Neil Wolowitz's POV

Mom and Dad ordered me to pick up Halley at the airport so I did. She's in my car now and we're going home. There's silence between us and the sound of music from the radio.

"I can't believe I'm coming back home..." She sighed with a frown.

"It's great to see you, too." I said sarcastically.

"Sorry..." Halley mumbled, her head turns to look at the window.

"It's okay. We're not happy that Jason left you alone like this. We're all going to help you."

"Thanks," She said half heartedly. Still staring out at the window.

"Mom and Dad will be happy to see you again. In person."

Halley didn't say anything and I'm sure she was depressed about this whole situation she gotten herself into. Nothing I said made this any lighter or got her mood up.

I decided to let it go and let her be alone with her thoughts. There was nothing else to do or say until we got home.

It was a couple of hours until we finally arrived. We got inside the house and I helped Halley with her luggage and put them into her bedroom. I let Mom and Dad know that Halley was finally home.

They greeted Halley in the living room and hugged her.

"How are you feeling?" Mom asked, brushing out strands of Halley's blonde hair out of her face.

"Okay, I guess," She shrugged. "I experienced the morning sickness before I left to go to the airport. I felt like I puked my guts out."

"We don't need graphic details, Halley." Dad said, cringing.

"That's how it will be for the beginning. It won't be fun." Mom told her.

"You're telling me..." She muttered.

"Did you tell Jason that you left?"

"No. He doesn't want to be involved so he doesn't deserve to know." She said firmly.

Mom and Dad looked at each other as if they didn't like that.

"Well...I'm glad that you're back. I can give you my old maternity clothes." Mom said, smiling and that even made Halley smiled a little too.

"Thanks, Mom."

"Now, that all of us are back as a family, why don't we go out to eat?" Dad suggested happily. "It's been a long time since we've been able to do that," He smiled at his daughter. "It can be in the honor of Halley and the baby."

"That sounds nice." She smiled and Mom agrees and I did too.

"So, we can all get ready and dressed and leave soon?"

The three of us agreed and the girls went to get ready. Dad and I watched Mom and Halley go upstairs.

"I hope I don't expect you to get a girl pregnant any time soon," Dad said to me when we're by ourselves. "Hopefully after marriage. The right way."

"Don't worry. I don't even have a girlfriend right now."

"It doesn't matter. Accidents can happen. I don't want you to leave her like how Jason left your sister."

"Trust me. I won't ever do that." I vowed.

"My Dad walked out on me and I cant believe that Halley has to face the same thing."

"I know, but she has all of us to support her. She'll be fine, Dad." I assured him.

"I know she will, but I just...worry about her. Something seemed off about her."

"She's not exactly happy about being pregnant if that's what you can tell."

"Yeah, I get that. Just help your sister and watch out for her, okay?" Dad asked. He got all protective.

"Yeah, yeah." I rolled my eyes while shaking my head.

Dad went upstairs to get ready and I just relaxed on the couch and watched TV to wait for them to be done.

Eventually, we all started to go the restaurant which was some Italian food place. The four of us went there and took a table. Mom was talking to Halley about the first time she was pregnant with her.

"I was terrified to become a mother, but I didn't really feel the same excitement that most mothers feel when they do get pregnant. That doesn't mean I don't love the both of you, I just wasn't really into all of that baby preparation craze."

"You weren't...?" Halley asked in surprise.

"No, and it's okay if you aren't either." She smiled.

"Thanks, Mom. That made me feel better." Halley did look relieved.

"So, what do you want? A boy or a girl?" Dad asked her with interest.

"I don't care. It's not like it's my decision anyway to choose what gender I want. I can't think about names right now," But it looked like on her face she had an idea. "What if I name her after Grandma Wolowitz? Deborah?"

Dad smiled. "That's very sweet, but she didn't like her name that much. We were going to name that for you."

"Maybe I can use it as a middle name," She said thoughtfully. "What's mine?"

"Halley Anna-Marie Wolowitz," Mom said lovingly. "We decided to do a spin on my middle name which is Mary-Ann."

"I wish we could've known Grandma." I said and Halley agreed.

"She would've loved you guys and spoiled the both of you to death." Dad smiled.

"She was like a mother to everyone," Mom said being nostalgic. "Even to me too."

I wished we could've known Grandma Wolowitz personally. Halley and I have only seen her in pictures. When Dad said that she was big woman, he definitely wasn't lying.

Our waitress came to us to ask us our drinks. While we were looking at our menus, we had to decide what we want to eat.

"So, Neil, how was your date with Fiona?" Mom asked me.

"Fine. Uh, except I said something stupid..." I said sheepishly, avoiding her gaze.

"Oh, no. Like what?" She dreaded.

"See? He gets the stupidity from me." Dad said as if that's something to be proud about.

"Ain't that the truth..." She muttered.

"So, her name is Fiona, right?" I began not really wanting to tell the whole story. "I can't help to think of the movie I know that a Fiona was in."

"I think I know where this is going." Halley smirked. I'm sure she was taking in the delight with this whole thing.

"I said that she reminded me of Princess Fiona from the movie. You know, from the Shrek movie. She automatically assumed I meant that she looked like the ogre version of Fiona."

"Oh, I think I know where this is going..." Mom did not look too happy.

"So, I had to correct her I didn't mean that. I did say that Fiona from Shrek was beautiful as an ogre and as a human. She seemed to believe me. She didn't like that I thought of her as being one of the Shrek characters. She got teased a lot about that in her school days."

"So, the date flopped, didn't it?" Mom assumed, not looking surprised.

"Fiona said she wouldn't mind going out with me again. She liked that I had apologized to her."

"That's good," Dad approved and was looking smug. "We Wolowitz men know how to get women."

"Yeah, right," Mom rolled her eyes. She looked at the both of us. "He was quite the piece of work," Her head turned to Dad. "I can tell them a lot about your previous relationships before me, if you'd like."

"Uh, please, don't," Dad begged. "Your Mom and I got along when we both complained about our overbearing mothers."

"That's a better love story than Twilight." Halley joked and I laughed at that.

Twilight is horrible.

"You can say that," Mom beamed and stares at Dad lovingly. "We are pretty amazing."

Dad grinned. "We make a great team," Then his grinned disappeared and his face looks confused and then surprised and shocked as if he was trying to make out something familiar.

"I-is that Leonard and Penny with their family?" Dad was looking at someone straight ahead of him and so did Mom looked at his way.

Halley and I exchanged glances at each other and checked out who they were seeing. I didn't know at first, but I guess they're staring at the family with the four kids. A guy with glasses and his super hot wife with the short blonde hair.

I turned in my seat to sit straightly. I point my thumb at them not so glaringly obvious. "Is that them?"

"Yeah," Dad said in awe and smiled in amusement. "God, I haven't seen them in years."

"Look at their kids. We should talk to them!" Mom was excited.

Whoever they are, they must have been really good friends.

Mom and Dad got up and went to the family leaving Halley and I at our tables being clueless at what just happened. I never saw my parents got so happy to see someone before.

"Well...that was strange." Halley remarked and took a sip of her water.

"Yeah. Totally," I agreed. "Do you think we know them?"

Halley looked back at them. Our parents and the other couple was talking very animatedly. They really did look like they haven't seen each other in years.

"I don't know. They don't look familiar to me." She answered, turning back around.

Our waiter returned and asked us if we'd like to order our food now, but Halley and I told them that we'd like to have more time. Thankfully, he understood.

Eventually, our parents returned, but with the family with them. I can't believe how how hot the guy's wife is. He's a lucky man to have her for a wife and the mother of his children.

"Kids, we would like for you to meet these people. They're Leonard and Penny Hofstadter and these are their kids."

We got up from our seats to greet them.

"You're Halley!" The short blonde haired woman squealed and she went over to Halley and hugged her. "I remember when you were such a little girl! I still remember that you called me Mama first instead of your own mother. Your parents tell me that you're having a baby now! I can't believe it!"

"Yeah, me neither," Halley said dryly. She clearly didn't look happy.

It was like Penny sensed that something was off, but it's a good thing she didn't ask why. Then, she stared at me with a wide grin like she wore one for Halley.

"And you're Michael!" She gushed and hugged me too. That felt amazing. I smelled the scent of her perfume. "You've grown up to be very handsome. Must have gotten the good genes from your mother."

"Yes, he did." Mom said brightly right away. Of course she wouldn't miss the opportunity to. "But he doesn't call himself Michael."

"Much to his mother's disappointment." Dad added.

"I go by Neil now." I informed her.

"Why?" Penny's husband, Leonard, asked me.

"Ever since my grandfather died, I think it's just been hard for me and my family to be called that. I like the name Neil better anyway. I still don't like Neil Diamond's music."

"That's ironic." He smirked.

"I hoped you would like some of his music at least." Dad said to me.

"Well, here's our kids," Penny said to my parents. "You remember Wyatt and Madison."

"Yeah, we do," Mom smiled up at them. Penny and Leonard's daughter, Madison, was drop dead gorgeous too. "I remember when they were little."

"Wyatt is eighteen and Maddie is sixteen."

Oh, well, that's a bummer Maddie is only sixteen. Boys must be falling at her feet at school.

"Here's our other two children that you don't know. Elliott who is thirteen," She placed a hand on her son's shoulder and another on her youngest daughter's and child's shoulder. "And Rebecca who is eight."

"I prefer Becca." The little girl said.

"Looks like you have the kids you wanted." Dad smiled at Leonard.

"Yeah. I've always wanted three, but I'm fine with what we have."

"You better," Penny playfully teased at him. She looked at my parents. "It's so great to see you guys again! We've missed you!"

"We've missed you, too," Mom said, smiling. "We should hang out sometime."

"Really? You'd like that?" Leonard asked and he was in surprise.

"Yeah. I know what happened between us years ago, but maybe we can talk about it or...?" She drifted off awkwardly.

"Yeah, that sounds great," Penny agreed and so did Leonard.

"Have you heard from the others?" Her husband asked.

"No, actually," Dad answered. "It's weird. We all still work at CalTech, but we hardly see each other anymore. We just figured you two didn't want to talk to us after you moved out of the apartment. Raj had cut all of us off completely and Sheldon and Amy were in their own world."

"I know," Leonard nodded. "But at least we can reconcile."

"Yeah." Dad agreed.

After our parents exchanged their phone numbers to Leonard and Penny, the Hofstadters left to go to their table. We all sit back in our seats and ordered our food.

"Penny seems very nice." Halley commented.

"She's our best friend and so is Leonard," Mom replied. "Penny and Leonard are your godparents, Neil."

"Really?" I asked. I never knew that.

"Who are mine?" Halley wondered.

"Our other old best friends, Rajesh Koothrapali, and Amy Cooper. You were born on Amy's birthday. It was only right to have her be your godmother."

"And she was my maid of honor." Mom mentioned too.

"What happened to all of you guys that made you not be friends anymore?" I asked them.

So, they began to explain to us the story of their fall out.