"Something wrong, Amy?" Leonard quipped.
"You know how Sheldon and I are collaborating on my neuroscience project?" Amy asked.
"Yeah..." Howard said.
"Well, he wondered if we're more successful when we fight, and consequentially we've been at each others' throats all week."
"That sounds tough," Leonard sympathized.
"Since we began fighting for the sake of science, every night I find a chocolate on my pillow," Amy complained.
"How rude," Howard said insincerely.
Amy looked at him. "He's doing it because he knows I'm dieting. And, since we're making progress through our arguing, he doesn't take me seriously anymore when I get mad!"
"Alright, so you feel overlooked and ignored," Leonard guessed, and she nodded. "Well, don't read too much into it; that's how all of his relationships go."
Raj shook his head. "What's your retaliation strategy?"
"I drank the last of the Strawberry Quik, hid one of the receipts under the couch, and bleached all of his shirts."
Leonard's brows went up.
"Well, that explains why he's not at work," Howard said.
"You should've bleached them years ago," Raj cut in.
Leonard's Skype ringtone went off. "Well, speak of the devil," Leonard said, and answered the call. "Hey, buddy, what's up?"
"What's up?" Sheldon repeated. "I had to call in sick because Amy bleached all my shirts!"
"Really?" Leonard asked.
"Yes! I had to use the clothes in my emergency kit. And, I'll have to buy more clothes!"
"Wow, that's awful."
"I know! Thirty-six shirts, all gone; it'll cost me hundreds to replace them. I guess I have no choice but to communicate with Penny, and see if there's a sale someplace. This was the last straw, Leonard; I am - I just - I don't - I am so mad right now."
"What're you gonna do?"
Sheldon looked at him like he was stupid. "Talk to Penny, and see if there's a sale!"
"Right, of course."
"Worst part of it all is, this is really going to take a bite from my savings for Alcor Cryonics."
Amy put her hand on Leonard's and forced him to turn the phone so Sheldon could see her.
"Whoopsie," Sheldon said.
"Alcor Cryonics? You're going to freeze yourself?"
"No...I'm going to pay Alcor to do it for me."
"Until when?" Amy demanded.
"Until the year 3000. And thanks to you, I have to dip into my savings!"
Amy's grip tightened on Leonard's wrist. "Sheldon," she fumed, "We have been through a lot together and I have no idea how I've put up with you all these years, but I did, because that's what you do when you're in love. And if that's the best goodbye you can give me, before going to sleep for nine hundred eighty-three years; then good riddance. I hope your new life is hell." She let go of Leonard, stood and hurried from the cafeteria blinking tears from her eyes.
Sheldon hung up without another word.
"Wow," Leonard said flatly. "That freezer's gonna feel great after that explosion."
Raj pulled Amy's untouched food tray closer and began dishing the contents onto his own plate.