It's almost doneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, just this chapter and one more after it. eheheheeeeeeeeeee. This is the scene I conjured up in my head when I starting to write this story. AND this is the first thing I wrote. The very first thing. I only edited it a little bit to fit in with the rest. I know it's probably poorly written, but I didn't want to change it. And I couldn't make it better without completely butchering the first scene in my head.

I do not own the Big Bang Theory.

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So maybe inviting Sheldon to a high school party, where underage drinking will be taken place isn't the brightest idea. She comes to this conclusion when he's talking about his MeeMaw that lives in Florida and he promised her that he wouldn't do drugs. And that's why he's refusing her coffee, not because of the germs.

Well duh Penny, he's been sticking his tongue in your mouth for a while now, sharing a drink isn't that big of a deal. So now she's thinking about the seating plan at Cole's party, he's probably going to stand awkwardly because he can't find a good seat. Or there will be a couple making out beside him and he'll want to go home. Scratch that, Sheldon doesn't give up.

He'll just be insufferable, annoying, and whiny. Damn it, he already knows about Tommy, maybe she can just say that she doesn't want to go. Only thing is that she has to go, because she promised Cole, and she promised Charlotte and she even promised Missy.

So she's got to go, and she can't un-invite Sheldon because that's rude, and also she doesn't want to. Last night, she sat through a Star Trek marathon, she thinks that she probably does love him a lot if she did that for him. Sure she digs the whole geek chic thing, but everyone has their limits and Star Trek is hers. But she sat through it, and she listened quietly, mostly thinking that she sort of wants to watch something else and also ignoring Leonard staring at her.

Whatever, it's her life now. It's time for him to make some effort. It wouldn't really kill him if he sipped a beer with Cole, Tucker, Boon and Carter. She talks to Howard for crying out loud, he can totally do this for her.

But then Sheldon tells her that his MeeMaw calls him Moonpie and then he slaps a hand over his mouth in complete shock that he admit that to her, and Penny thinks, yeah, maybe it still isn't a good idea.

Penny being Penny, still dressed up for the party, she didn't have to worry about picking Sheldon up because he was going to catch a ride with his sister. So she wore a pretty skirt, and a pretty top and let her hair down. Not that her hair is ever up anymore anyways.

And then she gets in her car, and she drives to Cole's. She wonders what will happen if the cops ever get her, she's never been pulled over, and her parents never objected to her driving. Maybe it just is a perk of a small town, and you know, her father is friends with the Sheriff. Connections get you everywhere in life.

When she gets there, she sees George's car parked on the end of the street and he knows that Sheldon is there, which makes her start running into the party. She's scared of many things that might happen. Like someone tricking Sheldon into doing a keg stand. Instead she finds Sheldon chatting up a girl with brown hair and glasses who looks older than them.

She's never been jealous of other girls before. No one has ever strayed from her, and Sheldon's never even really looked at another girl before. Missy grabs her shoulder and pushes her on the couch.

"Penny! Why did you take so long?" she asks while handing her a cup full of more foam than beer.

She's startled for a second because Missy's eyes look exactly like Sheldon's. Missy, looks a lot like Sheldon. Which isn't surprising because they're twins. She's just as tall, and skinny, and willowy, blue eyes that sparkle with deviance and mischief.

"Getting all dolled up," she nods her direction to Sheldon and the brunette with an ugly cardigan. "Who's that?"

Missy takes a while to locate her and then she just shrugs. "Can't say I've seen her around. But don't worry Penny, it's Sheldon. He's probably telling her how the beer she has in her hands is unclean or something."

She wants to say I'm not worried. But she's too busy glaring at them to get the words out.

"Penny! Give it a rest, I think that's Carter's older sister. She was meant to drive him here before leaving, but then she caught Sheldon in a conversation." Charlotte tells her.

"Uh uh," Savannah butts in. "That's Amy. She's a smarty pants doctor too. Genius like your boy Shelly over there."

Penny narrows her eyes. "Why are there so many smart people in this stupid town?"

They all just shrug. The conversation flows like it usually does at these parties. Why is he talking to her for so long? "Where are the boys?"

"Oh, they're baking in the kitchen."

"Baking?"

Missy nods, and then winks. Baking.

Penny wants to go and break up the conversation between Sheldon and Amy. She chooses to trust him instead.

"I need to pee."

"No peeing in my house!" Cole yells from the kitchen.

"Where am I going to pee then?" Charlotte screams back.

"Outside!"

Charlotte stares her, "But...I mean his backyard is like...the woods."

"Alright, we'll go with you." Missy says.

And that's how she's in the woods instead of on a warm couch drinking warm foamy beer. She hears Missy telling Charlotte to drop her undies and do her business but Charlotte insists that they go farther out. So they do. There are twigs snapping underneath Penny's shoes, and she's certain that her ankles will be next. She thinks that she's 15 for god sake, shouldn't she be in her jammies with a cup of hot coco?

She swears that they aren't gone long, Penny knows that it couldn't be any longer than 15, maybe 20 minutes. Charlotte was scared at first to wander out by herself, so Missy went with her, but then Charlotte couldn't go while Missy could hear so she left again. The whole thing was a mess, Missy tripped and tore her leggings, she hopped around for seemed like an hour trying to pry it off.

At first she's concerned that maybe Sheldon is still talking to that girl, and then she's thinking about how a bug may have bite her, and how Sheldon could be doing anything right now, anything.

She was paranoid, yeah, but her mind was messing with her. It's all the fresh air maybe.

She spots him with Carter, Boon, Cole and the rest of the guys, and what's even more shocking, they're all laughing.

"Hey...guys?" She starts of hesitantly. Sheldon wasn't giving off one of his creepy, wheezy laughs, but it was a real, honest to god laugh. It sounded nice.

"Penny!" Sheldon shrieks, he opens his arms reaching out for her, sloppily grabbing her hips and shoving her down onto his lap. "Penny, I want you to know that the brownies are burned and you shouldn't eat them."

"What brownies?" Penny can't tell if he's drunk, because he doesn't look drunk, she's close enough to him to be able to smell the cheap beer, but there isn't any.

"Brownies," Cole drawls out lazily, "Special brownies." And then he winks, or more like twitches.

"Jesus you guys, why did you go and drug up my brother?" Missy howls.

Penny looks around the room, Charlotte is in the corner with Garrett apparently having already moved on. Carter shrugs at her, he has no response as to why he fed brownies with pot in them.

"He was talking a lot," Boon supplies. "And now he's awesome."

"Hear that Penny? I'm awesome." Sheldon grins at her and nuzzles at her neck. She nods slowly and decides that she might as will make the most out of this situation.

It's only when an hour or two in, when Sheldon pushes Penny against him like she's a rag doll. He leans up so now Penny is the staring at his back, and then he starts writing into the air. His eyes get intense and focused, the room grows silent watching the seemingly crazy boy make signs in the air.

Penny knows that he does this sometimes, usually when he's alone and there's nothing to distract him. But she shrugs, he's high, he's warranted to go a little nuts. Suddenly he shots off the couch bringing her along with him.

"Eureka!" He shouts, then frowns. "No, I should have my own saying." He looks sullen for a few seconds before screaming, "Penny!"

"Sheldon, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, that's my saying. When the history books are made, and anecdotes are written, it'll be Penny they'll shout when they discover something."

Penny just shrugs, with Sheldon you just have to roll with it. "Okay and what did you discover?"

He launches into a lengthy, exhausting explanation, and if Sheldon were completely sober he'd be saying this with a serious face and reminding her every few seconds just how very important every single syllable he breathes out is. But he's just grinning and in between every couple sentences he stops to kiss her before diving right back in.

"Penny, I could...I could win a lot of awards for this, oh my god, I have to...I have too."

"Sheldon...come let's talk outside."

He practically carries her outside before leaning her against the side of the wall and showing her just how very excited he is. "What do you have to do Sheldon?" she asks, breathless.

"I have to leave,"

She's stunned silent. That was not what she was expecting. "Like...right now?"

"No, but...I wasn't sure what to do." he pauses before bringing his hand up to her neck to play with a lock of her hair. "I wanted to stay in Austin for you, and I want to go to Germany for me. But I don't know what to do, and...I don't know what you want me to do."

She sort of thinks that she likes high Sheldon, because if she were to be having this conversation with him before there would be a lot of words that she couldn't understand, and in the end they'd just start screaming at each other.

"I want you to do what makes you happy Sheldon." Penny says softly. She hadn't expected him to stay, in fact, she didn't even think that was an option. She was sure that he was going to leave with looking back. And she knows that even now, that Sheldon does have to leave, that he should leave. For her it's just enough to know that it was at least an option, that at least he cared about her enough to want to stay, he cared about her enough to want to make her happy.

"You make me happy," Sheldon sighs, and what with the way his eyes are drooping she knows he's about to pass out. "And my work makes me happy, but this town makes me sad. Why...can't you and science be one thing?"

She can't help but hoot out a laugh, "You wouldn't like me like that. You like me how I am right now."

He nods dumbly, running his hands up and down her sides. "Go to Germany Sheldon."

"I'll come back...for Christmas, and I know how much you like Spring Break, I'll be down here for that too."

Penny closes her eyes and leans her forehead against his. "I don't want that. You'll be distracted, you don't even like it here Sheldon. You hate this town, and you hate their accents, and you hate it's bible loving nature. You hate it,"

"But I like you, no, I can say with some amount of certainty that I love you."

"I know, but it's not enough. At least for not right now."

He looks at her, unleashing his baby blues to her. "When?"

"Later...we'll find each other later. If we're meant to be, we'll find each other...later. Maybe we met too early Sheldon, maybe you weren't supposed to come back...maybe someone somewhere dropped his wallet at the wrong time, and it messed up all of our lives." She's bullshitting all of this, but there's one thing that she really believes in. She knows that her and Sheldon are meant to be, and she doesn't care that she sounds like a delusional 15 year old girl, there's a feeling in her heart that just knows she's right.

"I promise Sheldon, sometime in the future...we'll meet. We'll meet when we were really supposed to meet. This," Penny motions her hands around them, "This," she repeats, "This right here, it was just a ...a detour."

Sheldon nods against her again, she relishes the feeling of his skin against hers. She looks up to the sky and prays with all her right that she's right, that whatever she's saying is true...

"I believe you,"

"We'll be together for real one day Sheldon."

He nods again, except this time she knows it's out of defeat.

Out of the goodness in your hearts, don't kill me. It had to be this way, and it had to be high Sheldon because I don't know how to write real Sheldon. REVIEW, pretty, pretty please?