Chapter 8
Penny found herself awake again at 6.30am, deciding to slip out before Leonard woke up. She put her clothes on form the night before and sighed at the clock, she didn't have to work until 10am. If this had been another day, she would have just flipped over and gone back to sleep, but she wasn't comfortable. She tiptoed out of the room and carefully shut the door behind her, letting go of the breath she didn't realize she was holding.
"Good morning Penny" Sheldon said loudly, form close behind her. She jumped in the air and gasped for breath.
"Holy crap…Sheldon! You scared me, oh my god I nearly peed my self." Penny's breath puffed out of her and her hand rested on her chest as she desperately tried to stop her heart from leaping out of it. She turned and playfully smacked his arm, lightly scowling at him as she saw the mischievous glint in his eyes. "Jerk" she mumbled as she stepped around him to make some coffee. She heard his breathy chuckle and couldn't help but smile.
"So, what's for breakfast on a Sunday?" she said quizzically, already knowing that Sunday was a low end of the fiber scale cereal day. He looked over toward the top of the fridge and reached for the honey puffs. His hand stopped in mid air as he looked down at her intently, opened his mouth and then shut it again. His eyebrows furrowed in frustration and he opened his mouth to speak. "Would you perhaps like me to make you eggs?" Penny frowned at Sheldon and looked around the room as if to make sure he was really talking to her. "Why…" she was suspicious, Sheldon was notorious for his pranks, so she waited for his 'Bazinga' and patented chuckle.
"Penny I am a firm believer of the quid pro quo system and after last nights meal and gift, it came to my realization that, simply folding your clothes and writing a brief note was insufficient practice on my part. I will now endeavor to reciprocate appropriately. Commencing with breakfast." He slowly explained, as if it was the most obvious thing on the world. Penny found herself wanting to cry a little. For Gods sake, it was just breakfast. But penny knew it was more than that. He was willing to change the great 'Sheldonian' calendar to make it up to her. She also knew that she was severely over thinking how much she meant to Sheldon.
"Sheldon sweetie, I didn't do all that stuff last night just to try and get you to apologize any more than you already have. I don't need anything else." She told him, thinking that this would assuage his guilt. Hah! Look at that, she remembered how to used that word in a sentence. He was shaking his head. "Never the less; that is what I shall be doing. It's non optional." It then occurred to penny that in the 7 years she had known Sheldon, she had never once seen him cook and wasn't even sure he knew how to. He just seemed so helpless. "Sweetie do you need any help?" the last thing she needed was food poisoning or worse; an injured Sheldon that she would inevitably end up taking care of.
"I'm quite capable of cooking eggs Penny, as well as an array of other dishes. My Meemaw taught me to cook when I was a boy; she said it was important that a southern gentleman know how to cook, to impress his woman. It's irrelevant to me as I have no interest in impressing any females, but I can remember everything she taught me." He told her, smiling fondly at the memory. Penny pouted slightly at the last sentence and what it meant. "All right then. I'll just let you get on with the eggs…FYI I'm impressed." She meant to walk away, but she found herself watching him from the other side of the island as he methodically cooked the eggs. His confident hands gripping the spatula and the way he cocked his head to the left as he pushed the eggs around the pan. She could see the slight muscle definition in his lower arms as he worked. Her mouth hung open and a warm breath slipped between her lips, as she remembered how safe she felt in dream Sheldon's arms.
"I presume you had a sexually satisfying experience with Leonard last night?" Sheldon asked, turning slightly. "No" she huffed out, then realized what she had let slip and flung her hand up to cover her mouth.
"Oh God! Sheldon please don't tell Leonard I said that, he'd never forgive me and he'd be so embarrassed." She mumbled in to her hands as she dropped her head to hide her blush. "Now you're asking me to keep a secret? Penny, do you not recall what happened the last time you forced me to keep a secret? I refuse to do that again. Besides it sounded to me like you found the experience enjoyable." He explained calmly as if they were merely talking about the weather. "It's called acting Sheldon… and what the hell? You were listening?"
"Interesting, so you're telling me that you pretended to enjoy coitus? Why would you do that? Penny, Penny, Penny. I have remarkable hearing, I couldn't help but hear the two of you." He looked at her blankly.
"Oh for the love of God, Sheldon. I was pretending so that Leonard didn't get offended that he couldn't, you know… please me." Penny really and truly didn't know why she was talking about this with this sexually blind man.
"Oh so what you mean to tell me is that, Leonard was unable to maintain an erection long enough, for you to achieve orgasm and social protocol dictates, he believe you did, as to boost his ego. Intriguing indeed, I feel this needs further exploration." Said Sheldon thoughtfully, pondering this new information. "Oh my god, yes. Why am I even talking about this with you… now can we please talk about anything else. I don't want Leonard waking up to find his room mate and girlfriend talking about how good he is in the sack." She could feel her face burning with a blush that could rival a tomato.
"Very well. You'll be happy to know I read my new comic book last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. Its now bagged up and ready to go to my safe deposit box today. Can you drive me?"Penny was grateful for the change of subject and nervously giggled at how Sheldon could quickly change subjects.
"Sure, can we go after I finish work? I'm only working till 4 today, so if you can meet me there, I'll take you." Said Penny as she watched him plate up the eggs. "That sounds acceptable. Breakfast is ready." He said as he handed her, her plate and sat down next to her to eat.
This is all i have typed so far guys. i have one more chapter to type up and then i got nothing cept ideas. i'll be writing the rest of the day probably so you might be lucky and get a coupe more chapter 'fore bed time. thanks
