The room fell silent. The only sound was the faint hum of the refrigerator and the distant, mournful bellow of a train.
Georgie grinned, a flash of teenage rebellion. "I'm gonna tell Veronica I caught the winning touchdown." young sheldon s02e18 hdrip
"Which only deepens the betrayal."
George Sr. walked in, still in his assistant coach’s polo, smelling of high school gym floor wax. He dropped a slightly deflated football on the coffee table. "Don't start, Sheldon. Some of us had a long day. We lost to Midlothian." The room fell silent
The doorbell rang, a sharp, two-note chime that cut through the bickering. It was Billy Sparks, holding a grimy Altoids tin. "I'm gonna tell Veronica I caught the winning touchdown
"She said that to get you to carry her pom-poms," Sheldon interjected. "A rudimentary form of task delegation. Also, the jacket harbors rhinovirus. I can smell the zinc from her lip balm."
Sheldon pried open the tin. Inside, a very still, very fuzzy caterpillar lay on a bed of dried grass. "Billy, this is a woolly bear caterpillar. It's not dead. It's in diapause, a state of suspended development to survive winter."