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It felt like the air had been forced from her lungs. Penny couldn't breathe. As she was being torn from her dream and thrust into reality, she shot awake and sat up in bed. Her breathing was ragged and she felt a cold sweat linger on the back of her neck. Penny rubbed at her eyes and tried to recall her dream, but it kept slipping from her memory.
She quickly realized that she wasn't in her own bed. She looked down at Sheldon and he became restless. He shifted around on the mattress until he sleepily looked up at her. He rolled onto his stomach and rested his forehead on his forearm. Penny sunk back into his bed and pulled the covers over her breasts.
"Is everything alright?" He sleepily mumbled into his pillow. Penny looked over at him as he looked at her. Penny quickly nodded.
"It was just a bad dream, I'm ok." Penny said. Her voice sounded small. She stared at his ceiling trying to ignore him rolling around beside her. He eventually rolled onto his side and motioned for her to snuggle with him. Penny smiled and moved closer to him. She pressed her shoulder blades into his chest and he tucked his knees into hers. The hair on his chest tickled her back, she ignored it. His arm wrapped around her waist, he buried his face into her hair and breathed in the scent of her green apple shampoo.
"Your hair smells nice." He told her hair as he breathed in a steady rhythm.
"Thanks." Penny said as she placed one of her hands underneath the pillow and the other on his hand that was sprawled across her bare stomach.
"You know that dreaming is just your brains way of filing away information into your long and short term memory. Though your primitive brain is active as you dream, so is your frontal lobe, which controls emotion, memory, and experiences." He murmured into her hair. He gently placed a kiss in the crook of her neck and held her close.
Penny listened as he fell back asleep. She tried to close her eyes, but couldn't. She breathed in the clean scent of his sheets and tried to focus on breathing. Penny closed her eyes and eventually drifted back to sleep, safely in Sheldon's arms.
Penny woke up again, this time it was because of the light that peeked through his bedroom window. Penny sat up in his bed and ran her hand across the sheets where he had been sleeping the night before. She was actually waking up in Sheldon's bed. This was real.
Penny pushed aside the covers and got out of his bed. It was 8 in the morning. She noticed that he left behind his flannel pajama shirt for her to wear. She smiled and quickly put it on after tying her hair up into a messy ponytail. She slowly padded down the hall, into the kitchen. Sheldon was reading a magazine at the kitchen island, drinking a tea.
His eyes shifted from the magazine to her general direction. He took in the sight of her wearing his pajama top and smiled. Penny looked down at her bare legs, this shirt was practically a dress. She returned his smile and headed for the coffee pot. To her surprise, there was a mug waiting with a half pot of coffee made for her. Penny filled her mug and leaned against the island. She looked at the cover of his magazine, of course it had to do with physics.
"What'cha reading?" Penny said in a sing-song voice as she took a walk over to the fridge to retrieve some milk. Sheldon looked up from his article momentarily. Penny grinned at him. He was wearing his white t-shirt and flannel bottoms. She still thought it was incredibly sexy. Sheldon put down his magazine, finished off his tea and got up to rinse his mug in the sink.
"I was reading an article called Neutrino-Less Double Beta Decay and Particle Physics." He said as he wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her cheek. Penny leaned into his hug.
"Sounds… exciting." Penny offered. Sheldon smirked at her. She knew that he knew she didn't know what he was talking about. She took a sip of her coffee and didn't offer any further 'insights'.
"It wasn't. I can assure you that it was something I didn't already know and it's not like he has a Nobel Prize or anything." Sheldon began as he moved away from her. Penny smiled.
"Are you hungry?" He asked. Penny felt her stomach respond to his question by growling. She nodded her head. Sheldon pulled out a carton of eggs, it reminded her of the time she took him to the grocery store. That was quite the adventure.
Sheldon began making her some breakfast, Penny watched as he scrambled her eggs and put them into a pan. She was kind of surprised that he could cook anything. She began day dreaming, she thought that it would be nice to wake up like this every morning, even though it wasn't realistic. She imagined some of her knick knacks cluttering the surfaces of his apartment and she couldn't help but thinking he would look way cuter with a pink spatula.
Her daydream bubble was popped when he placed her breakfast in front of her. Penny took a bite and they were literally the best scrambled eggs that she had ever eaten. Sheldon watched her as she ate.
"Where did you learn to cook like that Sheldon?" Penny asked halfway through her breakfast. Sheldon cleaned up his mess as he talked to her.
"My Mee Maw taught me how to cook quite a few things and my mother taught me how to shoot, strip, stuff, and bake a turkey when I was nine." Sheldon told her. Penny smiled. She could imagine spending the holidays with him. She wondered what his grandmother was like. Penny finished up her eggs and rinsed her plate in the sink.
"I'm going to take a shower." Sheldon said as he walked toward his bathroom. Penny followed him. When he reached the bathroom Penny quickly kissed him on the lips.
"I should probably get going Sweetie. My cat is probably starving to death." Penny concluded.
"I was going to invite you to join me." Sheldon said as he raised his eyebrows and gripped at the shirt Penny was wearing. Penny blushed.
"As tempting as that sounds, I really should go." Penny said. Sheldon looked a little bit disappointed and nodded his head.
"Alright then, have a pleasant day Penny." He said as she turned on her heel and walked toward his bedroom. She got dressed and made his bed. She knew he would probably re-make it, but the gesture would probably make him smile.
Penny left his apartment and walked into hers. She fed her cat and picked up her phone from the coffee table. She had little to no battery life, a missed text from Amy and a missed call from Nina. Penny brought her phone with her into her bedroom and plugged in her phone to charge while she showered.
She wasn't excited to find out what her agent was calling her about, her pilot was probably a no-go. It had already been a month since she had sent it to her. Calling back could wait. Penny was on cloud nine and she wasn't really in the mood to hear bad news. She jumped in the shower and let the warm water engulf her body. As she washed her hair, she thought about the sex she had with Sheldon.
It was amazing. It was good the first time, but the second and third time, they really got a feel for each other's rhythms. Penny had good sex with other men, but the sex with Sheldon was different. It meant something more than anything she had ever experienced. Suddenly she was regretting the fact that she declined his invite into his shower. Penny pushed the thoughts of him out of her mind and finished up in her shower.
She quickly got ready and grabbed her phone. It had charged to an acceptable 65%. She read Amy's text.
Hey Bestie. I was hoping that you were available for lunch. My treat.
Penny couldn't say no to lunch with her best friend. Plus, it was a free lunch with her best friend. The offer was impossible to resist. The girls made plans to meet at a cute café that made homemade soups and sandwiches.
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Penny sipped on her Italian soda as she waited for her tomato bisque and grilled cheese sandwich to come. The girls started with light gossip. Apparently Raj secured a research grant for Cal-tech and he would be moving back to California with his wife in tow, Amy heard the news from Leonard, who heard it from Howard, who talked to Raj. Penny felt excited. The whole group would be back in Pasadena. It was comforting. The talk moved on to sex.
"So Leonard and I role played last night. I assumed the role of Lieutenant Marlena Moreau and Leonard took on the role of Captain Kirk. The sex was stellar, as always." Amy said with a grin. Penny smiled back. For some reason, she didn't mind hearing about Amy's escapades with Leonard. Maybe it had something to do with her getting her own freak on.
"Get it?" Amy asked. Penny opened her mouth to answer but Amy interrupted.
"The sex was stellar, like a star? Like Star Trek role playing…" Amy said. Penny smiled and nodded her head.
"Got it." Penny said. Their food arrived and Penny placed her spoon into her creamy soup. She stirred it around for a moment and looked up at Amy.
"Amy I have to tell you something." Penny started. Amy leaned in closer as if Penny were about to tell her a secret.
"Sheldon and I had sex last night." Penny said in a hushed voice. Amy's eyes grew as wide as her smile. Penny couldn't help but smile back.
"And… How was it?" Amy curiously asked. Penny let her mind wander to the night before. Every moan, every kiss, every touch flooded her mind. It sent a tingle down her spine and Penny shivered.
"That good, huh?" Amy said. Penny grinned and nodded.
"That good." She confirmed. Though it was nice to think about the way he felt, all she could think about was how he made her feel emotionally.
"I have to say, I'm slightly jealous that you are sleeping with a Nobel Prizer laureate." Amy confessed. Penny looked at her with confusion.
"It's no big deal. I mean he got a medal, and a paper, and a bit of cash." Penny brushed it off. Amy smiled.
"A bit of cash? Penny please, your boyfriend is loaded." Amy told her. This garnered another puzzled look from Penny.
"What do you mean loaded?" Penny asked. Amy let out a laugh. She genuinely found this amusing.
"Penny, Sheldon's 'bit of cash' is more like 1.3 million dollars." Amy said with a small smile on her face. Penny practically choked on her soda.
"Excuse me?" Penny choked out. Amy laughed even harder. Penny took a moment to let it register that Sheldon was indeed 'loaded'.
"I have to tell you something else." Penny quickly said. Amy leaned in further if it was at all possible.
"I think I'm falling in love with him. And it's not because you just told me I'm dating Ritchie Rich." Penny told her friend. Amy sat there shocked. Penny felt kind of like an idiot for saying anything.
"In all of the years I have known you, I have never heard you say those words about anyone. Do you have a delirious fever?" Amy teasingly asked her. Penny stuck her tongue out.
"Sheldon is the robot that isn't capable of love remember?" Penny teased back. Amy took a bite of her sandwich and Penny continued.
"Seriously though. No one has made me feel the way that he does." Penny said. Amy nodded and wiped at her mouth with a napkin.
"The only logical solution is that you have to tell him." Amy said, in a matter-of-fact tone. Penny's heart stopped for a second. Tell him.
"I don't think so." Penny quickly interjected. Amy cocked her head.
"Why not? If that's what you feel, why hide it?" Amy asked. Penny dropped her gaze to her soup. She dipped her sandwich in the soup and took a bite. Penny thought about Amy's question as she chewed. Why hide it? The answer was simple, if she didn't tell him, she couldn't get hurt.
"It's scary." Penny softly confessed. Amy smirked.
"You're fearless Penny. Do you remember when you moved to New York? That was a very brave thing to do. I don't see why you are going to let your feelings get the best of you." Amy countered. Penny pursed her lips together.
"It's still scary.' She childishly said. Amy offered her a warm smile. The girls finished their lunch and Penny considered Amy's advice. Could she tell him, would it even be worth it? What if he didn't say it back? What if things fell apart, they could never go back to being friends. Not after those words left her lips. What if it changed them? Would it be for the better? Penny wasn't ready. She needed more time to make sure that's really how she felt.