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Penny closed the door behind Sheldon and walked over to her fridge. The smell of the roses permeated throughout the air, and Penny took a deep breath in.
"Those roses smell beautiful Sheldon." She turned to look in his direction. He was just standing next to the couch. "You can sit down if you like. Would you like a drink?."
"Oh ok." He sat. "Do you have Yoohoo?"
"No sorry sweetie." She looked into her fridge and pulled out a can of diet coke. "I have this."
"That will do."
She grabbed two cans and two glasses and returned to the couch.
"So was it a good date Penny?"
Penny poured her drink into her glass. "Sheldon, I had a remarkably good time tonight all in all."
"You didn't expect to have a good time?" He titled his head slightly.
"Well I wasn't really sure what to expect to be honest."
The room fell silent.
Penny reached for her remote and turned on her Hi-Fi, a little soft music to try to relax the atmosphere. She had been alone with Sheldon many times in the last 5 years, so why was she so nervous, and she could hardly fail to notice that Sheldon was too, he had been fiddling with the edge of her couch since sitting down.
Then she remembered something and she jumped up, "Chocolates." and grabbed them from the kitchen island.
She opened the box and looked at them. "I know let's play a game, close your eyes Sheldon, and tell me what flavour this chocolate is."
He looked at her with slight distrust.
"I won't punch you I promise. Close your eyes, open your mouth." She grabbed a chocolate and placed it in his mouth.
He bit down and chewed and tasted the chocolate, he thought about his reply carefully for a moment and then replied "Raspberry."
"Very good." She clapped her hands, now me, you choose one and I'll close my eyes.
"Don't bite me."
"Of course I won't bite you." She laughed.
She closed her eyes and opened her month. She felt him place the chocolate in her mouth,. "Mm white chocolate and there is something else. Pistachio." she opened her eyes.
"Very good Penny."
"Another one?" she asked him.
"One more I think." Sheldon closed his eyes.
Penny grabbed a chocolate, dark chocolate and blood orange. She placed it in her teeth and leaned up to Sheldon's mouth, he took a bite and then felt her lips against his, he opened his eyes.
"Penny!" He pulled away.
She smiled at him. "Well." She chewed her half of the chocolate.
Sheldon stood up. "I think it might be time to go now."
"Sit down Sheldon. You said you wanted to be alone with me." She patted the couch.
"Sorry?"
"At the dance, you said you wanted to be alone with me. Why?"
Sheldon shifted uncomfortably, then sat down again. "When you kissed me, I, I, I. My heart started to race, I felt warm."
"So you liked it hey." She moved in closer to him. "Do you want to do it again?"
He nodded his head, so Penny moved in closer still, they sat there quiet just looking at each other. Sheldon licked at his lips and Penny started to bite her bottom lip damn she was nervous,, then Sheldon spoke. "Would you brush your teeth first?"
Penny felt a little hurt, but understood that he didn't mean to offend her, she went into the bathroom and brushed her teeth and gargled mouthwash.
"Ok all brushed, and gargled." She sat down next to him again. "Ok, how about you kiss me this time Sheldon."
"Do you want me to go and brush my teeth?"
"Yeh try that, go into your apartment, past Leonard, Howard and Raj, tell them you are just going to brush your teeth so that we can kiss and then come back here."
"Ok." He replied completely unaware of the sarcastic tone in Penny's voice.
"Sheldon, I was joking. No I don't want you to go and brush your teeth." She laughed.
Sheldon licked at his lips and closed his eyes. His kiss was very chaste and lasted about 5 seconds. He sat back and looked at Penny waiting for her to say something.
Penny choose her words carefully. "OK. Well, you like to learn new things right Sheldon?"
"Yes, but there is not much that you could, oh!" He realised that yes there really were things that he could learn from Penny.
"So close your eyes."
Penny looked at Sheldon sitting on her couch with his eyes closed waiting for her to kiss him, she moved in closer still. His lips were soft and she licked at his bottom lip, "You're bottom lip Sheldon is very nice." she whispered, and she kissed him again using her hands to tilt his head so that she could kiss him deeper.
She pulled away. "Now you try."
He adjusted himself on the seat, and took a deep breath. "OK."
Slowly he leaned into Penny and closed his eyes, he slightly titled his head realising that it was a better angle to kiss her from, he kissed Penny just as she had done to him, licking at her bottom lip and just as he finished he quietly said. "You are look beautiful tonight Penny."
He pulled away and Penny looked at him and smiled "You are a very good student Dr Cooper."
"You want to try it again?" She asked.
He nodded, again he leaned in and closed his eyes, and titled his head like before, his lips were so soft and full and when he licked at her bottom lip this time he took more time with it, almost teasingly. He nibbled at her bottom lip which was unexpected and moved his mouth to just under her ear and kissed her, she moaned, his mouth carried down her neck to her shoulder
"Oh Sheldon, where did you learn to do that? You like to be the good at everything you do, don't you?" she laughed.
"I am good at everything I do." He replied.