Matchmaker chapter 4
A/n: Finally got out of my writing slump, of course I couldn't have without everyone's support on here! so without further ado, here's the next installment of Matchmaker! Please enjoy!
*obligatory disclaimer stating none of this is mine*
Penny was startled awake by the sound of her ringing phone. After her talk with Sheldon, she had retreated to the sanity of her bedroom to contemplate what he had asked her for, but ended up falling asleep instead. Disentangling herself from the sheets, she snatched her cell off her nightstand to answer it.
"H'llo?" she slurred sleepily.
"Hello, bestie," the neurobiologist replied monotonously, albiet cheerfully.
Penny stifled a yawn. "Hey, Amy."
"Penny, do you have a few minutes? There's something I need to discuss with you."
Penny glanced at her bedside clock. Sheldon and Leonard would be expecting her to join them for dinner soon. She suddenly felt exhausted, despite her long nap. Penny enjoyed having Amy as a friend,she was definitely a welcome change from her usual airheaded friends. Hanging out with her, learning new words, sometimes made Penny feel smarter. But she can sometimes be tiresome with her never-ending enthusiasm.
"Yeah, sure, what's up?" Penny ran a hand through her hair and started searching for her dictionary, knowing full well that Amy would be using words out of her vocabulary range.
A few hours prior
Sheldon returned to his own abode, looking much calmer. The wild look in his eyes was gone, and the twitching had stopped. Leonard was very much curious as to what had transpired in Penny's apartment. "So," he said. "How'd it go over there? Everything ok?"
Sheldon gave a small smile. "Yes, I asked Penny something, and she said that she would think it over. I believe she will agree sooner or later."
Leonard beamed up at his roommate. "Really? That's so great!"
"Yes, it is, isn't it," replied Sheldon. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go over my comic book collection to determine which issues I will need to look for at the comic book store tomorrow." With that, he left the room.
Leonard frowned slightly. So Penny wasn't as willing as he'd hoped. This plan would definitely take a touch of feminity. Leonard picked up his cellphone, and tapped around until he came to a name he almost never called. "Hey, Amy," he said when she picked up, stepping into the hallway. No need for Sheldon's bionic hearing to pick up on this. "Hey, listen, I need a favor..."
"And that's essentially the whole plan," he finished filling her in on the plan that everyone in their social group had concocted.
"I see," Amy replied. "So you're asking me to use subtlety to nudge Penny and Sheldon together?"
"Well, yeah, but we really just need you to nudge Penny, the guys and I are taking care of Sheldon. Oh, and try to see if Bernadette will be willing to help, too, please."
"Understood. It might take me a while to coerce Bernadette into agreeing, she's too goody two shoes for it," Amy's dry humor was starting to show. "I will contact Penny in a few hours. Good-bye, Leonard."
Leonard hung up the phone and returned to his apartment only to find Sheldon waiting for him expectantly. "Um, hey, buddy," he said disarmingly.
"Buddy...? Who were you talking to in the hall?"
Leonard started to waver under his roommate's gaze. "W-what, that? No one, just...the lab. Leslie said we might have to run a few more tests to determine what makes the subatomic behave the way they do in zero gravity. She says a zero gravity environment is really hard to recreate in the lab, you know, with the air pressure, and all..."
Sheldon scoffed. "Well of course it is, for subpar 'physicists' such as Leslie Winkle, I suppose even tying her own shoelaces would be deemed 'difficult'. Thank goodness for slip on shoes, I suppose."
Leonard smiled weakly. "Uh, yeah..."
MEANWHILE (as in a few hours) AT PENNY'S APARTMENT
Penny flopped down onto her sofa holding her phone to her ear with one hand and holding her dictionary in the other. The fancy language hadn't come yet, but she knew it was coming up sometime. "So what's up?"
"Well, I have noticed after several encounters with you and Sheldon that you both seem to be displaying several symptoms of what I've recognised as a doting couple, if my research in femal cinematography is to be plausible in real life scenarios."
Penny took a moment to look up "cinematography" and was shocked to find out it meant the film industry. Then she felt slightly embarrassed. As an actress, shouldn't she know all about the industry's lingo? Once she had shifted through Amy's explanation for her call and broke it down into layman terms, she flushed.
"Sheldon and I are not a 'doting couple', Amy. We're just really close friends. I doubt if we could even pull off being a couple, if we ever decided to." She decided to not let her bestie know about what Sheldon had asked her to do until she decided whether or not to help him.
"Well, that's a pity," the neurobiologist said flatly. "You two certainly look like it, Sheldon and you both are quite attractive, and normally I would rather have my brains scrambled by my monkey, Ricky, than to say this, but I'll try to speak in your vernacular. You two do make a 'cute couple'. I'm just saying if you two look like this to me, imagine what the rest of our social group thinks. Maybe you two really can pull it off, you have been verbally attacking each other less and less recently."
Penny was at a loss for words. Gosh, was that how people really did see them? What was this world coming too? Mistakes like these needed to be fixed, they couldn't just leave them alone, and they needed to be prevented in the future. And she needed to teach Sheldon how to avoid situations, or as he would put it, paradigms (Penny smiled at the thought of using a word from his vocabulary) like this in the future. She wouldn't want another grad student getting the wrong idea and trying to take over Sheldon's life...again.
Penny came to the realisation that there was only one way to fix this. She was going to have to accept Sheldon's experiment. "Penny? Penny? Penny? Are you there?"
Amy's voice broke through her thoughts. "H-huh? What? Sorry, Amy, thanks for pointing this out to me, I need to have a talk with Sheldon about this. I'll see you and Bernadette later, right? It's movie night."
"Of course, bestie, I will see you then." and with that, she hung up.
Penny hung up and tossed her phone back on her bed and made her way to 4A.
Amy hung up and looked at her phone. "I hope I did that right and pushed her in the right direction," she whispered to herself.
HOW WILL THIS TALE GO? STAY TUNED!
A/N: Thanks for reading, here's a little christmas present for everyone who followed this story, I'm sorry it took so long to update, holidays got me bus-ay! Until next time, readers!