A/N - So I re-wrote this Chapter, I wasn't happy with the other one. This I think wraps it all up better. Thanks for reading.
It was just like being back at high school again, the same pain, the same humiliation, and once again the beauty queen got the guy.
Amy, if asked even a day ago to name the two most important people in the world she would have stated very matter of factly that it was her boyfriend Dr Sheldon Cooper, and his neighbour and her BFF, Penny Taylor. Two people that she felt had her back, that she believed loved her as much as she loved them, two people that had just broken her heart.
Amy couldn't tell you exactly what was said on the morning that Sheldon and Penny came to visit her, she remembered they sat on her couch at opposite ends to each other, they didn't look at each other but rather Penny looked at Amy with real sadness in her eyes, and Sheldon wouldn't look at her at all. It was Penny that told her, and when Amy looked to Sheldon for clarification, because surely the words coming out of Penny's mouth could not be true, he looked straight at her and just quietly said "There, there." Little comfort to Amy.
She was being told that the two people that she loved and trusted most in the world were in fact in love with each other. She stood up and told them to leave, that she had heard enough.
It was only an hour later that she heard Leonard's knock on her door. She really wished he would go away, but he told her through the closed door that he was going to sit outside until she opened it. Amy let him sit there for 15 minutes before she opened her door.
He looked up at her and he was surprised that she didn't appear to have been crying, he stood up and said. "Amy are you alright?"
It was then that Amy broke down, Leonard helped her to her sofa. He sat on the seat opposite her and watched as she cried, mumbling to herself that she wished she had never placed that ad, that she wished she never met any of them. He stood up and stood next to her deciding what to do, then he sat down and grabbed her in a hug. "Amy, you don't deserve this and I am really, really sorry."
Leonard returned to 4A and went straight to his bedroom, he opened his closest and grabbed two suitcases, he grabbed clothes and toiletries and filled both bags to bursting. He deposited them on the floor in the lounge room, Sheldon wasn't in their apartment, but he knew where he would find him. He knocked just the once and walked straight into 4B, Sheldon was sitting on the couch holding Penny's hand, she was crying. They both looked up at Leonard.
"I have spent all day with Amy cleaning up the mess that you two left." Leonard was angry.
Penny looked up and in between sobs she said. "Leonard, thank you. Poor Amy."
"You should have thought about that before this little," Leonard pointed his finger between the both of them sitting on the couch. "whatever this is between you two."
"Sheldon and I are in love. We're sorry that Amy was hurt, you know that it was never our intention." Penny replied.
Leonard grabbed at the door and opened it. "Sheldon I think it would be better if I left the apartment, I will be out of there within the week"
Leonard went to close the door behind him, but Sheldon grabbed at it. "Leonard I am sorry you feel that way, you are a true and loyal friend."
It was awkward the first time that Leonard returned to 4A and very strange for him, he noticed on the shelving alongside Sheldon's action hero figures, were Penny's stuffed toys. Leonard would loved to have been there that day.
It took nearly 6 months for Leonard and Sheldon to repair their friendship, but Leonard missed Sheldon in his life, and Sheldon although he would never admit to it, missed Leonard. When Leonard moved out of 4A, Penny soon moved in, first in Leonard's room, then into Sheldon's bed.
Leonard slowly watched as the relationship between Sheldon and Penny proved that there was someone for everyone, it was true Sheldon and Penny were in love.
As the boys sat down for dinner on their now resumed Tuesday night Hamburger Night, Raj spoke up. "I have something to tell you all."
Howard, Leonard and Sheldon looked at Raj, waiting for him to continue.
"I've been seeing Amy Farrah Fowler." Raj expressed and waited for his friends to re-act.
Leonard looked pleased, Howard looked confused and Sheldon just looked at Raj not saying a thing, or giving away any clues as to how he felt about it.
"What do you mean seeing, you mean in the biblical sense?" Howard asked.
Raj looked at Howard, "Amy is a lady and I will not have you talk about her like that."
Leonard smiled at Raj. "So Raj, how do you talk to her?"
"Amy suggested I try hypnotherapy, and I have, I was able to say a whole sentence to her the other day."
"A whole sentence hey!" Howard ribbed his friend.
After they ate their dinner, Leonard offered to drop Sheldon back to his apartment as Penny still had a couple hours of work to do, as they drove toward Los Robles Leonard spoke up.
"Sheldon, what do you think about Amy and Raj seeing each other?"
"It's not my concern." Sheldon looked out the window, he really didn't want this conversation.
"No, it's not, but Raj is your friend and Amy, well Amy was your girlfriend."
"Still not my concern." Sheldon continued to look outside the window.
Leonard looked at his friend. "Really, you have no opinion on this, first time for everything."
"Well." Sheldon spoke up. "If you really want to know, I think Amy is too smart for Raj, but he will treat her well, and she deserves it."
When Amy and Raj announced their impending marriage no-one was more surprised to receive an invitation than Penny was, but she was thrilled and quickly replied that they would be attending the wedding.
At the reception Penny walked up to Amy and Raj and wished them all the luck and love in the world. Amy looked at Penny and told her that she wished her and Sheldon the same, and she meant it, she had found that since she had fallen in love and was truly loved in return, she was able to understood just enough that she had found the strength to forgive.
It was then that Penny looked at diamond bracelet on Amy's wrist. "It's beautiful Amy, really beautiful."
Amy lifted her arm and looked at the bracelet and then at her husband. "It was a wedding present from Raj this morning."
"Raj, it would have cost a fortune." Penny replied looking at the bracelet.
Raj quietly replied. "She is worth it."
Amy smiled at Raj. "I'm a lucky girl to have a fella like him."