Bound to Love
By Pandakelly
Chapter 7
A/N: Well now that I am on a roll I have been very wordy, thank you all for your encouragement. This is the second to last chapter before the epilogue. As usual I still own nothing and really can't help that. Please do let me know if you want more along this line or if you want me to write a sequel.
Sheldon's Point of View
The few moments after being stolen had been the worst for Sheldon, he had no way of knowing if he would ever see Penny again and that almost killed him, on top of that he didn't really trust whoever had taken him and wasn't sure if he would be able to interact with him, he knew that once a reader hit his third chapter a barrier broke down and he was able to speak again, but he wasn't sure if that was because everyone he had ever talked to had already owned him or what. It was times like this that he really wished he wasn't so unique. His self-deprecating thoughts were interrupted as the man opened his cover again and flipped through his pages with more violence than before, it was clear that he didn't like what he was seeing, As he breeched what would be the third chapter Sheldon braced himself to ask questions but the barrier only appeared to strengthen as the man skimmed his pages further, after a while the man's features softened and his page turning took a more gentle approach, a small smile appeared as he placed Sheldon on his coffee table "what a pathetic nerd" was all Sheldon heard before the man picked up his cell phone and invited someone over. What is going to happen to me? Sheldon wondered as a second man puzzled vocally through his pages it seemed that whatever had intrigued the first man caught this man's attention as well, and once again Sheldon found that even though the man was more than a third of the way through his story he could not speak, after the man closed his cover he proceed to insult Sheldon even more than the first man had. Wow all this time I really thought Penny was my friend, but if she gave me to these guys to make fun of me I don't want to talk to her again.
Sheldon's anger soon turned to confusion; surely she couldn't know how they treated her and would stand up for him. Sheldon's heart put up a good fight but in the end even it felt by this woman, sure she had always been friend, and sure he had grown to care for her but hadn't she always told him caring was a weakness. Fearing rejection and more mocking Sheldon ran and hid with Victor Frankenstein in the Arctic waters when she opened his cover later that night, only after he knew she had given up did he return. For weeks Sheldon kept to his routine, as soon as he would feel his cover being lifted he would run to a friend's book. It didn't take too much longer for Penny to abandon him, Then again it never does, he thought to himself. After three months he found himself in a stack of books on its way to a used bookstore.
Penny's Point of View
What the heck happened to me, since when do books talk. Penny was fairly certain that not only was the idea of a book talking crazy but the fact that she had convinced herself that she was in love with a book. Sure it made sense if you looked at the outside factors, the anniversary of her parent's divorce had driven her to shop and she must have actually picked up a book that had a southern gentleman on it at the store but she must have put it back because it was a romance novel. Added to the fact that everyone she knew was getting married and the drama with her character it was not too far-fetched of an idea that she had made everything up. Buying a defective book was just the icing on the cake. Once Penny had reasoned out what had happened the mysterious book didn't bother her anymore, sure she wished it was all true on several occasions but the cold hard truth was that it had all been an delusion that she had fed herself to make up for her pathetic life.
Penny decided to get rid of the majority of her books, after all what had they ever done for her, no matter how many books she read her parents divorced, men still cheated on her, her TV shows were still cancelled, no books were no longer going to lie to her, talking or otherwise. With new resolve Penny boxed up all but four of her books and set them to a local used bookstore. Upon returning from the bookstore with a hefty sum of money, Penny decided it was time to fulfill a lifelong dream and travel, sitting down to her PC, Penny booked a one-way ticket to Dublin Ireland, packing was easy and she had no one to say good bye to, within 24 hours she would finally set foot in the Emerald Isle.
please let me know what you think…also I do believe I have a terrific idea for a new story, the story will be Shenny and unlike this one the characters will be together for most of the story, the story will have a good deal of psychology as that is what I went to college for.