It was Saturday evening and the gang - minus Amy - was having dinner at apartment 4A in 215 S Madison Avenue. Although Leonard had moved out, everyone still liked to hang out there. Leonard attributed this to the size of the apartment, but Sheldon was sure it was due to his charismatic personality.

His friends looked stunned after the news he had just told them. His break-up with Amy had somehow escaped the attention of his gossiping friends the previous day. But the awkward yet anticipated question "where is Amy?" had forced him to reveal the truth.

"What the hell is wrong with you Sheldon?" Penny was the first one to talk, as he expected.

"What the hell is wrong with me? She broke up with me, I just told you the whole story!Maybe I should have used simpler words so you can understand"

"I'll let that one slide because you're clearly out of your mind!Amy was right to break up with you!Come on Bernadette let's go over to my apartment and call her."

As the two blonds stormed out, Sheldon turned to his friends. Surely,as males they would take his side. Well, maybe not Leonard since in Sheldon's opinion the soy milk he drank was turning him into a hysterical woman.

"Do you think Amy was right to break up with me?" he asked the guys

"YES" they answered in unison.

"Are you serious?She didn't even give me a chance to explain myself"

"Ah yes she did" said Leonard "But all you did was stammer."

"I didn't know what to say!" exclaimed Sheldon

"Wow, great Sheldon Cooper didn't know what to say. We've been looking for ways to shut him up for years, we should have asked him if he loves us." laughed Howard

"This isn't a laughing matter Wolowitz." snapped Sheldon

"He's right" agreed Raj "Sheldon is in pain right now, he just lost his other half!"

"Oh please Raj, let's not blow this out of proportion. I'm just asking your opinion for arguement's sake."

"So you don't want to get her back?" asked Leonard

"No" Sheldon lied to his face

He desperately wanted to get back together with Amy, but his ego didn't allow him to show his friends how much their break-up had wounded him. He was in need of their advice, however, so he had to worm it out of them.

"Let's say though, for arguement's sake, that I wanted to get back together with her, would you have me do? Raj go first."

"Tell her that you love her."

"Please I'm not a hippie!Are there any other ways to demonstrate my..." he couldn't bring himself to say love, not in front of them "feelings for her?"

"Yes, of course" claimed Raj "you clould make a grand romantic gesture...Oooh you could try serenading!Sing her favorite love song and her heart will melt into a puddle of goo"

Sheldon rolled his eyes. He could never do that!

"Something less humiliating?"

"Oh you can get a tattoo of her name in your arm"

"Now you're being ridiculous."

"Dude these are grand romantic gestures!Nothing says I love you more than humiliation and pain, other than actually saying I love you of course...If you don't do this you may as well get her red roses and a teddy bear...It won't do any good"

Gift giving?He had used this method when she was mad at him a few years ago, but it wasn't as serious as this time."I suppose I could give it a chance" thought Sheldon

"Howard, what would you have me do?"

"Sex." said the small engineer bluntly.

"Seriously" He was starting to lose his patience.

"I am serious Sheldon. That's what I do when Bernie is mad at me. You lack my bedroom skills of course,but you'll do!Amy doesn't have anyone to compare you to."

Sheldon sighed and turned to Leonard who was grinning.

"You're next."

"Let me get this straight. You want my advice on how to get Amy back solely for arguement's sake? You don't really want her back." he could detect the sarcasm in his voice

"Well, I'm not giving you any advice Sheldon, it will just go to waste."

Sheldon hated to beg but Leonard was his last hope.

"Please Leonard" he pleaded "What do you want me to say? Yes I really want to get her back. Are you happy? Just tell me what I should do!"

He could see the smugness in his friend's face as he said "Get on your knees and beg."

That night as he laid alone in his bed he pondered on the past few days and on his friends' suggestions. He couldn't help but feeling misunderstood. Amy didn't even give him the chance to tell her how much he had missed her over the summer and how miserable he had been without her. He felt even worse now,knowing that she was no longer his girlfriend. He really wanted her back, and he would do anything he could to accomplish this, but get on his knees and beg? That was obsurd, Sheldon Cooper doesn't beg!

But as the sun rose and he hadn't had any sleep for the second day in a row, he decided that Sheldon Cooper might beg after all...