A/N See if you can spot the reference to "Chew Toy" in here. The other thing, I don't own the characters, I want to buy them, but the buck-two-eighty I have in my pocket probably isn't enough.

Chapter 4

"Didn't Leonard tell you?"

"He told me about the girl and what happened," said an obviously furious Penny, "not that you guys knew about her." She turned toward him, "Leonard, how could you tell them and not tell me? I was…"

Bernadette said, "Calm down Penny."

"No, I won't," said Penny angrily. She looked at Leonard and in almost a hiss said, "this…this… is…just unforg…"

"Penny," Leonard whispered, "finish with Bernadette, you can yell at me afterward."

Penny paused, "So anyhow," said Penny, the anger still evident in her voice, "How long have you known?"

Bernadette sounded apologetic, "Since about four days after Leonard got home. Howard told me."

Penny yelled, "Howard knows?"

"Yes, Leonard told him."

"Great," growled Penny, with a look at Leonard. "How about you explain why you didn't tell me about that? And after that, then I can explain to you why we didn't tell you about us moving out."

"No, no, no," said Bernadette, "how about we just call it even for now?"

"Yeah, why don't we?" snapped Penny.

There was an awkward pause, then Bernadette said, "So, if were not going to talk about you moving out, what are we going to talk about?"

Penny took a deep breath, trying to control her voice. "We want to invite you and Howard, Raj and whoever he is dating right now, over to our new place tomorrow night, around six, for a little party. We'll have some platters out, some drinks, a few of them non-alcoholic for you. We want to show you around our place."

"That sounds good. Six did you say?"

"Yes," said Penny, "we'll call you tomorrow with the where."

"Tomorrow?" said Bernadette with an edge to her voice. "Why don't you tell us now?"

Penny answered coldly, "No problem, as soon as you explain to me what you said to Howard when you found out about the girl kissing Leonard."

"Ok Penny," said Bernadette, "I got it."

"Yeah, I thought you would."

There was a pause, then Bernadette said, "Penny?"

"Yeah?"

"Just remember that afternoon in my apartment with you and Amy after the bachelor party, how I felt and where Howie and I are at now."

Penny smiled and nodded. "OK, I got it. Thanks Bernadette. We'll talk to you tomorrow."

"Ok, goodbye"

"Bye Bernadette."

Penny reached down and disconnected. She turned toward Leonard with an angry look, but smiled inwardly. Leonard looked terrified. She leaned over, grabbed his shoulders and kissed him.

The kiss lasted for quite a bit of time, until Penny pulled back.

"What?" said Leonard, confusion in his voice.

"Leonard," said Penny, "remember, you and I have worked through this already."

"Okay, but you were obviously mad there for a second."

"It was a shock," agreed Penny, "I was more mad at Bernadette, than you, since she didn't tell me." Penny thought for a second, "Why did you tell her?"

"I didn't," said Leonard, "I talked to Howard, he must have said something to her."

"Why Howard?"

"He was the only one I felt could understand my problem," explained Leonard. "Who else was I going to talk to? Raj? Sheldon? Neither of them would have clue, not to mention Sheldon wouldn't have been able to keep it to himself, so I asked Howard. Who, by the way, recommended I tell you right away."

"So why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't because I was afraid of you breaking up with me," said Leonard. "You had said something about me messing us up, if I stayed, but here was something that could mess us up, because I went. I finally decided it was one kiss, no one was going to know…"

"But then, on the way to the wedding, you told me you wanted it out there." It was a flat statement by Penny, but she didn't look angry. "I understand that though, as it was a way of sabotaging the wedding. Just don't let it happen again."

Leonard shook his head as he said, "I told you, food and you, that's it for my mouth."

She smiled. "How about we get back to work, you order the pizza in a couple of hours, then we work some more on getting things settled."

"Sounds good," He rose, leaned down and kissed her, then turned and headed for his office.

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Penny slowly woke up. She could feel Leonard's right arm over her, his fingers intertwined with her left hand. She was still amazed that they could find each others hands while asleep. It was something that had never happened to her before, and it started the first night with Leonard, all those years ago. She untangled her fingers, then slid out from under his arm and headed around the foot of the bed towards Leonard's side. Then she remembered the bathroom was now on her side of the bed, and she turned around.

After finishing, she walked out of the bedroom toward the kitchen, and started the coffee. While waiting for it, she stared out of the window, looking at the mountains. After only two days, she was already captivated by the view. She could hear Leonard walk into the kitchen.

"Ahhhhhhh," said Leonard, "that smells good. Still looking at he mountains?"

"Yes," said Penny. "I didn't quite understand the power of looking at them, until I was here."

"Pretty good eh?"

"Yep," said Penny. "Come on lets get some coffee."

They got their coffee and sat at the table drinking it quietly for a few minutes. Leonard was looking around and said, "Yeah, we need to get some things for the kitchen. It looks rather empty in here."

"The whole house looks pretty empty." Penny smiled and said, "But, I get to decorate it, so it's good."

"Do you want to get a shower before heading over to Marston's?"

"That's a good idea, but let's finish this cup first." Penny said. They sat there, chatting about the various things they felt they needed for the house, while they finished their coffee. The got up and put their cups in the dishwasher, then headed to the bedroom. Upon entering the bedroom, Leonard tried to head toward the bathroom, but she was pulling him toward the bed.

"I thought we were going to get ready?"

"Well, we might as well get sweaty before getting the shower," said Penny. "And besides, I want try out that 'your mouth on only me thing'."

"But, that will take longer for me to put my mouth on the food, and…" he said.

"Leonard," said Penny threateningly.

He grinned at her. "OK, my mouth on you first," he said, pulling her toward him.

And hour and a half later and after their shower, they were enjoying their brunch at Marston's. This was the first time they had had to drive there, as, from the apartment, it had been close enough to walk to the restaurant. Before leaving, they discussed whether or not Sheldon might see them, but decided Marston's was far enough away from the apartment that they wouldn't have to worry about it. There was also the fact that Sheldon didn't like mixed meals like brunch, and so, they decided, there wasn't a risk of running into him.

After finishing brunch, they left the restaurant and drove to a shopping center near their house. They started with the liquor store, buying various wines, some beer, and a bottle of vodka and whiskey each. They put those purchases into the car and then went to the grocery store, across the parking lot. Wandering through the aisles, they went about buying various items they knew they needed for the evening, then looked for the trays of fruit, vegetables, cheese and sandwiches.

They paid for their items, put them in the car, and headed home. After carrying their purchases into the house, Penny said, "Hey, I'm going to run over to Stephanie's and let them know to be here a little after six."

"Ok, I'll put the things away."

Penny gave Leonard a kiss and walked out the door. Leonard had put everything away, and noticed that Penny hadn't come back yet. He headed for the living room and started taking things out of one of the boxes, putting the items up on the few shelves they currently had. He had emptied the first box, and puzzled that Penny still had not come back, decided to find out what was keeping her. He started toward the door, when it opened and Penny walked in with a smile.

"Where were you?" asked Leonard.

"I told you, I went to tell Stephanie and her husband what time to be here, you're going to love him Leonard"

"I guess I'll see tonight," said Leonard, "but I didn't think it would take that long."

"It didn't," said Penny in an offhand manner. "After I told them, her and I sat and talked for a bit."

"What did you talk about?" Leonard thought of something, "You weren't comparing our sex life with one of my exes again, were you?" asked Leonard, sounding anxious.

Penny chuckled, but looked uncomfortable.

"It was our sex life, wasn't it?"

"No," said Penny, "I just told her I was sorry."

"About what?"

"I just felt like it was my fault you guys broke up," said Penny. "I mean I told you you needed to tell her to move out, because you felt uncomfortable. When you finally told her, she broke it off."

"But, you were right," said Leonard. "I wasn't comfortable with her moving in, so it was right for me to tell her I wasn't ready for it"

"Leonard, I wasn't comfortable with her moving in."

"What? Why?"

"I don't know why," said Penny. "You and I had become pretty close by then. I could just come over, you'd come over, we could talk to each other. But, when you started dating her, you quit coming over. I guess I kinda missed you. So part of me was hoping you would push her and she wouldn't want to be pushed, and she would break up with you."

"Penny," said Leonard, reprovingly.

"I know, I know," said Penny defensively. "That's why told her. When I went over there, she was all happy, asking if she could bring something, being really nice. It just made me feel guiltier about it. After you two broke up, I didn't expect to see her again so I didn't worry about it. Then we saw her yesterday, and it kinda brought it all back. So I told her, but you know what, she was fine with it. She's happy with her husband and kids, I told her I was happy with you. So we both agreed it ended up happy for both of us."

"So you think it ended happy for you, even though Gretchen…"

"Leonard, shut up."

Leonard grinned at her. "They still coming over tonight?"

Penny nodded, "I told you she asked if they could bring anything. They are looking forward to it. I told her no, we had it all covered."

Leonard said, "Come on, I'm going to move things around to set things up, you call Amy and Bernadette."

Penny walked over to the dining room and sat down at the table. She looked for Amy number and tapped it, then waited. After five rings it went to voicemail and Penny said, "Amy, I'm calling to tell you where to come this afternoon, call me back."

After disconnecting, Penny dialed Bernadette's number and after two rings she heard Bernadette say, "Hello Penny."

"Hi Bernadette, how are you?"

"Better, now that I've talked to you yesterday," said Bernadette.

"Yeah," said Penny. "I also have to thank you for reminding me about you forgiving Howard."

"So you didn't yell at Leonard?"

"Nah, we had already talked about it, after we got back from Vegas," said Penny. "But, it did helped me get over being so mad at you, which I might have taken it out on Leonard. I did talk to him though, I was just curious as to why you guys knew. He explained how he told Howard, I'm guessing that Howard told you."

"Yes, he did. Leonard was worried, so he asked," said Bernadette. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you Penny."

"Don't worry about it," said Penny. "I'm sure you had you're reasons, just like we had our reasons for not telling you we were leaving."

"So, you going to tell me…"

"Yep, were at 1339 Sierra Madre Villa Avenue, in Pasadena, near the mountains."

"Hold on…, I'm writing it down…" Bernadette said. "…Madre…Villa…Avenue, Ok, got it."

"Do you want to know how to get here?"

"No," said Bernadette, "I'll put it in my phone when we head over. Around six, right?"

"Yeah," said Penny. "Amy and Sheldon are supposed to come over around five. Were going to try to smooth things over with them."

Bernadette chuckled, "Good Luck with that."

"We figured if we can't at least get them to understand, in an hour, they may leave. But, you guys will still be here," said Penny.

"How bad is it with them, Penny?"

Penny said, "Amy's not happy, but she understands why we did it. It's Sheldon were going to have a problem with."

"Yeah, like I said, good luck," said Bernadette. "See you around six."

"OK, bye Bernadette."

"Bye Penny."

Penny disconnected from Bernadette and pushed on Amy's number. She waited while it rang, until it went to voicemail. She disconnected and went to help Leonard move the chairs into the living room. Then they moved the table into the kitchen. They were going to put the trays of the various things on it. Earlier, they had brought the coffee table from Penny's office, put it in front of the couch. Now, they placed the chairs around the rest of the free area around the table.

Leonard looked at Penny and mistaking why she looked unhappy walked over to her, his arm going around her. Trying to cheer her up he said, "Considering we just moved in on Friday, it doesn't look too bad."

Penny looked around and said, "No, it doesn't." Penny pulled out her phone, and said, "I'm going to try to call Amy again." She pushed on Amy's number and listened to the ring tone and when it went to voicemail again said, "Amy, this is Penny. If you get this, our address is 1339 Sierra Madre Villa Avenue, in Pasadena, near the mountains. Please let us know you're coming. Bye."

Penny disconnected. She gave Leonard a sad look and said, "Leonard, I don't think Amy and Sheldon are going to show up."

A/N. While the address is fake, it is in a real neighborhood near the foothills, North of Pasadena. One of the houses in this area is for sale, and it is what I'm using as the model for Lenny's house, and yes, there is a nice view of the Southern slope of the San Gabriel Mountains.