A/N- thanks again for the follows and the reviews.
After Leonard left the apartment Penny needed to take in what Leonard said and evaluate exactly how she felt about Sheldon, and when did this start to happen? She didn't want to lose Leonard as a friend and she certainly didn't want to lose Sheldon out of her life.
So exactly when did she begin to feel about Sheldon like this?
Was it on the first day they met? No, well if she was honest with herself she had found him very attractive that first day, that was until he started to talk. Telling her to not sit in his spot, and then when she flirted with him it deflected off him completely. He was still cute, but he was very strange.
Was it the time they sang Soft Kitty together? He really had rushed over to help her, and when he helped her dress he did peak, and how much did he blush when he realised that wasn't her arm. When they sang the round there seemed to be a real connection, but that could have been the drugs that she was taking. Perhaps, but she saw see his quick smile right at the end of the round? He has a really lovely smile.
Perhaps when he hung her underwear out to dry so to speak? She had to admit during that argument she felt such as urge to either kiss Sheldon or kick him in the nuts. She choose instead to ring his mother. But she really, really enjoyed the heat of the battle. The intensity between them was almost electric, thankfully the telephone wires weren't.
Was it when he lent her the money? He was so sweet and so happy to lend her the money, no questions asked. He didn't chase her up to pay him back and was completely trusting that when she said she would when she could. Plus he smiled again at her.
Was it the time they spent Valentine's day together both sick on the couch? Sure he blamed her for giving him the Flu, but he let her watch The Notebook and they fell asleep next to each other on the couch because both were too ill to get up and go to bed.
Was it when he gave her that first hug? The Nimoy Napkin was a present that Sheldon just didn't know how to reciprocate, the soaps and lotions weren't enough so he gave Penny the one thing that he doesn't give out too much, physical contact. He smiled all day that day.
Was it the Italian Spaghetti? Whenever Penny makes this for Sheldon he really is appreciative and sweet and they share some time together just talking like two good friends, and they always watch a movie together after.
Was it the time he helped with the Penny Blossoms? Sure he took over, but they sang sea shanties together and all in all produced 1000 Penny Blossoms in one night and she could never have done it without him.
Was it the time he helped her with Age of Conan? In the end she wished she hadn't started the silly game, but she saw his smile when she reached level 3.
Was it when he taught her Physics? He didn't have to, but he did help her and she really did learn that Leonard's work was quantitatively no different than that experiment conducted in The Netherlands.
It wasn't any of these specifically. If she was honest with herself there really wasn't any one specific time, it was all of them.
The attraction she felt for George was real, but it wasn't for George, it was that he was so like Sheldon. George just made her realise that she was attracted to Sheldon, that she had real feelings for Sheldon.
That would explain why she couldn't love Leonard or anyone else there had been someone else all this time, Sheldon Lee Cooper PHD, and he lives in Apartment 4A, 2311 Los Robles, right across the hall from Penny.
Great, she has fallen in love with a man that possibly had never even thought of her in that way in his life. His coldness towards her this morning was icy.
Then Penny remembered something that George had said to her about Sheldon saying something that made George believe that they were an item, or that at least something was going on between them.
Penny didn't want to speculate. It was really important that she got this right, she will probably only get one chance, if she fumbles it she will never get another chance, and likely be banished out of Sheldon's life. She needs to be prepared, she couldn't work of hunches and stuff. Penny opened her teledex to Mary Cooper's phone number and picked up her phone.
Every Saturday night at 8.15pm Sheldon Lee Cooper, PHD did his laundry, Penny knew that to be a fact.
