A/N: Because I'm not a very smart person…I mean, I am. I've been reading at a twelfth grade level since I was five. I excelled at Science, History and English/Literature – Math, eh, I'm brain dead with it – but I don't do scientific terms and I know I could just look up some shtick to put in here but that just seems like a pain in the ass. So excuse is the guys seem a little out of character.
Warning (s): Dark themes. I don't have the space to list them all so just take my word on it. I will put warnings at the beginning of a chapter if I think anyone will be offended and to prevent triggering.
Please review, let me know what you think. Chapters get better and longer, I promise.
"Step out the front door like a ghost
into the fog where no one notices the contrast
of white on white. And in between the
moon and you, the angels get a better
view of the crumbling difference
between wrong and right. I walk in the air
between the rain, through myself and back again.
Where? I don't know.
Maria says she's dying
though the door I hear her crying
Why? I don't know."
- Round Here, Counting Crows
If he hadn't opened that door, he would have never seen her.
Leonard would argue that he would have eventually seen her, she had moved in with Penny after all; of course, Penny quietly informed everyone that her new roommate had not intended to leave the confines of Penny's guest room.
But he had opened that door.
He had seen her.
He had listed her physical appearance obsessively (of course, he didn't know he had done so 'obsessively'); he was most intrigued by her eyes. They were a rare shade of turquoise and it was something to be amazed by, even for someone like him. How often do you see turquoise eyes?
"This is my friend, Rita."
Penny stood beside the small 'Rita' with a proud smile on her face, hands clasped in front of her floral print dress. This 'Rita' looked so out of place, it was startling. No one – not even Sheldon – dared asked why her right eye was taped over with gauze, but they didn't avoid it. Just didn't acknowledge it. When it was Sheldon's turn to introduce himself, Penny held her breath, concerned on whether he would scare Rita off like he usually did with people.
Sheldon gave her a twitch of a smile. "Sheldon, and yes, I know, it's a pleasure."
Penny rolled her eyes in time with Leonard; Raj and Howard were muttering amongst themselves, not paying attention to the going on's on front of them. But, if they had, if Penny and Leonard were paying as much attention as they should, they would have seen the way she looked up at Sheldon. That one, wide, eye rolling up to meet his. They would have seen the way her pupil dilated and would have seen the way her jaw twitched in an effort to keep that grin down.
"Hello, Sheldon," she whispered.