Amy couldn't help but feel awkward and kind of uncomfortable around her boyfriend after what she had witnessed a few hours ago. Worst thing; she felt like she couldn't talk to anyone about it. Her limit for „too inappropriate to tell my bestie" was set pretty high but what she had Sheldon caught doing was way too intimate to share with anyone.

Sheldon on the other hand acted like nothing had happened at all. He went through the apartment, humming, scrapping together research papers and agreements and all in all he seemed happy and relaxed.

Relaxed… no wonder he was relaxed. Amy quietly grunted, angry about not being able to take her mind off of it. It surely had been very arousing but everything considering Sheldon and anything sexual led to frustration cause they simply didn't have that kind of relationship. Amy wasn't even sure what kind of relationship it was but she didn't want to ask too many questions. In the whole she was amazingly happy with what they had.

„Oh" Sheldon stared at his laptop and scrolled around. „Leonard wrote to me on Skype. Penny cooked and they want to invite us over for dinner."

„That's nice" Amy mumbled.

Sheldon turned around and looked at her thoughfully for a second, before he turned back and started typing. „I will ask him what she has cooked. I don't want to get poisioned."

Amy just nodded.

Sheldon kept typing, then pressed the Enter key and went back to the sofa to sit down in his spot… next to his girlfriend.

She looked up and looked into his eyes insecurely. He looked back and then smiled. As she didn't smile back but looked down again he sighed.

„Amy, is anything wrong?"

„Well" She blurted out but then bit her lower lip for a second and shut her mouth again.

No answer. He was ready to listen to her.

She threw her hands in the air and looked back at him. „I am just still disturbed by what I saw today"

„Disturbed?" Sheldon echoed.

„No! I mean… it was just so strange to see you doing… something like that…"

„Something like that?"

„Oh, Sheldon, come on!" Amy started to lose her patience. „You know we're not a normal couple. I am just not used to you being sexual in any way."

The lanky physicist looked at her for a second and then looked down, lips pressed together, and nodded, before he answered. „I know. A lot of people think I'm asexual. But that's not true."

Now it was Amy's turn to wait for him to continue.

„I am heterosexual. But I am just not really interested in sex. Like others aren't interested in science – which I do not understand but well."

„Oh" Amy nodded and felt like her last little piece of hope to ever have an intimate relationship with her boyfriend, died.

„But, you know, Amy. I am trying hard for you."

It arose back from the dead. „I know"

„And I will keep trying hard. And I will keep making sacrifices, even though the things I do, do not always seem like something you would have to force yourself to. But five years ago I couldn't even shake anyone's hand without getting a nervous fit."

Amy smiled and looked back into Sheldon's eyes. „I know. And I appreciate everything you do for me. For us. We don't have to be one of those kissing-at-every-street-corner-and-giving-each-oth er-hickeys couple."

Sheldon threw his arms in the air and rolled his eyes. „Amy, will you stop that? I don't know what a hickey is!"

„Go google it"

Sheldon was almost about to get up, but then he let himself fall back into the cushions and looked over at his girlfriend. „Show me"

„W- what?" Amy asked weakly.

„Well, is it something you can do?"

„Y… yes"

„Well, Amy Farrah Fowler, I might be a fan of theoretical work but even this sometimes needs a practical example. So, go on"

Amy gulped. „But… but I doubt you'll like it. It envolves body contact."

For a second Sheldon struggled but then she shrugged it off. „Okay"

Amy tried to breathe in but it felt like the air didn't reach her lungs. She felt her heartbeat in her throat as she leaned in. Sheldon seemed relaxed… she wished she could have said the same.

Her lips softly collided with his neck and she could feel him tensing up for a second but it was one of the normal reactions Dr. Cooper had. Body contact – tension.

Insecurely she started sucking on his neck and the longer she did it, the harder she sucked. It started to become a lot of fun and Amy forgot everything around her. But when her tongue slid along his skin, he pulled away and cleared his throat.

„And that's a hickey?" He asked and his voice sounded shaky.

„Uhm, no, check it in the mirror" Amy answered.

Sheldon got up and looked into the mirror before he screamed and put his hand over the big reddish-purple mark.

Amy grinned for a second.

„I have a bruise on my neck! I expected it to be something different. That's a lot of unnecessary sucking just for getting a bruise. I mean I could have just ran against the couch table. Then it would be on my leg but it would have been faster and easier!"

Amy sighed. Yes. Sheldon and her definitely had a… special relationship.

„You didn't cook that yourself" Sheldon stared at the Thai food on his plate.

Penny sighed. „Okay okay, Leonard suggested to order something after I had attempted to cook. He said you'd sure be afraid of getting poisioned."

Amy glanced at Sheldon amusedly. He grinned back. Their non-verbal communication had gotten much better within the past few years. Most of all Sheldon began to understand hints more and more.

„Oh!" Leonard suddenly moved his chair back and went over to the couch table just to come back a few moments later and hand Sheldon a brown envelope. „I got you the new Iron Man. As you are very much occupied with being a good boyfriend."

Sheldon eyed the envelope as if Leonard had just handed him the Nobel Prize. Then he pressed it against his chest and nodded towards his best friend in deep gratefulness. Leonard smiled and proceeded eating his Thai food.

„Ames, what do you think about a little girls' day tomorrow? Including manicure, pedicure, make-up, hair-doing… just getting really beautiful again"

Amy already opened her mouth to answer as Sheldon cut her off. „Penny… does that mean that – if we use your logic – all men are ugly because as far as I know, the average man doesn't use make-up…?"

„Except Koothrappali and Wolowitz when they're trying to pick up goth girls" Leonard mumbled.

Amy pulled her eyebrows down and glanced into his direction quizzically.

„That's something you don't understand, Sheldon" Penny answered rebelliously. „Men and women are different."

If there was one thing that Sheldon couldn't stand at all, it was someone telling him he might have been wrong about something. „Okay Penny, first of all, I have a PhD in physics so I understand pretty much everything. And second, girls' day specifially says it's only for girls which would mean I would not be able to join which on the other hand would mean I wouldn't be here to take care of Amy. And I don't like this idea."

Penny rolled her eyes while Amy saw that as a very big compliment.

„Sheldon, she's not a toddler, she can take care of herself"

„The Relationship Agreement says…"

„A real relationship doesn't need a stupid agreement!"

Silence.

Amy and Leonard stared at each other nervously and then looked at their partners which were glancing at each other.

„At least my relationship with Amy wasn't on and off for about five years" Sheldon fired into Penny's direction. Her mouth hung open, then her glare got even darker and angrier.

„At least I don't need to check a paper and a timetable to know when I am allowed to touch my boyfriend"

Sheldon seemed to be fed up with this topic. His chair made a loud screechy noise as he shoved it backwards to be able to stand up.

„Just for your information" He looked down onto Penny. „I am fine with the way I am living and with the way I'm handling things. And by the way… my Amy doesn't need any make-up or nailpolish to be beautiful."

He turned around and rushed out of the door.

After Amy and Leonard had managed to calm Penny down with a lot of soothing words and a bottle of wine, Amy headed back to Leonard's and Sheldon's apartment.

She slowly opened the door and found Sheldon sitting on the sofa, in his spot. A big cup of camomile tea was on the couch table.

He was writing something and was so concentrated, that at first he didn't even notice, that Amy had come back.

„Hey" She said quietly.

„Hello, Amy" He answered vaguely. „Camomile tea?"

„I'm gonna get myself one, don't worry" Amy limped over to the kitchen, poured some tea into a cup and went back to the sofa, before she sat down next to her boyfriend.

He sighed. „Penny was right, you can take care of yourself. You don't need me."

Amy shook her head. „No Sheldon, it's really nice having you around. And helpful."

Sheldon sighed and Amy wasn't sure if he really believed her. But what she had said was true; she liked having him around and she liked it when he took care of her. It just showed her how worried he was about her when she was sick.

„What are you writing there?" Amy asked after a few minutes of silence.

„A pro and contra list. About agreements."

As much as Amy hated the agreement, she didn't find it right that her best friend had tried to change Sheldon. He simply was a person that only felt well when he had control of things, when they were written down, neatly ordered, and signed by the person that were involved with them. That is what he was. Amy was surprised he had even considered about letting go the agreements.

She sighed and took the pen and the pad out of his hand, before throwing both onto the couch table. He looked at her all puzzled.

Amy smiled and grabbed the brown envelope, before she pulled the brandnew Iron Man comic out and moved closer to Sheldon.

He still seemed confused.

„Let's read it"

„Really?"

„Yes" Amy leaned back and opened the comic book, before she gave it to Sheldon, and started reading.

While she was already occupied following all the Boom, Bang and Clash speech bubbles, Sheldon looked at her from aside and smiled. She truly was the perfect girlfriend.