Chapter 5
The next morning Leo woke up to find herself laying on the living room floor of her friend Penny's. Her memories from last night were all a blur but just as she made a move to sit up her body was stopped halfway by a pair of lanky arms gently wrapped around her stomach. Seeing this Leo suddenly remembered what had happened last night: her and Sheldon got together. As she laid back down she turned her head to see her boyfriend's sleeping form laying right next to her. Leo leaned over and kissed him which woke him up.
" Good morning Sheldon.", Leo said with a smile as she stared into his blue eyes.
" Good morning Leo.", Sheldon said returning a smile back.
" How did you sleep?", Leo asked.
" I slept great. You?", Sheldon asked.
" Me too.", Leo said.
" Good.", Sheldon said.
" I love you.", Leo whispered in Sheldon's ear with a smile.
" I love you too.", Sheldon whispered back returning a smile. The two of them shared another kiss with each other but were interrupted when they heard Penny walk into the room.
" Morning Penny.", Leo said as her and Sheldon got up from the floor. Penny gasped and said, " Oh my god! Leo, Sheldon, what are you two still doing here?! I thought you went home last night!" She nearly dropped her coffee mug when she said that.
" Oh sorry about that. We must have passed out on the floor last night and forgot everybody left.", Leo said gently slinking her arm around Sheldon's. Normally Sheldon would've pulled away but surprisingly this time he didn't.
" It's ok, just warn a girl next time if that should happen again.", Penny said.
" Of course.", Leo said.
" You seem to be in a better mood today.", Sheldon said to Penny.
" Yeah about that, I'm really sorry for yelling last night at you guys. More so Leo.", Penny said.
" No no, it's ok. You don't have to apologize Penny.", Leo said.
" Yeah I do. I was being a real b**** about something I didn't know the full truth about and I'm really sorry.", Penny said.
" Well I didn't really plan on it, it just sort of happened and therefore I'm sorry for making you think I was trying to hurt Amy. I would never do that to a friend.", Leo said.
" I realize that now. Look can we forget about this and continue to be friends?", Penny asked.
" Sure. Of course.", Leo said with a smile. Penny smiled back.
" So, you and Dr. Whack-a-doodle? Bet you didn't expect that to happen.", Penny said.
" I honestly didn't but I guess things happen for a reason don't they?", Leo asked.
" Totally.", Penny agreed.
" So how's Amy feeling?", Leo asked.
" Hurt but surprisingly mostly happy for you.", Penny said.
" Well that's good that I didn't sever our friendship. That would be the last thing that I would want to do.", Leo said.
Stand up stand up, we shall not be moved! Except by a child with no socks and shoes! If you got more to give than you got to prove, put your hands up and I'll copy you!
" Your cell phone's ringing Leo.", Penny said.
" Oh it's my mom. Hi Mom.", Leo said before she answered the phone.
" Leo! How are you sweetheart?!", Mrs. Fordyce answered.
" I'm good, I just woke up. How are you?", Leo asked as she sat down on the couch.
" Oh I'm good except your brother Junior decided to play an immature prank on me this morning by dumping a half gallon tub of itching powder on me to which I did not appreciate.", Mrs. Fordyce said.
" Really Mom?! Well tell my brother Junior he's a pig head for doing that to you!", Leo said.
" Alright I will.", Mrs. Fordyce said.
" Who is Junior?", Sheldon added in the background.
" Sheldon butt out for a second! I'm talking to my mother!", Leo exclaimed at her boyfriend with her phone a few inches away from her ear.
" Who's Sheldon?", Mrs. Fordyce asked.
" He's my new boyfriend Mom.", Leo said.
" New boyfriend?! Oh honey that's wonderful!", Mrs. Fordyce exclaimed.
" Yeah but it's really no big deal Mom. We just got together last night.", Leo said.
" Honey this is a huge deal! I'm going to go tell your father!", Mrs. Fordyce exclaimed.
" No mom don't...!", Leo started to say but before she could get her words out she could already hear her mother's excited voice screaming, " Robert!" in the background over the phone. She told him what was going on.
" What the hambones Leo?! What's this about a new boyfriend your mother's telling me about?!", Mr. Fordyce exclaimed.
" Dad it's really not a big deal. We just got together last night.", Leo said.
" So, Sheldon eh?", Mr. Fordyce asked.
" Yeah Dad. Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper.", Leo said.
" Oh so he's got a Ph. D like you?", Mr. Fordyce asked.
" He has 2 and he's a theoretical physicist like me. His IQ is 2 points higher than mine.", Leo said.
" Really?!", Mr. and Mrs. Fordyce shockingly asked.
" Yeah. I was really shocked by that when I first met him and his roommate.", Leo said.
" Leo that's just great! Have you two talked about your work together?!", Mr. Fordyce asked.
" Yeah at least a few times and we're both really interested in each other's work.", Leo said.
" Well that's good. So did anything interesting happen last night?", Mr. Fordyce asked.
" It's probably best if you didn't know Dad because you'll probably end up coming out here to kick some guy's a**.", Leo said.
" Was someone messing with you Leo?", Mr. Fordyce asked.
" Um yeah you could say that although it was more so sexual harassment.", Leo said.
" What?! I want a name Leo! Who was he?!", Mr. Fordyce shouted.
" Wil Wheaton but calm down Dad! The police just took him to jail last night and I'm getting a restraining order issued against him later on today!", Leo said.
" Well good. I want that guy to stay away from you. I don't want some perverted punk hurting my daughter.", Mr. Fordyce said.
" Dad I'm not your only daughter to worry about. You have Amanda and Kennedy too.", Leo said.
" I know that but you're the youngest out of your two sisters and three brothers.", Mr. Fordyce said.
" Oh yes you told me that a thousand times Dad! You don't need to repeat it!", Leo exclaimed. It was true that she was the youngest of the 6 Fordyce children but of course she didn't mind it sometimes. Stephen and Garrett were decent older brothers to her but they did have their immature moments at times. Junior, however, was like a wild tornado causing destruction and mayhem everywhere he went. Amanda was kind of rude with a bit of sass but she did have a soft side which she rarely showed. And Kennedy, well, she was just all out of whack.
" Hey Dad I got to go now. I'll talk to you and Mom later. Bye.", Leo said.
" Bye Leo.", Mr. Fordyce said as father and daughter hung up. Sheldon just stared at her.
" What?!", Leo asked.
" What do you mean what?! You just had to tell your father what happened the night before?!", Sheldon asked.
" Well he asked about it! What was I supposed to say to him?!", Leo asked throwing her hands in the air. Sheldon went into a crazy complicated answer but Leo interrupted him by exclaiming, " I'm not going to lie to my dad Sheldon! Shut up!" before walking away out of Penny's apartment slamming the door behind her.
" Smooth.", Penny sarcastically said.
" Well I wouldn't say that Penny.", Sheldon said.
" Sheldon I was being sarcastic.", Penny said.
" Oh dear Lord!", Sheldon exclaimed before running off after his new girlfriend Leo. Later that day, Leo filed for a restraining order against Wil Wheaton. She didn't appreciate what he did to her last night and wanted to see to it that he would never do it again. He could just rot in prison for all she cared.
2 days later as Leo was working in her office she was suddenly interrupted by her friends and her boyfriend walking in on her.
" Uh, hi guys! What are you doing in my office?!", Leo asked as she looked up from her board.
" We just thought we would come by and say hi.", Leonard said.
" Oh, well, hi.", Leo said with a smile. But the second after she said that, the sounds of metallic hammering were heard coming from outside.
" What the hell was that?!", Howard asked.
" I don't know Wolowitz! I'll go look!", Leo said as she walked over to the window and briefly peeked out.
" Are you freaking kidding me?!", Leo exclaimed.
" What is it Leo?!", Sheldon exclaimed.
" Look what they're putting up in a field behind the university a few feet away!", Leo exclaimed as she pulled back the curtain pointing outside. The guys just stared out the window and gasped at what they saw. There in a field set back a few feet from the building in all its glory was Verizon cell tower workers putting up a 100 foot tall cell tower disguised as a DNA structure.
" What the frick frack?!", Howard exclaimed.
" Oh Lord!", Sheldon exclaimed.
" This is ridiculous!", Leo exclaimed before she threw open the window and stuck her head out shouting, "Yo jerkfaces, over here!"
" Who us?!", one worker shot back as he pointed at himself.
" Yes you! What do you and your little buddies think you're doing over there?!", Leo shouted.
" What does it look like to you ma'am?! We're putting up a cell tower here!", the worker shouted back.
" Ok and here's a question, did you guys take a handful of idiot pills by any chance?!", Leo shouted.
" No! What are you talking about?!", the worker shot back at Leo.
" This is a science university and that doesn't belong there! That tower is way too close to this building!", Leo shouted as she pointed at the tower.
" So it's not a big deal!", the worker shot back.
" Um hello it's a huge deal! We don't need harmful levels of radiation penetrating through the walls of our offices here! There's been millions of studies out there that have showed that too much radiation exposure can cause cancer! Use your head dimwit!", Leo shouted.
" Look miss, I don't know who you think you are but I don't appreciate you telling me how to do my job ok!", the worker shouted.
" My name is Dr. Leo Fordyce!", Leo shouted.
" Oh well excuse me for not recognizing a medical doctor!", the worker shot back.
" I'm a math doctor you idiot! I'm a theoretical physicist!", Leo shouted.
" Look can you just stop yelling at us and let us finish our job Dr. Fordyce?!", the worker rudely shouted.
" No! Get this tower out of here before I send my boyfriend Dr. Cooper out there to bi**h at you!", Leo shouted.
" Oh great, another doctor!", the worker sarcastically exclaimed.
" Excuse me but that was very offensive! You need to take that back sir!", Sheldon shouted.
" Yeah cut the sarcasm and get this piece of sh*t out of here!", Leo shouted.
" Dr. Fordyce you need to stop harassing us or we'll call the police on you and Dr. Cooper!", the worker shouted at her. The two doctors gasped in shock.
" Well that's a fine how do you do!", Sheldon shouted.
" Yeah if anything we should call the police on you idiots! You're the ones harassing us!", Leo shouted.
" No you two are harassing us!", the worker shot back.
" Really buddy?! You want to argue with two theoretical physicists?! Well you got another thing coming, Dr. Cooper and I are coming out there!", Leo shouted out the window before shutting it.
" Come on Sheldon let's go give these idiots a piece of our minds!", Leo exclaimed as she stormed out the door of her office.
" Well alright.", Sheldon said as he followed her. They walked outside to continue the fight with the cell tower worker. Eventually this argument created so much of a disturbance that President Seibert and Dr. Gablehauser sent the two of them home as well as Leonard, Howard, and Raj even though they didn't do anything.
That's a wrap for chapter 5! What do you think will happen in chapter 6?! Will they continue to fight this issue or will they give up entirely?! Let me know in the comments. To be continued…