Chapter 3.
The following days Leonard and Penny decided to work from home. Penny would have sales over video chat while Leonard tried to figure out the missing conclusion to dark matter on his wipe board and computer. That way if Penny started feeling ill or just needed a reminder that things would be okay, Leonard was right there. But he also gave Penny her space when she needed it.
Once Saturday evening rolled around, it was group night at Penny and Leonards' apartment. Tonight they were meeting Raj's new girlfriend, Mallory. Penny and Leonard decided to keep their news a secert until they were past the first trimester and keep their focus on Raj and Mallory. But a couple days before, Penny called Bernadette to make sure she had not told Howard. Which she had not even though it was driving her crazy keeping such a big secert.
Penny was glad she was starting to get her appetite back but certian food smells made her sick to her stomach. She was glad the gang decided just to order sandwhiches and salads. Penny was certian Sheldon was going to suspicious since she would not being drinking wine tonight. "Hey if he notices anything strange we just tell him you are trying to cut down, I mean you can pull it off since you use to be an actress." Penny gave him an evil look, "Use to be, I could still be an actress if I wanted to." Leonard gave her a confusing look. Penny did the same look back, " You and your stupid eyebrows shut up!" Leonard chuckled as Penny walked away and plopped in the big arm chair with arms crossed. Leonard put his head down and went over to Penny. "Look," Penny looked up to her husband as he started to kneel down in front of her. "If you really miss acting that much I support you if you want to go back to acting classes." Penny looked at him and took a deep breath. "I dont know why I got upset. I know I don't I love my job but its helped us both and helped me get out of debt. But there is still a small part of me who misses acting." By this time Leonard got up and sat next to Penny on the arm chair. "Okay, how about you keep your job until it gets closer to your maternity leave and if you want to start up acting classes again after the baby is born, I fully support you." Penny sat in silence for a minute and looked over to her husband, "I really like that idea. I mean if you think I still have a chance. There has been quite a few actress that started a later career already had kids." Leonard nodded, "See there you go. And it shouldn't matter if I think that you still have a chance, you need to believe that." Penny closed her eyes and smiled.
There went Leonard being all nerdy cute again. " Damit Leonard, why do have turn me on being so cheesy romantic on me again. If our friends weren't coming over I would take you in out bedroom and have my way with you." Leonard gave her the biggest smile ever. "Well there is time to..." Penny smiled back at him, "No..." Leonard was trying not to loose it, "But..." Penny was going to make sure she got the last word on this one, "I said no. But if they leave early we might... Thats if I am still in the mood." Penny got up and put her hand on his inner leg as she heard him take high pitch breath, and gave him a small peck on the cheek. Leonard hung his head low again, his wife could always be a pure vixon and he loved it. But he got up and followed his wife to the kitchen to help finish serve up plates right before their friends showed up.
No longer than five minutes later, Sheldon and Amy were the first to arrive. Sheldon was ranting how Kripke got the new Sting Theory grant over him. Leonard decided to talk Sheldon down while Amy went over to Penny to help her. "Hey Bestie!" Amy always made Penny smiled when she called her nick name. "Hey Amy, so seem like you got your hands full this evening?" Amy rolled her eys, "Sometimes I wonder why you guys let me get married to him. But what can I do. Hmm I love that tall handsome man." Penny only smiled on how strange Amy and Sheldon could be but she loved them anyway.
Before she could enjoy her thought, her attention was to the door as were everyone else. Eveyone could hear Bernadette yelling at Howard about something keeping his mouth shut. That was when Penny and Leonard stared at each other in panic. Penny was hoping Bernadette did not blab to her very odd ball husband. But she knew the answer when they walked in the door and Howard went over to Leonard saying, "You dog you!" and Leonard throwing his head back with annoyed tone, "Oh God!" Penny just stared at Bernadette with anger and annoyance.
Bernadette was trying to tell Penny and Leonard sorry because Howard begged it out of her. Then Amy and Sheldon were courious, well more Amy than Sheldon, what was going on. Leonard came to Penny's side and looked at each other and decided to announce the news. Penny went first, "Okay since Bernadette knew first and cant keep anything to herself, Leonard and I are pregnant." Amy was getting run over to Penny but Leonard stopped her. "Amy I know your excited, and the look on Sheldons face he already does not like this change, and Howard and Bernadette I can already tell you guys are excited for us because like Penny said she cant keep a secert..." Bernadette smiling big, "Thats right bitches, I knew first. Go suck on it! I dont care if I blabbed!" Penny was trying to hold in her laughter as Leonard shook his head and continued his statement. "As I was saying, due to our news we wanted to wait a while to anounce it. So Sheldon put that damn phone down and not say a thing to my mother." Sheldon gave Leonard his puppy dog look and slowly put his phone in his pocket and sat in his spot, looking like a kid that just got caught his hand in the cookie jar. "So we are not telling anyone else until we have passed our first trimester. Well we will tell Raj later tonight. But tonight we are here to focus on Raj and his new girlfriend." Except for Sheldon, everyone else agreed to put all the focus on Raj and Mallory.
As Raj and Mallory arrived, every one sat down and enjoyed dinner. Mallory was a seismologist. Penny was a little confused what she did. But once Mallory explained it, she had to do with studing earthqaukes. Penny would have never guessed she to was a scientist because she seemed really down to earth and she was a farm girl from Indiana. At first Mallorys' studies where in meteorology, then changed her field when she moved to California. The group also found out that Mallory first was in San Francisco, but moved to Pasadena only a few months ago to take a job at Cal Tech and just one day ran into Raj at the planetarium after one of his shows. She was so impressed she was the one asked him out on a date. Penny thought she could really like her and only hoped Raj wouldn't be an idiot with this one.
As the night wound down, Leonard pulled Raj to the side so it wouldn't ruin his night and told him the big news. Raj quietly came over to Penny and gave her a light hug and whispered, "Congratulations."
Once the food was cleaned up and everyone left, Penny and Leonard went over to the couch and sat down. Leonard put on Netflix and picked a show they both enjoyed. Penny laid her head on Leonard's shoulder while he grabbed the afgan and put it on both of their laps and enjoyed the rest of the evening peacefully. "Everything didn't go as planned but it was still an good dinner. And I really like Mallory. And keeping the baby news at a low conversation helped a lot." Leonard pulled a way a little to look at his wife. He was trying to figure out what she was saying. "Wait a minute, what are you saying about the baby?" Penny took a deep breath because Leonard was giving her the confused yet frustration look. "Fine, to be honest. Me being pregnant is scary. Knowing I'm going to have a baby is scary. But don't get me wrong. I love Halley and Michael but they are not ours. We weren't prepared for this baby yet. And the more we talk about this the more scared I get. I mean we have talked about having a baby a few times and yes we have had few pregnancy scares. But now its actually true it scares me." Leonard could believe what she was saying because he was scared too. But Penny had tears in eyes once more because of this baby...their baby. Leonard really didn't know what to say so he just held her as she cried on his shoulder.
After a few minutes, Penny wiped her tears and looked straight at Leonard who remaind quite for some time. "Well do you got anything to say? Because this pregnancy turned me into the emotional one in the relationship now." Leonard smiled at her. "Not a whole lot. But Penny I'm scared too. I was not raised in the most loving home as you know. But with you I can't wait to be the best dad I can be in the world and show this baby all the love we can give to him or her." For the first time Penny looked down with Leonard's hand on her stomach and reality hit even harder now. She leaned in and wrapped her arms around Leonards' neck and kissed her husband hard. Once she let go of the kiss she looked into his eyes and saw complete love and passion in his eyes. She could not hold back any more. She got to her feet and reached her hand out to Leonard. He took her hand knowing where she wanted to go and what she wanted to do him. There was no way he was going to deny his wife. He got up as she guided him to their bedroom.