Alright, so looks like I have been bitten by the writing bug! There are a few things you should know before you start reading the story. Leonard and Priya are together, for now, and Priya is in India. So I guess you could say it takes place around the beginning of series 5. Everything else is as it was, except I have moved Howard and Bernadettes wedding up to fit my story. In this chapter the wedding is only a week away.

I think that is all that I have to say, if you do have any questions just ask .Well I hope you enjoy my story, please review if you have any comments, good or bad!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything here, besides the story!

Leonard walked out from his room and slumped down onto his chair. He was obviously upset about something, but his ever oblivious friend, Sheldon failed to notice. He had just come off the phone to Priya and she had told him that she would not be returning to Pasadena for Howard and Bernadette's wedding, citing work issues as the reason for her staying in India. Leonard was so disappointed. He had been looking forward to spending some time with her since she had been gone for almost two months. Not only that, but he really didn't want to go to the wedding on his own, the rest of the gang all had dates.

Penny was taking her newest boyfriend, Jimmy… Or was it James? He wasn't sure he had only met him once in the hallway. She had, unsurprisingly, reverted back to her old type in the area of boyfriends; tall, gorgeous and stupid. Raj had also found himself a date. Her name was Sophia, and although none of the group, besides Penny, had met her, Raj had told them everything he knew about her. From what he had told them, she was a pretty girl, a little smaller than him, with brunette hair, cut into a short bob. She was a very forward girl, not shy in the slightest and had spent the most of the evening when they first met at the cheesecake factory, chatting away, not giving Raj the chance to speak, even if he could. Raj told them that when he finally got the chance to speak, with help from some liquor of course, he had asked her to be his date to the wedding. To his surprise, and the groups, she had said yes and gave him her number. And then there was Sheldon, who of course had Amy.

So it looked like he would be the only one there without someone on his arm. He leant back in his chair and huffed loudly, hoping to get Sheldon to realise he was upset about something. He really needed to talk to someone about what had just happened with Priya, and he had hoped that his friend would be having one of his better days when he would actually be able to read social cues. He wasn't. Sheldon merely shouted a "Quiet down back there!" Leonard should have known better, he looked over at his friend; he was at his desk, engrossed in a game of 'World of Warcraft' on his laptop. Leonard gave up in his search for attention, knowing that once Sheldon got into these games, it was almost impossible to pull him out. Leonard got up off of his chair and fell on to the couch, sprawling his body out over the length of it. "Get off my spot." Sheldon stated. Leonard frowned and looked up at Sheldon. He hadn't even turned away from his computer screen! How the hell did he know! Leonard once again huffed loudly, before moving to the other end of the couch, he put his head on the arm rest, and bent his knee so that his feet stopped just before 'Sheldon's spot'.

Leonard took his glasses off and set them on the table, then massaged his forehead. His mind was going a mile a minute. He just couldn't understand why Priya suddenly couldn't come to the wedding. Only a few days ago she had been talking about how excited she was to return to Pasadena, and now, out of the blue, she had to work? It didn't make sense to him and he had questioned it, but she dismissed him, claiming there were complications in one of her cases and she just couldn't leave. Leonard accepted it, even though he still felt like something wasn't right, he didn't want to start fighting with her. The time they spent together talking was scarce because of the time difference, so he didn't want to waste that time fighting.

Leonard closed his eyes and began to relax a little, only to be disturbed by the sound of two people arguing, and then a loud bang as a door was slammed shut. Sheldon and Leonard looked at each other, confused. "Is that Penny?" Leonard asked. Sheldon simply shrugged, "Well, given that Penny's apartment is the one in closest proximity to ours, and her tendency to be rather hot-headed, the most probable conclusion is that yes, that is in fact, Penny." He answered and took out his earphones, plugged them into the laptop and continued with his game. Leonard shook his head, typical.

Leonard put on his glasses, stood up and headed to the peephole on the door. He saw Jimmy/James standing in front of Penny's front door, the door was closed and he was pleading with her to open it and talk to him. Been there! Leonard thought to himself. He knew how stubborn and closed off she could be. He could remember countless times when they would argue, both when they were dating and when they weren't, and she would storm off, refusing to talk to him about her feelings. It was part of the reason they had broken up, she had the emotional maturity of a woman half her age. He had always found himself stepping on eggshells when he was with her, scared he would say something the wrong way and she would freak out and storm off, refusing to talk to him again for hours, sometimes days. And now she seemed to be doing it with this guy, but then maybe he was wrong, she did have a tendency to date complete jerks, so it wasn't hard to imagine that this guy was just as bad as the rest. He watched as the guy finally gave up and headed down the stairs. Leonard found himself smiling, as soon as he realised he had done it, he removed his smile and frowned. What the hell? He contemplated what that smile meant, being the kind of guy he was, he felt the need to analyse everything. He knew that Penny would be in her apartment, probably crying over the recent break-up, or what he was assuming was a break-up from the information he had. So that couldn't be why he was happy, he would never be happy so see her sad. The only thing he ever wanted for her in this life, was for her to be happy. Maybe it was just habit, he had spent so many years, peeking out his peephole, watching her and her latest date as they left her apartment, each time hoping that it would be the last time he saw the guy. And he would often find himself smiling, like he was now, when she would have a huge fight with one of them. The guy would storm off, leaving Leonard to go and comfort her, and Penny single, just as he had liked it! Maybe that's what it was, just an automatic reaction to what he had just seen, based on the way he used to feel about her. After all, he was in a relationship now, and he was happy in it, well except from the part about her being thousands of miles away. None the less, he loved Priya, so there was no way his happiness could still be due to the fact that Penny was newly single once again. It wouldn't make sense. Would it?

Leonard shook his head. I HAVE to stop overthinking stuff! Hethought about going over to see if Penny was okay, it was what he would usually do in this situation, but he wasn't in the best of moods himself right now and he probably wouldn't be in the right frame of mind to listen to her complain about that guy. On the other hand, Leonard really felt like he needed to talk to someone right now about his own problems, Sheldon already proving to be hopeless in that department, but then again maybe Penny wasn't the one that he should talk to about 'Priya stuff' either. He decided however, that he had best go over and make sure she was okay, to see if she needed someone to talk to, someone to comfort her and make her feel better, the last thing he wanted was for her to be upset all on her own. Even if it meant he had to put aside his own problems for a while.

His mind had been made up, so he headed straight over, not bothering to let his roommate know where he was going, he probably wouldn't even notice he was gone anyway! He walked over and knocked on her door, he heard her shout "GO AWAY JAMES!" Oh so his name was James! He thought before answering, "Um… Its Leonard, can I come in?" He heard her shuffle about inside her apartment, before opening her door. Her eyes were red, and she was sniffling, she had obviously been crying. Leonard's heart melted, he couldn't stand to see her cry. "What do you want?" She asked as she caught her breath.

"I heard some shouting… Just wanted to make sure you were alright." He said softly, she looked down at her feet, "Do you wanna talk?"

She hesitated at first, then nodded and let him in. He was the only one she could really talk to about what had happened. Well, besides Bernadette, but she didn't want to burden her with her problems on the week of her wedding.

Leonard took a seat on her couch, while Penny grabbed two glasses and a bottle of wine. "Oh, no, none for me thanks." He said as he shook his hands. "My head has been killing me and I'm afraid wine will make it worse."

"Aww," She whined, "Are you gonna make me drink on my own?" She pouted her bottom lip and done her best impression of puppy dog eyes as she could.

Leonard caved, "Oh alright then." She smiled and poured them both a drink. "So tell me, what happened with you and James?"

Okay, sorry to end that so abruptly but I was nearing 2,000 words and I want to keep them the chapters, as best as I can, within the 1,000 word range. Chapter 2 is already written and so should be up soon enough. I hope you enjoyed it, and once again any comments you have to give are appreciated. Thank you!