Chapter 5 - Penny's help
The car shopping experience, with Penny, started out with them driving to the first dealership, casually talking about everything except cars, which made Leonard feel relaxed. However, as soon as they pulled in the dealership and left the car for the showroom, that relaxed feeling Leonard was experiencing had disappeared as a couple of young salesmen swooped down to find out what Penny wanted. It was so bad that they had actually started to move Penny away from Leonard, and they were not entirely talking about cars with her. This was Leonard's dismay, men would hit on Penny, like he wasn't even there, belittling him, which made him always over think and wonder sometimes if Penny even really cared about him. Of course, he knew that was not true, which then made him hate himself for thinking like that, which only made things worse. The scene now in front of him was especially bad, ruining the great morning he had with her, and turning the present, into a time of misery for Leonard.
The two cute salesmen had Penny lightly by the arms and were leading her to a convertible on the showroom floor, it had happened so quickly Penny's mind had not caught up, she was use to guys leading her off, it had happened so many times in her life, so for the first moments she blindly followed. They were asking her about her car needs, but they were also asking her questions, like guys asked her when she went to the bars with Bernadette and Amy. It was then suddenly everything seemed wrong, she was not in a bar and these men shouldn't be acting like they were now around her; it was really bothering her about how everything seemed to be happening and how she was being treated by these men. There was also the feeling that she knew Leonard would not be happy either about what was happening, and it was then it hit her, it was like a pile of bricks had fell on her as it dawned on her, where was Leonard? Penny stopped suddenly, dead in her tracks, the salesmen so caught off guard they waked past her, she then turned her head to see Leonard following them, and the look on his face, both breaking her heart while at the same time making her mad at the two men who were leading her away from him.
Only one thought went through her mind as Penny turned immediately and walked directly to Leonard. Penny no sooner reaching him, then putting her arms around his neck and to give him a very passionate kiss, that dropped the jaws of the two salesmen. The kiss was just long enough to make anyone know that was watching that Penny was serious and when she finally stopped she just looked at Leonard and said in a voice just loud enough for the salesmen to hear, "Honey, I don't really think you will like the cars here and the sales staff seems so inadequate. Can we go someplace else?" Penny said that in her sexiest voice but her look to Leonard said she was sorry it all happened, and it was to that sorry look that Leonard nodded. Penny then grabbed on his arm and walked back out to their car with him, her head resting on his shoulder, leaving the salesmen stunned and green with envy, wishing they were Leonard.
The second dealership, was much better, because as soon as they walked in, Penny walked up to an older salesman, to ask him to help them. The man treated Penny and Leonard like they were husband and wife, which made them exchange little funny glances at each other, and he showed them several cars, a couple which were interesting to Leonard. However, the red convertible, on the showroom floor caught Penny's eye and Leonard ended up talking to the salesman mostly about it, while Penny sat in it, telling Leonard how wonderful it was. Leonard couldn't help but feel stupid, he didn't want a convertible, but seeing Penny in the car, smiling, was a sight he enjoyed, so he acted interested in a car he didn't want.
This second dealership is where Penny started to collect car brochures, of all of cars Leonard wasn't really interested in, since she didn't really understand that again she dominating what was happening. As the day progressed, Penny would continue to get brochures of all the cars, she thought were cool, each with a salesman's card stapled to the front. Leonard never said a thing, even though she was acting a little bit like Sheldon did the day before.
The third dealership, turned out to be like the first, except one salesman came over to them and tried to steer Penny away from Leonard again. However, this time Penny was now looking for that and would not be separated from Leonard and kissed him in front of the salesman again, however now Leonard knew she was doing this for his benefit, to defend his manhood, a manhood he seemed to not be able to defend on his own. They ended up leaving that dealership quickly, Leonard not really interested to look at any cars there and Penny having her brochures in her hands.
The fourth dealership they took a test drive, in a red convertible and Penny drove, Leonard just not interfering and letting her have her fun. Penny had convinced the salesman not to come with them and then drove off with Leonard for a test drive. The drive actually started out pretty nice, and Leonard started to think about maybe a convertible was not such a terribly bad idea, especially seeing how happy Penny was and how gorgeous Penny looked in it. However, soon a car full of guys pulled alongside them and started flirting with Penny to ruin it, and Leonard began to realize that all a convertible would do would be to make it easier to advertise his girlfriend to other guys. They left that dealership, shortly after returning the car from the test drive, again with Penny carrying brochures of her favorite cars.
Leonard was now a little tense, ever since they had started looking cars, he had just been feeling inadequate and he couldn't help himself from questioning, like so many times before, why Penny was even dating him. He knew was overthinking and was going to a dark place so he suggested he and Penny take a little break and get some ice cream, so he could try and settle his mind down. Consequently, they ended up sitting at a small table, eating ice cream, non-dairy for him, and talking about several small things, none of them related to cars, and it was then that Penny started to realize that Leonard was different from the happy man he was this morning. She could see the stress on his face and once she saw it, she also knew why, it was her, she was acting like she always did around people, not thinking about him, and it was hurting him. She tended to expect men to flirt with her, however the problem was they acted like Leonard wasn't there, and it hurt him, she never wanted to see Leonard hurt, much less be the cause, she loved him. She decided she needed to get her act together, she wanted to be the girlfriend he deserved, and she decided to take more control of her actions from now on.
Penny also felt she needed to do damage control immediately, she didn't want to ruin their day together. So, she looked directly at him, giving him a small smile, "Sweetie, thanks for taking me with you today, I love spending time with you." she told him softly, then leaned over a kissed him deeply, which brought the smile, she always loved, to his face.
The fifth dealership was much better, a pretty female salesperson greeted them and showed them around, more interested in Leonard than Penny. They actually got to test drive a car Leonard liked and one Penny liked, so Leonard felt they really accomplished something at this dealership. However, during the whole time with the pretty young saleswoman, she talked directly to Leonard and ignored Penny, touching his arm, when they talked, and flirting with him. Leonard could see Penny get a little distant as she was trying to control her emotions, but he was pretty sure the saleswoman's flirting was all to get him to buy a car from her. Leonard didn't want Penny to feel like he did earlier, it wasn't something you wanted someone you cared for to feel, so after a while he just took Penny's hand and held it all the time afterwards, which made the saleswoman tone down her pitch. The added benefit was that once he took Penny's hand, holding it when he talked to the saleswoman, Penny got a big smile on her face and was happier at that particular dealership the rest of the time they were there. Leonard and Penny walked back to the car, both with brochures of the cars they liked.
Penny was very much in aware of everything around her by the time they reached the sixth dealership, she was just very open with her affection for Leonard, and that was enough to ward off all love sick salesmen. Penny also found it fun to hang and kiss on Leonard in public, so she took advantage of it the rest of the afternoon, getting more and more bold as the day went on. But there was a secondary effect of her being that way, her open affection, that was fun at first, was becoming more intense for her and she was now starting to forget herself sometimes. Like slipping her tongue into his mouth when they kissed, kissing him too hard and long, and even one time, while they sat at a table, to talk with the salesman, slipping her hand off his leg to rub his crotch under the table.
Leonard was at first a little embarrassed by Penny's very open affection, but then got used to it when he saw the effect it had on driving away the advances of the salesmen. However, he did have to stop her some of the time from being too affectionate, especially when she started to rub his crotch under the table, then squeeze the resultant erection. In the end though, they did get to drive a couple cars, with the salesman, and with all this, it made their visit to the sixth dealership very productive, both Penny and Leonard left with brochures of their favorite cars.
The seventh dealership didn't have any cars Leonard liked, but he did go on a test drive in a car Penny liked, just to watch her have fun. The salesman tried to get close to Penny, but after about 5 minutes of her pawing over Leonard, he gave up completely and let them go on the test drive alone. This test drive was fun and Leonard just sat and enjoyed the ride as Penny had fun driving the car. Leonard thought Penny was having fun driving the car, but he didn't realize that her being affectionate with him in public and the excitement of driving new fast cars, was having a huge effect on her libido. No sooner that they returned from their test drive with the sports car, again the salesperson offering to talk a deal and offer Penny a brochure again when suddenly Penny froze, a sudden realization coming to her. She stared at the brochure in the salesman's hand and immediately saw in her mind the brochures Sheldon had on their coffee table, the whiteboards full of data coming back to her and how Leonard was upset about how Sheldon was acting. She had thought it had all been about her being hit on all day, but it was more, she was acting like Sheldon, steering Leonard to what she wanted, she wasn't helping him at all today. She looked at him and felt terrible, he did so much for her and when she said she would help him she just made things worse.
The salesman looked at her not moving with confusion, "Miss would like these brochures?"
Penny glanced at Leonard noticing a blank stare on his face, the kind of stare she had seen on him before when dealing with Sheldon, when he knew nothing he would do would help the situation and just gave in. Penny hated that she was the cause of that look, so she looked at the salesman and shook her head, "No thank you, I'm not really interested."
Penny felt really bad, she felt she screwed up the whole afternoon, and she wondered why Leonard even put up with her, but answered her own question quickly, he loved her. The next question both upset her and made her want to cry, as she asked herself, what had she done to show him she loved him. That answer didn't come back to her like the first question, she did love Leonard, but did he really see that love from her.
"Penny is something wrong." Leonard asked as Penny stood there quietly for a few seconds.
Penny just smiled and shook her head, then turned to the salesman. "I think I might like an SUV better, someone I know says their safer, so could we maybe take that big one over there on a test drive."
Leonard was totally surprised she had asked the salesman if they could test drive the big SUV in the lot with heavily tinted windows, the sudden thought she had turned into Sheldon briefly crossing his mind. He thought about saying something, but Penny seemed so determined again, he just let it go and 10 minutes later they were on the road, in the SUV land yacht. However, they had just gotten out of the area the dealership was in, when Penny told Leonard to pull in a large discount store parking lot, so he did, in complete confusion. Then no sooner than he parted in a parking spot, Penny crawled into the back seat and told Leonard to come back with her, as she started to unbutton her blouse.
"Penny what are you doing." Leonard was completely confused as Penny undid all her shirt buttons exposing her bar underneath.
Penny continued as she pulled her shirt off and undid her bra leaving herself naked from the waist up and sighed, "Leonard please." She just wanted to make him happy again, doing something spontaneous and erotic right now to get his mind off how badly today went. She was also very vulnerable, she wanted him very badly right now.
"Penny?" again he said confused
Penny just looked at him again and then softly repeated. "Please Leonard."
He didn't really know what was going on but her face showed a hint of desperation and she was pleading, which tugged at Leonard's heart. So, he just got in the back seat with her, their lips and bodies contacting as soon as he reached her, while Penny hands started to remove all their clothes.
When Penny and Leonard pulled the big SUV back into a parking spot at the dealership and got out, both of them had shy smiles on their faces. So, as they walked towards the salesman, Penny wrapped her arms around Leonard's arm and gave him a kiss, the look of lust still in her eyes and her cheeks still a little pink. Leonard's hair was a little messed up and he too had not completely recovered from the naughty little romp in the back of a test drive car, making his face a little pinker than normal. He didn't realize that Penny's idea of making love to him had helped his mood, he was just happy and felt a little adventurous at what they just done.
"Sir, you drove with the window's open, it is much better when you let the climate control serve your needs." the salesman said, thinking Leonard's hair was windblown and his cheeks redder because of the wind too.
"Oh honey, I told you we should have kept the windows up." Penny said, as she pulled a little brush out of her purse and started to brush Leonard's hair, a smirk on her face. Leonard stood while Penny brushed his hair slowly, as she looked into his eyes, biting her lip, her hands in his curly hair felt so good, it was turning her on again.
The salesman watched the beautiful blonde brush her boyfriend's hair, in a way that made him silently sigh and just as suddenly he felt like a voyeur watching something erotic. She was looking into eyes, and gently brushing his hair, a little smile on her face, while her other hand was in his hair messing it up again. The salesman felt a lump in his throat, this was a little too much for him, so he slowly turned and took the keys back to his desk, they would come back if they had any questions, he thought.
Penny was done car shopping and Leonard wasn't in the mood either, something else had their full attention. Leonard broke off eye contact, when he remembered the salesman, but then turned to find him gone, so he and Penny just went back to their car. Once driving back to the apartment, Penny looking at Leonard the whole time, Leonard thinking he would ask her if she wanted to eat, it had been a long afternoon. "Penny are you hungry?" he asked, while trying to keep his mind on the drive.
Penny, was now locked on, the SUV romp just an appetizer, she had been thinking about love with Leonard all day, in the back of her mind, and now she couldn't help think what she was going to do to him, when she got him in her bed. "Yes, I'm hungry and maybe we can get some food after." Penny told him, she had said it in a low sultry voice and when he turned to look at her, she ran her tongue lightly over her lips as she looked with him with bedroom eyes. Leonard drove faster.