Penny stormed into Amy's apartment with an angry frown on her face.

"Hey there Bestie! Good day." Amy asked her with a smirk. Penny huffed and sat down the couch. "My God! It's not funny, Amy!" Penny yelled.

Amy frowned and walked over, taking a seat next to Penny on the couch. "Why are you so upset?" Amy asked, looking like a little girl. Penny sighed and faced Amy with angry tears in her eyes. "Pryia visited Leonard tonight. As I was leaving to come here. Leonard was great and told her he wanted nothing to do with her, but I don't think its going to stop her flirtations. I am so pissed! Why cant she back off?!" Penny told her friend.

Amy listened and wrapped her arm around her bestie. "It'll all work out, bestie. Leonard loves you and only you." Amy whispered.

Penny sniffed and somehow kept her tears in. She nodded and took a deep breath. "I know he does. It still pisses me off, the bitch needs to be put in her place. The next time I see her, she's going to get it." Penny said.

"Penny. Promise you wont do anything at the wedding." Amy said firmly. "I wouldn't! Ill just rub Leonard and I's relationship in the sluts face." Penny said with a sly smile. Amy smiled at this.

"Let's watch that movie, Ames." Penny said sitting back in the couch. "You got it, bestie!"

Penny's phone rang halfway through the movie. She looked down seeing it was Leonard. Amy looked over to Penny and gave her a nod, pausing the movie. "Thanks." Penny told her, before answering the call.

(Penny) (Leonard)

"Hey Leonard."

Hi Lovebug. Are you okay?

Penny frowned. "What? Why wouldn't I be?"

Penny honey, I know Pryia upset you.

"No she didn't! Im fine." Penny said, even though they both knew she was not fine with it.

Really I hate when you do this.

"DO what?" She asked with a slight tone.

Keep yourself locked in. Why cant you ever tell me what you feel?! I've always been here and never judge you or made fun of you, so why can't you ever let me in! Leonard sounded annoyed, this whole thing getting him too.

"Really Leonard?! You're going to bring that up now?! Over the phone?" Penny snapped at him.

Leonard sighed and took a deep breath. You know what?! If you don't feel like you can trust me to tell me what you think and feel, then maybe...

"maybe what, Leonard?!"

Maybe we should take a break until you can fully trust me. It really hurts when every time I open up all of my heart and feelings to you, and you give me a little bit of hope that you finally are opening up, when you pull back and lock up. It hurts penny and I can't keep feeling like this.

Penny had tears in her eyes. she didn't say anything.

Penny?

"what?" She asked with a slight strain in her voice.

Are you crying? Please don't cry.

"Why shouldn't I?! You're ending us?!" She yelled.

Look I don't want to do this. I love you, Penny. But I don't feel like you are 100% in this relationship. Are you?

"Yes I am! Look I love you and I need you. Please." Penny pleaded to him.

Penny...

"Don't! I'm sorry, okay. I didn't mean to snap at you. I promise you, that I'm in this 110%."

Why don't we talk about this when you get home.

"Okay." She sighed.

They both hung up at the same time.

Penny turned to Amy with a scared look in her eyes. "What happen?" Amy asked. "Leonard's mad at me. He says I don't open up to him and that it hurts him too much. He wants to take a break! Amy I cant let that happen." Penny said in a panicky tone.

Amy took a deep breath.

"He does have a point, bestie. You never tell him how you really feel, and you never have. He feels like you don't trust him. I bet it does hurt him." Amy said in a calm even voice.

Penny let her tears fall. "But I tell him I love him and I told him I feel insecure." She tried to defend herself.

"Yes you did. Penny you tell Bernadette and I more, then you tell him stuff about you feel, with him and your relationship. You also go to us for career advice. I'm sure he knows that. He wants to help you and be there for you." Amy said.

"I don't want him to leave me. I love him, he's the love of my life! I want to be his wife and have his babies." She told her. Amy smiled at this. "penny does Leonard know this? Have you ever talked about the future with him?" Amy asked her blonde friend. Penny paused and looked concerned. "No. I have not." she said firmly.

"That's what he's talking about. You don't open up to him, like he does for you. That man would take a bullet in the head for you and you know this, but does he know that you would do anything for him? How is he suppose to know, if you never fully open up to him?" Amy questioned her.

Penny looked at Amy and took everything she said in. She now saw what Leonard and Amy were saying. She felt like a bad girlfriend and hated that she acted this way, and it made Leonard feel hurt.

Leonard sat in his bed, with his laptop on when their was a light tap and the door opened slightly.

Penny stuck her head in shyly. "Hi. Can I come in?" She asked. Leonard nodded. "come here." He told her patting the other side of the bed to her.

Penny closed the door and walked over to the other side of the door and sat down on the bed next to Leonard. "You wanted to talk?" She asked timidly.

Leonard looked at Penny's face and saw her looking down at her lap, biting her lip. "Penny, I really don't want to have to break up, you know how I feel about you. But, is it really fair to either of us, if you don't feel that strongly for me?" he said softly.

Penny looked up at him, where he saw tears streaming down her face, her shoulders shaking trying to keep from crying. Leonard saw this. "Honey, come on. Let it out." He said wrapping her in his embrace.

Penny let out a loud sob and put her face on his shoulder.

Leonard held her, never having seen her cry this hard before.

He rocked her back and forth and ran his hand through her hair. "Honey, Shh." Leonard whispered every couple minutes.

Penny calmed down after about ten minutes. Leonard lifted her head and made her look in his eyes.

"baby, please stop crying. I hate seeing you like this, tell me what you're thinking. Please." Leonard said in a gentle and resurging voice. "You never called me baby before." Penny whispered.

Leonard gave her a smile. "You okay?" he asked wiping away her tears.

"NO! I hate this! Pryia being here and messing up our relationship! We were doing so damn well before she started hitting on you! Now you think I'm not happy or that don't I truly love you with all my heart! I don't ever ever want to lose you again, especially to her!" Penny yelled out.

Leonard sighed and took a deep breath.

"Penny..."

"No. Leonard, no! Listen to me." Penny said firmly and looked into the man she loved in the eyes.

"I love you, I have loved you for a long time. Longer than you know. I have known you were the one for a couple years now, before Pryia and you got together. I want to be with you for the rest of my life and I don't think I can imagine a life without you in it. You mean the world to me, Leonard Leakey Hofstadter and I will not stop loving you until the day I die." Penny told him with a voice full of passion and love.

Leonard gulped as he looked into her eyes and saw adoration written in them.

"I love you too, Penny. You mean everything to me." Leonard told her and leant in bringing his lips to hers and gave her a passionate kiss.

The kiss was long and both poured their souls into the kiss.

Penny sighed as they parted "I've never been the type of person to open up. As a kid, my parents fought a lot. They're not together anymore. My brother was the worst, he was in and out of jail at the age of 16 and was high all the time. He got his girlfriend pregnant at 17 and my mom is his child's legal guardian. My sister was always getting in trouble at school and would party like four times a week." She paused and looked to her hand on Leonard's chest.

"We were really close when we were younger, but once she found out hanging out with your little sister was "uncool" she stopped hanging around with me. She got pregnant at 19 and has been married twice and has 4 kids on her own. My parents had their hands full. My mom is very much like my sister, she parties a lot and drinks all the time. My parents were always too busy handling my siblings that I didn't really get much attention. I was loved and cared for but their was no room for me to talk about my feelings and problems. So, I've learned to keep what im feeling in. Its not you its just what I use too."

Leonard listened and took everything in. He understood where she was coming from, and in a way he could relate. he never got attention from his parents.

"I'm sorry Penny. I understand now. Just know that you never need to keep anything from me, I will always be here for you. Anytime you have a problem or something is bothering you, you can tell me. I will give you advise and listen to everything you say." Leonard told her.

Penny smiled widely and nodded her head. "Sounds good. I love you." Penny said placing a soft peck on his lips.

Leonard pulled her closer and kept his lips attached to his and gave her a hard passionate kiss.

"I love you." He told her with a goofy smile.

Penny pulled him on top of her and crashed her lips on his once again, this time deeper then their other kisses.

penny pulled away slightly to look in Leonard's eyes.

"Leonard do you remember what I told you at the beach?" Penny asked him softly.

Leonard frowned in confusion and shook his head. "what? I'm sorry." he said looking puzzled that he couldn't remember.

Penny smiled at how adorable he looked when he made that face.

"I said that, I love you and that I really hoped you knew that. And told me you did. But you really didn't think that, did you?" Penny looked sad as she told him this.

Leonard sighed, now he remembered. "I'm sorry honey." He said.

"No its all my fault. I've been locking you out, to protect myself and in the end I've ended up hurting the person I love most in this world." Penny pouted sadly.

"Baby, I promise you that I will open up more to you." She said.

Leonard smiled down at her.

"All I ask is that you try. And I can already tell that you are." Penny nodded slightly.

"I'm sorry that me acting like that hurt you and made you unsure of my feelings for you. I never want to hurt you, I want to be the person you come to and I want to take away the pain or anger that you feel. I hate seeing you upset or hurt, and I hate it even more if I'm the cause." Penny said.

Leonard smiled and placed a soft kiss on her nose. "Are we okay now?" She then asked shyly.

"Yes, we are." Leonard told her.

"Good. Now make love to me."

Tonight was the rehearsal dinner for Bernadette and Howard.

Only close family member and the people who were in the wedding were going to the dinner. Amy the maid of honor and Raj the best man were there already, so Leonard agreed to take Sheldon for Amy, Penny coming with them.

Penny was happy that Pryia wasn't coming, she just wanted to enjoy herself with her closest friends and her boyfriend.

Leonard knocked on her door that night, Sheldon right behind him.

Penny answered with a smile and as soon as she opened the door, she flung her arms around Leonard. "Wow! Hey there Beautiful." Leonard said with a slight chuckle, he smiled big as he hugged her closer, rubbing her lower back where she loved it.

Penny hummed and nuzzled his neck with her nose.

"Hi handsome." She said moving her head back to look him in the eyes and gave him a sweet smile.

Leonard placed a kiss on her forehead.

"You look really beautiful, Penny." He whispered to her.

Penny blushed slightly and bit her lower lip shyly. "Thank you, honey. You look great, baby." She told him giving him a soft kiss.

"Ready to go?" Leonard asked cupping her cheek with his hand.

"Yes. Lets go!" She said excitedly.

She took his hand in hers and intertwined their fingers together.

Sheldon lead them down the stairs. "Hi Sheldon." Penny greeted him. "Hello Penny." Sheldon said giving her a nod in greeting her.

The whole car ride was filled with Sheldon complaining about the food and how it was the wrong night to eat what he would be eating at the dinner.

Leonard stayed quiet as Penny argued with him to be nice and tried to get him to see that this was a special thing for their friends and he could deal with one night of not eating in his weird schedule.

They got to the restaurant and the three of them entered and went to the room where that held the dinner.

Raj was outside the door greeting the quests. "Hey guys!" He said with a smile.

"Hello." Sheldon said and went in the room ahead of Leonard and Penny.

Leonard gave Raj a smile and Penny wasn't so happy to see him, so she gave him a slight glare.

Penny pulled Leonard in gently behind her. Leonard didn't say a word, knowing why Penny was being like this. He himself was mad at Raj.

Penny lead them over to Bernadette, who was talking to her parents. "Hey Bernie!" Penny called out to her.

Bernadette smiled and waved at the couple. "Hey guys! Thank you so much for coming." She said. Penny let go of Leonard's hand to give her best friend a big hug. "We wouldn't miss this for anything, sweetie." Penny told her.

Leonard gave Bernadette a quick hug.

"this place is great, Bernadette." Leonard said. "I know! We loved it. Thanks" Bernadette said smiling up to Leonard.

"where's Howard?" Leonard asked looking around the room for his friend. "Over by the bar." "Oh thank you. You want to come with me, Sweetheart?" Leonard said his thanks to Bernadette, then turned to Penny.

"Uh, Ya I should say hi." Penny said with a nod.

"Bestie!" Amy yelled over to Penny.

Penny laughed at her friend, Amy was wearing that stupid tiara.

"I know. she wont let that go." Bernadette said rolling her eyes.

"I better go see what Amy wants. Honey you go find Howard, Ill say hi later." Penny told her boyfriend. "Okay." Leonard nodded and went off to go see Howard.

"hey Howard." Leonard said as he walked up next to Howard.

Howard turned with a huge grin on his face. "Hi buddy. Thanks for coming." Howard and Leonard shook hands. "Come on, like I would miss this." Leonard told him.

"Where's your girl?" Howard asked looking around.

"Amy stole her. She'll say hi to you soon, I'm sure." Leonard said with a shrug.

"Amy, she's been driving Bernie nuts. I told her she should of picked Penny to be the maid of honor." Howard said with a shake of the head. Leonard chuckled. "I can only imagine."

Howard and Leonard stayed by the bar talking and raj joined them shortly after. "Dude Sheldon has been sitting at the table this whole time talking to Bernadette's dad. Both nagging on you." Raj said.

Howard looked upset but shrugged it off. "Don't let it ruin your night or tomorrow, bud." Leonard said patting Howard on the back.

Penny came up behind Raj and gave Howard and gave him a hug. "Oh hi Penny." Howard greeted.

"Hey! You just as excited as your bride for the big day tomorrow." Penny smiled and walked into Leonard's arms, wrapping hers around him too. His around her waist and hers around his neck.

"You bet I am! Nothing can make my mood sour." Howard said smiling like a little boy.

Penny smiled. "Im happy for you." She said, then nuzzled her nose on Leonard's cheek and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek. Leonard turned to look at her.

"You want something to drink?" Leonard asked. Penny gave him a look. "When have I ever turned down a drink?" She asked with a teasing grin. "HAHA!" Leonard said and rolled his eyes, making Penny giggle. "A glass of red wine please, honey." She said.

Leonard ordered and paid for her drink the handed it to her. Penny placed a quick kiss on his lips as her thanks.

Howard watched with a smile, as Raj looked a little confused. Maybe Howard and Bernadette were right?

Penny and Leonard did seem closer and happy with each other. Also Penny hadn't said a word to him, she just kept giving him looks and the evil eye.

After dinner was served to everyone and all had finished their meals, it was time for the toast.

The toast was going to be given by Howard. He was handed a microphone and stood in front of everyone, but only looked at his soon to be bride.

"Hello everyone! I want to thank each and every one of you for being here with my Bernadette and I. And for you all coming to the most amazing and special thing that will ever happen to me, marrying the love of my life. Too all my friends, Raj, Leonard, Sheldon, and yes you too Penny for always being there for me and being the best friends any guy could ask for. To my mother, I love you and I promise I will not leave you and promise to see you a couple times a week. To my soon to be parent-in-laws, thank you for giving me your blessing to marry the girl of my dreams. Last but not least, to my Bernie. I love you and I can not wait to be your husband. Thank you!" Howard said.

Bernadette and Penny were in tears at his speech.

Bernadette and Howard shared a passionate kiss once he go back to his table.

Leonard smiled, he hoped one day that would be him, that he would be marrying Penny.

Leonard gave Amy a wink and leaned over and whispered in Penny's ear. Penny smiled and nods in excitement.

Leonard stood up and made his way to the front of the room. He picked up the microphone and pulled down a big white screen, with the projector hanging from the ceiling.

"Hello! Ah, my name is Leonard Hofstadter. I have a surprise for the special couple. Over the time Howard and Bernadette dated and got engaged I found so many cute pictures of the couple. I decided to make a video or slideshow if you will of the pictures I found. I couldn't have done this without my beautiful and amazing girlfriend, Penny. Wave to everyone honey."

Leonard paused and Penny waved so everyone could see who he was talking about.

"Penny helped me with the music and gave me some pictures that she had. To Howard and Bernadette!" Leonard said pointing to the screen, the music and video starting.

Bernadette and Howard watched the video and both had big smiles on their faces. They never knew this was going to happen, and they loved the surprise.

Leonard got back to his seat so he could watch it too.

Penny took his hand in hers and rested her head on his shoulder.

"Wow! That was beautiful Leonard!" Bernadette said smiling with happy tears once again in her eyes.

Howard smiled wide and looked to Leonard. "Thank you so much, Leonard. That was the best surprise." He said.

Leonard smiled back and gave the couple a nod. "Your welcome. Penny helped too, though." Leonard said looking down at his love.

"Thank you too, Penny." Howard said. "No problem." Penny shrugged. "We love you guys, we had to do something special for you." She added, Leonard nodded in agreement.

Bernadette and Howard shared a smile and a sweet and tender kiss.

AN: Side note, I got the slideshow idea from the show Chuck! One of the best shows EVER! I though it was so cute on that show that I just had to put that in the story.

I will be continuing the story after the wedding! More Lenny romance and Pryia in the mix.

Thanks for the reviews! Keep them coming! :)