Chapter 3
The next day Sheldon woke up at his usual time pouring himself a bowl of cereal and sat down in his spot on the couch to watch Dr. Who. It wasn't long before Leonard woke up that Sheldon finally acknowledged his roommate's presence in the room.
" Good morning Leonard.", Sheldon said in a groggy voice.
" Morning Sheldon.", Leonard said as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
" I trust that you slept well.", Sheldon said.
" I did.", Leonard said.
" Good, because I slept like hell.", Sheldon said.
" You ok buddy? You sounded upset last night. Did something happen between you and Amy that I don't know about?", Leonard asked.
" I don't want to talk about it.", Sheldon said.
" Oh don't give me any of that Sheldon! I heard you crying last night so obviously something happened!", Leonard scolded.
" Leonard I said I don't want to talk about it! Can we please just drop the subject?!", Sheldon shot back.
" For god sakes Sheldon! Would you quit being you for once in your life and just tell me?!", Leonard interjected.
" Fine. Since it's obvious that you won't leave me alone right now, I will tell you. Amy and I simply had dinner, conducted an experiment, watched a movie and shared a good night kiss.", Sheldon said.
" That's just bat-crap Sheldon! There has to be more than that!", Leonard interjected.
" There is but I would very much like to keep it to myself.", Sheldon said.
" Sheldon just tell me! Did you have thoughts running through your head or something?!", Leonard asked. Before Sheldon could say anything to that there was a knock at the door.
" Hold that thought Sheldon, there's someone at the door.", Leonard said as he walked over to the door and opened it. It was Leo.
" What's up guys?", Leo said with a smile. Sheldon screamed and ran to his room.
" What's up with him?", Leo asked as she pointed down the hallway.
" Uh...he's crazy.", Leonard stuttered.
" Leonard I am not crazy, my mother had me tested!", Sheldon screamed from his bedroom before shutting the door.
" Sheldon Cooper what is your problem?! Get back out here!", Leonard shouted down the hallway at his best friend.
" naDevvo' yIghoS!", Sheldon shouted in Klingon before shutting his door again.
" What the fudge did he just say?!", Leo asked as she stared at Leonard.
" Uh he just said ' leave me alone' in Klingon.", Leonard said.
" Sheldon this is ridiculous! I was just saying hi!", Leo shouted down the hallway.
" Yes I know what you said Leo but I can't handle seeing you right now! So could you please leave?!", Sheldon screamed from his bedroom as his heart and breathing began to race. Seeing his friend Leo( who was now apparently his crush, despite the fact that he has a girlfriend) after the events of last night made him feel very uncomfortable and very anxious. He still wasn't quite sure what was wrong with himself.
" Um... ok. I guess I'll see you guys later then. Bye.", Leo said as she left the apartment.
" Bye Leo.", Leonard said as he shut the door behind her. Sheldon then came back out of his room breathing heavily as he slumped back in his spot on the couch. Leonard just stared at him in confusion but Sheldon just simply looked back at him exclaiming, "What?!"
" What do you mean what?! What was that about Sheldon?! I've never seen you act like that before!", Leonard shockingly asked.
" That is only for me to know Leonard! Leave it alone!", Sheldon shot back at him.
" O-kay... whatever. I'm going to take a shower.", Leonard said as he walked down the hallway to the bathroom. Once Leonard got into the shower Sheldon immediately went to his desk and got on his laptop. He began searching in the Google search bar all the weird symptoms he had been experiencing for the past 24 hours. He was still not sure what these feelings meant because he felt like he didn't have enough scientific data to really know for sure yet.
' Interesting! I must know more to be certain that this is what's going on!', Sheldon thought as he shut down his computer and went to his room to get dressed for the day. Over the course of a few weeks his behavior , however, began to get stranger and more unusual. He began distancing himself from Amy more than he used to leading his friends to wonder what was going on including his girlfriend Amy.
" Hey have you guys been noticing how strange Sheldon's been acting these past few weeks?", Amy asked Leonard, Howard and Raj as they sat at their university cafeteria table.
" Maybe a little but come on this is Sheldon we're talking about. He's strange all the time.", Leonard said.
" Yeah but I'm really worried about him. He's been distancing himself from me more than usual and I don't know why.", Amy said.
" He's probably just going through his ' I Don't Want To Talk To My Girlfriend' stage.", Howard sarcastically said. Leonard smacked his friend upside the head for that comment.
" Ow, what was that for Leonard?!", Howard shrieked as he rubbed the back of his head in the area that Leonard just assaulted.
" You're not helping Wolowitz.", Leonard said.
" Well neither is smacking me in the head! Who's helpless now?!", Howard shot back at him. Then Raj whispered something into Howard's ear and Howard submissively said, " No one cares Koothrappali." Then as if on cue, Sheldon walked into the cafeteria with Leo. The two of them were talking to each other.
" And speaking of Sheldon, there he is with Leo.", Leonard said.
" What do you think they're talking about?", Howard asked.
" Probably some stuff to do with physics.", Leonard said.
" Yeah good guess Captain Obvious.", Howard said.
" Hi guys.", Leo said as her and Sheldon approached the table.
" Sorry we're late. Leo was just showing me her work. It's very impressive.", Sheldon said as he sat down at the table.
" Thank you Sheldon.", Leo said as she sat down as well.
" Told you.", Leonard said to Howard.
" Not helping.", Howard said.
" What?", Leo asked.
" Nothing Leo.", Howard said.
" Hwey Fwordyce, Lweslie told mwe about ywour convwersation.", Barry Kripke snidely said as he approached the table.
" Oh did she?!", Leo angrily asked.
" Yweah, she told mwe ywou said swome thwings about Cwooper.", Kripke snidely said.
" That snarky little bi**h!", Leo hissed under her breath.
" What conversation? What did you say about Sheldon?!", Amy asked with a bit of anger in her voice.
" Amy it's nothing, just, excuse me for one second!", Leo blurted out as she excused herself from the table and stormed over to another table where Leslie was sitting at shouting, " LESLIE!"
" What Leo?", Leslie asked as she looked up at her.
" Don't what Leo me! What did I tell you?! I said to keep your trap shut!", Leo hissed in anger at her.
" What are you talking about?", Leslie asked.
" Oh don't give me any of that! Kripke just told me that you told him what I said about Sheldon!", Leo hissed.
" So what if I blabbed a little? It's not a big deal.", Leslie said as she tossed her head back.
" Oh really?! Then I guess you're going to get what's coming to you! Follow me to the basement!", Leo hissed in a low angry voice.
" Come on Leo, you're really going to harass me?", Leslie asked getting up from her table.
" I said basement now! I'm not playing Leslie!", Leo shouted in Leslie's face causing everyone to stare at her.
" A-he he, return your attention to what you're doing everybody! There's nothing to see here! Leslie and I are just going to have a little chit chat in the basement for a moment! Carry on!", Leo nervously laughed before she dragged Leslie out of the cafeteria by the arm. Everyone returned their attention to themselves but then gasped when they saw Leslie return a few moments later to her table with a black eye and a few bruises. Shortly after that, Leo returned to her table with a smirk on her face. Her friends gasped as well.
" What did you just do to Leslie?!", Howard asked Leo.
" That's only for me to know.", Leo said still grinning from ear to ear as she leaned back in her chair crossing her arms. Kripke stared at Leslie then back at Leo and exclaimed, " What thwe frwig Fwordyce?!"
" Don't mess with me or you'll get it too!", Leo said as she gave Kripke a death glare. Without a second thought, Kripke ran from the cafeteria like a bat out of hell. The others just stared at Leo while Sheldon passed out slipping out of his chair to the floor. He came to moments later in the nurse's office. The nurse checked him out before sending him back to work.
2 days later one evening Leonard, Howard and Raj were called into to work late leaving Sheldon with nothing to do so he reluctantly decided to tag along with the girls out to a nightclub. He didn't want to be there because he thought of nightclubs as being obnoxious but he also didn't want to be the lame guy sitting in his apartment with nothing to do either. Plus, he was hoping to find the answers he was looking for regarding his strange feelings toward his friend Leo. Every time he saw her he couldn't seem to control his skipping heartbeats and rising anxiety.
' Get a grip on yourself Sheldon Cooper! Leo is just your friend! Stop thinking about her! You have a girlfriend!', Sheldon thought in his head to himself as he continued to stare at Leo. Leo, after getting pleasantly drunk with Penny, Bernadette and Amy, decided to hit the dance floor. The song being played was a Ross D remix of Fergie's Glamorous. The fast pace song in addition to the alcohol began to make her let loose doing the calypso and various other dance moves.
" Yeah Leo!", Penny, Bernadette and Amy exclaimed as they watched their female physicist friend get into it having the time of her life. They began to shake their hips to the beat of the music as well causing Sheldon to just stare at them before staring back at Leo. Leo was laughing hysterically as she twerked her body all over the dance floor. Sheldon tried to keep his sanity together but was finding it very hard to. Every move Leo made was making her even more attractive than she already was leaving Sheldon on the brink of passing out. But then, something else caught his attention.
' Danger! Danger!', Sheldon thought in his head as he looked up. 30 feet above the dance floor near the ceiling was a catwalk that looked like its support beams had seen better days. To make matters worse, Leo was dancing directly underneath it completely oblivious as to what was going on above her head. Fearfully knowing that the catwalk was going to fall, Sheldon did something that completely shocked the girls. He ran out onto the dance floor without saying a word and shoved Leo to the floor out of the danger zone. As Leo got up Amy shouted, " Sheldon what are you doing?!" while trying to run toward him.
" Amy stay back!", Sheldon shouted causing Amy to stop dead in her tracks as he held Leo back stepping backward a few feet. Seconds later, the catwalk fell from the ceiling crashing to the floor causing people to scream and scatter. Sheldon and Leo flinched at the sound of the clashing metal hitting the linoleum floor. Penny, Amy and Bernadette just stood there with their mouths hanging open as well as Leo. They couldn't believe their eyes at what they just saw.
" Holy crap on a cracker!", Penny exclaimed.
" Oh my god! Sheldon you just saved my life!", Leo exclaimed.
" Are you alright?", Sheldon asked.
" Yeah I'm fine. How did you know that catwalk was going to fall on me?", Leo asked.
" I'm a genius with a 187 IQ. It's not that hard to figure out.", Sheldon said as he began to walk away leaving Leo completely shocked. It was at this time that she began to feel something but she wasn't quite sure what it was.
' What the heck am I doing?! Why am I thinking things about Sheldon?! He's with Amy! I can't do that to my friends! Amy will be so mad at me and never talk to me again if she finds out that I'm crushing on her boyfriend! I need to sort this out somehow!', Leo thought in her head before leaving the club with her friends. But little did she know that thoughts were already running through Amy's head about what was going on. Amy had a good feeling about what it was but wasn't sure yet. She needed more scientific data to prove it.
The next day Leo woke up, grabbed some clean clothes and walked into her bathroom. She turned the dial on the faucet to turn on the shower only to discover that no water was coming out.
" Cheese and crackers, my shower's not working! What am I supposed to do now?! Oh wait, duh!", Leo hissed to herself as she suddenly remembered that her friends weren't home at the moment giving her the perfect opportunity to use their shower. Without a moment to spare, she grabbed her clothes, her iPod player, her iPod, her spare key to 4A and walked upstairs letting herself in shutting the door behind her. She headed to the bathroom completely forgetting to lock the front door, set her player on sink counter plugging her iPod into it before undressing herself. Leo hit the play button letting the music escape before climbing into the shower turning the water on and pulling the periodic table shower curtain shut. As the water rained down on her, she started singing. 45 minutes later Sheldon and Leonard came back from Caltech only to discover that the door was unlocked.
" What the hell?! The door's unlocked!", Leonard exclaimed.
" Oh god! Not again!", Sheldon screamed as the two physicists ran into their apartment only to breathe a sigh of relief when they saw nothing was disturbed.
" Oh thank god everything is still here!", Sheldon exclaimed placing his hand on his chest.
" Yeah but that doesn't make any sense! Why is that... Wait do you hear that?!", Leonard asked as he suddenly heard music and a woman's singing voice coming from the bathroom. Sheldon heard it as well.
" She took my hand, oh we never said a word at all! She started grinding, shorty had me up against the wall! Ask me about tomorrow, you know that I don't care at all! I guess I just got caught up when she had me up against the wall!"
" Is that Leo?!", Leonard asked.
" It appears it is. Come on.", Sheldon said as he walked down the hallway to the bathroom. Leonard followed him and they quietly opened the door walking in. Sheldon saw an iPod player plugged into an iPod sitting on the sink counter. He looked at the current song and it was Up Against The Wall by *NSYNC.
" Dr. Fordyce?", Sheldon asked receiving a scream from behind the shower curtain before his friend's head popped out.
" Oh my god! Sheldon, Leonard, you guys scared me! What are you guys doing back here so soon?! I thought you were at Caltech!", Leo exclaimed.
" We were but then Dr. Gablehauser sent us home for some reason.", Leonard said.
" What are you doing here?", Sheldon asked.
" I'm taking a shower.", Leo said.
" Yes I'm aware of that but why are you using our shower Leo? What's wrong with yours?", Sheldon asked.
" Mine is out of commission Sheldon.", Leo said.
" Well why don't you fix it?", Sheldon asked.
" Dr. Cooper I don't have time for this, shut it! Now could you guys please get out and let me finish taking my shower?!", Leo hissed as she closed the curtain.
" Sure, come on Sheldon let's get out.", Leonard said as he dragged his roommate out of the bathroom. Moments later Leo emerged out of the bathroom to see Leonard sitting at his desk and Sheldon standing in front of his whiteboard.
" Hi guys. What are you doing?", Leo asked.
" Just doing some work.", Leonard said.
" Yes, speaking of that matter, could you come take a look at this for a minute?", Sheldon asked.
" Sure Sheldon what is it?", Leo asked as she walked over to him and looked at his board. As she looked at his equations her eyes got as big as saucers.
" Wow, this is incredible Sheldon!This is brilliant!", Leo exclaimed.
" I know! I think I may be close to a breakthrough!", Sheldon exclaimed.
" It must be thrilling to have such a genius bright mind.", Leo said with a smile.
" Of course it is Leo. You should know that considering the fact that you're a genius as well, not to mention you're a theoretical physicist like me.", Sheldon said.
" Yes I'm very aware of my field of study Dr. Cooper.", Leo pointed out.
" As am I as well Dr. Fordyce.", Sheldon said.
" What is going on with you two?! You two have been getting awfully friendly with each other lately! What happened to you being annoyed with her from day 1 Sheldon?!", Leonard asked.
" That is none of your concern Leonard.", Sheldon stated.
" Yeah what makes you think something's going on between us? We're just two friends that are interested in each other's work.", Leo said. Sheldon agreed with that although his heart felt differently about it.
' If only she knew.', Sheldon thought before snapping his focus back to reality.
To be continued…