One last time Sheldon took a look in the mirror. Toilet, shower, styled hair, shaved – perfect. Morning routine was done.

He stretched and then put his hands in the pockets of his bath robe. It had been a cosy morning, had woken up with Amy cuddled against him and he had enjoyed it for several minutes before he had decided to get up and make them breakfast.

Lost in his thoughts, he wandered out of the bathroom and down into the living room. It took him a few seconds noticing that all of his friends sat on the sofa and he let go a high-pitched scream.

"Good morning!" Penny chirped in a way too good mood for that time of day.

"What are you doing here?" Sheldon looked around between them. The only one missing was Bernadette, all the others were there… with big grins on their faces.

"Sheldon!" He heard from behind him. He turned around and saw Amy limp over to him. She stopped abruptly when she saw all of her friends.

"Amy, what are they doing here" Sheldon seemed nervous.

"I have no idea" She finally limped down to him and stopped next to him, looking at her friends quizzically.

"We didn't have time to bake a cake, but… we wanted to say… we're very happy and…" Penny stood up and walked towards Amy while speaking. "Congratulations" She hugged her best friend.

Amy shot a confused glance at Sheldon but he just shrugged. It wasn't their birthday, it wasn't Christmas or anything else that would have needed a celebration.

"May I ask what you are making such a fuss about?" Sheldon crossed his arms and stared at each one of them.

Howard and Raj didn't look back, neither did Leonard but he grinned so much that his ears almost fell off. Penny looked around between Amy and Sheldon and then laughed. "Oh, even though it's fairly new to you… it's normal and we're happy you finally did it!"

Amy turned pale instantly while Sheldon still stood there, staring at her without any expression on his face.

Silence filled the room. Everyone was staring at Sheldon whose brain was still working. Then he took a breath and opened his mouth. "Did what?"

"Oh dear" Howard sighed and stood up. "I told you this was stupid and pointless! I'm out!"

He left the apartment, followed by an apologizingly shrugging Raj.

"Can someone explain what is going on, please?" Sheldon started to lose his temper.

"We know you had sex" Leonard got up from his chair and the proud expression on his face reminded of a father seeing that his son got an A on a history test.

"Sex?" Sheldon echoed and his face turned equally pale as Amy's.

"Coitus. Intercourse. Bed Boogie. Playing contact sports. Pollinating the flower…"

"Penny, I think he got it"

"Laying the pipe"

"Penny"

"Riding the five legged pony"

"OKAY, he understood!" Amy's nerves cleary were thin by now.

Sheldon held up his hand as to stop everyone from talking. They all looked at him while he still looked confused. "Wait. Five legged pony?"

"Two arms, two legs…" Amy tried to help him.

"Yes, I get that but… oh dear… oh God, Penny!"

She just grinned innocently at him before she hugged him, too. "I'm so glad for you two!"

"Yes, so am I" Sheldon said and briefly hugged her back.

Penny's eyes were glowing with joy, pride and curiosity. She had rooted for this forever and now it finally had happened.

"It was amazing. She was amazing." Sheldon smiled at Amy, put his arm around her and pulled her close while patting her shoulder.

"I, uh…" Amy didn't know what to say but figured her boyfriend had a plan so she decided to play along. "Yes"

"Ohhhhhhhh come on, Ames, no need to be shy about it! I knew you had it in you, you little wild cat!" Penny slightly hit her arm and then swung her arms around Leonard's waist. "I think we should celebrate this with going out for dinner!"

"Sure, why not" Sheldon smiled and patted Amy's arm again. She just nodded. She still wasn't sure what Sheldon was aiming for. And slowly but steady she started to find it stupid and embarrassing. Why would he play along? Was he ashamed that they hadn't had sex yet? Unlikely though, because it surely wasn't her fault.

"Tonight? At 6? In the hallway?" Leonard smiled at both of them and it was easy to see he played around with some scenarios in his head.

"Alright. See you later, then. We… need a breakfast now."

Penny giggled while Leonard shoved her out of the apartment. Just before he closed the door, he turned around and winked at Sheldon.

The second the door had slammed shut, Amy pushed Sheldon away from her. She glanced at him angrily and crossed her arms so he wouldn't dare to come near her again. "What was that?"

"What?" He innocently asked, walking over to the kitchen and grabbing a pan.

"You just lied to our friends"

Sheldon briefly looked at her but didn't answer and proceeded preparing French toast instead. Amy was speechless. She had always thought that Sheldon would be more discreet about their love life. And now he even lied to their friends just to pretend they had one? She was disappointed.

Sheldon calmly kept concentrating to making French toast and Amy just sighed and went over to the sofa, let herself fall on it and turned on the TV.

They didn't say a word until Sheldon was finished and carried two plates over to the couch table. He placed Amy's plate loaded with French toast in front of her.

"Thanks" She mumbled and slung her bath robe tighter around her body.

Sheldon didn't reply anything, he put his plate down, took a bite and then turned halfway around to Amy. "Want to hear my plan now?"

"Oh, so you actually have a plan?" She was still angry and didn't look at him.

"Of course I have a plan. I always have a plan!" Now it was his turn to be a little indignant.

Amy sighed. "I'm sorry. Tell me about it."

She took a bite. It was delicious.

"I just told them we already had coitus so we can move at our own pace without being stared at like animals in a zoo."

Amy stopped chewing and looked at her boyfriend. His look was so full of honesty and love that it almost broke her heart. So that's what it was. He felt pressured by everyone around them. Not by her. Just by everyone else. She was relieved and quickly swallowed the bite she still had had in her mouth. "Sheldon…"

"Maybe it was risky because they surely will ask for details. But I want to make love to you when we are ready for it, not when they are."

Make love. He had never used that term before. But it seemed he had finally understood what it was about. It was about loving each other and therefore becoming intimate. Not something clinical like "coitus" that people only did to reproduce.

Amy's mouth was slightly open when she stared at him awestruck. He looked at her, dropped his look down onto her lips and smiled. Then he turned around to his plate and continued eating as if he hadn't just said the sweetest thing to her.

"Okay" Amy ripped herself out of awe. "What are we going to tell them when they ask about details?"

"I thought about that already. I will write it down after breakfast and then give it to you. We have to learn it until later when we meet with Penny and Leonard."

Amy wanted to object but then she just nodded and kept eating her French toast. It was his plan and she was just his partner in crime.

"Sheldon, as much as I appreciate you wrote all of this down… I don't think they'll care about on which side I laid down…"

"We want this to sound realistic, right?" Sheldon moved away from his desk and went back to Amy to sit next to her on the sofa.

Her eyes wandered over the few lines he had written and he watched her closely. He wanted her to approve of what he had written – after all she had been involved. At least theoretically.

He pulled down his eyebrows confusedly when he realized how her breathing became slightly more rapid and she kept biting her lower lip.

After a few more minutes Amy swallowed and put the paper on her lap. "Sheldon, with all due to respect to your… fantasies and… writing skills. I don't think they will want to hear it that detailed. And I doubt that two virgins are capable of being so good at it."

"I would at least try" Sheldon bluntly commented. "You think it's too much?"

"Well, I think the first time is a lot more… clumsy and… prematurely" She shyly cleared her throat.

"So you think I won't last half an hour?" It didn't sound angry or disappointed, it sounded sincere. He clearly had no idea about how long sex really lasted, most of all the first time.

Amy quickly looked at him, looked back on the paper and laughed a little while her cheeks evidently blushed. "I don't think I would last half an hour"

Sheldon's jaw dropped and he felt his mouth become watery. Confusedly he swallowed hard and grabbed the paper. "Okay, so I'll re-write it. Care to help me?"

"Sure"

They both stood up and Sheldon sat back down onto his desk chair and re-opened the file. He deleted a few of the first lines, re-wrote some and then looked at it.

"Maybe the part about… me… ripping the condom pack open with my teeth… uhm…" Amy felt like her face would combust in a second. She must have been bright red.

"Oh… okay. So, let's just write I opened it." Sheldon deleted the sentence and then typed the change quickly.

"And to be honest, I cannot for the life of me figure out how I would apply it with my mouth"

Sheldon blushed and hoped she wouldn't ask where he knew that from. He definitely had done his research but maybe had given it away a little too much with what he had written there.

"Anything else?" He asked nervously.

"Hm" Amy skimmed the text again quickly and then leaned over Sheldon's shoulder, pointing at a line at the end. "Here. Correct that."

Sheldon stared at the sentence and swallowed. "Are you sure?"

"Of course I am sure." Her voice changed into a whisper only a few inches away from his ear. "I am definitely not quiet when I'm culminating"

"Boy, it's warm in here" Sheldon quickly jumped out of his chair and wandered over to the window with big steps before he opened it and took a few breaths of the fresh air.

When he turned back around, Amy was waiting at the printer already. When it was done, she grabbed the paper, wandered over to Sheldon and handed it to him. His eyes darted down, read the corrected sentence and he nodded. "I'm okay with this"

She didn't exactly know if he had meant the text or the fact she wasn't quiet. Either way, it was good.