Over there.
Leonard was calling Adam.
"Weren't you four on a double date tonight? How do you have time to call me?"
Adam was surprised to receive the call. "Did it not go well?"
"It went extremely well."
Leonard complained, "We even proved Einstein wrong while we were at it. When speed gets infinitely close to the speed of light, time doesn't slow down. What truly makes time slow down infinitely is staying around Howard and Bernadette."
"That bad?"
Adam laughed.
"You have no idea."
Leonard complained.
"So you escaped by phone?"
Adam teased, "But you left Penny there alone. Aren't you afraid you won't complete your nightly prayers?"
"..."
Hearing the suggestive joke, Leonard immediately remembered the real reason for his call. He looked conflicted. "Adam, I want to ask you something..."
"Go ahead. What is there between us that you can't say?"
Adam asked in surprise.
"Back then, did you really only seek me out because you saw the book my mother wrote?"
Leonard asked.
"Yeah."
Adam did not hesitate.
He had indeed deliberately sought Leonard out back then to gain Wisdom Points.
"Then why were you so good to me?"
Leonard hesitated. "Not only did you treat me as a friend, you even stood up for me."
"Do you even need to ask?"
Adam vaguely guessed what this was about and smiled. "Have you forgotten how miserable you were back then? We started talking through the lockers before we even met.
"You told me all about being bullied and picked on, said being stuffed into such a tiny locker was nothing at all.
"In my impression, aside from the owner of Xiaoqiang, nobody had it worse than you!
"It was enough to make anyone who heard it sad and anyone who listened weep.
"Tell me, if anyone