“The Tutoring Experiment”

Joules was going to be damned if she wasn't going to get another chance to get a tutoring session with Leonard. She was determined to get him alone with her. Every time he looked at her in class he almost blushed. He hadn’t called on her for a question in a month. He would just quietly hand their papers, tests, and worksheets back and wouldn't say a word to her. “Maybe it has to do with the fact that I found my jacket hanging on my door knob...” she stopped and thought about it a minute. “Oh! My! God! He heard me! No wonder he doesn't want to tutor me anymore!” She flopped her head upon the desk.

 

Just at that moment Leonard walked into the classroom. He quickly made his way up to the desk, putting his things upon it. He rustled through the papers and started handing back last weeks quiz. “Tutoring lessons! Pah! I knew she didn't need them!” He said to himself for the thousandth time and handed Joules her paper back.

 

Joules found upon the paper a big red A, as usual. As she searched through the pages and found a note:

 

 

“Joules,

 

I know you have a crush on me. I heard you a month or so ago. I know that

You may think you love me, but its probably nothing more than your hormones

getting the best of you. I'm not that wonderful, plus Sheldon is a pain to put up

with, just let the hormones pass through your system and we'll talk about it

another time.

 

 

Leonard”

 

 

Joules read through the letter six more times. “Hormones! He thinks this is about hormones! Fuck that, its not about hormones, its about, sex yes, sex defiantly, but hormones!? I'm going to give him a piece of mind mind after class. And the Sheldon thing – what does he have anything to do with it?” She took the test and gingerly put it in her folder with the rest. Sitting to be read again when she talked to Leonard later after class. For now, she'd have to put it aside and have to really concentrate on taking notes if she wanted to pass this class, even though she seemed a natural for physics.

 

The class passed slowly, even though Leonard was putting them through more notes than usual that day. It drug on like molasses in the winter time. Each second on the clock seemed like an eternity, and when the time would move forward the sound, sounded like a bomb going off in her head. TICK, TOCK, TICK, TOCK. “Damn, you Leonard, for being such a cute, yet dumb nerdy, physics nerd.” She thought. Just as she thought that it was never going to happen, Leonard looked up at the clock, put down his dry erase marker and announced.

“Well guys, that's all we have time for today, Class dismissed.”

 

He then started gathering up his books, at that point in time, Joules made a break for it, and dashed to the corridor where his office was, hiding just around the corner keeping an eye out for him to see when he'd go into his office. She'd wait until she was sure he'd be too busy to come and answer the door himself. She was thankful for once in her life that the offices at CalTech didn't have windows in the office doors.

 

About ten to fifteen minutes later he entered his office. Joules checked her watch “Okay, good, he should be good and into his work in about half an hour. I'll just sit here and wait and do my homework for a half an hour, then I'll go and knock on his office door.” Joules made herself comfortable on the floor and started doing her homework about a half hour later, she felt the wall beneath her back shift, uh oh, it wasn't a wall... it was a door!

 

Joules fell backwards, and landed on the feet of a gorgeous Indian man. His skin was a nice copper, russet like tone, his hair black, but his brown eyes were huge with surprise! Joules jumped up gathering her things and apologized. The young Indian man, just nodded and watched her hurry off. “What'ta strange young lady!” He thought, Rajesh usually didn't speak to women, unless he was drunk, or on social anxiety meds.

 

“Poor guy, he looked so scared...” She looked behind her back, for a second. Then looked for Leonard’s office door. Finding it she went up to it and took a deep breath, unbuttoned a few buttons on her blouse, pushed up the 'girls,' found her lip gloss, put on a coat and fluffed her hair. “Okay, you can do this! Its now or never!” She held her breath and knocked on the door. Knock. Knock. Knock.

 

“Come in, I'm working on something, so I'll be right with you as soon as I figure his algorithm out.” came Leonard’s voice from the other side of the door. Joules slowly made her way inside. Opening the door slowly, and as quietly as she could, and then shutting it as quietly as she could. She then sat down at one of the chairs in front of his desk, situated herself, so 'the girls' were the first thing other than her face, he'd see and quietly waited for him to finish.

If at first you don't succeed...