Chapter 3

He took her hands in his and lifted her up, bringing her to his lap, kissing her lips and hugging her body close to his. "I could make you feel warm. I know a technique I learned when I was in the North Pole."

"And what would that be?"

"Well, I'd rather show you." He gently helped her to stand up, and he took her to her bedroom, sitting her on the bed.

"What I'm about to do is part of the technique." He pulled his pajama pants and underwear down, placing them on a chair near her bed. Amy marveled at the sight of his naked body for the first time in front of her. She tried hard not to stare at his length, but she couldn't help it. He gulped as he noticed she was watching him so attently, but did his best not to cover himself. She let him look at her full form, so he would do that as well. Sitting next to her they stared at each other for a while, before he started to feel cold as well.

"Come on, lay on your side."

She moved to the position as requested and soon she fell his body pressed against hers.

"Hmm... It feels good."

"Hmhmm. Are you feeling warmer?"

"Yes, pretty much. Did you say you learned this in the North Pole?"

"Err... Not important. It's just a technique. Now this, little lady, is all on me." He kissed her shoulder, moving his hand up and down her figure while the other cupped her breast. It was still awkward to be so close to Amy, and the contact of their skin, it was all so new but they treasured this first experience together. After cuddling for a while, they fell asleep again, waking up a few hours later. Sheldon asked to shower, and Amy waited for her turn, both not ready yet to share one together.

Amy couldn't believe how great her Christmas had been. She shared a meal with Sheldon and their friends, they played a Victorian game together and she took a first step to intimacy with her boyfriend. A dog barking on the apartment above woke her from her daydream and she realized she was taking longer than normal in the shower. She finished rinsing her hair and stepped out of the tub, grabbing her towel to dry herself. She got dressed and found Sheldon sitting on the couch watching a re-run of Dr. Who.

"Come on, Sheldon, I'll drive you home."

"Thank you, Amy." He replied, as he grabbed his satchel and his emergency bag. "I'll bring another one next time with me with clean clothes."

As she drove through the streets of Pasadena, Sheldon was staring at the window quietly. She wondered what he was thinking, whether he regretted anything or was disappointed with something. As they stopped at a traffic light, she decided to turn the radio on, just to see if he reacted to it.

"Oh, Taylor Swift. She's cool."

Amy smiled at him, who now was looking at her with an adoring face. Was it possible to love him even more? The rest of the trip was quiet, they both listening to the radio and humming a few songs together.

"Oh, hello, Mr. I spent the night out!"

"Your juvenile greeting will not suffice to change my good mood, Leonard." Sheldon replied, shaking his head and placing his satchel on his chair and the emergency bag on the hall. He opened the fridge to take a bottle of water, still humming that Taylor Swift song.

"Yeah, I see you're in a great mood."

"I am. Now if you excuse me, I have unscheduled laundry to do and a list of New Year's resolutions to make."

"New Year's resolutions, uh? I made myself one already."

"Oh, let me guess. Get married to Penny, save money to buy a house for you and Penny, write another successful paper with your brilliant friend, a.k.a. me, consider-"

"Stop it, I get it, ok, am I that obvious?"

"Do I even have to answer that?"

Leonard rolled his eyes, grabbing himself a bottle of water. "And what about you? I already know your list as well."

"No you don't. I haven't made it yet, so there's no way you would know what I'll write in it."

"Oh, we don't have to be a genius to find it out as well."

"I already have a lot in my mind. So, have a guess, let me see if you can."

"Let me see. I know you want to be engaged to Amy."

"What?" He gasped, spitting the water from his mouth. "How in heaven do you know that?"

"I heard you skyping your mother and asking her to bring you your great grandmother's ring next time she visits."

"So now you're spying on me?"

"No, I wasn't spying, I heard it by accident. You should be more careful when you're trying to keep a secret. And I also know that you were planning to have coitus with Amy during prom."

"That's ridiculous, how could you possibly know that?"

"Ooooh! Besides the fact that you have just confirmed, I noticed there were three condoms missing from my bedside table drawer."

"Oh, I didn't know you kept track of the number of condoms you have there."

"I don't, but Penny does. She was searching for the strawberry flavored ones she bought the other day and guess what? They were not there! She considered that I was cheating on her, but then dismissed it the next minute."

"Oh, I see. I should have been more careful."

"Yeah, at least steal the ones which are in a larger number."

"Well, those things do not prove my New Year's resolutions are obvious, just that you're a nosy nelly. Now if excuse me, I have laundry to do." Sheldon quickly grabbed his bag and headed to his room, shutting the door behind him loudly.

Sheldon left his bedroom after 15 minutes with his laundry basket. Leonard was not in the apartment anymore, so he assumed he must have gone to the 4B. Climbing down the stairs, he was still baffled of how Leonard knew about his first item in the list. He never thought his roommate knew such thing. And even though he didn't have the guts to make love to Amy during prom, he knew it was second in his list, if it didn't happen sooner, as how rapidly they evolved in their intimacy the previous night. And what a night! He never thought he would feel so good just by touching her, and yet he had no idea how he could control himself with her naked body pressed against his all night! Well, he knew. He pictured Wolowitz naked every time he started to feel aroused again. The North Pole might have been unpleasant, but to experience that with Amy was completely different, and not unpleasant at all!

As turned the washing machine on, he took a notepad and a pen from his pocket and started scribbling a few ideas down, until he could write at least 9 resolutions.

"That sounds good, but I need another one to make it ten."

Still thinking about it, he walked up the stairs back to his apartment, wondering what could be the tenth one. When he opened the door he felt his phone vibrating. It was a message from Amy.

I loved last night and this morning. I can't wait for our next sleepover. ILY Amy

"Oh, I almost forgot that! What was I thinking?"

He instantly replied, taking a sit by his computer to start making the changes in the relationship agreement. He typed for a few minutes, rereading it and checking for typos, and when it was satisfactory he saved the updated version into his iPad for her to sign later.

"Oh my God, he wants another sleepover today?" Amy couldn't believe the message she had just received in return from Sheldon. She was so happy that she didn't wait a second to run to her bedroom and make her overnight bag. She packed a shorter nightgown Penny gave her some time ago, and started to get ready for the evening.

At exactly 7 pm she was in front of his apartment knocking. Sheldon opened the door three seconds later, letting her in.

"Hello."

"Hi." She greeted him with a peck on the lips, coming inside the apartment. He took the bag from her hand, placing it next to the couch.

"So, I didn't expect you to want a date night as it's Christmas today, and according to the Relationship Agreement when date night happens to be in the same day of a celebratory occasion, it should be rescheduled for the next convenient date for both parts."

He stepped closer to her, taking her hands in his. "You're correct. But I believe today was a convenient day for date night, don't you think?"

"I agree."

"And I also wanted you to sign our updated version of our relationship agreement." He took the iPad from his desk and handed to her.

Amy sat on her spot, examining the alterations in the document, when she found something she wasn't expecting.

"Do you want us to have spare clothes in each other's apartment?"

"I believe it's only logical, so then we won't have to pack bags every time we have a sleepover. And that allows us the next item." He pointed it on the screen, as he sat beside her.

"Impromptu sleepovers?"

"Yes." He nodded. "I decided to include them, just in case we feel like having a sleepover in an unscheduled day."

Amy gasped, exchanging looks between Sheldon and the iPad. "But you've already included weekly sleepovers. I mean, not that I'm complaining."

"Good, so don't complain, little lady. Sign it at the bottom of the last page."

"Err... Alright!" Amy happily turned to the last page and signed with her finger.

After she handed him the iPad back, he started searching for something on the screen.

"Now, to our next business. Did you bring your New Year's resolutions with you?"

"Of course! I can't believe you figured them out so quickly! I can't wait to see your list!"

"Well, one thing at a time. As you stated that you would only tell me more if I wrote mine, as it's here done, now I'd like to establish a few rules before we proceed."

"Fair enough. What do you propose?"

"I have one item in my list that has is not to be revealed until it occurs. So, as a fair exchange, I will let you choose one of your items to be confidential as well."

"Ok. I agree with that. Anything else?"

"Yes. You told me one of your resolutions already, so I think I shall start."

"Go ahead."

"Good. And I will not state them in a sequence of preference."

"Ok. Can we start now?"

"Of course! So, next year, I will not wear my Batman socks with brown shoes anymore."

"Why is that?"

"Do I have to justify them? I didn't know that. But well, I figured that brown doesn't match with Batman, so that's an inconsistency, then I decided not to pair them any longer."

"Ok." She adjusted herself on her spot, before continuing. "My turn. Next year, I will have my ears pierced."

"Good. Why did you decided that?"

"I've always wanted to have them pierced, but my mother told me only whores, pirates and gipsies had their ears pierced. Now I believe I am grown up enough not to let my mother decide those things for me. Well, go on."

"Alright. Next year I will let Leonard adjust the thermostat in 3 days of his own choice."

"Wow, you're really becoming a more flexible person."

"What can I say, I'm always adjusting my life for him. If that's not what best friends do, then I don't know what it is."

"Ok, Next. I will reorganize my bookshelf. The alphabetical order is no longer being fair with the amount of authors that I have, so I will add categories of neurobiology areas and other science fields."

"Good plan! I should do that as well, but with my comic books! But I won't make that a resolution, otherwise it will ruin my perfect number of ten."

"Ten? Well, I just have two more."

"Really, Amy? Five? I'm disappointed. That's not even an interesting number of any sorts. If you told me you had 7 I'd agree it's a fine number. But five? What's five? Jackson's five?"

"I wasn't thinking of a number to achieve, I just wrote down my intentions. But no, it's not five. You're forgetting the one I won't reveal, so that totals 6."

"Oh, that's true. Anyway, let's move on. But now I don't even know how to proceed, as we won't have this dynamic of one mine, one yours."

"Well, why don't you just tell me three at a time? Then by the time I finish you will have one last to say."

"Ok. Well, I will buy my own car. I will excel in driving. I will excel in teaching."

"Really? Do you really want to drive by yourself? I'm proud of you."

"Yes, I think it's time. Leonard won't be around forever, you know."

"That's very considerate of you. And teaching? I didn't know you were enjoying it so much."

"I'm not. But that's one more area that's lacking excellence, so, who's better than me to do that?"

"Of course. Well, my next one. I want to meet your family in Texas."

"Do you?" He looked at her in shock. "You never told me that."

"Well, I know how much you despise your cousins, but I mean your siblings and your Meemaw."

"Oh, she can't wait to meet you! My mother told me when I called her... Well. That's all, she would love to meet you."

"She told me that when I called for the cookies recipe. Now I'm even more eager to meet her in person."

"That's easy, we'll set a trip next year." He pulled her close and gave her a quick peck on the lips. She brought her hand to caress his cheek, giving him one last kiss before continuing.

"I'd love that. Now, come on, tell me the rest of your list."

"Alright. I will attend the Star Wars premiere with you and the whole gang, I will start watching the Flash. I will make love to you."

Her jaw dropped as he said his last resolution. "Sheldon, that was my hidden New Year's resolution. I thought it would be yours as well."

"Which one?"

"The last one."

"Oh, I thought it was that."

"Are you sure about that? As I told you, I can wait as much as you need, there's no rush."

"Amy. I love you. And that's something I've been wanting to happen at least since prom. I'm just not ready yet. But I believe that with our sleepovers that situation will change soon."

"Oh, Sheldon!" She jumped onto him giving him a boa constrictor hug, which he accepted promptly, wrapping his arms tightly around her waist. She raised her head a while later, pulling him to a kiss, which lingered more than she expected. Sheldon's tongue danced with hers in their mouths. He pulled her closer and he adjusted himself on the couch, letting her lie on top of him.

"Sheldon, I'll be spending the night at Penny's ok?"

They both jumped from the couch. Amy fixed her skirt which had gone up, as Sheldon stood up.

"Leonard! What were you doing here?"

"I live here? I didn't know it would be date night tonight. I'm sorry if I interrupted anything."

"Well, I thought you were at Penny's."

"I was reading in my room. Well, see you guys later."

Leonard winked at Sheldon, closing the door and heading to 4B.

"I can't believe he was so quiet! I didn't even notice his presence!"

"That's ok, Sheldon, he lives here."

"I know, but... You don't understand, he has been spying on me a lot lately, and I used to hear his squeaky shoes, or his difficult in breathing, or anything that would accuse his presence, but lately he's been so... stealthy!"

"Well, maybe he's got super powers. But why don't we go back to our resolutions?" She pulled him by his hand, but he had different ideas.

"Hmmm... Why don't we leave that and go to my bedroom to start our sleepover, and maybe trail a path to our new year resolution?"

"That's an even better idea. Let's go." He grabbed her hand and they both ran to his room, happy to spend their first scheduled sleepover in his bedroom.

THE END

Author's notes: I'm sorry it took that long to finish this story. I've had so many problems this year that I didn't find much inspiration to continue writing, with a few exceptions. And last episode kind of inspired me to continue this story, so here was the last chapter. I hope I hadn't disappointed and that you enjoyed it, even though a long time has passed since my last update.

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