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Chapter 5

After Penny woke up a second time that day after Leonard hung up on her, she, her mom, and sister, Michelle, decided to spend time together in Omaha. When dinner came around, Susan called Wyatt he was on his own to find something to eat. He told her he would just go to the dinner down the road.

After they arrived home they noticed Wyatt was home sitting out the porch. Her mom wondered who the other person sitting with him. Penny felt her heatt dropped. "Umm, well mom that would be Leonard..."

Susan put the car in park and turned off the car as she raised an eyebrow towards her daughter. "I wonder why he is here?"

Penny rolled her eyes and sarcastically said, "I dont know mom, maybe to make sure Karma bites me in the ass."

Susan couldn't help see the worry in Penny's eyes, so she leaned over and kissed her daughter's forehead. "Hey he might be upset, but him showing up shows how much he cares what has happened."

Penny sighed as she looked sad at her mom. "You really think so?"

"Yes, because well your dad doesn't have a shot gun pointing at him." Susan said jokingly yet was serious at the same time.

Penny nodded with a small smile. Then her and mother got out and walked towards the porch. Penny and Leonard eyes met and both got very quiet as she reached the top step.

Wyatt and Susan noticed the tension so they decided to give them time alone. "Well my good wife how about we go in and have a piece of your blueberry pie while Slugger here and this good man here can talk." Susan agreed with her husband and walked into the house. Wyatt leaned down to Leonard, "Remember son what I told you."

Leonard nodded up at Wyatt from the seat and then looked back at Penny. He sighed and got up once Penny's parents went inside. Leonard walked over to Penny and looked up over his galsses at her with his hands in his pockets.

Penny tucked her hair behind her ears and bit her lip as her stomach turned now she was face to face with Leonard. She had not felt this way since the night she ended things with him. "Umm, do you want to go for a walk?"

Leonard nodded, "That would be nice." He suddenly felt shy. He could not help but think how adorable she looked and just wish he could just hug her. But instead as she motioned him to come with him, Leonard knew things were now completely different between them

"So how did you find my parents house?" She asked as they began to walk down a path turning her head so she could see his face.

Leonard looked at her still with his hands still in his pockets. He gave Penny a side smile. "Well I was hungry and ended up at this diner and just happened to be the one they know your dad very well."

Penny smiled and shook her head. "Yeah, dad goes there when mom is not around. He says my cooking and his are about the same. So when it was just me and him that is where we would go. Should I be worried what you two talked about?"

"You should be terrified. Your dad loves me!" Leonard could not help but tease her some. It felt natural with Penny. He chuckled as Penny narrowed her eyes at him. "Okay, fine I will tell you if you stop giving me your death glare that I will never miss." He gave her a big grin as she smacked his shoulder. "He told me to never give up on you but to be patient at the same time. That way we both know what is going to happen between us. Something about he should know since he had to put up with you for eighteen years. The reasoning why he went grey so quick."

Penny rolled her eyes with a smile but told Leonard to turn left as they kept walking. Then knew she had to bring up their issue. "So I guess we do have to talk about this don't we?"

Leonard knew that look. It was the look she gave him as she was breaking up with him. But they needed to start to figure this whole thing out. "That is why I came here. Penny I have been thinking quite a bit as I was talking to your dad. I have many questions you need to answer. But we can save those for the next couple of days. I am here until Sunday evening so that gives us four days to talk. First off I want to tell you I want this baby more than anything. He or she is more important than any relationship. Yes before you ask, yes I ended it with Priya. Not because I think we could get back together, because I would love that and if you wanted too..." He had to take a moment to calm down because he was starting to sound desperate, plus Penny raised an eyebrow to question his statement. After a moment he continued. "Anyways we have these few days to talk and figure something out. I do not want to push you because last time I did, I lost you." He let a big breath and looked at her with his big brown eyes waiting what she was going to say.

"Leonard, thank you and I promise you will have your answers. But to be honest with you I am surprised you came. I truley am because well its you. Sometimes you can be selfish. Aside from that I am glad you are here because it feels like something in my life is what I guess you call normal. Even though you and our friends are not close to normal. And yes I am aware of that does not make me even close to normal..." Penny grinned at him as he did back. "But Leonard I am terrified about being pregnant and having a baby. More terrified you will want to get married now..." This time Penny held her stomach and looked scared.

Leonard stepped closer and took her hands into his. "Look I am scared too, Being a father has only crossed my mind a few times in my life. Now it actually happening I do not want to expect. Plus I am still upset you did not tell me right away, but I get it. I'm scared, you're scared, but together we can do this. As for the whole marriage thing, as much it would be a dream, I would not ask you unless we got back together and dated for awhile, and you got over your commitment issues." He gave her a little nudge to her shoulder.

Penny rolled her eyes, "State the obvious there Leonard. I am sorry truley that I could not tell you right away."

"Hey lets not talk about that right now. Lets go back to your parents house and I will go back to my hotel. I think we could both use a goodnight sleep." Leonard said to Penny with a shy smile. Leonard watched Penny nod her head as they turned back around. Leonard allowed her to give him a goodnight hug, but as he reached his hotel room that night he could help but cry. Some over seeing Penny, some over still being very upset with her even though he hardly showed it towards her, and most over not knowing what was going to happen between him and Penny because all he wanted was to be a family with her and this baby not a broken one.