Penny absent mindedly kicked her foot out and yelped.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" she asked looking down at a concrete box on the ground. She bent down and opened the lid. There was a mobile phone and a note. She lifted the note out and read it.
This is an emergency phone. Unlike myself who has a 187 IQ and would therefore never go out onto the roof without a proper communication device, ie my cell phone, I rather imagine that other less intelligent members, if in the situation of being locked out on the roof due to the dodgy door which maintenance refuse to fix despite my regular reminders, would not have access to a phone to call for help. This phone, once switched on, may be used in emergencies only.
Doctor Sheldon Cooper.
Oh my god! Only Sheldon would keep a phone on the roof! Wait, a phone on the roof! I can call him!
Penny quickly switched the phone on and groaned impatiently while she waited for the start up screen to progress through its cycle. Finally she could dial the number.
"Sheldon?" she asked urgently when it answered.
"Penny, I recognise the number you are calling on. You are using my emergency roof phone for a non emergency call aren't you?" he scolded.
"Oh shut up!" Penny hissed. She could tell by the silence Sheldon was fuming at the insult.
"Why should I shut up? I have so many important things to say!" he finally told her.
"Sheldon, if I hadn't used your emergency phone I wouldn't be speaking to you would I? My phone is dead and I can't find the charger." Penny explained.
"Hardly surprising. Your apartment is a vortex of entropy with no organisational schematic whatsoever." Sheldon replied. Penny ground her teeth.
"You know what, I'm starting to regret calling!" she hissed.
"Why did you call?" Sheldon asked. Penny softened.
"Because I want to see you. Please Sheldon." She whispered softly. Sheldon sighed softly.
"Alright Penny, I shall give you my current location." Sheldon said finally.
"Wait, this phone isn't going to die out like mine is it?" Penny asked.
"Pfft! Hardly Penny! It has an extended battery supply which I developed myself. It will last considerably longer than this conversation needs to be." Sheldon scoffed.
"Alright, just tell me where you are!" Penny replied.
"OK Penny…I'm at…"
BANG!
Penny jumped at the sound of a car backfiring in the street nearby, and the phone slipped from her grasp, right over the edge of the roof.
"OH FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK!" Penny yelled as she watched it tumble down the various floors of the Los Robles Avenue building until it landed with a loud smash and shattered across the sidewalk.
"HEY THAT NEARLY HIT ME!" called a voice from down below. Penny looked closer.
"KRIPKE! THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING ME TO A WHOLE NEW EXPERIENCE!" she yelled down to him.
"WHAT WOULD THAT BE?" he yelled up to her.
"BEING PLEASED TO SEE YOU!" Penny yelled down.
"HERE'S AN IMPORTANT LESSON. IF YOU WANT SOMEONE TO HELP YOU, DON'T INSULT THEM!" Kripke yelled back up to her.
"KRIPKE! PLEASE COME BACK! I DIDN'T MEAN IT! KRIPKE PLEASE! I NEED YOUR HELP!" Penny yelled down to him. Kripke reluctantly stood still, and Penny raced through the door down all the floors until she raced through the lobby and found him out on the sidewalk.
"Do you think you could fix this phone?" Penny asked pointing at the shattered remains. Kripke scoffed.
"Stephen Hawking wouldn't be able to fix that. I've seen cars go into the crusher and come out in better state than that!"
"Then can I borrow your phone? I need to call Sheldon!" Penny replied.
"That whackadoodle? I thought he left?" Kripke asked.
"Can I use your phone or not?" Penny asked impatiently.
"What's it worth?" Kripke asked. Penny recoiled at the grin on his face.
"Eww! Not that!" Penny shuddered.
"Alright, let me see them. Then you can use my phone." Kripke relented.
"You're a seriously fucked up individual!" Penny replied as she lifted her t shirt up.
"You're the one flashing on a public sidewalk! Very nice by the way." Kripke grinned.
"Alright, give me the damn phone!" Penny replied pulling her shirt back down.
"I don't have my phone on me. I was just going for a walk due to the heat stopping me from sleeping." Kripke.
"But I just…" Penny started.
"I know." Kripke grinned.
"I fucking hate you!" Penny spat.
"Always a pleasure Woxanne." H e grinned moving past her.
"Penny!" she yelled.
"Woxanne is hotter." He shrugged and disappeared round the corner.
"I have to move. I can't take it." Penny whispered to herself as she ran her fingers through her hair.
As she made her way back through the lobby doors and up to her apartment, she got more and more miserable with every step. She was never going to find Sheldon. He needed her. And deep down she needed him. And yet somehow everything conspired against her to keep them apart. Then it hit her.
Leonards phone!
Penny raced through the door, leaped over Leonards still passed out body, and into the bedroom. She spotted Leonards phone on the table and quickly dialled the number.
"You are disturbing my REM sleep cycle Leonard!" Sheldon growled when he answered.
"Sheldon, I was talking to you minutes ago, don't give me that!" Penny argued.
"I thought it was Leonard. Why are you ringing on Leonards phone? You had a perfectly good phone to use." Sheldon replied.
"I dropped it off the roof." Penny explained. She grimaced as she heard the splutters and exhalations that made her certain he was about to give a stern lecture.
"YOU DROPPED MY EMERGENCY PHONE?!" he yelled.
"Sheldon, focus! Tell me where you are!" Penny replied.
"Is there any point? Something seems to happen every time I try to." Sheldon replied. The sudden sound of defeat in his voice made her insides clench together.
"Don't say it like that. Just tell me and I promise I'll be there." Penny whispered.