Chapter 5

Sheldon had intended to stay mad at Penny for laughing at him, but somehow a week later he found himself in her apartment helping her learn her lines for the part. At first he had only agreed so he didn't have to sit in his apartment alone, Leonard had been hanging out with Amy a lot so had not been home much. There was a time Sheldon would've preferred to be alone but those days were long gone and he blamed Penny for that, ever since she had moved in next door she had been worming her way into his heart at first he had found her completely annoying but somehow now no matter how hard he tried he couldn't imagine his life without her somewhere in it, during the recent intimacy experiment he had told her he thought of her as a sister and for the most part he did.

"Are you listening to me?" Penny asked tapping him on the shoulder.

"Let's take a break." Sheldon said opening up his laptop that was sitting on the couch.

"What are you doing?" Penny asked siting down next to him.

"I'm ordering pizza, its pizza night."

Once the pizza arrived they ate it while watching and old black and white movie that Penny had picked out. She had watched Star Wars with him last night so tonight she was making him watch one of her movies.

"Well that was actually better than I thought it would be. But why in all the old movies does the man kiss the woman like that?" He asked.

"For the thousandth time read the book we gave you." Penny said.

Sheldon ignored her as he took both of their dishes to the kitchen, he was about to sit back down on the couch but Penny pulled him into the middle of the room.

"Ok, let's start again. It's says here the leading man is supposed to kiss my character but we can skip over that part." Penny said flipping the page.

"Will with your history you shouldn't have any problem kissing anyone." Sheldon said.

"What are you trying to say?" Penny giving him a dirty look and hit him on the arm with the script she was holding.

"Just that you've had a lot of practice." Sheldon said grabbing the script out of her hand before she could hit him again.

"Shut up Sheldon." Penny said she trying to keep her temper.

"I suppose it will be different knowing that people are going to be watching." Sheldon said.

"You're right, it will be different." Penny said suddenly nervous. She had never kissed anyone while shooting a movie, she had only done the two Serial Apeist movies the first one had her running around topless and the second one had her running around in ape suit and bikini but nothing even close to kissing.

"I'm sure you'll do fine." Sheldon said patting her on the back.

"I think I should practice the scene at least once with someone I'm comfortable with." Penny said.

"Do you want to wait until Leonard is back, you're comfortable with him."

"No, that would be way too awkward." Penny replied shaking her head.

"What about your ex-boyfriend or should I say ex-husband Zach we can call him."

"NO! I just want to get this done, let's me and you just run through it once." Penny said, she couldn't believe what she was saying but she also couldn't think of anyone she was more comfortable with.

"Let me get this straight you want me to kiss you?" Sheldon said with his eyebrows twitching at the thought of the germs.

"Think of it this way were not really kissing our characters our, just pretend it's one of your role playing games that you like so much. Please I just want to run through the scene once to get a feel for it."

"So I'm not me and you're not you, we're just two characters kissing? I guess that's one way to look at it. Let me see the script again so that I can make sure I'm in character." Sheldon said holding out his hand for it he took a quick glance at it. It said the characters were supposed to be arguing and the leading man was to grab the woman and pull her into a passionate kiss.

"Remember, passionate Sheldon." Penny said before the started.

"Shut up and let's do this." Sheldon said draining the last of his glass of wine. They read through the lines they were both really into the characters, and when it came time for the kiss Sheldon grabbed Penny by the waist and dipped her down towards the floor as soon as their lips touched Penny moaned and Sheldon kissed her harder, as his hand slipped from her waist to her rear. He brought her back up right and said "was that passionate enough for you?"

"Where the hell did you learn to kiss like that?" Penny asked completely taken by surprise it was the single best kiss she had ever experienced and she still couldn't believe it had come from Sheldon.

"I was being the leading man, it's how the leading man kissed the woman in that movie we just watched." Sheldon said. He couldn't believe he hadn't thought about the germs once not even when their tongues had grazed and he certainly would never think of her like a sister ever again.

"Are you still the leading man right now?" Penny asked.

"No, why?"

"Because your hand is still on my ass."

"Sorry." Sheldon said moving his and quickly he hadn't even noticed where is hand was until she had said something. "I think that's enough rehearsing for tonight." Sheldon said heading for the door.

"Wait." Penny said touching his arm.

"What?"

"Thanks' for helping me. I leave in two days we should practice again tomorrow."

"Sure. Just to be clear, just the lines or are we doing the kissing again?" Sheldon asked curiously.

"Just the lines." Penny said kissing him on the cheek before heading to her room.

Sheldon walked back to his apartment, as he entered the living he was so preoccupied that he didn't even notice that he wasn't alone Leonard and Amy had come back, they were sitting on the couch watching a movie, he went to his spot without saying anything.

"Sheldon are you OK?" Leonard finally said

"When did you guys get here?" Sheldon asked looking frightened.

"We were here when you walked in. What's going on?" Leonard asked.

"Nothing, it's nothing." Sheldon said hurrying off to his bedroom. He couldn't stop thinking about the kiss, what the heck was wrong with him he'd never been particularly interested in kissing why should he be now? His dreams had always consisted on one thing, winning a Nobel Prize, now he could see himself winning his Nobel Prize he also pictured a certain blonde in the crowd beaming at him, it was Penny, how had she become part of his dream?