the bathroom stall door. "Come out of there"

It took a few minutes, then Amy unlocked and opened the door. Penny pulled her right into her arms and Amy cried onto her shoulder.

After another several minutes, Penny took a step back and looked at her best friend. She looked deadly unhappy.

"Why is he doing this?"

"Sweetie, I doubt it's him, I think it's this skank"

Amy bit her lips. Penny might have been right but Sheldon usually wasn't someone who would just play along. Amy was sure that if she would have asked him to dance with her, he would have refused.

They heard a knock on the door and turned around.

"Amy, come out. I have someone here who would like to talk with you."

"But I…"

"SHUT UP YOU BIG JERK!"

Amy and Penny looked at each other and Amy wiped her mascara-stained tears away scantily with her wrist.

Penny opened the door and looked right into Sheldon's regretting eyes. She glanced at him and then walked past him, followed by Bernadette.

Amy stepped out of the lady's room and looked at him. She had no reason to not put all the pain she felt into her look and she pierced it right through his skull.

He shrunk about five inches, when he realized how hurt she was. "Amy…"

"No, Sheldon, actually… actually I don't need an explanation. I know Jody is nice and pretty and smart and… maybe she just has features that fit better into your life than… me"

"What?" He looked at her all confused.

"Well, why don't you go and be happy with her?" Amy crossed her arms. She felt really unwell now. She wanted back into her shirt, blouse and cardigan, her usual skirt, her comfortable shoes. She hated the curls, she hated the make-up. She wanted to be herself again and not feel so stupid for trying to make an effort to – for once in her life – make Sheldon see she was a desirable woman.

"There are plenty of reason. First off, her voice annoys me…"

"Sheldon!"

"Why are you being so strange?"

"I am being strange? Me? I just saw my boyfriend dancing with some cheap slut in a rather close hug or… whatever that was. If that isn't a perfect valid reason to act strange…"

"She just pulled me to the dancefloor"

"And you couldn't say no"

"No, because I didn't realize she had come towards me because I was…" He swallowed the rest of the sentence.

Amy tried to catch his look again. "Because you were what?"

"Does it really matter?"

"Yes, it does! It matters to me!"

"Fine!" He threw his arms into the air. "Because I was looking at you!"

Amy had already opened her mouth to answer something but she closed it again. This had caught her off guard. He had been watching her dance? That was actually really sweet. But no! She couldn't give in to that now. He had made a mistake and he needed to realize that.

"Anyway, you danced with her and I am sure if I would ask you, you'd say no."

"But you haven't asked me"

"Because you would say no"

"How do you know if you haven't asked me"

"Because I know"

"No, you don't"

"Yes, Sheldon, I do"

"Dance with me"

"You are… what?" Amy let her arms sink back down and looked at him confusedly.

"I'd like to dance with you, Miss Amy Farrah Fowler" He held his hand out to her and she looked at it, expecting him to pull it back any second and scream Bazinga. But he didn't.

She bit her lower lip and put her hand into his. He closed his fingers around it and looked at her and this was more than a Sorry. This was better than any apology he could have ever put into words.

He had let go of her hand the second they had been out in the big hall again but Amy didn't mind. They walked through the crowd and Amy was too busy following her boyfriend for realizing that a couple of guys stared at her with wide opened eyes.

Sheldon didn't directly find a way through to the dance floor without having to touch anybody so he went back to the group and wanted to head to the dance floor from there. But Jody was still there and, of course, the second Amy and Sheldon were back, she tried to take advantage of him again. "Dr. Cooper! I just had another idea about the problem we discussed the other day."

The second when physics entered his world, everything else was apparently forgotten. Amy sighed and rolled her eyes, then she glanced at Jody. That bitch was tricky. But so was she. She didn't want to come off as someone who needed her boyfriend to have a good time. And she was lucky because right in that second she spotted Bert in the crowd, all alone. She whispered an "Excuse me" to her friends and went over to the geologist. "Hey Bert!"

He looked at her for a few seconds, then he blinked a few times. "Amy?"

"Yes, it's me" She laughed. "Up for a little dance?"

"Uhm… always" He clumsily put his champagne glass aside and got into dance position with the young neurobiologist. "I am surprised to see you here. I thought you usually don't go to parties like that."

"Well, I usually don't but… tonight I felt different about things" She looked over to Sheldon for a second. He was still talking to Jody.

"That's nice. A little change is never too bad." Bert agreed and smiled. "Did you get the flowers I sent you last week?"

"Oh… yes, that was very nice of you, thanks Bert!"

"You're absolutely welcome!"

Amy's eyes got caught again by the sight of Sheldon and Jody and apparently Sheldon was looking for her now. She stepped closer to Bert but couldn't see Sheldon's reaction, because she tried to act like she didn't even pay attention to him. What she realized then, though, was that Jody pulled him up to the dance floor again.

She sighed. Bernadette and Penny were nowhere to be seen and Leonard, Raj and Howard were talking and didn't seem to realize that Sheldon had left the little group.

Amy couldn't believe it. Sheldon was a jerk.