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Sheldon chuckled at her response to the issue of board games, "Well, anyone can get riled up about them," he smiled passing one of his hands through his poor unkept hair, "my sister and I used to fight over Scrabble a lot." Her being a linguist and him into science, there was always a fight of what words were off limits and what was usable. Aa, the days of family game night. His recollection of memories of these times were pleasant at least.

The teen shifted against his wall, straightening up slightly and began favoring one shoulder over the other to better face the blonde in front of him and also the line to his side. An air of unrest was beginning to vibrate from them all as well as a few calls of the time and how they wanted their game. Sheldon ignored them, as he had most of the evening. "When you like something or are good at something, of course it's not going to seem like hard work," He offered, "or you probably wouldn't keep doing it."

"I like nothing, so its nice to do nothing." Sheldon said after a pause.

"Probably a little of both, nothing as nothing even if its anything that can be nothing works fine with me." Sheldon replied in a happy tone. That was, unless it was still too much work, "I think I'd prefer nothing-nothing though."

The disgruntled sounds of the line up of gamers was soon being over run with chanting and then some cheers and happy sighs when the geeky looking game store employee finally unlocked the doors for the release to officially begin. The line goers scrunched up in the line, congesting the front and leaving a large gap where the gaggle of young teens had previous been in front of Ellie and Sheldon. The poor employee was forced to get help in order to enforce the 'ten people at a time' rule before he could be knocked down. Shawn was left inside, watching this all happen. His second place winning in hand - a hefty gift certificate - and his copy of the game.

Sheldon blinked, picking up the lack of people to his left but mostly from a severe poke to his shoulder from his right and a gruff 'move it, I want my game!' The teen sighed, having gotten comfortable on his wall, "guess we finally get our games." He said, holding his hand out for Ellie to go ahead of him, Ellie might not act like any girl he had ever known but his mother had instilled the 'ladies first' rule into him.

The subject about nothing was indeed dropped and forgotten. Sheldon's hand fell to his side for a brief moment before being replaced into his pocket. He stood their like a lump really as Ellie yelled at his poking offender. Despite the deep voice, the poker was pulling a Rick Astley and was only a twiggy sixteen year old that could pass at the nerdy character from Robot Chicken. He was also surrounded by a group of friends, some similar in fashion to Ellie but more of the rip off Hot Topic variety.

He also didn't seem the bit phased by Ellie's knuckle cracking and glared. "I'd like to see you try," He sneered, "just tell your boyfriend to ********' move, you b***h."

One of Sheldon's eye twitched, not from the comment really, he could have cared less about it but in anticipation of what Ellie's response would be. She had mentioned hitting people if they crossed her and he was probably about to see her words into action. So, he could either find the entertainment value of seeing what she would do or pull her along away from the group of sixteen year olds before anything could get messy.

He opted for option one, he wanted to see where this could go.

And there is was, and there was no change on Sheldon's neutral bored look that had appeared on his face when he was initially poked. What he had expected to transpire, and perhaps even hoped in a sort of testing a hypothesis kind of manner, had happened. Conclusion reached, yeah... never get Ellie mad if he ever managed to come across her again in the future. And the nerdy kid was realizing this too as he held his bruised cheek, and perhaps ego, while the cluster of friends surrounded him in sympathy and dirty looks to the pair.

"Nice job," was the first thing to come to mind for Sheldon. Was he supposed to thank her for defending his honor, did he even lose it? The blonde had hit the kid with a nice clean shot and something needed to be said in merit he supposed.

Hopefully no one else would give their opinion on the manner, especially the manager. Sheldon glanced to where the line was beginning to thin by the door and noticed that oddly no one else seemed to have noticed except a select few who just shook their heads. The situation wasn't escalating so perhaps they just decided to go about their business. Well, whatever. Sheldon casually reached out and grabbed Ellie by the arm and pulled her along and away before anything could get worse.

"I'm sure you could, or you wouldn't be here." Sheldon replied in an amused tone and then recoiled a little as she pulled her arm away and nearly his with it. Okay. "I figured you making the other boy cry would put a damper on the evening." He shrugged, trying to find any real excuse in mind for his actions. He also just didn't want to deal with management throwing them out; he was already pretty much banned from buses, he didn't want to add game stores to that list.

Taking his place in line, Sheldon gave himself a pretty good one foot distance just in case she decided to take her frustrated mutterings to physical violence... upon him. "Sorry?" He offered with a raised eyebrow. Ego untouched with the minimal amounts of words he managed to catch from her rant, but she seemed a little steamed at him as well and the notion of any form of relationship with him... which he couldn't blame her for bitching about.

Was this getting awkward? Just a little. And not because he was still in the vicinity of the guy Ellie had punched, but just because Ellie was still fuming. "He probably didn't think he was starting too much though," Sheldon offered lamely. A girl bitching him out or hitting him, yeah.. he just wanted to seem macho in front of his friends and it backfired on the guy. Should have though, if he had at least paid attention to Ellie .... or looked at her, but he wasn't going to mention that to the blonde. "We males are idiots." He droned instead.

"Sorry," he repeated, crossing his arms over his chest and diverting his gaze from his companion. Sheldon really wasn't sure what else to say to her at this point. He barely paid attention to what happened while in lines and he actually tended to be reminded, by pokes and prods from those in line, that he was in a line and needed to move up.

Sheldon spared a sideways glance at Ellie, but did not respond to her statement. Neither did anyone else for that matter, all caught up in their own business (the group behind not wanting to even interfere again) or having already dispersed with their own games in hand.

The change in subject put him well at ease, allowing him to melt into his usual mellow state of being. "Maybe, I don't know..." he answered, finally looking at Ellie again after their next few steps forward in the line. They were pretty much at the door now, probably in with the next group. "Shawn will probably want to play it," which would mean he would be playing with, Sheldon guessed. Maybe a nice batch of weed would make it more enjoyable.

"You?"

Any gamer valued sleep, even the rabid and the more than casual like Sheldon. It was all about time, always about it but time was relative. Now or later, it didn't matter unless something needed to be done during the day which gave way to Sheldon being able to play for the rest of the early morning; have plans? Sheldon? haha, never. And as Ellie's inner voice thought, yes Shawn was a factor.

Once again an eyebrow rose when the chuckle escaped Ellie but dismissed it soon after as he waited for her to enter through the door with himself following. "Something to do," odd coming from the mouth of someone who liked to do nothing. His train of thought was along the idea of hey, if you're not doing anything at home then why not just do nothing somewhere else.

With one step at through the door, and into a smaller line that lead to the counter and the employee surrounded by little boxes containing Super Steal Car 3, Shawn was by his side and nudging his side. "So, have fun?" He grinned like a cheshire cat, a gleam in his eye. Sheldon didn't reply, just adding more fuel to the eagerness that was Shawn. The portly fellow then rounded on Ellie, "that was a nice jab you did there!"