"Penny, what mental issues do you handle?"
"OCD, depression, anxiety, anorexia, bulimia, and postpartum depression, but it is confidential on who I treat. I'll tighten security at the office on Monday. I'll wait in the car while you get said items." Penny locked the doors of the SUV once Sheldon was out.
Penny still had Prince and Darling in her shirt pockets. She gave them purified water in a saucer before reading a new article that a fellow colleague sent her to review and proof read then the girl would submit it to a psychology journal with Penny getting a footnote in it. The article was on germaphobes and five pages long.
An hour later, Sheldon came out in a new outfit with a rolling suitcase, white boards under his arm and his gun bag.
"I have plenty of guns, Sheldon."
Sheldon just grinned at her.
Penny drove back to her house, where she pressed a code into her keypad to let them in the wrought iron gate, which closed soon after. "We'll go to the store after you get settled. You can choose which masculine room fits your requirements."
Sheldon choose the room next to hers before putting his shirts in ½ the top drawer with the other half being pants. Socks and underwear went in the second drawer. He placed a handgun in his bedside table with the rest under his bed. His room was red, white and blue with a folded flag on the dresser. The walls were white with blue curtains and a red striped comforter.
"Can I place my white boards in your office since Dr. Gablehauser is letting me work away from CalTech. He seemed very excited at the concept."
Penny looked pensive, but she gave in. "Yes, but like I said earlier don't open the locked cabinet behind the desk. I do have a book on human interactions that will benefit you. Otherwise, are you ready to head to Trader Joe's?"
"Why there?"
"All natural with good produce," Penny answered in her pocket T-Shirt and green striped men's cotton boxers with a green scrunchie holding her hair in a low pony tail.
Penny drove past two Wal-Marts and the usual grocery stores until she reached a Fareway-sized Trader Joe's. Penny let Sheldon wander to pick what he needed while she grabbed lilacs then the meat department's lamb meat and pita bread. She already had the sauce to make gyros along with lettuce and tomatoes. Her greenhouse grew tomatoes, herbs, and other edibles. She had a Calligan water stand.
Sheldon came back with milk and cereals.
"Why are you acting so different?" Penny decided to ask the question on a lot of people's minds.
"I theorize my testosterone levels and biological needs are telling me it is to start a new branch on the Cooper Family Tree. My nerves are not so easily rattled by bacteria and disorganization," Sheldon said in a factual way.
"So you want to settle down and it doesn't scare you about off-spring," Penny put his statements into laymen's terms.
Sheldon nodded then pushed the cart to the check- outs. Penny pulled out the reusable cloth/ plastic bags and Platinum Mastercard before Sheldon sacked the purchases and carried them out.
"What is your estrogen and biological instincts telling you?"
"I'll start a family within the next two years if that is what you are asking."