Coincidence

Chapter 1 – coincidence

It was a summer in Pasadena and the boys were bored out of their minds. It was a Thursday and everyone had had enough of Leonard's whining. They hadn't seen penny in a long time and whenever they caught her in the hallway she in too much of a rush to leave for them to say hi. She barely even acknowledged them anymore and it has been weeks since she has joined them for take-out food. Leonard has been jumping from countless conclusions and has allowed himself to believe them. However Howard and Raj have not been helping, claiming that she has found a guy and that she has been in a real relationship with him. Leonard has had enough and finally has to give in to the fact that he isn't going to be with her.

''well if she can move so can I'' Leonard mutters to himself as he turns around to Howard and Raj. ''Howard, take me to Las Vegas'' he says with his chin held high.

''Really?'' squeaked Howard as he jumps up and down clapping his hands together with glee whilst Raj just animatedly nods his head up and down.

''I want to get over penny'' Leonard say with even more pride and is waiting for his praise and understanding from his friends.

''FINALLY'' Howard and Raj shouts with exasperation. Leonard looses a bit of confidence because they didn't praise him. Typical thinks Leonard glumly.

Sheldon was too busy staring intently at his whiteboard to notice. He has been making tiny breakthroughs in his work throughout the past few weeks to care about anyone else. In fact he hasn't really been acknowledging them for about a week and a half now. Too much work to do as per usual.

This particular Thursday however is 'anything can happen Thursday' and so their leaving wouldn't cause him any problems with his routine anyway. He can just spend this Thursday working instead. The boys have left and so he finally has some peace and quiet. Therefore, giving him the perfect environment for his 'big beautiful mind' to work. That's penny would have said..

''heh, heh'' Sheldon did his usually breathy laugh at his own joke.

''Where is penny, anyway?'' he mutters to himself under his breath as an afterthought.

His mind has been unconsciously travelling towards his bubbly neighbour more and more recently. For him it is rather unsettling. Randomly during the day these sudden break in his thought process have caused him to become distracted. The feelings that he his has for there disruptions however are even more unsettling. Not knowing how to control the situation, results in him blocking everything else out and using his little bubble to concentrate on solving the mysteries of the universe. Maybe after that he can solve the mystery that is penny.

Nothing can stop him now. He is on the 'zone' (as lesser minds would say) and he won't let her blonde curl that gracefully flow onto her shoulders distract him now…not even the way that they flow natural waves.

Waves …waves.

''Waves!'' Sheldon shouts in disbelief. (Disbelief for not seeing it earlier) He finally sees it! It's all about waves. This fits his equation…how could he not have seen it before?

Sheldon spends the next hour energetically scribbling on numerous whiteboards whilst occasionally flying his fingers against his laptop's keyboard to check data. He abruptly stops to a standstill in front of his board and stares blankly at the equation that is now thoroughly check and re-checked and is certified as correct.

He's done it.

Dr Sheldon Lee Copper BS, MS, MA, PhD and ScD have discovered the mysteries of the universe. He has just proved string theory.

After years of constantly working and using his brain, everything just becomes frozen in time as he stares in wonder at his work. Years of continuous stress on his mind and suddenly it is at peace can finally stop and have a breather. It's done its job and it definitely deserves its break.

Is this moment real? Sheldon just stands there completely frozen. He has to pinch himself to break the spell. As he snaps out of it he become overwhelmed and its too much. After realising the he can't breathe because of the breath he didn't know he was holding and finally begins to hyperventilate uncontrollably.