Quick One Shot, I'm feeling inspired!

"Penny….Penny…Penny…Penny…" Sheldon Cooper knocked on the door to Penny's apartment repetitively.

Penny jolted off her couch and swung the door open.

"Sheldon, Sheldon, Sheldon!" She said in a sing-song voice.

"Well now, that was unnecessary." He 'tsked' at her.

"What do you want Sheldon?" Penny sighed.

"Leonard has vacated the apartment for the day and I need someone to appreciate the brilliance of my newest project. May I use you as a bouncing board?"

"You couldn't possibly see how insulting you just sounded."

"I merely suggested that you accompany me in the apartment for a moment so I can try to configure my latest thesis on the theory that-"

"No, no, no, no! You know all of that is just mumbo-jumbo to me anyways sweetie!" Penny cooed.

Sheldon didn't want Penny to know he was just lonely. He had been alone in the apartment with a copy of Iron Man in the DVD player and a bowl of popcorn freshly popped, but the nagging feeling in the back of his mind that something…someone was missing. He needed some kind of excuse to get her over to his apartment so he could have some company without letting his vulnerability show.

"Penny, you know I don't invite people over often and well….this is a very important experiment and I'm willing to pander to social normalities in this one instance only and bribe you with Orville Reddenbacher's Extra Buttery Movie Theatre Styled Popcorn." He stated, sounding more like a TV commercial than anything else.

"I have popcorn at home." Penny stated.

"I have unicorns!" Sheldon blurted.

"Unicorns…?" Penny stated, unsure what he was playing at.

"I'm sorry. That was misleading. I don't have any unicorns." Sheldon was a bad liar. He had panicked and said the first thing that popped in his head when he thought of blonde girls and things that may lure them out of an apartment doorway.

He closed his eyes while she stood there open mouthed, gaping at him. She smelled like vanilla oil, he thought.

His eyes flashed open and his face was stricken with shock at his own mental path.

"Uh, BYE." He said suddenly, and whizzed back into his apartment as if he was wearing his Flash costume.

Before Penny could respond, Sheldon was gone and his apartment door was shut behind him.

"Dammit!" She muttered to herself.

Dr. Sheldon Cooper had come to her door and asked for her company, and she gave him a hard time.

"Dammit Penny, when will you learn!"

She had been waiting for the day that Sheldon would come around without Leonard present. He was a theoretical physicist and all she had been dating were surfers and idiots. She wanted to give Sheldon a chance, but she was too scared of rejection. Sheldon was too smart for her. He had a boyish charm and his rare laugh and the clueless way he viewed the world outside his science bubble.

She chuckled to herself remembering the time they met, when she called him a genius, and she could practically feel him warming to her right away.

"What am I doing in the hallway?" She said out loud, "Sheldon!" She said and ran to his apartment right away.

She swung his door open, as she stopped knocking before entry since the day they met.

"I'm sorry Sheldon; I do want to hang out with you." She said to him as she noticed him curled up on his cushion of the couch in his purple poncho that he had woven with his own loom.

"Really?"

"Really, really." Penny smiled and went to sit beside him on the couch.

Sheldon smiled widely and without a word of explanation, pressed play on the DVD and passed her the bowl of popcorn, as they cuddled in together.

[Just a quickie, my first Big Bang Theory fic. Review? Let me know if you think I should continue this or just leave it. Thanks for reading!]