A/N: Thank you for the responses and feedback! You're all freaking awesome. Please continue to review. I'm going to have several different points of view and hopefully, the last installment will be Penny and Sheldon getting past their denial :) Enjoy! Suggestions are welcome!
Denial
Leonard didn't like to think about how he didn't think about Penny anymore. He missed her (or maybe just the idea of her) but he didn't want to be with her or marry her. Not anymore.
But Leonard did not realize at first that Sheldon and Penny were spending so much time together. He finally realized it when he came home one morning to find Penny curled up on the couch, wrapped in a quilt Sheldon's Meemaw had made for him when he graduated college.
He got the Sheldon version of the story, then the Howard version, because Howard and Bernadette had come over, but he knew that those versions were probably not the most accurate.
But then he got the Penny version which was almost identical to the Sheldon version that they had got caught up in a movie marathon and she had simply fallen asleep. She woke up around three in the morning and after she figured out where she was, she decided she was too comfortable and warm in wrapped up in the quilt to leave.
Leonard decided at once that he wouldn't think on it too much, even though since that day, he noticed that Sheldon sat closer to Penny and spoke only to her when the group was together and always in much softer tones than before.
And then out of the blue, Amy stopped coming around. Penny rarely saw her and Sheldon didn't mention her and rarely even Skyped with her. Sheldon eventually admitted that he had broken up with her but never gave a concrete reason.
But he wouldn't think about it. He didn't confront Sheldon because he probably didn't even realize what was going on anyway. Penny would be just as helpful. Leonard knew for a fact she had a date with some guy she met at the gym or maybe he works with her or something. At any rate, the guy's bicep was bigger than Leonard's head.
And Leonard knew that Sheldon had excused himself to his bedroom to mope because his Halo partner was otherwise engaged. But Leonard wouldn't think about how his heart ached when he saw them talking or when Sheldon left the apartment and didn't return for hours and Leonard knew he hadn't left the building because he hadn't taken his coat or computer.
He didn't think about how his heart didn't ache anymore because he couldn't have Penny. His heart ached because his two best friends had fallen for each other and didn't even realize it. Maybe he should think about it... Maybe tomorrow.