A man too evolved to drive takes a feisty blond for a ride.
Mr. Brady handed Penny her clipboard and her ID badge. "Ready for your first day on the job, Ms. Queen?"
Penny nodded and looked at the clipboard. "Yep. First up is a Sheldon Cooper. He has his permit, but now needs road experience."
Mr. Brady nodded. "Good. Well, let's get to it, then," he said before swatting her butt and walking away.
Penny sighed. "Day one and I already hate my job." She headed out to the parking lot and stood next to the student driver car. Soon a shadow fell over her. She looked up into cool blue eyes.
Penny smiled slightly and held out her hand. "Hello. I'm Penny. You must be Mr. Cooper. I'll be your instructor."
Sheldon shook her hand slowly. "It's Doctor Cooper and I see no reason to learn to drive."
She frowned up at him. "Then why are you here?"
He squirmed with agitation. "Leonard, my roommate, insists I learn."
Penny sighed. Great. Her first student was a whackjob. "Well, let's get started."
They both got into the vehicle and buckled up. Penny smiled faintly. "You can start the car anytime."
Sheldon looked down at Penny and opened his mouth. She grabbed the pillow behind her head and threw it at him.
"Shut up!" she growled.
Sheldon looked down at the floor and sighed. The door opened and the doctor walked in followed by the nurse.
"Well, Penny, it's official," the doctor said. "Your wrist is broken. We're going to put a cast on it and I have a prescription for some pain pills for you."
The nurse looked at Sheldon and smiled. "You're roommate is in the waiting area, Mr. Cooper. Other than a bruised shoulder you are fine. You can leave whenever you're ready." She turned to Penny. "Once your cast is set, I'll call you a cab."
The nurse took Sheldon's arm and led him from the hospital room.
Penny was tired and sore. She made her way down to the lobby where she would call a cab. She was halfway across the room when Sheldon suddenly appeared. Beside him were three men. One was foreign, one was short with glasses and one was short with a strange fashion sense.
"Penny?" Sheldon said softly. "Will you allow me to offer you a ride home? Leonard can drive us."
Penny narrowed her eyes and clenched her good hand into a fist. "I wouldn't get into another car with you if it cured cancer, ended poverty, and won you that Nobel you were going on about!" She went to move around him and he grabbed her good arm.
"Please!" he pleaded again. "I am so very sorry. I would give anything to have you forgive me."
She gasped at his audacity. "You hit a LIBRARY!"
"I was distracted," he mumbled.
She jerked her arm from his grip. "Distracted?! What was so distracting that you didn't notice a building?! Or me yelling?"
"Your eyes."
Penny froze. "What?"
Sheldon blushed a deep red and clenched his hands together behind his back. "Your eyes," he said a little louder. He looked down into her face tenderly. "You have the most entrancing eyes."
Penny looked up at him in shock. "You almost killed us because you like my eyes?"
Sheldon hung his head. "I am so sorry."
After a moment Penny placed her hand on his arm. Sheldon looked up and she searched his eye carefully. "That is the most romantic thing anyone has ever said to me."
Sheldon smiled shyly. "Penny, are you hungry?" She bit her lower lip lightly and nodded. "Do you like Thai food?" She nodded again.
Sheldon took her good hand in his and they walked toward the entrance.
"Sheldon?" Penny smiled as they followed his bemused friends across the parking lot. "I like your eyes, too."