The day at the beach

"Come on Leonard, It's a beautiful day and I can't believe you want us to spend it watching 'Buffy the vampire slayer' on a lovely day like this", Penny told him hands on hips and pouting.

"Uhh, well what would you like to watch then?", Leonard asked her, completely missing her point.

"Leonard, I want to go out, please honey", she declared, giving him the benefit of the full power of her green eyes.

"Well OK, I guess we can go to the mall for a couple of hours if you want, Honey", Leonard replied ,

"Leonard, I want to go to the beach, all week I have been cooped up in the cheesecake factory or cooped up here, I want sunshine, I want to smell the sea air and I want you to share it with me, please honey", she pleaded rolling her eyes at his seeming inability to understand her need.

"but what about the pollution and... ", Leonard began but stopped at seeing the stern look on her face

"Ok Penny we'll go if you want", Leonard acquiesced.

And with a squeal of delight Penny ran to her bedroom to change.

On coming out, dressed in a loose flowing top and shorts she stopped suddenly when seeing that Leonard was still dressed in his hoodie and trousers.

"Leonard sweetie we are going to the beach not the comic book factory, come on Honey, T-shirt and shorts please, Now", she demanded.

"uhh, I haven't got any shorts, I used to have some but I spilled acid on them in an experiment some years ago", Leonard sheepishly told her.

"No problem we will stop at a shop on the way and get you some", she declared

So they, after ditching Leonard's hoodie, left for the shops on the way to the beach.

Penny drove Leonard's car to Santa Monica where they stopped at Wilshire Blvd to purchase Leonard some shorts. They Entered the shop and Penny immediately picked out Leonard some shorts to try on, Penny was rather hoping to have fun helping Leonard, but the shop Assistant seeming to guess Penny's intention said "If Madam would like to wait here", indicating a row of chairs away from the changing rooms. Penny sat with a hard look at the assistant and sulked.

They exited the shop after purchasing two pairs of shorts for Leonard, and Three tops and a wraparound skirt plus some sunglasses for Penny, all on Leonard's card.

Penny, then after buying two take out coffees drove along the Pacific coast highway, and to Leonard's bewilderment, seemingly to drive past the beaches. Till eventually Penny turned into the car park for El Matador beach then taking their beach things and also some tuna & sweetcorn sandwich rolls they had purchased in Santa Monica, they headed down the rocky path to the beach.

Leonard at seeing the nearly deserted beach at once understood why Penny came here.

Penny removed her top and shorts displaying her Bikini which she wore underneath and after some struggling got Leonard to remove his T-shirt then after applying sun tan lotion on each other they settled down to sunbathe, Leonard was all for snoozing in the sun but Penny talked about her life growing up in Nebraska and as she talked Leonard quickly picked up on the fact that most guys Penny went with had cheated on her or were concerned about their own needs and not really showing any interest in the things Penny liked, or having little interest in really getting to know her as a person.

After an hour or so they ate their rolls and then returned to sunbathing and it then was Penny that started to snore, so leaving her to sleep, Leonard got up and walked along the shoreline, when after 10 minutes Penny crept up behind him and emptied a coke can of seawater over Leonard's back then she ran into the sea laughing, with Leonard in hot pursuit, chasing her into deeper water (up to their shoulders) Penny stopped, "okay I surrender", she said putting her arms round him and kissing him. This action prompted very strong feelings to stir in Penny, whether it was his smile or his twinkling brown eyes, or his powerful arms holding her Penny did not know, all she knew was that those feelings were so strong she was a little afraid of them, having never felt like this with anyone before. Penny felt powerless to fight those feelings or the passion that now burst upon her forcing her to surrender to them.

Back on the beach, Penny lay on her back staring up at the sky, "WOW", she thought, "I was like a woman possessed,

I just couldn't seem to get enough of him, I felt as if I could stay in his arms forever", she thought still feeling this wonderfully intense emotion, she began crying.

"are you OK, listen I'm sorry,", Leonard began, "I know I should not have taken advantage of you like that, but it was so wonderful having you in my arms like that, I guess I got carried away".

Penny suddenly turned and embraced him, "Leonard, it was so wonderful, this wasn't just sex, this was something so, so much better, I feel like I've died and gone to heaven Honey, so don't be sorry, I have never felt like this before, ever. But I don't understand what it means though". Then she lay her head on Leonard's chest and tried to make sense of it while Leonard lay there with a smile as wide as the Pacific.