The Music Metamorphosis
Summary: Penny and Sheldon's friendship is transforming into something neither of them expected or understand. Each stage of the developing relationship is found in a randomly chosen song that coincidentally – or, in accordance with the law of large numbers - fit perfectly.
Song: "Invisible" – Clay Aiken
Since she and Leonard had broken up, Sheldon found that he missed Penny's presence in his life. She had become a ghost, a phantom, a silent and pale apparition that floated in and out of the apartment building without a word to either him or his roommate. He felt invisible around her now, something he had never imagined possible given that they were, in fact, friends.
He had no idea what she did for fun anymore, when her shifts at the Cheesecake Factory commenced or ended, or whether she had a new boyfriend.
He missed her thinly veiled contempt hen he corrected her, her sarcasm, the times she called him sweetie, the constant admonishments that she was in his spot.
This had to stop.
So he stopped her in the hall as they both exited their respective dwellings.
"Penny."
"Oh, hey Sheldon," she murmured, her eyes focused on her black, practical flats.
"A query, if you will allow me to address you."
She waited.
"What are you doing tonight?"