Chapter 7

Sheldon was sitting in his office, looking at his clock. The last time he had spoke to Amy was at 10:42 am on Friday morning. It was now 9:32 am Monday morning. That was 70 hours and 50 minutes…4250 minutes…255,000 seconds. He had suggested a couple of days to cool off. A couple of days equals to 48 hours, which was only 172,800 seconds. They were overdue by 82,200 seconds. They had gone way past what he had suggested, and it was making him feel uneasy.

Sheldon grabbed his phone and opened a photo of her. It was a candid picture that he had snapped of her when she wasn't looking at her lab. This was his favourite photo of her. She was laughing at a joke that he had told her. Her hair was out but pinned to the side with a little diamond studded barrette. She looked so happy in that picture. He missed her funny little laugh, and her humorous quips, her pretty green eyes, her soft sweet lips. He hated not speaking with her...not seeing her. He just plain missed her.

Sheldon was still upset that she had helped Kripke, but he had played a part in that mess. He really should have listened to Amy when she was talking about her idea. His day was filled with people droning on about their idiotic thoughts; it was easy to tune them out. He knew that he shouldn't group Amy with the others. She was brilliant. She was different. He still didn't think that she should have helped Kripke out of principle, but she generally wasn't a vindictive person. He could give her the benefit of the doubt. The most upsetting thing to him about their fight was the fact that she didn't think that he really wanted to be with her, that he was merely was in this relationship out of jealousy and to prevent her from seeing others.

Perhaps that's how It may appear to an outsider, but Amy consumed his thoughts. He was constantly wondering, what Amy thought of this, would Amy like that. Did she honestly thought he didn't want to touch her? Not a night went by when he wasn't thinking about her. Wondering what it would be like to kiss her deeply, to lie in bed with her…to touch her…to wake up next to her. But he couldn't let himself slip into this hippy dippy thinking. She was already distracting him from his work enough. He swore he wasn't going to be one of those people ruled by his hind brain.

Nonetheless, it was time to fix things between them. He didn't want to go another minute with this fight between them. Sheldon stood up and walked towards his office door when he heard a loud knock.

"Who is it?" Sheldon called out curiously.

"It's Barry" he heard the voice on the other side of the door call out. Great. Kripke was the last person he wanted to talk to. The man was so despicable, he knew that the only reason that he started talking to Amy was because of what Sheldon had told them about their supposed sex life. Well it was time to let him know that working with Amy was completely unacceptable.

"Come in", he said sternly.

Kripke walked in with a serious look on his face. He walked up to Sheldon and looked him in the eye, he didn't want to beat around the bush. "Cooper, we need to talk NOW."

"I completely agree." Sheldon said tensely. "Where do you get off collaborating with my girlfriend? We both know, you did not have some altruistic reason for working with her. You were merely working with her, based off the information I told you about previously about our sexual relationship. I don't know why you get your perverted jollies from that, but it is not right, and I won't stand for it."

"You've got to be kidding me right? God, Cooper, not everything is about you. I worked with Amy because she is brilliant, and had a good idea. An idea, which I might add, she tried to share with you twice. It's not my fault that you are such a dumbass that you can't see a good thing right in front of you."

"You do not need to tell me that Amy is intelligent. I know that, she's my girlfriend. No one knows her better, or cares for her more than I do. If she has ideas she wants to share, it will be with me. You are no longer an option." Sheldon said decisively.

"What are you speaking for her now? Last I checked, she could make her own decisions on who she can collaborate with or not."

"Give me a break Barry. We both know that this is more about you trying to piss me off, than it has anything to do with Amy. That's really vile Barry, to try to use my own girlfriend just to upset me."

Barry laughed at Sheldon's arrogance. "You know what Cooper, you are full of shit. Completely. I know everything OK, you can't lie to me anymore."

"Know everything? What are you talking about?" Sheldon asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"I know about the relationship agreement. I know that you and Amy never had sex. I know that you two barely kiss or hold hands. I know that you are both virgins." Barry spat out.

Sheldon's face went red with embarrassment. Why was his private life and affairs a matter for discussion? Who told him all this information? "Who told you all of this? Was it Amy?" he asked.

"No it wasn't Amy. She doesn't know I know anything. Let me ask you this. Does Amy know that you were talking about your hot "sex life" with me? All the details? That you give it to her on a nightly basis?"

Sheldon felt his mouth go dry, his face was still flushed red. "No... But what about your part in this? I only told you that to get you off my back about my work. You were the one spreading that rumour around campus. I had no part in that."

"Did you once try to correct me, or tell me to stop? Let's face it, you liked this rumour." Barry replied.

"I did not" Sheldon said quietly.

"You are such a blowhard. It's freaking amazing. I've never met a human being so arrogant, and who clearly has a horseshoe shoved up his ass" Barry ranted.

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh I'm Sheldon Cooper. I have an IQ of bazillion but am I humble about it? No! I had to grow up with a loving mother, who supported me. I got my way paid through university. I have a group of friends who cater to my endless whims. I have a gorgeous girlfriend, who is intelligent, witty and funny. Do I make her feel good about herself by listening to her and be grateful to be around such an amazing woman. No I condescend her intelligence, and make her feel bad for wanting to touch me! No, I just ignore the fact that my girlfriend looks like a goddess, is smart as a whip, is funny as hell…"

Sheldons eyes narrowed as he listened to Kripke. Why was he going on so much about Amy? How much time had he spent with her? Why was he commenting on how beautiful she was? That was not his place. He stared at him further, and it clicked to him. Kripke wasn't just bothering Amy to get to him. Kripke was trying to get Amy for himself. Sheldon started to feel his blood boil. How dare he go after his girlfriend? He was going to pay….

"How dare you try to encroach on my relationship with Amy. What we do or do not do is our business only. I may not be the best person at picking up subtleties but even I can see clear as day what is going on. Let's get one thing clear Kripke. Amy is MY girlfriend. She would never be interested in an oaf like you, so get that thought out of your head right now. This is the last straw Kripke, trying to steal my girlfriend away from me -"

"-I am not trying to steal your girlfriend. You are doing a fabulous job of making her want to leave all on her own by just being your regular asshole self. I'm just pissed, now that I know how awesome she is, that you were totally ok with letting those rumours fly."

Sheldon stood up to his full height and stood right in front of Barry. He said in a very cold and menacing tone. "I'm not an idiot Barry. You need to back off NOW." He looked at Barry's face and laughed. "Do you honestly think that a woman like Amy would give you a second look? She would never waste her virtue on such an unworthy candidate. Everyone knows that you are just a dirty, pathetic man-whore. There is reason why you've never had a long term girlfriend, and it's not because of your speech impediment. It's because you are a complete loser that has to pay money for women to sleep with him."

Barry was stunned. Is that really what Sheldon and the others thought of him. That he was just some loser that went trolling for hookers? That he could never have a decent girlfriend? Cooper was such an asshole…He looked thoughtfully at Sheldon, he knew his weak spot.

Barry laughed and looked up at Sheldon. "Do you honestly think you can make her happy Cooper?"

"Obviously. She wouldn't be with me, if I didn't make her happy. We've been together for FOUR years Kripke, which is a hell of a lot longer than your one-night stand relationships."

"You may be a genius in the field of physics…although that point is debatable lately. But you are not a genius at everything. You don't know a thing about how to make a woman happy. You know a woman's first time is supposed to be special. If you ever decided to give up your damn V-Card, I know you'll be a pathetic mess. Fumbling around, making it all about yourself. It would be over before Amy could even blink. You could never make her happy." Kripke got right up into Sheldon's face. "I could make her purr Cooper. PURR!"

Sheldon shoved Barry back. "I knew it! I knew you wanted her…you just said it. You can't deny it" he hissed.

"You're right. Amy would be my dream girlfriend ok? But I'm just left shaking my head on why she is with you, as you are clearly not providing her with what she wants. I can't believe that you guys only kiss on date night! From what I overheard, she is clearly looking for more. And believe me, I would have absolutely no problem with providing her with more."

"What you overheard! What did you overhear?" Sheldon yelled.

"What does it matter? You are a complete and utter liar. I can't believe that you told me all those lies about you and Amy. You lied about everything. You made it sound like you two were a couple of nymphomaniacs."

"Why do you even care? What goes on between Amy and I, is between Amy and I. It's like you are forgetting your whole part in this. I may have not denied what you were implying about our sex life, just to merely get you off of my back. YOU were the one who spread it around the university like some degenerate. Thanks to you, everyone on campus is thinking I'm giving Amy's sex organs a proper jostling. That's on you, not me."

"The sin of omission doesn't negate your guilt in all this Cooper. If you didn't like what I suggested, you could have squashed it right there. Hell, you didn't even have to tell me about your and Amy's weird arrangement. YOU went along with it. YOU even expanded on it. Poor Amy doesn't even know anything about this –"

"Amy does not need to know anything about this. It will just upset her, and there is no point. Fine, I lied, and you acted like classic Kripke and spread it around. BUT, hear me loud and clear when I say this, keep away from Amy. She is not for you. And even if she wasn't with me, she wouldn't be interested in you. You Kripke, are a person, not even a mother could love." Sheldon sputtered.

Barry felt like he had just been punched in the stomach. He glared at Sheldon. "You know what? Fuck you Cooper. What Amy deserves - "

"What Amy deserves is to know the truth" a female voice said.

Barry and Sheldon both turned around to see Amy standing at the door. Her face was pale, and her fists were clenched in anger.

Barry looked at Sheldon. "Boom Cooper. Boom." he muttered. He quickly walked out the door.

Sheldon and Amy stared at each other. Sheldon looked nervously at Amy…..How much had she heard?

A/N: Ok, now everyone knows! I foresee trouble ahead for Sheldon and Amy. How is Amy going to react? How about Sheldon, now that he knows that Kripke is interested in Amy? Please stay tuned. Bumpy ride ahead! Thanks for the reviews!