A retelling of the first episode where Sheldon lives alone in apartment 4B and meets two young ladies who move in across the hall. In this TBBT universe Amy and Raj do not appear. Everything belongs to Lorre and Prady.

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Dressed in their yellow, white and blue Cheesecake Factory uniforms Penny and Bernadette prepared to leave apartment 4A for the first time since they moved in earlier that day.

"OK Bernie, that's enough unpacking for today, time to go and serve food to people."

"That's right Penny, the boys will come over tomorrow and help with the rest of the unpacking."

As they locked the door of 4A behind them they saw a delivery man handing over two large bags of groceries to the occupant of 4B.

"There you go Dr. Cooper, your supplies for another week."

"Thank you for bringing them."

"Hello, I'm Penny"

"and I am Bernadette, we are your new neighbours."

Sheldon said "welcome to the building" as he closed the door behind him.

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Next day Sheldon was walking back up the stairs, he had just done his weekly trash and recycling disposal. He had almost got to the 4th floor when suddenly the power went out. The lights were still out when he got to the door of 4B, Sheldon keyed in the code to unlock his door and nothing happened!

Penny came out of 4A and said "the lights are out in the corridor Bernie, it's not just us. Oh hello neighbour."

The lights came back on and Sheldon tried to unlock his door again.

"Drat, I am locked out."

He took out his phone and made a call

"Good morning, this is Dr. Sheldon Cooper of Apartment 4B, 2311 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena. My electronic door lock is not functioning. Very well, I shall see you in 1 hour."

"Would you like to wait in 4A with us Dr. Cooper?"

Sheldon turned round, as if to acknowledge Penny's existence.

"That would be acceptable; thank you Penny."

"You are welcome Dr. Cooper. Bernie, we have a visitor."

Bernadette greeted her neighbour "welcome Dr. Cooper, sorry about the mess but we have just moved in here. Our boyfriends are coming round soon to help us with unpacking. Would you like some coffee or tea?"

"Tea would be acceptable, what do you ladies do for a living?"

"I am an actress."

"I am studying for a Ph.D in microbiology, but we both work at the Cheesecake Factory to pay the bills."

"A Ph.D student, excellent. I have two Ph.D degrees in Physics."

Then there was a knock at the door

"The boys are here" and Penny and Bernadette ran to the door. Penny gave Leonard a big hug and a kiss, Bernadette did the same with Howard. Penny then gave Howard a friendly hug as did Bernadette with Leonard.

"Boys, this is our neighbour Dr. Sheldon Cooper."

"Hello, I am Howard Wolowitz."

"I'm Dr. Leonard Hofstadter, are you THE Sheldon Cooper the theoretical physicist?"

"Yes, I work from home where there are fewer distractions."

"I really enjoyed your string theory Skype seminar last month. Howard and I work at Caltech as well. Howard is an engineer, I am an experimental physicist."

"Pleased to meet you. I am waiting for the lock company to come and reset my electronic door lock, they should be here in 51 minutes."

Then Howard said "do you mind if I have a look at this door lock, I think I might be able to save you 51 minutes."

5 minutes later Howard put the cover back on the key pad and said "try it now Dr. Cooper."

Sheldon keyed in the code, the door opened. Sheldon said "thank you Mr. Wolowitz" as he closed the door behind him.

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30 minutes later. Knock knock knock "Penny and Bernadette", knock knock knock "Penny and Bernadette", knock knock knock "Penny and Bernadette".

"Would you like some help with unpacking?..."