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Another short chapter, sorry I just like to work with short chapters.

Hope you enjoy, I like this chapter myself.

Penny watched as Sheldon disappeared into the crowd. She looked around at everyone else and they in turn were for the most part were looking at her, she looked to the ground with embarrassment, then felt a hand take hers. She looked up at Sheldon. "I meant for us both to go home."

She followed him the edge of the dance floor then pulled his hand to get him to stop. He turned to look at her and she wasn't smiling. "Sheldon don't you ever do anything like that again."

Sheldon looked at her bewildered he had no idea what social faux pas he had just committed.

"You left me on the dance floor alone." Penny raised her voice. "I kissed you, and you." She took a deep breath. "You just turned away from me and then walked off the floor and left there alone."

Sheldon could feel the eyes of the room on him and he didn't like it at all. "Penny, I'm sorry, now can we go home?"

"You know sometimes saying I'm sorry isn't enough Sheldon." She let go of his hand and walked to the ladies room. She shut the door of the cubicle and lent against the door, tears came to her eyes. Why was she crying? She hadn't even thought of Sheldon as anything but a friend before. Why should his actions on the dance floor upset her so.

Sheldon waited patiently for Penny to appear from the ladies room, he hadn't meant to hurt her, he really didn't understand how he had upset her, no more than he could understand why his mind kept going back to the kiss she gave him. He had been kissed before, Leonard's mother had kissed him the once, something that he, Penny and Beverly have all agreed to forget. Amy too once kissed him, but none of those had made his heart palpitate before. He turned to look at the door as it opened and he saw Penny walk toward him.

"Sheldon, I know you didn't mean to hurt me."

"Penny," He hesitated, he clenched his jaw and looked to the floor. "I just wanted to be alone with you."

Penny looked at at Sheldon and she broke into a smile. "Really? You know if you had just said that to me."

Sheldon smiled in return. "Shall we go home now?"

"Yes I think we should." Penny grabbed his hand.

It was nearly 10.30pm when Penny and Sheldon reached the landing and to the door of 4B.

"I had a really good time tonight Sheldon." Penny opened her door and then turned to look at Sheldon.

Sheldon nodded toward the door of apartment 4A. "You know that one of them is peering out the peep hole and relating what they are seeing to the others."

"Ah really, do you want to come in Sheldon?"

Sheldon looked to 4A and then back at Penny. "Yes Penny I would."

"So what's happening?." Howard asked.

"Oh Penny just said something and Sheldon looked to our door. Oh, oh they are going into her apartment." Raj as the tallest had been chosen to be their eyes on the scene.

"No way!" Leonard throw his arms in the air and walked away from the door.

"Seems the play date went well." Howard sat down on the couch. "Never mind Leonard perhaps you can see if Leslie Winkle will play the cello with you again."