A/N I let you get reading, see note at the end.
Epilogue
They had been on the road for just over an hour and had crossed back into California. They hadn't talked very much as Penny had spent most of the trip, so far, doing the same thing she had done on the way there, looking out of the passenger window.
Leonard was thinking about their dinner the previous night, winning almost $5,000 playing craps, sex last night, and this morning, packing and finally, leaving, just before noon. But, Penny not saying anything was making him a bit anxious, and after another fifteen or so minutes spoke up.
"Penny," he said, "what are you thinking about? All you've been doing is looking out the window, just like you did on the way up here, and you're scaring me."
Penny turned to him, and said, "You sure you want to talk about it."
Now he was really nervous, "About what?"
"Well," she said, "I've been thinking."
"I gathered that," said Leonard. "Are you turning into me, overthinking things?"
Penny smiled at him and said, "You know how, on Friday we settled on the wedding being a small, indoor, black-tie, church wedding?"
"I thought we weren't going to talk about it," said Leonard.
"Who's talking about it?" said Penny. "I said I was thinking about it."
Leonard shook his head, looking puzzled. "Ok, you're thinking about it, what are you thinking about."
"Well," she started, "you know how we said two friends each? I mean there's Howard and Bernadette, Sheldon and Amy, Raj, Stuart, that's six right there, not even counting our other friends at work. Even if we just invite the group, that wouldn't even leave room for any family."
"You want family?"
"Yeah," said Penny, "don't you?"
"My mother?"
"You could invite your dad to offset your mother," said Penny, "and speaking of mothers, we should invite Sheldon's mother too. And I can talk Sheldon into coming, if we hold it outside. There's that park just down the street from us, we could hold it there."
"Hold on Penny," said Leonard. "So, we have the group come, that's six; my mother and father, two more; Sheldon's mother, another one' and who are you planning on coming from your family?"
"Probably my mother, father, and my brother, he has be supervised" said Penny. "I don't think my sister will come, not with the baby."
"So, we have a total of twelve people," said Leonard. He thought for a second, "That's still sounds small enough."
"And, we can have everyone come back to the apartment for a small reception," said Penny. "But, I'm thinking that because it's in the park, we won't have a black tie then."
"That's fine," said Leonard. "We can think of something to wear, but I guess you won't be wearing white."
Penny slapped his arm, "Hey, I can still wear white, just off white, way off white, maybe beige. You could wear a suit or sport coat. Anyway, I thought of asking Amy to officiate, she was one of us five that did Howard and Bernadette's wedding. I'm thinking of Bernadette as my matron of honor and I'm sure you're going to have Sheldon be your best man, right? And I was thinking we could have it during the day on New Year's Eve."
"Penny?" said Leonard in a questioning voice.
"Yes," said Penny.
"I thought we weren't going to talk about the wedding," said Leonard.
"Were not talking about it," said Penny. "I'm telling you what I was thinking about, concerning the wedding."
"Sure, sure," said Leonard. "Sure you are."
"I am," said Penny defensively, "I'm not trying to plan anything…."
"Penny?" said Leonard.
"Yes?" said Penny.
"I love you," said Leonard, smiling at her.
Penny smiled back, "Thank you, I love you too."
A/N I had a much longer chapter penned (about 2,000 words), but it was very disjointed and just seemed off. So, I cut all that and went with this shorter version. What's here is the main reason for the epilogue (and something I've had, almost from the start, so I concentrated on this. Most of Leonard's thinking in the second paragraph, is what all the rest of it was about. I'm glad I finally came back and finished this. On to the trip to Nebraska with "The In-Law Initiation: Penny". I've been working on that off and on. After that, is something I've been planning for a while, I'm hoping to keep it to half the length of "Chew Toy", but we'll see. To keep from what happened here, and with "Chew Toy" (Long time before finishing), I want to have it almost done before I start to publish. Thanks for reading. See you soon.