"Hey," he said. "Missy told you she was your sister, right?"
Sheldon screwed his face. "Missy?"
"Did you forget again?" Raj asked sympathetically.
"No, it's just a weird name." Sheldon returned his gaze to the book and Raj looked around the room, noticing he had gotten rid of everything that had defined him as who he had been since before they met. "Wow, it sure is different in here," Raj stated.
"Why shouldn't it be? I can't imagine liking all the stuff I saw before."
"Okay, well...I just wanted to tell you that Missy and I have made a date. And if we fall in love and get married, you and I will be brothers-in-law."
Sheldon looked up at him but was silent.
Raj ducked out of the bedroom and closed the door. Leonard met him in the hall.
"So? How'd it go?" Leonard asked.
Raj shook his head. "I think the thought scares me more than it scares him."
"That's because you HAVE your memory," Leonard replied, and the pair went into the kitchen. "Where did Howard run off to?"
"He went home with Bernadette because her parents dropped by," he answered.
"That's nice," Leonard said.
"It is."
"But not for you," Leonard added.
Raj gave him an odd glance.
"It must suck, knowing the girl you once loved has married your best friend."
"I don't love her now." Raj sat. "I have Missy."
"No, you have a date with Missy. That could still fall through and then what? You'd be pining over two girls, and neither of them would want you."
Raj made a face. "Dude, I'm a visitor in your home. Shouldn't you treat me as a guest?"
"Just getting my revenge on you from that night in the hospital." Leonard grinned and sat beside him. "You know, I'm lucky that way. It might've taken a long time, and a few nasty turns; but I ended up with Penny." He began shuffling a deck of cards. "And this is the best part, she's considering letting me be her roommate."
"You asked her? That's backwards," Raj said, as he accepted the cards Leonard offered him.
"Were you waiting for her to ask me? That wasn't going to happen, I'm whipped! You have a nine?"
Raj stared.
"Yes, I'm admitting it. She has me wrapped around her pinky."
Raj smiled, shaking his head.
"Laugh all you want! But Missy will have you whipped one day."
"I have my own mind! Go fish."
"Yes, you do - for the moment. Just wait." Leonard reached into the small stack on the table.
"I'm not going to be her puppet. Three."
"Well, then, you're not going to be her boyfriend! Nerds like us need to be whipped; that's how we get girls." Leonard tossed him a three.
"Maybe that's how you get girls. But I want a girl who lets me think for myself; and I think Missy would do that. Do you have a six?"
"Go fish. They're all sisters; once they get the leverage, they control us. And sex is how. They'd hold us off until we do what they want."
"Maybe your Penny is like that. Missy is different. Her mother is a Bible enthusiast."
"Yes, but Missy's brother is an evolutionist."
"So?" Raj asked. "He didn't raise her."
"Raj, when a woman looks that good, she doesn't have low self-esteem. She wants it, she gets it."
"I don't have low self-esteem either; I'm smart."
"Yes, you are...but you don't have boobs."
"Missy wouldn't date someone with boobs! If she did, I wouldn't have gotten a date."
"Raj - " Leonard stopped and looked up at his friend.
"What?" Raj asked unfeelingly.
Leonard dropped the topic. "Do you have a four?"
Raj shook his head and Leonard dipped into the cards on the table. Then, breaking the awkward silence, Sheldon walked unfalteringly through the living room. He opened the door and let himself out; closing the door rather loudly behind him.
Leonard looked back at his cards. "There's a guy who never has to worry."