"Where is Penny, today?" Corny overhead Link asking Tracy after the show was over. He was curious about Penny's whereabouts as well but he was too ashamed to ask about her.
"She had to go run an errand right after school," he heard Tracy say. He was disappointed that she wasn't there. Penny was the prettiest girl he had ever seen and he had been checking her out for the past two years ever since he first saw her when Tracy auditioned for the show. He was disappointed that she wasn't trying out for the council as well. If she was ,he would have made Velma pick her. Penny was always beautiful and had grown more beautiful over the past two years. She no longer wore her hair in two pony tails or sucked on lollipops all day. She always wore her hair down and she was wearing more make up now. Corny thought Penny was drop dead gorgeous. She was kind of shy and insecure and he thought it was very sexy how she was beautiful and didn't even know it. He wished he could take her in his arms and tell her how beautiful she was.
He knew Penny had moved away from her crazy mother time she turned eighteen. He had been waiting for Penny to turn eighteen ever since he met her and now he could pursue her and possibly make love to her all night long.
"Tracy, do you know if Penny will be here tomorrow?" he asked her.
"She should be why?" Tracy said smiling at him.
"I just wanted to talk to her." Tracy nodded knowingly and smiled. Corny knew Tracy suspected his feelings for her best friend ever since she first came on the show and he convinced Velma to let her stay while the show was being taped. He also couldn't help being insanely jealous when she dated Seaweed. He hated watching him make out with her during the commercial breaks and after the show. He was so glad when they finally broke up but Penny was just seventeen at the time so he still had to wait before he dated her.
He was about to walk towards his dressing room when he saw her walking in the room. She was wearing a pretty white dress and had her hair up in a bun. She was so pretty! She must have had lots of boyfriends by now, so he was sure she wouldn't want an older guy like him. He watched her walk over to Tracy and start talking to her. Penny suddenly looked at him and smiled. He smiled back and walked towards her. "Hi Penny, can I talk to you for a minute in my dressing room?" he asked her. Penny turned and looked at Tracy for a second, who smiled at her best friend encouragingly, then turned back to Corny and said "Of course you can."
They went into his dressing room and closed the door. He took a deep breath and looked at her. Here goes, he thought.