After Chandler changed his clothes and left for work that morning, Joey checked in on Monica and Rachel next door, and the girls had just finished breakfast with Richard and Ross, who had clearly had spent the night at the apartment.

They all asked Joey whether he was feeling better about getting fired, and he said with a smile, "Definitely!" Then he told them excitedly that he was going to move back in with Chandler as soon as Eddie packed and moved out.

"Oh, that's so great! We missed you."

"Yeah, we'd love to have you back here, Joey."

He hugged them all and watched them leave for work too, then he returned to his uptown apartment, since he no longer had a job of his own. Like Chandler wanted him to, Joey had the mirror taken down from his bedroom ceiling and also returned some of his various sculptures to the stores. Along the way, he bought a "jaunty" cap from a street vendor, to cheer himself up about his unemployment and his loss of furniture.

Then he went to see his agent Estelle about getting some work. She wasn't mad at Joey for getting fired from Days of Our Lives, but she offered him a measly audition for the role of a cab driver, which seemed like such a step down from being Dr. Drake Ramoray. Joey had too much pride to accept that, so he left and went home to pack.

That evening, Chandler came home to Joey's apartment, preferring to stay there until Eddie moved out of the other apartment. He greeted Joey with a warm kiss and a laugh. "Hey, honey! I'm home."

"Hey, Chandler." Joey smiled and pulled him into the now spacious, uncluttered living room. "So I got rid of some of the stuff you didn't like."

"Oh, good! Yeah, that looks much better. Did you remember to get rid of the mirror on the ceiling too?"

"Yeah, I did. So you wanna go see?" He put his arm around Chandler flirtatiously.

"Sure."

So they went into Joey's room and playfully made out on the bed together, until Chandler stopped them after a while and suggested that they order some dinner.

"Okay. I'll call the pizza place and get us a Joey special."

"Good." Chandler changed out of his suit and borrowed some of Joey's casual clothes for now. "So, did Estelle get you any new auditions yet?"

Joey pouted and told him about the two-line cab driver part. "Can you believe that? I was Dr. Drake Ramoray!"

"Oh, that's too bad, Joe," Chandler kissed him supportively. "Well, you'll probably get another big break soon." Even if Joey didn't and stayed unemployed for a while, Chandler felt happy and generous enough to support Joey indefinitely. He just wanted Eddie to be gone, and Joey to be back for good.

While they fooled around in bed that night, Chandler found the satin sheets to be rather slippery, and he laughed, mentioning to Joey that his taste in furniture and art was similar to Janice's fashion sense.

"What?" Joey was shocked and stopped kissing him.

Chandler shrugged and gestured to all the decorations in the bedroom. "You know, she wore a lot of leopard print and bright colors like this stuff. And this furry pillow here reminds me of one of her coats."

"Whoa!" Joey sat back with wide eyes and felt quite disturbed by that fact.

Chandler kissed him reassuringly. "What? I didn't mean anything by that, Joe. You just have a quirk that reminds me a little of Janice, that's all. I mean, Eddie laughs a little bit like her, but he's crazy, and I definitely don't wanna start sleeping with him!"

Joey kissed Chandler again, but he spoke pensively, "Well, maybe... maybe I should get rid of more of my stuff." He decided that animal prints and velvet didn't appeal to him anymore.

"Okay." Chandler was pleased that Joey was open to redecorating. Maybe by the time that he moved back in with Chandler, this sexed-up bedroom would be a lot tamer.

They kissed some more and playfully explored each other under the covers. The bruises on Chandler's legs and feet were still sensitive to touch while they healed, so Joey gently kissed them. "Hey, when did you lose this part of your pinky toe?" he asked curiously.

Chandler grimaced and explained about a long ago Thanksgiving when Monica had accidentally sliced off his toe. "I was Sir Limps-a-Lot for a year, and I almost stopped being friends with Ross after that."

"Aw!" Joey kissed him comfortingly, then tickled his toes teasingly.

"Hey!" Chandler yanked his feet back and tackled Joey in return.

So they mercilessly tickled each other, laughing and rolling around together until they were breathless. Then they stopped, met each other's eyes, and got very quiet and serious. Joey slid his hand inside Chandler's shirt and caressed his third nipple again. Chandler moaned and slipped his tongue into Joey's mouth.

In the morning, when they woke up in bed together, they were naked and lying close together. Chandler was much less timid now, and when Joey suggested that they take a shower together, he eagerly agreed. So they washed and rinsed each other more times than was necessary, then Chandler hurried to get dressed for work.

Joey kissed him goodbye, and said that he could hardly wait for Eddie to be gone this afternoon, because then he could start moving back home.

Joey carefully went through his furniture that day, eliminating anything that seemed too Janice-like from his apartment and also packing up items that he intended to keep and take with him back to Chandler's place.

Ross came over to visit Joey for lunch, and he complained about the women all reading some female empowerment book called Be Your Own Windkeeper. Then he asked, "Hey, did you get any new auditions yet?"

"Nah." Joey told him about the cab driver part, but Ross said that he should probably go to the audition.

"I mean it took you what, 10 years to get that job. Who knows how long it's gonna be till you get another one just as good?"

Joey didn't like Ross's advice, and he got mad, kicking him out for not being supportive enough.

"Fine!" Ross left and went back to the museum.

Later, when Chandler came back from work, he called out again, "Hey, honey, I'm home!"

"Hey!" Joey kissed him and smiled.

"I brought up your mail from downstairs. You should probably tell the post office to start redirecting your mail back to our old apartment."

"Oh yeah," Joey nodded and sat down as he began looking through his mail. "Oh-oh."

"What?" Chandler asked.

Joey showed him his Visa bill. "Envelope one of two."

When they opened and read through the credit card bill together, they were shocked by how much money Joey had spent.

"Oh my God!" Chandler gasped in horror at all the charges listed. "That's how much all your sculptures and stuff cost? How could so much crap cost so much?"

Joey pouted. "The guy at the store said they suited me. He spoke with an accent, and I was all confused. Hey, wait, I returned some of this stuff! It shouldn't be that much!"

"Well they probably mailed you this bill before you returned the stuff yesterday. Maybe we can call the credit card company and see if they have an updated bill yet."

"Okay." Joey waited as Chandler grabbed the phone and dialed. "Oh, I was gonna return some more stuff today too. All that stuff over there." He pointed to the separated cluster of Janice-like items.

"Oh, good, good." Chandler was relieved that Joey had done more trimming of the excess. "Um, do you still have the receipts for that stuff, so we can know where it all came from, and subtract it from your bill too?"

Joey went to look for his receipts while Chandler spoke to the credit card company. After much deliberation and calculations, they and the customer service rep figured out that Joey still owed a huge amount even without the items that he'd returned or intended to return. "Um, okay. Thanks." Chandler hung up finally and groaned, feeling a headache coming on.

Joey felt bad and apologized. "I'm sorry, Chandler. I didn't know that I spent so much, and I-I still had my Drake Ramoray gig back then, you know, and I thought it was gonna last a long time. I'm sorry." He hugged Chandler and begged for his forgiveness.

Chandler sighed and tried to be understanding. "I know, Joe. I guess it's a little bit my fault, too, for always paying your bills and sheltering you from how much stuff costs."

"Oh, man! If only I hadn't given that stupid interview and got fired! I'm so stupid!"

Chandler said, "To be honest, unless you were making about a million dollars an episode, I don't think it would have helped much. Damn, and besides this bill, there's the rent on this apartment too."

"I'm sorry! I never should have moved out. Never, never!"

Chandler kissed him and said that they needed to return a lot more stuff to the stores, maybe even everything. "We might need to sublet this apartment too. How long of a lease did you sign?"

Joey shrugged. "I don't know. I think I'm still just covering what's left of the last guy's lease, now that he moved to that other place."

"Oh, okay. Then I think we can transfer it over to somebody else without too much trouble. Um, do you know any other rich actors who might want this apartment?"

Joey shook his head, but then he got an idea. "Hey, maybe Rachel's mom might want this place, since she's getting divorced from Rachel's dad and all. Doesn't she want to live in the city, like Rachel?"

"Oh, yeah! And she could probably afford this place, depending on how much she gets from Dr. Green in the divorce settlement. Even if it's not half, they're filthy rich anyway. Yeah, we should go ask Rachel, and hope that Mrs. Green can move in quick."

So they went to go see their friends back in Greenwich Village, and after convincing Rachel that her mother wouldn't be too close, nor annoyingly drop by all the time, they got her to agree to recommend the place to her mother.

Then Joey and Chandler went across the hall to see if Eddie had moved out yet, but to their shock, they discovered that Eddie was still hanging out and dehydrating fruit with a machine.

"Eddie, what are you still doing here?" Joey asked.

"Yeah, aren't you forgetting something?" Chandler asked, wondering why none of Eddie's stuff was even packed to move out.

"Oh, look, look! I got us a new goldfish." Eddie pointed to the fish tank at a real goldfish swimming in the water. "He's a lot feistier than the last one."

"Maybe because the last one was made by Pepperidge Farm!" Chandler snapped.

Eddie kept grinning and talked excitedly about his fruit drying machine.

Chandler interrupted. "I thought we had a deal, Eddie. I thought by the time I came home today, you..."

Eddie laughed maniacally and held up a tiny, dried up fruit. "You know what that is?"

"Your last roommate's kidney?"

"That's a tomato. This one definitely goes in the display." Eddie cackled again and took his tiny tomato to his freaky display shelf in his room.

Joey turned to Chandler and couldn't understand what was going on. "What the hell? Did he not find a new place to move to? Wasn't he going to his brother's basement?"

"I think he doesn't even know that he's supposed to move out. Like when he was furious at me about his ex-girlfriend Tilly and his goldfish Buddy, but then he forgot all about it."

Eddie suddenly returned to the living room and came up behind Joey, making him jump.

"Ahhh!"

Eddie spoke enthusiastically, "Hey man, check it out! I got some great stuff to dehydrate here. I got some grapes, some apricots, and I thought it would be really cool to see what happens with these water balloons."

"All right, that's enough!" Joey confronted him sternly. "Eddie, listen, you gotta get out of here."

"What?" Eddie put down his box of fruit and balloons.

"You gotta move out. I'm moving back in and you gotta move out, okay? I don't care where you go, but just go."

"Hey, buddy!" Eddie got mad. "This is none of your business, okay? Chandler's my roommate, not you, and you can't kick me out. Right, pal?" He put his arm around Chandler, who was visibly freaked out.

Clearly Eddie had no recollection of Chandler asking him to leave the other day, so Chandler quickly pulled away from him and repeated that he wanted Eddie to move out.

Eddie felt shocked and betrayed, remarking that this was kind of out of the blue.

"It's not out of the blue. It's smack dab in the middle of the blue!"

"All right, all right!" Eddie backed off and agreed to go. "Fine. Someone will be back for my stuff." He then left the apartment, but Joey and Chandler had hardly sighed with relief when Eddie came back in. "But if you think for one second I'm leaving you alone with my fish, you're insane, Jack!"

Joey offered to help him with the tank, but Eddie responded, "No help required, Chico!" and reached into the water to grab the fish and stuff it into his pocket. Then he stormed out again.

"Whoa! That guy's nuts."

"Yeah. What do you say, we help him get a head start on packing?"

"Sure."

So together they started to pack up a lot of Eddie's stuff in boxes. They only did the stuff in the living room before they were tired out and decided to leave the rest to whomever Eddie sent back for his belongings.

Then Joey and Chandler went uptown again to have another romantic night at Casa de Joey. They would have to return most of the furniture and sculptures to the store tomorrow, and they hoped that by tomorrow night, Eddie would be gone. At least, they hoped so.