Because these are short, unrelated stories, I can update more frequently than multi – chapter fics. Plus I thought I'd give another update now since I'm feeling a bit guilty that I'm making my College Try readers wait. But anyway, here is prompt two! This one's a little shorter, but still over the 'drabble' length of 100-ish words.

#2. Always tell her I love her.

Leonard was taking a bottle of water out of the fridge when the apartment door opened. He looked over his shoulder, saw that it was Penny, and took out a second water bottle. "Hey."

"Hey," she said. She was still in her Cheesecake Factory uniform, and as she walked closer to him, Leonard could see that she was stressed.

"What's wrong?" he asked her, holding out the water bottle. She took it from him and put it to her forehead.

"Just…just work," she said, closing her eyes. Leonard reached over and put a hand on top of the one of hers that was on the countertop, and rubbed his thumb against her skin.

She opened her eyes and looked down at their hands. "The punch clock wasn't working right and by the time I managed to punch in I was fifteen minutes late and the manager yelled at me for not remembering to just call him whenever the time cards aren't working, and then I was just rattled and brought some food to the wrong table and I tried being all fake cheerful 'I'm sorry about that!' but this big guy in a suit started yelling at me and what is a guy in an expensive suit even doing at The Cheesecake Factory like it's not that fancy of a place and I almost started crying right in the middle of the restaurant and Bernadette isn't working there anymore so I couldn't even vent to her on my break and…" She turned the water bottle over in her hands. "I don't know. It was just a bad day. Nothing goes right anymore."

"Hey," Leonard said, squeezing her hand. "Hey."

She looked up. "What?" she said dejectedly.

He gave her a small smile. "I love you."

She looked as if she was about to roll her eyes, as if to say Leonard that doesn't help me here, but then her expression softened, she gave him a small smile of her own, and then she put her other hand over his. "Thanks." Her eyes briefly looked down at their hands before returning to her boyfriend's face. "I needed that. I mean...it's not like I don't know, but..." she nodded. "I needed that."

"Anytime," Leonard said, squeezing the hand that was below his. "I mean it."