Leonard and Penny were headed to the Rostenkowski-Wolowitz house for their New Year's Eve Party. They both admitted to each other it was a nice break from hosting since the hosted Halloween and Christmas Eve. As Leonard was driving, he noticed his wife was watching out her window and quite. He looked at her for a second and frowned wondering what was going through her head before he turned his attention back to the road. As he did, Leonard decided to ask her a question. "So you have a New Year's Resolution?"
Penny turned her head to see her husband. The look on his face knew something was up but Penny did not want to make a big deal what was on her mind. She just went along with his question and shrugged her shoulders. "I really don't know. You know how every year I make one and like everyone else I don't keep with it. I know you don't usually make one but do you have one?p Just for fun tell me one." She raised an eyebrow feeling now curious.
Leonard looked her way for a spilt second with a small smile as he thought about it. Once his attention was back to driving he began to answer his wife, "Well I have you, so that makes this nerds life awesome!" Leonard could not help point to himself with a smile spreading ear to ear.
Penny rolled her eyes yet smiled with a light laugh. "At first I was thinking, Awe my husband is going to say something sweet. But then you say something like that. So yeah, you are such a nerd."
Leonard grinned even bigger, "Yeah your nerd... Your nerd forever. And you should be proud of yourself since not every hot blonde can get a husband like me."
Penny smile went to a serious look and her attention went back to looking out the window. Leonard was now knew something was really bothering her. He knew they were ten minutes away from Howard and Bernadette's, but saw a place to pull over, so he did. Penny frowned hard at her husband, "What are you doing?"
Leonard put the car in park and turned to his wife. "What is wrong? Usually I don't like to ask because we usually end up in an argument. But please tell me." He almost felt like he was begging.
Penny sighed and looked up for a second. She then turned to her husband. "Okay, you remember that New Year's Eve where we all dressed up as super heroes?"
"Yeah?" Leonard said wondering where this was leading to.
Penny slummed her shoulders and continued, "Well when I saw you put on your Green Lantern shirt tonight, for some reason it made me think about that night and how adorable you looked."
"Okay? Thank you! Wait. Why?" Leonard still did not know how to approach this or what Penny was thinking.
"Well you know how you tried to remince on Halloween?" Penny watched her husband nod and could tell he was becoming anchious. "This is not quite remincing but how guilty I felt that night. I wanted to give you that new year kiss so bad with that look, the same look you are giving me right now... Jeez Leonard, I hurt you so bad that night when Zach kissed me... I know it sounds silly I am bringing this up now..." At this point Penny felt like she was rambling on.
Leonard could see she was getting upset, so he took one of her hands and squeezed it. That made Penny look at him with her big sad green eyes. So he just gave her a resuring smile, "Listen to me, that was a long time ago. We were very confused with each other after our breakup. We both tried to move on but we know how that worked out. Our wedding bands are proof we couldn't resist each other." Leonard stopped noticing a corner smile on his wife's face. "Hey how about this for a resolution for the both of us. When it comes to our past together and if it is a one we both want to forget we write it down. Talk about how we felt back then and how we feel about it now. Once we are done we burn the paper. How does that sound?" He was hoping Penny would go for it.
Penny stared at her husband lifting an eyebrow, "Really? You are such a nerd." Then she let a long breath release as Leonard looked discouraged. "But you know what ot sounds like a really good idea."
Leonard felt good about his idea now and leaned into his wife, pressing his forehead to hers. "It might not be the best memory, but you think about it you have been kissing me on New Years at midnight for the years now. That beats one bad New Year's any day."
Penny looked up into her husband's brown eyes and bit her lip lightly. "You're right. I don't know what you have done to me Hofstadter but ever since our first unofficial kiss, you have been the only man I look forward kissing."
"And you're last!" Leonard could not help but say that with pride. Penny rolled her eyes and pushed him playfully telling him to stop being cocky. Which made Leonard chuckle as he rubbed his shoulder blade. But made sure his wife felt better before they left for the party, which she was.
At midnight and after the countdown, with singing of "Auld Lang Syne," Penny and Leonard found themselves clinking their wine glasses to a new year. They took a sip and kiss which was certainly not their last. But made sure they made their exit quitely so they could continue their New Year's tradtion what was now seventh year in a row