Day 2: Vacation

Frowning, Leonard peered up at Penny, squinting from the sunlight. "Bu-ut, Penny, I'll get really bad sunburn!" He whined.

"Ugh, just take off your t-shirt. It's boiling!"

"Yeah, well, I'll look like a boiled tomato if I take it off. You saw what happened last time."

"That's because you didn't put suncream on last time. We put some on before we left the hotel."

"Still, I don't wanna risk it. Besides, all these other guys are topless and I look lame in comparison. I don't have abs!"

"Aw, baby, you do, trust me. Not like those guys, but I don't want to see them topless." Penny grinned, giving him a quick wink. "Anyway, I have a solution."

"What is it?"

"You'll see. Just take it off."

"The beach isn't fair. You look hot in a bikini. I look... pasty in just swim shorts." Leonard sighed as he took off his t-shirt, throwing it on top of the pile of clothes on the towel beside the deck chair he was on.

"Mm, better. First beach trip of the holiday? Greatly improved." Penny giggled, biting her lip. "Now, lie back."

"Uh, what are you gonna do?" Leonard raised a brow, uncertain. "You are aware we're in a public place, right?"

"Of course I am." Penny rolled her eyes. "Just lie back."

"Alright." Leonard did as Penny said, shuffling to get comfortable. "Okay. Now what?"

"Spread your legs a little."

"Penny!"

"Leonard!"

"We can't do that here!"

"We're not! Just spread your legs and get your mind out of the gutter." Penny rolled her eyes.

Eyeing her suspiciously, Leonard again did as he was told. "This doesn't look dodgy at all. What're you gonna do next, tell me to take off my swim shorts?"

"No." Penny stuck her tongue out at him. "I'm gonna do this." Removing the beach skirt she'd pulled on over her bikini bottoms to walk down to the beach, she shoved it into their bag with Leonard's t-shirt and pulled out her phone and bottle of Diet Coke, placing both in the large cup holder of the deck chair. Before he could ask what she was doing, she had settled herself between his legs, lying herself back against his chest and wrapping his arms around her waist. "There we go. Now I'll still get a tan and beach cuddles, but you won't get sunburn, because I'm blocking you."

"Clever." Leonard chuckled behind her, giving her cheek a kiss as she rested her head to the side of his, on his shoulder.

The pair of them lay like this for a good twenty minutes, settling into the relaxing sounds of the waves crashing onto the shore and people around them chattering in the sun. Beginning to feel the heat burning onto her, Penny peeked an eye open and reached for her phone.

"What're you doing?" Leonard asked, unable to see what she was doing on her phone in the sunlight.

"I wanna take a photo so I can show off to everyone else how awesome our vacation is." Penny grinned, before leaning back again and holding out her phone to take a photo on the front-facing camera. She took a few, before going through them and picking the best one to share with her friends, before lying back down. A few seconds later, she groaned.

"What's up now?"

"Need to turn over." Penny sighed, shifting slightly before rolling methodically so she was lying on him on her stomach, shuffling her body down slightly to rest her head on his chest. "This still comfy for you?"

"Uh-huh." Leonard nodded.

"Good." Penny mumbled relaxedly. "Why have we never gone on a proper vacation before this? It's so nice."

"Because all our weekend breaks have ended with us having to pay the hotel for various bits of broken furniture, so a vacation seemed extra expensive?" Leonard chuckled.

"Hmm. Funny." Penny giggled against him. "We still have a whole week to break some furniture."

"Then if we ever want to do a vacation here again we'll have to pick a different hotel."

"Mmm... yeah. If they even let us come back here again at all." Penny smirked into his chest. "I'd happily do some deck chair breaking activities right now."

"Seriously?" Leonard laughed.

"Yup. Shouldn't have brought up those weekend breaks and broken furniture. So many good memories."

"They are good memories." Leonard agreed fondly, before smirking cheekily. "We could always have some wild ocean sex again."

"Ooh. I like the sound of that. But later. I need to lie on my back a little longer or I'll end up looking like Ross when he counted Mississippi-ly in the tanning booth."

"Aw... but I left my aqua shoes."

"Too bad. You're not getting up to get them from the hotel, and we're not not having ocean sex."

"Alright." Leonard wasn't exactly going to leave her here or turn down an adventure. After a few minutes of sun-soaked silence, he asked, "Can we go to the local history museum? I looked it up online back at home after we booked this holiday. It would be a nice place to cool down after all of this sun. And it looks really interesting."

Sighing, Penny nodded. "You are so lucky I find your nerdiness attractive."