The memories keep flooding back, repeating itself over and over in his mind. Leonard just couldn't believe that his relationship with Penny ended just like that and that she just wanted to be friends with him. The pain of losing her over and over again was just getting too much to handle. Ever since that night when they had the conversation while watching Sheldon sleep kept replaying in his head.

He knew that it was over but somehow deep in his heart he wanted the relationship to continue, but he just knew that it was just not meant to be. The only way to get over his depression and to avoid annoying Sheldon whenever he was in his moods was to move away for a while , to get away from everything, away from her. He went over to Sheldon's room and straight away opened the door without knocking.

"Sheldon wake up, we need to talk"

Sheldon woke up and saw Leonard at his doorway and thought to himself "Oh god, he's in one of his moods already, I'm surprised that he didn't come to me the night after Penny brought me to Disneyworld"

"Sheldon are you listening to me?" said Leonard as he sat down at the edge of Sheldon's bed. Oh god this must be serious, he's sitting on the bed "Sheldon, i think that i may need to move away for a while" Sheldon just blinked at him, not fully understanding what Leonard had meant. Leonard repeated himself again upon seeing the blank face of his genius friend. It took him a few seconds to register what Leonard had said.

"Well if you are going to move in with Koothrapali or Wolowitz, I don't think that's moving away is it, they are going to see Penny when they're here, so that beats the point of moving away isn't it wait I meant her" Sheldon deduced as he got up out of bed. "Also if I might put in my two cents" Sheldon chuckled as he remembered the Simpsons using the phrase "it is because of Penny that you are moving away?" Leonard began to open his mouth in response; Sheldon raised his hand "That was a rhetorical question Leonard, Bazinga"

Leonard looked in amazement as Sheldon said that "you are enjoying this aren't you?" Sheldon looked Leonard in the eyes and chuckled.

"Seriously Sheldon, i am moving away, I've already found an apartment in England and I'm moving out tomorrow" Leonard said to Sheldon as they moved away from Sheldon's Room to the Living Room. Leonard sat down on the couch while watching Sheldon take out the milk from the fridge. "England as in New England or England over the Pond?" asked Sheldon as he poured the milk in to his cup and set it in the Microwave.

"England over the Pond" Leonard stated annoyingly at Sheldon as he made his way to his usual spot on the couch. At that moment Leonard remembered the scene where Penny has explained to Bernadette why she couldn't sit there. "God she looked so cute and intelligent when she said that...well not that she wasn't intelligent but wow..." At that same moment Sheldon was asking Leonard a question and was quite obviously annoyed that Leonard wasn't listening to him.

"No wonder you're just a physicist, you just can't seem to focus on one thing" and Leonard was brought back from his thought and was blubbering some words to him. Sheldon repeated the question "have you seriously given some thought to this? I mean it is moving away, I mean far away" Leonard was touched when he heard this; it was if Sheldon the Robot actually cared that him moving away. Leonard spoke what he thought of Sheldon, and Sheldon looked at him for a while and then spoke "well I mean if you are moving away then I would have to ask Koothrapali or Wolowitz to move in here with me, if not whose going to send me to work, the comic book store, certainly wouldn't be Penny, remembered the last time? She left me by the road" Sheldon shuddered as he thought of that event.

"I take it back; he was just asking that so that he could find a replacement, what a douche" Leonard thought to himself as he saw Sheldon shudder at the thought when Penny had left him by the road. Then silence came as both of them we're deep in thought. This was because they didn't know what to say, Sheldon being a monkey to social events and Leonard who knew that whatever he said will be countered by Sheldon with some lame excuse.

After a few minutes

Leonard decided to pack his things so that he could leave early in the morning when she was still asleep. Sheldon looked up to him "You really are leaving Leonard? I thought that you would have just stayed and that the problem will be solved over the week and you would be having coitus with Penny again" Leonard raised his eyebrow at him "you really think that I'll be having coitus with Penny after what happened?" It took several moments before Sheldon replied "was that sarcasm? Or a rhetorical question" Leonard just waved his hands in the air in defeat and went to his room to pack.

Sheldon still sitting down "Drats, I should have said sarcasm damn this social thingy" and sighed in defeat, he stood up and decided that sleep would be the best option now. Morning came and Sheldon woke up "What a weird dream, I swore that I dreamt about Leonard saying to me that he was leaving" deducing that it was a dream and that he must have eaten too much Thai food, Sheldon got up and made his way to the kitchen to make himself a bowl of cheerio's. Just about when Sheldon was putting the spoon of Cheerio's in to his mouth there was a knock on the door. Sheldon annoyed that someone was at the door at this time of morning decided to ignore it and continued back to eating his bowl of cheerio's. Just as he was putting the second spoonful of cheerio's, the apartment door flew open revealing Penny.

"I knew you were awake, why didn't you open the door?" Penny said angrily to the innocent looking Sheldon with his bowl of cheerio's

"Why Penny good morning, what are you doing here at this time? Certainly I thought today was your day off and that you would wake in about, another 5 more hours?" Sheldon said ignoring what Penny had said earlier. Penny stared at him and ignored the snide remark.

"Where's Leonard, we need to talk" Penny looked over into the hallway hoping to see Leonard come out his room. Sheldon advised Penny to make Coffee and sit herself down on the couch, standing there in the middle of the doorway wouldn't be much help or make a difference to whether it will help Leonard wake up faster. Penny agreed with what Sheldon said but it was just to shut him up, knowing him, he'll come up with some excuse or reason why Leonard still isn't up.

Twenty minutes pass, Sheldon Finishing of his bowl of cheerio's along with the running credits of Doctor Who, Leonard still wasn't out. Penny sitting there fidgeting ever since she sat there annoyed Sheldon. "Oh for god sakes stop fidgeting woman" with that Sheldon stood up and walked over to Leonard's room, Penny smiling that it worked.

*Knock Knock* Leonard *Knock Knock* Leonard *Knock Knock* Leonard

"Odd, there's no response, usually there would be or a snide remark coming from Leonard" Deciding that Leonard must be in one of those sleep like logs metaphor, he opened the door.

Penny still sitting there, fidgeting; "Leonard...I'm sorry I didn't mean all those things I said and I certainly didn't mean to stay as friends and for us to break up, I have always wanted us to be more than friends, you mean a lot to me and there is no way I could ever let you go, you are more a man than all the men I've dated before, you were always there when I needed someone..You were there when times got rough...I cant bear losing you, I've already known the feeling of losing you when you went to the North Pole, I'm sorry that I couldn't say the three words you said to me that night because I was afraid, afraid that I'd make the same mistake but now I know that this time its different and I now have the courage to say it and I mean it.. I love you Leonard...my little homunculus"

Penny still deep in her thoughts didn't notice that Sheldon sat back in his usual spot until Sheldon made some weird sounds. "Oh Sheldon you're back, where's Leonard?' looking at the hallway in anticipation that Leonard will be out in a moment.

"That's the thing Penny, Leonard isn't there in his room. His room is empty" as Sheldon finished his sentence, it took a few minutes before she could register what he had said, Penny couldn't believe what he was saying, she dropped the mug she held in her hands in shock, "Leonard's Mug of i love physics" and saw it shatter when it hit the ground, just like their relationship.