AN: I am back! Sheldon and Penny are back in California from Sweden too.

Still don't own TBBT. :-)

Bernadette knew that Penny and Sheldon had feelings for each other. She had always believed that they would be together someday, even until now, two years after Leonard and Penny's wedding.

Okay, so she was a hopeless romantic.

When Penny called her for a girls' night out the moment she stepped out of the plane from Sweden, she knew something must have happened with her and Sheldon. She just didn't know that it was, well, bad.

"He banished me," Penny had said as she poured herself a glass of wine. "He said I was his distraction or something."

Bernadette's eyes widened. "He said you were his distraction? From what?"

Penny shrugged. "I think it was kinda implied that the moment he decided to cut me out of his life, good things happened to him. Like winning the damn Nobel prize." She finished her wine. "He said that I came into his life with my... well, with my baggage, and it was distracting him. Something like that."

"Oh my God," Bernadette groaned. "Did you not realize what he had probably meant?"

"Sweetie, I can't figure the damn man out no matter how hard I tried," Penny replied.

Bernadette set her glass down. "He practically confessed that he loved you!" Okay, maybe he didn't, but Bernadette liked to believe. "He blamed you because he couldn't get things done because he was in love with you!"

Penny stared at her. "How did you-what?"

"Okay, look," Bernadette replied. "I knew from the moment that I saw you two that you were in love with each other. You think I didn't notice that you always preferred to sit in the middle cushion beside him instead of beside your boyfriend? You think I didn't notice that gleam in your eye when you enter the boys' apartment and you see him there? You think I didn't see the look in your face when Sheldon told us about Amy?"

Penny swallowed. "But... Sheldon. He was in love with me?"

"You were his best friend, Penny. You were probably the only one he still completely trusted," Bernadette replied, and Penny thought about the boys' trip to the Arctic, where they messed with Sheldon's "findings." "He drove you to the hospital, he shared his favorite spaghetti with little hot dogs cut up in them with you, he let you take him shopping, he helped you with your Penny Blossoms, he sang Soft Kitty..."

"Oh, hell." Penny muttered. "You know what? He cut me out of his life, so I don't give a damn anymore what we had," she emphasized the word 'we' with air quotes. "I love Leonard, he loves Amy... I don't care."

Bernadette nodded. "Fine."

Sheldon made himself tea as soon as he entered his apartment. Tea is for when you're upset, and honestly, letting Penny go was upsetting to him. He tried to forget the words that he had said to her, but the thing with having an eidetic memory is that it makes you remember things that you want nothing more than to forget.

He had just sat on his spot on the couch when he heard someone furiously pounding on his door.

"Oh, what fresh hell is this," he muttered as he stood. He opened the door and realized that his visitor was a very angry Bernadette.

"What the hell, Sheldon!" She exclaimed. "What did Penny ever do to you?"

Sheldon sighed, calm despite of everything that had happened. "It has come to my knowledge that if you love someone, you put his or her happiness above yours." He paused. "Penny is happy with Leonard, and knowing that she is happy is enough to make me feel the same."

Bernadette calmed with his words. "So you do love her?" She asked after a long pause.

"With all my heart." Sheldon replied.

As soon as Bernadette went out of his apartment, he turned the TV on and changed it to an entertainment channel, where Penny was being interviewed.

At least he could still see his Penny, even if it's only through a glass screen.

AN: Whew! That concludes the fourth chapter. I have decided to make Bernadette a Shenny shipper for some reason. Tell me what you think on the reviews!