They seemed to flicker and dance almost in unison their soft light creating an ethereal and surreal backdrop to the supposed festivities. Barely distinct distorted and oddly shaped shadows played across the wall as the candles arranged in a haphazard pattern on the small cake continued to slowly melt away to their inevitable extinction.
The flame from each candle reflected in her glasses Bernadette leaned forward slightly from her seated position on the couch. She seemed to hesitate for a second when with a huff she blew all the candles out in an instant before with arms folded against her chest collapsed with a loud sigh back on to couch.
"Fine birthday this turned out to be!" she offered angrily.
Penny lounged back in her chair calmly sipping at her glass of wine. The last wisps of smoke from the candles dissolved slowly in the air as she studied the almost annoyed and exasperated expression plastered across her best friends face.
"Ok what did Howard do this time?"
Bernadette raised herself back up to a sitting position her wide open eyes glaring at Penny.
"How did you know it was Howard's fault?"
"Listen sweetie when you get to know Howard as long as I have," she stopped to down the remaining wine in her glass, "the very first you discover about him is that it's always his fault!"
She picked up the wine bottle from the coffee table to refill her now empty glass right up to the brim.
"In fact," Penny continued, "if the rumors are correct and I'm pretty sure that they are all women cringe in horror and revulsion whenever the name Howard Wolowitz is mentioned!"
"Hey!," Bernadette snapped, "Howard may be an idiot and a moron but he is mine and I love him."
"Sorry I didn't mean-."
"I knew exactly what you meant!," Bernadette cut her off with a cheeky smile, "but I still mad at him and it won't get him off the hook!"
Quickly gulping down half of the contents of her glass Penny leaned forward in her chair. "What did he do tell me, tell me!"
"Well I shouldn't be telling you this..." Her voice faded into silence leaving Penny hanging.
"Come on tell me you know it won't go any further than me or this room!"
"Ok ok. Well in the week leading up to my birthday he kept dropping hints that he had booked a high class restaurant for a wonderful romantic birthday dinner for just the two of us. And no it wasn't the Olive Garden or The Cheesecake Factory! I must admit I was pretty chuffed when we walked in the door of the restaurant only to be lead to a our table to find his mother sitting there!"
"No way! What did you do?"
:"I stormed out that's what I did. Later on he had audacity and nerve to give me a Lego death star as a birthday present and top it all off I heard that he arranged for tickets for the guys to see the new Star Trek movie leaving us to celebrate my birthday all alone."
"Actually in this case you can't blame Howard for everything."
Bernadette looked at Penny with a puzzled expression on her face. "What do you mean?"
"The part about Howard arranging tickets for the guys is not exactly true..."
"Huh?'" It was all Bernadette could offer in return.
"Well I was the one who told the guys to tell you that it was Howard who got them the tickets so that you will be even more mad at him and also to make doubly sure he wouldn't be here."
"Why?"
She was a little more than puzzled when Penny did not offer a reply looking on as she rose to her feet to stride the short distance behind the couch towards her bedroom. It was only then when Bernadette had twisted her head around to follow her that she noticed it was strange and unusual that her bedroom door was closed and shut something that almost never happened.
Penny had stood by the closed door for only a few seconds before she turned the handle letting the door swing open on its own.
As if to heighten the tension for just couple of seconds nothing happened as Bernadette looked on expectantly as the door slowly swung open noiselessly on its arc. Then the figures of Rajesh, Leonard, Zack and Barry Kripke emerged all dressed in white robes tied securely with a sash around the waist. All them calmly followed Penny standing directly behind her as she sat back down.
Her eyes darted from Penny crossing her tanned legs as she eased herself back onto her chair then to the boys standing behind her and then back to Penny in one continuous cycle.
"What's going on?" she asked innocently.
"Well," Penny began a cheeky smirk on her face, "the boys and I got talking about your birthday present. I put a few ideas forward then they put an idea forward and well...well lets just say I didn't need much convincing to go along."
The smile on her face broadened as she continued. "The boys had such a wild time the other night they desperately wanted to return the favor."
Bernadette watched as the four of them edged closer to the couch their hands quickly untying the sash of their robes allowing them to slip off their bodies and onto the floor below.
"Oh my!" Her hand went straight to her mouth as she gushed in surprise.
There they all stood naked before her their members already erect and standing to attention, each of them with a bow of red ribbon stuck to a strategic section on their anatomy.
The expression on her face soon changed to a devilish smile as they all moved closer crowding around her she sat forward on the couch.
.
"Oooh," she exclaimed, "These are the gifts I love and I don't even have to unwrap them!" Her hands quickly reached outwards her fingers wrapping around Rajesh's and Zack's erect members moving slowly along the length of their shafts. "And I love the touch of the red ribbon!"
"That was my idea" offered Penny. She could just catch the occasional glimpse of Bernadette through the forest of naked male flesh her hands stroking one shaft after another with her face lit up with a sexy, impish smile.
"Aren't you going to join in?" asked Bernadette peering out between the tightly packed mass of male nakedness.
"No, no maybe later." Highly tempted as she was she had decided for her friend to experience the pleasure of all the naked male flesh available here in her own apartment. Her time would come later. "This is your day sweetie enjoy yourself."
No sooner had the words left her mouth than the familiar sound of the first groan filled the air and she looked on as the diminutives blonds head began to bob along the length of Zack's shaft.
Just a like a high class smΓΆrgΓ₯sbord her eyes darted every which way unsure of which tasty treat to slide into her hungry little mouth. Awkward and clumsy at first her small hands soon began working in perfect synchronized unison with each of them jacking off a saliva coated shaft while her mouth, tongue and lips worked feverishly on a third. For a woman of such short a stature she surprisingly did not have an aversion to the rigors of rough sex with one hand after another using the strands of her long hair to pull her in every direction at once.
"Thwey sway its wour bwirthday!" His fingers entwined in the strands of her hair on top of her head and with his cock pumping in her mouth Kripkes lisp riddled voice made a mockery of the Beatles classic. Her lips often brushed against his pubic hair her glasses often clouding over as time after time he buried his shaft deep down her throat.
"We're gwonna hwave a good twime!" He finally relented pulling his shaft from her between her lips making Bernadette rock backwards slightly with her lungs heaving desperate for air.