Penny was in her bathroom getting ready for work.
There was a knock on the door and when she answered it she was surprised to see Tyler.
"Tyler? What are you doing here?"
"I was hoping we could go out tonight. You busy?"
"Yep!" Penny said a little to cheerfully. "I have work." She was actually happy that she had work, anything to keep her from hanging out with Tyler.
"Work?" Tyler seemed pissed off. "What do you mean work? Why do you have work?"
"At the Cheesecake Factory. I'm on the schedule, I need money, you know, work."
"Call them and tell them you can't come in. Tell them you're sick or something."
"I can't. I need the money and I already called in last week using that excuse."
"I don't care. Just come up with a different excuse."
Penny sighed. "Tyler, I'm going to work. I have no reason to call in."
"Then I'll give you a reason!"
Penny gasped as he pushed her over onto the ground.
20 minutes later, Penny was dialing the number of the Cheesecake Factory. "Hey It's Penny. I won't be coming in tonight." She paused, listening to the person on the other end. "Oh, nothing really. Just some injuries."
She ended up going out to dinner with Tyler again. The entire time, she was being super careful not to say or do anything that would upset him. She knew the smallest, most random things could set him off. She was tired of always trying to be perfect for him. She couldn't wait for the night to end.
After her date, she was entering her apartment right when Leonard was leaving his.
"Hey Penny."
"Hey Leonard!" She was trying to act happy so he wouldn't suspect anything was wrong.
"Where have you been?"
"Just out with Tyler. Where are you going?"
"Over to Chelsea's. We're going to have sex over there because you know how Sheldon feels about it in our apartment."
Penny tried not to let her jealousy show. "Um, that's great. I guess."
"How was your date with Tyler?"
Penny decided to make something up that would really piss Leonard off. "It was awesome, he's been talking a lot about marriage. I think he's going to propose."
"What? He can't!" A sad look came over his face.
Penny stared at him, confused.
"I mean, how long have you known him for and he's already talking about marriage?"
"Long enough. Well, I'll see you later Leonard."
Penny went into her apartment, leaving him standing there, the sad look still on his face.
She sat down on her couch and cried because she couldn't tell him the truth.
That same night, Howard was at the club again, talking to Amber. He was happy that Raj wasn't around.
But Raj arrived later and looked around for Amber. When he seen her talking to Howard, he went over to the bar and started doing vodka shots.
"Hey Amber!" It wasn't long before he was drunk enough to talk to her.
"Not you again!" Howard groaned.
"Raj! I was hoping you would show up tonight!" Amber smiled and threw her arms around him.
"Of course I would show up here for my favorite girl," Raj said, returning the hug.
"I'm going to fucking kill you," Howard glared at him.
Later on after coming from the restroom, Howard noticed them leaving the club.
He ran over to them. "Where are you guys going?"
"Back to my place," Amber replied.
"For what?"
"You know exactly what," Raj said with a wink.
Howard was taken aback. "Um, can I come?"
"No can do. Me and Raj wanna be alone." Amber took Raj's hand and led him out of the club.
Howard angrily stared after them. "Yep. I'm definitely going to kill him."
The next day, Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj were hanging out at Leonard and Sheldon's apartment as usual.
"I can't believe you fucked her before I did," Howard was saying.
"You said it would never happen but you were wrong!" Raj said smugly.
"Loser."
"Bigger loser."
"No I'm serious. You are a loser because you'll never be able to talk to women and you're just wasting your time with her."
"Why do you have to bring that up for?"
"Because it's true!"
"Guys, chill out," Leonard cut in.
But Howard kept going. "You're going to die alone dude, you have no future with Amber so you should just give her up to a real man. Me!"
"Maybe you're right," Raj was looking at the ground sadly.
"Of course I'm right."
"It's still fun to piss you off though."
"Fuck you if you think_"
Howard was interrupted by Sheldon. He had stood up and was glaring at them. "Both of you shut up! Your incessant arguing will get you nowhere. I've had enough of listening to you two bicker day in and day out. You should be ashamed of your atrocious behavior!" He turned around and went into the bathroom this time, locking the door so Leonard couldn't get in.
Everyone sat in silence for a few seconds.
"That was bone chilling," Howard finally said.
Leonard sighed. He walked over to the bathroom door.
"Sheldon? I know what you're doing in there." He knew Sheldon was cutting himself.
"Go away."
"I want you to stop right now. Put the knife down and_"
"Get lost Leonard."
"Knife? What's he doing?" Raj asked with concern.
Leonard ignored him. "Open the door Sheldon let me in!"
He waited but there was no answer.
"Are you alright? Say something."
"Yes. I'm trying to melt your brain through the door."
Leonard sighed and sat back down on the couch.
"What's he doing?" Howard asked, confused.
"I guess I can tell you guys. He's been cutting himself lately due to stress he says. And he doesn't like it when people fight, that's why he's in there right now."
"What? That doesn't sound like Sheldon at all," Howard was shocked.
Raj nodded in agreement. "What will we do?"
"I have no idea. I've tried to talk him out of it but he won't listen. So much weird shit has been happening lately, did you know Penny says she might marry Tyler?"
"No way. How do you know?" Raj asked.
"She said so last night. She thinks he's going to propose."
"Sucks for you," Howard said with a laugh.
"I hope he doesn't. I won't let it happen. I love Penny to much to lose her to somebody else."
Author's Note.
I didn't really like this chapter I thought it was kinda lame :P But in the next chapter & the one after that, it's kinda a continuation of this chapter but there's going to be different stuff happening, so yeah, stay tuned ahaha (: