The Roommate Catastrophe
(The Sheldon-Leonard Catastrophe)
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It was a sunny morning in Pasadena, its early in spring, the trees were just beginning their annual regrowth after shedding leaves at autumn and spending three months of California winter.
Everything was quiet in a 5 story apartment block when thick Physics book was thrown out from the fourth floor, along with glass fragments from the broken window it crashed through. Followed by the Physics book, a figurine was thrown out as well, crashing another part of the window.
Inside, Leonard and Sheldon were arguing about each other's quirks and behaviors but mostly about Sheldon's inability to change his rigid schedule, his arrogance and lengthy yet unnecessary explanations of the simplest things in life. Sheldon responded by bombarding Leonard with more scientific fact and history to make his point only to be interrupted by Leonard picked up another thick Particle Theory book from the shelf and throws it at him to shut him up.
Sheldon dodged the book after calculating the trajectory in his head before Leonard even proceed to throw it. He hid behind the kitchen island, continued with his explanation about Leonard's failure to continue his relationship with Penny and conducting original research instead of "ripping off" existing research. To finish it off, he went to his desk drawer and produced a ring folder with a piece of paper entitled Roommate Agreement stuck on the cover.
According to the roommate agreement section 4 clause 5, all roommates shall not throw any private possession at each other as a threat or to cause harm or to cause damage to shared property.
"It seems you had violated this section of the roommate agreement and you will be prosecuted according to Roommate Agreement Section 10, Punishment for misbehavior." Sheldon explained as he flicked through the thick paper.
Leonard stood there at the sofa feeling extremely irritated by his bound from the Roommate Agreement which he was force to sign when he moved in 7 years ago, although he was saved by Sheldon from the rocket fuel incident which broke the elevator and not reporting it to the landlord nor the government. However, Leonard had limits and already had enough.
He stopped Sheldon again by throwing a pillow at him while he was busying finding Section 10 of the roommate agreement, then proclaimed, "Look Sheldon, I had enough with this Roommate Agreement you have! One thing is certain, I am heading to Raj's place to spend the rest of my day! If you want something, go annoy Penny!"
Sheldon protested, "No way Leonard, you can't go, according to the Roommate Agreement, Section—"
Leonard went forward and snatched the agreement from Sheldon's hands then yelled at him, "You know what? I am taking this with me! Just in case you want to annoy Penny with it!"
Sheldon was in shock to see Leonard snatched the agreement from his hands then he became annoyed at him, "Okay then, then from this point in time onwards out relationship is being terminated and I will write a new roommate agreement to compensate this loss." He then sat down on his office chair and start working on a new agreement.
Leonard slammed the door behind him when Penny peeked out from her opened door across the hall. Penny's look was quite worried when she heard Leonard and Sheldon arguing across the hall and loud crashing noises from the broken glass when Leonard throw something out from the window.
She whispered to Leonard to get his attention which he did, he turned to her and smiled weakly at her, albeit robotic, "Hey Penny."
"I guessed you have another argument with Sheldon again? That's some argument back there."
Leonard snapped, "Some?! Sheldon is nuts! All I wanted to do was move the sofa further back from the TV and guessed what happened?"
Penny looked confused, "What happened?"
"Sheldon went shit crazy! That's what happened! He went to his long painful lecture about his spot and the blasted roommate agreement that all movement of furniture must be notified 12 hours prior!"
Penny looked horrified and confused by what Leonard explained to her, she repeated his explanation, "So you are telling me that Sheldon went crazy because you didn't informed him about moving the sofa further back from the TV the day before? Is that correct?"
Leonard nodded.
Penny nodded in return. Her gaze turned to the ring folder Leonard was holding. She pointed at it out of curiosity, "what is that?'
Leonard looked at the folder on his right hand, "Oh this, this is the roommate agreement that I told you before."
Then Penny had a flashback when Leonard came to her house for a retreat after a heated argument with Sheldon due to a thermostat. Leonard explained to her about the Roommate Agreement which Leonard forced to sign when he first moved in. Penny let out a positive sounding noise and turned to Leonard, "I remember now! So why are you carrying it now? I thought Sheldon hid it somewhere?"
"Oh, I just snatch it from him when he tried to point out where I did wrong when I threw some stuff out from the window."
"You threw some stuff out from the window? That might explain the crashing sound. What did you threw out anyway? I hope it's nothing important to Sheldon?"
Leonard paused for a while, "Ahhhh…no. I threw his favorite physics textbook, his Batman figurine and his mint condition graphic novel out."
Penny nudged him in annoyance, "Leonard! You can't do that to him, it's his private possession, and you need to go down there and try to recover them." She began pushing Leonard down the stairs, hopefully he would recover the items Leonard threw out.