Word Count: 804
Summary: New Years Day. Nothing else is needed to say.
Disclaimer: I still don't own The Big Bang Theory. I wish I did, though. It would be a great present.
New Years Day tradition: go to the roof with a bottle of champagne and count down the seconds for the new year; kiss each other as the clock strikes midnight; drink champagne until the bottle is over; go back to the apartment and celebrate with the door closed.
It was this way ever since they got engaged. It was their little tradition, one that was just theirs. They were alone, in that rooftop where they slow danced at the prom do-over. Where Howard and Bernadette got married. Where Zack thought they were going to blow up the moon. But, more importantly, it was that the roof was where they slow danced.
The tradition continued on as the years went by. With more or less alcohol, New Years Day was spent on a roof. With more or less people in that roof, it was only Hofstadter's that were allowed in that roof. Over the years, alcohol started to disappear due to the appearance of the younger Hofstadter's. It started to appear soda, and food, and sometimes even board games entered the party. But even with children in the mix, Leonard and Penny never stopped to steal that midnight kiss, no matter how much their kids complained.
Their little bedroom celebration always happened after they were absolutely certain that the kids were asleep, and stopped beginning at that rooftop. Instead, they made the party start with a bottle of champagne previously hidden in their bedroom.
Once the oldest child was old enough to start to drink, she was still a part of the Hofstadter party, and alcohol was, once again, a part of the party. There was also other non-alcoholic drinks for the other two that weren't legally allowed to drink (but would have that little sip, the "don't tell anyone I let you").
When the three children were all out of the house and moved to their respective houses, New Year's Day went back to be like the old days. The bottle wouldn't reach the end, but there was still a kiss and a celebration afterward. And when the children decided to start showing up with their respective spouses and later children, the roof was once again filled with laughter, alcohol, and celebration. But this time, their children would also kiss someone, and their kids would complain. And laughter would erupt in the old house.
But until that future exists, Leonard and Penny are climbing the stairs to the roof – they would take the elevator, but someone blew it up (no one is looking at you Leonard!).
Sheldon and Amy aren't there, they were both in their apartment watching TV and waiting for the new year there. Howard and Bernadette were in their house with Stuart, Raj, and their kids, watching a children's movie. (The actual children were asleep, the adults, on the other hand, were watching intently). And that means that the roof is, once again, all theirs. No other tenant of that building went to it, it was as if they didn't know it existed!
The bottle of champagne is abandoned in the ground, and their hands are against the other's body. Penny's hands are on Leonard's neck playing with the small strands of hair at the base of his head, his hands on her waist. They are dancing with no music. There's only silence at that part of the town, at the roof. There was no car heard, even though if they looked to the road there were tons of them on the road moving from one side to the other. There were little smiles playing on their lips, smiles that never left as they danced. They were that way for a long time until Leonard looked at his watch.
"Twenty seconds to midnight."
Penny goes to grab the bottle from the ground and brings the glasses that were there next to the bottle. She gets them to where her husband was and started to open it, filling the cups once she gets the cork out.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven," they look at each other ", six, five," they join their hands, "four, three, two, one!" They kiss as the rest of the world did the same. "Happy 2019!" They say to each other at the same time, causing them to laugh and high five each other as they always did when they say the same thing at the same time. Grabbing a glass, they both start to drink the liquid, that eventually runs out.
Looking at each other, they both know what that means. They race downstairs, and not even Leonard's asthma makes them stop. They fall asleep, contently, with each other. Another year might have ended, but another one as began. And that year, they would later find out, would bring them a lot of joy. But don't spoil it for them!
The End
Happy New Year! My first chapter of 2019. More to come, of course. Hope you all enjoyed this past and present chapter. Something I hate is dates, so please pretend not to notice if dates are wrong. If it bothers you, pretend they are different people with the same names. I try to get the characters personality and ages right, but Maya, Lily, and Ryan, I never know when they were born. I wrote it down somewhere, but I have no idea were that paper is. Ups!
Anyway, hope this year brings you good things and that this year the writers don't screw up with their best couple. Also, that they write a good finale, one that doesn't take me three years to be okay with it (Hi, How I Met Your Mother. Yes, I was talking about you!)