Chapter 9
Penny and Leonard finished their breakfast seeming to be at a better place with each other. They left as Penny took Leonard's hand into her ls and laid her head on his shoulder as they walked out. Leonard did not know what her endearment meant bit it made him very happy. Penny took him to go visit his old highschool, which they ran into an ex boyfriend, Donny, who was now the assistant football couch and athletic director. At first Leonard felt uncomfortable because he was trying to show off to Penny and tried to belittle Leonard. But once him and Penny headed back to her parents place, Leonard could not help but laugh.
Penny frowned at him. "What was wrong with Donny?" She had to know what was on his mind.
Leonard shook his head with a smile, "Okay your dad discribed a few of your ex boyfriends last night and wow, I think Donny is dumber than Zack. You sure knew how to pick them. No wonder he likes me so much."
Penny this time shook her head woth an eyeroll and a straight face. "Shut up!" She said to him not feeling great about her past relationships, as she looked out the window.
Leonard saw how upset she was probably not at him teasing her but just herself. He placed one hand on her shoulder as the other was on the steering wheel trying to pay attention to the snow covered road. But wanted to make sure Penny knew he was sorry. "Hey I didn't mean to upset you. Look I might be a scientist but I have made some mistakes too in my life. Might not be the same but they are still mistakes I am not proud of."
Penny looked at him and gave him a small smile as he winked at her as Leonard's attention went back to the road. Penny took a deep breath and a let it out slowly. "I'm not upset with you Leonard. Yes I dated some not smart guys. It was wrong of Donny to hit on me and tried making fun of you. He is a dumbass and probably not a nice guy. I thought when I was younger if I dated the hot guys life would be perfect. But I ended up falling in love with them. Once I told them they broke my heart. Same with Kurt and same with Mike. The only one that did not break my heart was Zack, I broke his heart. Then there was you. Okay you are not tall and muscular and to some girls your not the perfect guy with looks. And before you say anything, let me finish. I met you and I thought you were cute for a nerd but never my type. Then I thought I could date you because all the nice things you did for me and gave you a chance. But then I thought I was not smart enough for you. Yet I could never stop thinking about you because you became much more than my best friend. When we dated it was the best thing, you were the best thing to happen to me. When you told me you loved me, I freaked out. You pushed me to say it back when I was not ready. But I did not want to loose you. Then I thought it was selfish of me to stay with you and not fair to you if I could never say it back. I was scared to because all the times I have been hurt. But when we tried the whole friends with benefits it was hard to walk away everytime. Then I got pregnant. But becoming pregnant and dealing with how bad I wanted you back made me realize something..." Penny held back the tears as Leonard gave her a worried look.
"What, what did you realize Penny?" He asked worried about what she was going to say.
Penny bit her lip as she noticed they were pulling into her parent's driveway. She watched Leonard put his car in park and turned off the engine. He then turned towards her. "I realized I did love you and regret breaking up with you. Hell Leonard I still love you..."
Leonard's mout gaped open and his eyes got big. He swallowed hard as he blinked over and over. "Wow! Umm you opening up to me was big for you and me to hear. But you saying you loved me and still do is just wow. Penny I never stopped loving you either. So what is next for us?"
"Well I need to tell my parents I want to move back with you. But knowing we do love each other does not fix everything. I want to be with you Leonard, but I think the grown up thing to do is focus on our baby and take things slow. Not too slow though where it feels like we act like we are not dating at all. Just slow enough we take our time to fix our problems." Penny said to Leonard explaining what she felt was right.
"Okay like fix the bugs in a data program software. How about I keep a list and you keep a list and we will call it our bug reports to each other. So we can fix our problems and not get mad about it." Leonard smiled as he explained what he understood from Penny's prospective.
Penny smiled back, "Sounds good on I guess from what I understand."
Leonard chuckled and leaned in as Penny gave him a small kiss on his cheek. For the first time in awhile he felt happy. Him and Penny got out of the car and decided to tell Susan and Wyatt their news.