Prologue
Penny sat in the plane home to Nebraska. She felt like her life in California was over. There was nothing left out there for her anymore. She broke it off with Leonard and now he was with Priya. Plus she had not been getting any call backs so there went her acting career she planned for so long. On top of it all Penny just found out she was pregnant from a one night stand from the man she could never get back.
Once she found out she was pregnant, Leonard was the first person she wanred to tell but could not. As much as she figured out Leonard would have been there and probably would have broken up with Priya to be with Penny and the baby, she did not want that to happen. This pregnancy was a huge wake up call and made her realize it was time to grow up.
As much it hurt her to see Sheldon saddened her leaving, it hurt the most when she broke the news to Leonard. He begged Penny to stay and promised they could be friends and Priya would just have to understand. But he backed off when Penny told him that she had nothing left and her dad found her a promising job back home.
As much as it was true, Penny could not live off a waitress paid income raising a baby by herself. So her dad, Wyatt, found her a job taking care of horses near by the farm. Also she would go to a community college to work on her teaching degree to become a drama teacher.
As the plane took off, tears fell down Penny's face knowing her baby would never know his or her father. Even though Leonard would have made an amazing father.