Penny slept late as it was a Saturday morning, but when she woke up she decided to gather all her laundry and have it ready for later. She was picking up a tank top and then looked down at her hand. Oh my God. What am I doing? It's only 11am and I'm gathering my laundry. She put the basket down and sat on her bed. Every time she saw Sheldon she felt more and more out of control of her own body and mind. She was actually nervous to go do laundry at 8:15. What was Sheldon Cooper doing to her?

Sheldon was sitting at his computer playing an RPG game, as he had long ago had his fibrous cereal and watched "Doctor Who" on BBC America with Raj who was still a bit hungover, but Leonard took him home after he watched "Doctor Who" with Sheldon. Sheldon's character was looking at the quest board when he saw a character that looked like Penny's character from Age of Conan. He then decided to log out because he got distracted thinking about Penny. The day before she had acted unusual in his presence.

She had nearly fallen on her face while hanging streamers and he was actually hesitant to help her, but he didn't want her to fall into their glass coffee table. That would have been much worse of a situation. When she had looked down at him, she had blushed a bright red and he didn't quite understand why. Embarrassment from almost falling down he assumed. He had never touched any woman's waist except for the time he went to a square dance with his twin sister, Missy and the one time he had to help Penny when she fell in the shower. He felt strange when his hands had touched her. He didn't even think about pulling his hands away for fear of the germs that were surely all over her skin. Her skin was so soft and warm and he had wanted to keep his hands there, but once she had her balance he immediately let go of her.

Then, when she was in the kitchen he had leaned down next to her ear because the music was rather loud and he didn't want to shout. She turned around apparently a bit startled by him and fell into him. Her head had fallen into his chest and she was way too close for comfort with so many people around. His heart rate had quickened at her touch and he had quickly gotten her off of him. He really wasn't sure what was wrong with him. Every time he was near her, he wanted to touch her. After the party, he actually had the urge to touch her skin which is why he had patted her on the shoulder (she had been wearing a green halter top that matched her eyes) and inquired about her health again.

"Sheldon? Hello? Sheldon?!" Leonard was standing in the doorway of the apartment having just come back from dropping Raj off.

Sheldon looked over at Leonard, "Oh, hello, Leonard."

"Are you okay? You seemed to be off in your own world." Leonard questioned him as he dropped his keys in the bowl.

"Yes, I'm fine," he said as he stood up, "Leonard?"

"Yes, Sheldon?"

"You love Priya, correct?"

"Yes. Why?"

"Why do you love her?"

Leonard stared at Sheldon for a moment bewildered by his question. He knew if he didn't answer that Sheldon would bother him all day about it.

"She's beautiful, smart, and sexy. She likes that I'm intelligent. She makes me laugh and smile when she does this cute little thing with her nose," he imitated her to show Sheldon, "Again, why do you want to know?"

Sheldon looked at him and rolled his eyes. Leonard's relationship sounded so repulsive to him.

"I was curious about the human condition of love. I want to form some hypotheses, but I needed to ask people who are seemingly in love."

"Right. Okay, well good luck with that." Leonard raised an eyebrow at him and went to his room. Leonard always thought Sheldon researched the strangest things when he wasn't working on String Theory.

8:15 pm

Sheldon was in the laundry room sorting his laundry. Whites in this washer and colored clothing in the other washer. He noticed that Penny was late as usual. He also came to realize that no one in the building ever did their laundry at the same time that he did, except for Penny. It had become a routine for them when she had first moved in. A few minutes later, Penny came in with her laundry and started to load a washer on the opposite end of the laundry room.

"Penny?" he said as he measured out a perfect amount of laundry detergent for each washer.

"Yes, Sheldon?" she said as she just dumped some detergent in and inserted her quarters to start the machine.

"Have you ever been in love?"

"What? Why do you ask?" she had placed her hands on top of the washer, as if to hold herself up and didn't turn around to look at him.

At this point, he had started his washers and had walked over to where she stood. He had that urge to touch her again, so he boldly wrapped his long fingers around her wrist and coerced her to turn around and look at him.

"What are you doing?" Penny asked, but didn't move away from him or pull away from his grip on her wrist.

"An experiment," he said as he let her wrist go and placed his hand on her waist pulling her toward him and closing the gap that was between them. She didn't fight him and seemed completely stunned. He looked down at her, rested his forehead against hers and closed his eyes. He took in a deep breath and let it out. "Fascinating," was all he said before releasing her as if nothing had happened.

"Sheldon, what the fu...?" Penny's phone rang before she could finish her question. She looked at it and answered because it was her father. She sat on top of her washer and kept looking over at Sheldon while she spoke to her father. Sheldon was reading a physics journal while he waited for his laundry to be done and completely ignored her (at least that's what he wanted her to think). Her father seemed to babble on forever and once she got off the phone, she realized that Sheldon had finished his folding and left her there.