Author's Note: Please be patient with me. I apologize to the highest extent for my absence. This recent weekend I was doing community service for God knows how long so I couldn't even think of a way to create the chapter without it being so out of character and just ridiculous. However, I was able to create a little prequel to the next chapter that will definitely give my followers what they asked for. Thank you.

The two 'pretend' lovers backed away from the other, both feeling regret and also anger toward the spectacle wearing roommate. Penny glanced over at Sheldon for a moment. He wanted to kiss her, that was something she knew the moment he licked her hand and she was giving every sign in the book that she wanted him but this was Sheldon, maybe she needed to give more of a push than a hint.

Sheldon peered over to Penny and his heart beat was pulsing at a faster rate than usual, so fast that the possibility of him having a heart attack was very high. Her cheeks were flustered red, her hair was still as ravishing as ever, and her pupils were dilated. He silently damned his spectacled roommate for his interruption and was now certain that the day of ruing would be 10 fold and served cold.

They both sat on the couch, both not daring to look at the other but both feeling waves of attraction pulsing between them and God knew how long the tension could last before either of them lost all rationality and started taking their clothes off. Sheldon's mother and Meemaw kissed his forehead goodnight and headed into his bedroom, the only room he had found sanitary enough for his dear female relatives to spend the next few nights in. Still, they sat on the couch in silence.

Leonard cleaned up the Thai Food boxes and turned in for bed, giving a warning eye at Sheldon if he dared taking Penny on the couch…another fantasy Leonard had yet to fulfill. As Leonard entered his room he felt a twitch in his left eye. He had seen them. He wishes he hadn't. If only he had kept his eyes on the screen rather than giving into curiosity and turning around, then maybe he wouldn't have seen those two looking at each other like sex-deprived animals. He groaned as his face met his pillow. The chances of them doing something like that was high….oh no, he thought. Sheldon wouldn't know what to do anyway, right? He's Sheldon of all people and that stupid relationship of theirs was a cover up for who knew what so they wouldn't do anything like that….well, Penny might considering Penny is a Big ol' five but Sheldon is too germ phobic to do things that require unnecessary touching like that…right?

Penny stood up from her spot on the couch, not exactly knowing what to do. Should she stay? No, his grandmother and mother were just in the other room and so was Leonard, if anything were to happen…which although she hoped there would, she knew probably wouldn't, she didn't want to get Sheldon caught in something so unexplainable…well, he could probably explain it in full depth if he wanted to but still, it wasn't something she'd have to stand by. She turned to Sheldon, biting her lip back from pursing out to meet with his and learning to speak Klingon in a more intimate approach. "Night, Sheldon." She was able to muster, feeling a tad regretful for the small amount of words she was able to get out to him without locking lips with him.

Sheldon watched in silence as she walked out of the apartment over to hers and after a second he got up and followed after her. Be it an act of impulse or just because he couldn't end a day like they had today without a goodnight kiss or possibly something more, he couldn't let her have the last words of the night.

Once out of the apartment, he saw Penny waiting by her door, taking her time with her keys. He strode over to her and lifted a hand over her head and to the door. He knocked three times. "Penny."