The Juxtapose Accentuation

Southerners Reunion

"Oh my god! You're shivering! My building is just four doors down. You need to wash up, come on!" She said, pulling him by his arm. Sheldon was, indeed, freezing. He feared that he was suffering from hypothermia and couldn't quite focus on anything else but the cold feeling dominating his body.

He didn't fight against her dragging him towards her apartment. Once inside the building, they rode the elevator to get to her floor. Luckily, her apartment was the first one on the floor and she hastily opened the door.

"I'm so sorry, Dr. Cooper! I wasn't looking and I didn't see you coming." Said Vanessa, sounding really worried.

"It's o-okay. I-I didn't s-see you coming e-either." He was still too cold and was having a hard time talking.

He was awkwardly standing by the door, not sure if he should come in or stay there. Vanessa walked towards him and pulled him by the arm inside, then closed the door. "You need to get out of those clothes," she said, walking over to a nearby cabinet and taking a white towel out.

"Here, take this. That door is the bathroom. I'll check my dresser to see if there's anything you can wear in there," she finished, pointing to a door to his left. He took the towel and just nodded.

His initial reaction upon entering the bathroom was pure awe. Despite the cold feeling, he couldn't help but admire the organization and apparent cleanliness of the room he's in. Towels, bottles, soaps, everything was arranged either by color or by size. The cold and sticky feeling, finally getting to him, he started taking his shirts off and washed his hands and shoulders with warm water from the shower. He still didn't feel clean and warm enough.

Contemplating the possibility of him catching any disease or unknown germs from a bathroom that looked immaculate and him catching a cold because of being soaked in smoothie, he gave up and took the rest of his clothes off and stepped into the shower.

Meanwhile, in the other room, Vanessa was rummaging in her closet, trying to find something that she can give the physicist so that he can change into clean clothes. While looking around, she couldn't help but think about the guy in her bathroom right now. His cheeks were pink because of the smoothie that covered him. He actually looked cute. She shook her head at that thought, remembering what happened last night. He basically rejected her even after going through a lot of trouble just to meet him. And why? Simply because she arrived late. She felt really irritated that she started yelling at him and just walked away. What a big jerk, sure, maybe he was a genius, but he was a total jerk for ignoring her efforts.

She didn't know what to expect from him when she saw the ad about his challenge, but it definitely wasn't that. Her thoughts were cut off when she finally saw a paper bag with a ribbon. She stared at the bag for almost a minute, let out a sigh and said, "Well, no one's going to use it." She picked it up and went out to check what's going on with the physicist.

"Dr. Cooper? Are you okay?" Sheldon heard her call outside. He felt so much better after cleaning up under the warm water. He cracked the door open enough to show his face. He saw her holding a blue bag that obviously looked like a gift. He looked at her with a puzzled look.

Vanessa was looking at him with the same expression. She realized that Sheldon took a shower and was a bit surprised. She thought he was just going to clean up by the sink. She was staring at his wet hair and his cheeks that looked flushed. She blinked and asked, "Did you just take a bath in there?"