Thought I would make this chapter Leonard's wake up call. Hope you enjoy and I don't own TBBT.

Chapter 3

"So Leonard, what would you like to do in the city that never sleeps?" Penny asked taking Leonard's hand by pulling him out the door of the diner with a big grin on her face. She then noticed the nervousness in Leonard's eyes. "Hey I don't bite, well not hard anyways. Just seems you need to relax and have some fun in ypur life since your girlfriend won't premit it."

"Well where ever you lead, I will follow. This is your city after all. This is the first time I have been back to New York since I was in college and never did a late night tour." Leonard confessed still nervous but showed a smile.

Penny couldn't help herself by hauling them a cab and telling the driver to take them to the Empire State Building since the last elevator was at one fifteen. Leonard was confused but decided to let go and enjoy himself for once in his life. They arrived in time and went straight to the observation deck and looked over the city. They just stayed there until closing time at two in the morning. Penny told Leonard how she tried making it out in California and how that was her dream. But the New York life was just exciting but got lonely somedays.

Then they headed towards to Times Square. Leonard was in awe of the dense neon lights and paid attention as Penny told him the billboards created their own daylight. Then went into tue 24/7 Apple Store just to browse around. Some people recognized Penny and asked for her autograph and happily gave it to them as Leonard took their picture for them.

Then Penny dragged Leonard to Koreatown. Whoch he found out has a concentration of karaoke clubs. He ended up busting out "Baby Got Back," as Penny belted out Spice Girls. They cheered on other people and sang some more until four in the morning.

Penny then hauled another cab which took them to the Brooklyn Bridge and watched the sun rise. To Leonard he wished the time with his new friend had never ended. He thanked her for one amazing night and morning of his life. Penny couldn't help but smile, "I'm so glad. Maybe we do it again before you leave?" She said with hope. Leonard could not have agreed more. So they exchanged numbers and went their separate ways.

As Leonard walked through his dad's town house quietly, there stood Pryia with her bags packed at the end of the stair case. Leonard frowned on confusion, "What are you doing?"

"I have to go back to India. I have a very important business case over there. I went to wake you but you were no where to be found. I have a taxi coming to pick me up so no worries for you there. Now before I leave, should I ask where were you and should I worry about us when I leave and be gone for the next month?" She asked with a straight face and no emotion shown.

Leonard decided after the time he had spent with Penny, he needed to live a little bit more and be happy. He moved closer to Pryia and took her hands into his. Leonard took a deep breath and calmly said, "Pryia, after this late night and early morning I had I realized I have not been happy. I was happy for the first time in a long time. I miss being me. If you loved me you wouldn't be changing me. So go live your life and I will go live mine." With that Pryia let go of Leonard's hands and walked out the door quit quickly. Leonard sighed feeling he maybe made a mistake and how ticked off Rai would be once he found out. But he also needed to find what made him happy again.

He watched his now ex-girlfriend walk out the door. Leonard walked up the stairs, walked into an empty bedroom, laid his head on the pillow on the bed, and sleep suddenly took over.

A few days later after giving a lecture at New York University in the physics department, Leonard's phone went off. He saw it was a text message from Penny. He smiled as he read it. 'Hey, thought we could hang out again? Let me know and I will tell you the time and place.-P'

Leonard texted Penny back, 'Of course!' is all he wrote back to her.