Penny came into her dorm room, feeling exhausted. It had been a long challenging day with doing three of her exams. She was glad they were over, but she couldn't help worrying about how well she had done them and the remaining last two exams still to come.

"What do you think?" Todd asked.

Penny looked around her small dorm room and she was amazed at how tidy it was. "Wow! I'm impressed, Todd."

"Well, it's all part of the job," he said modestly.

"Well, I still consider myself luckier than most to know someone like you," she said. "Thank you very much." She kissed him on the lips. "How's your charity business coming on?"

Todd had been staying in Penny's dorm room for four weeks now. He had been given a part time job as a cleaner in the dorm rooms and no one minded that he was sharing a dorm room with a student. While Penny was doing her exams, he was busy making sure her room was tidy in the morning and cook her food at night. By that for the latter, he meant getting them pizza and Mexican takeaways to share. He was getting on with her friends and they liked him more than just for cleaning their rooms; they found him to be funny, charming and all around very interesting.

After the dorm rooms were clean as the gym coach's whistle, he had been developing a brand new charity business on her old laptop. He called it Clean Clouds. It was about cleaning the environment with activities such as planting new trees and encourage the world to stop smoking harmful cigarettes and run everything on eco-friendly energy.

"Yeah, it's going great," Todd said. "In fact, some people here in Ohio have already signed up for volunteering. In fact, the mayor wants us to do some tree planting next weekend."

"That's really great," Penny said. "You sound like you're staying in Ohio."

"Well, I have no plans to go anywhere so far, but you may never know what happens in the future. Now, what do you want for tea tonight?"

"Actually, tonight I'm going to stay at my parents," Penny said. "Why don't you come with me? They'll love to meet you."


So Todd did. He was worried at first only because he never met them before, but after he said hello to Penny's mother Charlotte, father Kyle and brother Trip he started to feel relaxed. He was worried if they thought he was weird and if they were worried about Penny being with him, but when they sat down for dinner, they began to find him to be an interesting person and he found them interesting as well.

"Well, thank you for supporting Penny during her exams, Todd," Charlotte said. "She says you've started a charity business."

"Yeah, and it's going better than I thought it would," Todd said.

"Well, maybe your experience of running Cabracadabra has helped you prepare for it," Penny said. "I was thinking of volunteering for your charity… after I finished my exams, of course."

"Oh," Charlotte said. "I was hoping you would return to help at my shop. You know, to look good on your resume."

"But, Mom, I've helped you in your boring shop for years," Penny complained. "You got more staff and why don't you get Trip to help you?"
"Because I am busy," Trip moaned.

"Busy with creating stupid app games that no one wants to play?"

"You just wait and see," Trip snapped back. "I'm going to make elder sisters like you look like losers."

As the siblings continued to fight, Charlotte turned to Todd. "Sorry about this, Todd. This always happen at the dinner table."

"It's nothing I'm not used to, Mrs. C," Todd said.


The next day, Charlotte and Kyle were going to a spa for a spa day and Penny had to go to back to college for her final exams. Todd volunteered to stay and keep an eye on Trip while he updated his Clean Clouds website.

"Todd, Penny tells me you're a creative guy," Trip said.

"Well, I do my best," Todd said modestly. "Is it about your games that you're trying to make?"

"Yeah. I just want your advice because... Penny is right. I am struggling and I don't know where to start."

"Right. Well, before we begin to write the storyline for this game of yours, the first thing we need to think about what type of video games we would like to play. So what kind of games do you like?"

"I like strategy games like Clash of Clans and Boom Beach," Trip answered.

Todd smiled. "Good, that's the first step. Next step is to create the world, then the characters…"


Penny came back in the house, exhausted. She was amazed to Trip and Todd running around like they were celebrating.

"What are we celebrating?" she asked.

"I've proved you wrong, Penny," Trip said. "Todd has helped me create my first successful app game ever."

"What's it called?" she asked.

"Newtopia," Todd said.

"You gave up your rock opera so my brother can have a game?"

"Todd has received credit and we've agreed to split the payment every time the game makes payment."

"And how many players have bought it?" Penny asked.

"About five hundred players today."

Penny was amazed. "Wow! I'm so proud of you both." Then she turned to Todd. "But more proud of you, Todd."

"Thanks, Penny. May I ask how your exams went?"

"I'm just glad they're all over," she said. "That's all I'm saying."

"So how would you like to celebrate your success?"

"Just the two of us… in my bedroom."

Todd was unsure about it. He had only spent four weeks with Penny and felt like everything was happening too fast. He wondered if in two weeks, she would propose to him.

"I can see you're already looking to it," Penny said. "Come on. Let's celebrate."

He decided to stop worrying about it and just go with the flow as he followed her to her room.