![]() Penny and Leonard exchanged a look that Sheldon couldn't place. Like in the beginning when things were less complicated." Sheldon stated fiercely. "Amy and I have always been friends! Why should this be any different now? If anything, this is a return to status quo. "I know, it's just-" Penny started, but this time Sheldon's voice cut through the room like a knife. After all they've been through, I can't believe that it'll be enough to stay just friends." "I really think that this break has changed him for the better. "You don't know for sure that there will be no change." said Leonard, crossing his arms and defending his best friend who currently looked very small on the far left side of the couch with his head bowed down and his nervous fingers cradling the phone in his lap. It's better to cut the cord before it can do even more damage." "But just think about how much worse she would feel in a few years, when he still strings her along without any real change. "I know this rejection probably crushed Amy-" "But for how long, Leonard?" Penny said, throwing her hands up. "After all these months of moping and heartache this was finally a chance to mend their relationship." "What?" Leonard questioned, pushing his thick brows together as he was addressing his wife. "You know that I'm shipping you two so hard, but if you can't give her more right now, it's probably for the best that you told her that." "But I'm proud of you for getting through with it." said Penny now. "Not anymore apparently." Leonard chimed in quietly and Sheldon's eyes began to widen as his unsettling, contradicting thoughts whizzed through his head like lightening. The enclosing heavy feeling around his heart was making it hard for him to breathe. "Isn't that what she wanted?" he asked, lost and confused. "That must have been a hard decision to make." He had forgotten that Leonard and Penny were still in the kitchen and able to hear every word he just said. Black oil that enclosed over his heart like a spill upon the ocean, poisoning everything and destroying all life. It suddenly felt like his chest was filling with cold, tenacious oil. Sheldon stared at his phone after her voice was gone. The silence that followed was long, awkward and filled with unresolved questions and sadness. "Maybe we'll see each other next Monday for Thai food night at my place." Sheldon reminded her. Sheldon didn't know how to respond to this. But somehow it sounded strangled and forced. Amy was calling from her car – Sheldon could hear that – but hidden beneath the steady hum of her engine, he was sure that this sound was a sob or a sad sigh. There was a strange sound coming through his speaker. ![]() Then, just as he was about to hang up, she finally spoke up. There was silence for another two seconds. Sheldon was listening intensely into the static noise of his phone. 9x09: "I excel at many things, but getting over you wasn't one of them."
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