Chapter 4: June

Leonard and I were walking around babies-R-us, which is ridiculously expensive, whilst looking for the specific object Leonard had in his mind. I stopped dead in my tracks when I felt a tiny push against the top of my quick forming bump.

"Penny, everything alright?" Leonard wondered, stopping after noticing I had stopped.

"I think I felt the baby..." I answered, with a large amount of hesitation.

Leonard raised his eyebrows at me and questioned it, as if he hadn't heard me correctly. I repeated that I thought I had felt the baby. I saw a large beaming smile appear on Leonard's face as he asked the same question a second time.

"Where did you feel it?" He asked, after I had told him I might have felt him for real this time.

"Just here," I answered, placing my hand down over the area I had felt the push.

Leonard put his hand over mine and we both waited to see if he would do it again. I felt another in the same place, but Leonard denied feeling anything. I removed my hand and put Leonard's straight down on my belly, before we both waited again. Sure enough, the baby did the same thing, in exactly the same place, but even though Leonard's hand was over the spot, he sighed sadly that he didn't feel anything. He stayed like that for a moment to see if there would be anything else, before I got a little uncomfortable and I asked him to stop. I would have happily stood there and waited to see if the baby would kick hard enough so Leonard could feel him, but people began looking over at us strangely, and I didn't really like the stares.

Leonard sat next to me, with his hand firmly on my belly, as I lay smiling at him. Every night for three weeks, Leonard had tried to feel the baby, but had failed every single time. It didn't seem to me that the baby was interested. But it did end a bad day on a funny note as I had begun pissing Leonard off about the fact I could feel the baby and he couldn't.

I was, unfortunately, watching a weird documentary because the TV was acting up and we didn't get any other channel, and I had complained several times to the company, but yet we still had only two channels. I wasn't really watching the documentary though, because I was having fun with Leonard by gasping loudly and mentioning every single tiny movement I was getting from the baby, which he couldn't feel.

I would on purposely gasp at every single small movement I would get, and he would glare angrily at me, which I would begin laughing at. Leonard then decided to join in the fun, and begin gasping at random times. He kept this up for a moment as a joke, until I gasped at the same time as him, this time not as a joke.

"Did you feel that?" I asked, my eyebrows high and my jaw dropped.

He didn't say anything, but he did quickly nod his head, covering his mouth with his free hand as it happened again. I immediately sat up, and changing the position made him kick even more, harder than he had done before.

"Leonard, he's properly kicking!" I almost squealed, smiling happily at him, as he returned it.

"Penny, that's amazing. Like really amazing!" Leonard beamed, his hands still on my belly, which appeared bigger due to the position.

I smiled over at him again, and he quickly returned it. This was a new thing. Because we never got this far into the last pregnancy, we never experienced feeling the baby kick. And now we have.

I leant in closer and pressed my lips against Leonard's. I moved my hand to my belly, before finding Leonard's hands still on there. I broke off the kiss laughing slightly.

"I don't think he likes it," I joked, looking down at my belly.

He had began kicking and squirming rapidly as I kissed Leonard, which made me break it off laughing.

"I'm sorry, buddy, but that's how you got in there." Leonard smiled, speaking to my belly and making me go red.

"Leonard!" I gritted, hiding my smile, whilst playfully hitting his arm.

"What? He can't hear us!" He defended, sitting back on the couch.

I smiled at Leonard, before kissing him again, much to the baby's dislike. He broke it off and smiled at me.

"I love you, Penny," He said in the same way he did the first time, many years ago.

As to go along with a joke, I said what I had responded with when he first confessed his love. "Thank you," I smirked, making him raise his eyebrows at me, signaling that he didn't really find it funny. "I love you too, Hofstadter." I corrected. "I love both my Hofstadter boys," I added, before kissing him passionately again.

I ran through into Bernadette's office, after dying to tell her about feeling the baby. I stood across from her desk as she was on the phone. She yelled at the person in the other end, before hanging up the phone and greeting me.

"Guess what happened last night." I said, holding in my excitement.

"You had sex with Leonard?" She guessed, smiling up at me.

I stared right over at her. Howard was right, Bernadette was great at guessing questions. "Okay, that did happen, but it's not why I'm in here."

Bernadette shook her head and asked what had happened the night before.

"The baby kicked, like properly kicked. For the first time!" I said smiling cheerfully.

"That's great, Penny, I bet you're well happy about it." Bernadette smiled.

"Yeah, and when I first felt a proper kick, Leonard felt it as well." I beamed, continuing with the fact I had felt the baby.

"And let me guess, he was really happy about it, and then you had sex."

I looked down for a moment, making the room go silent. As I looked up, I muttered, "Maybe…" I saw Bernadette's raised eyebrows, and I agreed to leave her to get on with her work, something I should have been doing at that very moment. As I opened the door, Bernadette grabbed my attention again.

"Oh, by the way, your baby in there has ears now, so I'd be careful about what you say."

I looked at her with my eyebrows raised. "What?" I questioned.

"Your baby can hear you." Bernadette repeated with a small smirk.

I looked outside the door, and sighed. "Oh, god!" I mumbled, remembering last night.