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"So, are we gonna get you out of here before anyone comes in?" Barney asked Robin who was still fascinated by his ocean blue eyes.
"Yeah, but people are gonna recognize me."
"I can do something about that." He told her and smiled.
He took a caps out from his bag and put it on her head and then he found a pair of sunglasses and gave them to her. "Put them on."
The glasses were clearly for boys, but she didn't care. She was used to wear boy clothes from when she was little. She put them on and said "So, you think they won't recognize me now?" He tried to hide a smile but failed. "Of course they'll recognize you if you go out like that. Put on the hoodie and look down. I'll pretend you're one of my buddies." She did as he told her to and they exited the restroom.
There were a lot of people there. Most of them women who were waiting in line for the restroom. Robin just looked down and slowly followed Barney. She looked at all the people around her. They wore nice clothes for the occasion, but when she looked at what Barney wore she couldn't help but smile. He wore sweatpants and a hoodie. It looked like he had spent the whole day in front of the TV watching movies. But she still found him quite attractive. His blue eyes was definitely the bluest eyes she'd ever seen before, and she'd always been weak for blue eyes.
"Where is she?" She heard a familiar voice behind her. Her manager past them in a hurry while talking in the phone. She guessed he talked to her mother and they both were probably freaking out right now wondering where the hell she was. Barney turned to see if she still was behind him and when she saw his eyes she just had to smile.
"So, are people looking for you now?"
"Yeah, the whole team are probably running around like wild dogs trying to find me." She answered.
He stopped right in front of the door that lead them out to the streets of New York. He looked in to her eyes. She let him because she couldn't take her eyes away from him, but the way he looked at her made her laugh.
"What are you doing?"
"Just trying to read your mind," he answered.
"Really? Is that possible?"
He didn't answer what she expected him to do, which was "yes" or "no."
Instead he said "You don't want them to find you, do you?"
She could feel her own heart pumping faster. She finally managed to look away, "People are staring." She said. They probably wondered why two guys were staring at each other the way they did. And the way he talked to her was hopefully not the way he talked to his buddies.
He opened the door "ladies first," he said with a smirk on his face. "You could never become an actor," she said and punched him on his shoulder the way some guys do before passing him.
"Auch, Scherbatsky, that was not really nice" he said and walked out to the street. She turned around and looked at him "I met you for 15 minutes ago and you think you can call me Scherbatsky already?"
"I'm sorry, I didn't think. I just don't feel like I can call you Sparkles either because you're clearly tired of that name."
Robin was just pretending to be mad, but it scared her a little how well he read her. He seemed to know her better than her own mother and he'd only met her for a couple of minutes ago.
"Just call me Robin, okay?"
"Okay."
Barney started to walk not wanting to stand at the same place just talking.
"So, what do we do?" Robin asked him.
"What we do? I wasn't expecting to have company on my way home from the concert."
"So, you're just gonna leave me here?" Robin asked. She hoped he would guide her around the city. She'd never been in New York before and after watching Home Alone 2 she was pretty sure it was much more interesting to see the city without any of her parents.
He stopped and turned around to look at her, "No, I'm not leaving you alone, but why do you want to run away from your parents?"
She started to walk again and said "None of your business."
Barney just stood there looking at her. It took her a couple of seconds before she realized he wasn't following. "Are you coming?" She yelled when she turned around.
"You're walking in the wrong direction."
Shit! She'd almost gone all the way back to where they came from. She turned around and ran back to him.
"Where do you live?"
"Staten Island."
"Okay, how do we get there?"
"We'll take a ferry." He said like if that was obvious.
"Let's go outside." She said when they were sitting on the Stated Island Ferry.
"No, Robin, it's freezing cold outside. The only times I go outside on this ferry is in the summer."
She rolled her eyes, "Come on, this is nothing. If this was Canada more than half of the people on this boat would be outside in their bikinis."
She might have exaggerated a little, but still. It wasn't dangerous to go out.
"Agh, okay."
She leaned on the railing examining the huge city. Her hair flew everywhere, but she didn't care too much. She finally felt happy. She turned around and looked at Barney who smiled at her, "Happy now?" She didn't answer, she just smiled wider than she'd ever smiled that year. He pointed at something and she turned to see what it was.
She ran over to him and gave him her camera. Please, take a picture. She leaned on the railing again smiling like an idiot while he took a photo of her and The Statue of Liberty. "I want you to join in one of the pictures."
"Ehh...No, you really don't."
"Come on, Barney"
"Agh, okay."
They ended up taking 100 selfies that day. They ate hamburgers for dinner and watched a random movie in the cinema.
"So, this is where you live?" Robin asked.
"Shh...be quiet." He said and lead her up to his room and locked the door.
"Do you really want my mom and brother to know you're here? Because people are looking for you, Robin, and my mom would tell those people that you're here if she found out."
Robin thought about it for a second. "Okay, so where do I sleep?"
She said and examined the room. Star Wars posters and movies all over the place. "Haha, really, how old are you?"
Barney had dragged a mattress out from the closet "Okay, Star Wars is really cool. Everyone that are smart enough, loves it."
She just rolled her eyes. "Okay."
Barney opened the door to his room and walked in to see Robin cuddled up in her duvet. He wasn't used to have girls in his room. Actually he'd never had a girl in his room before basides his mom and it felt weird. He slowly sat down on his bed and looked at her for a while.
"Thank you, Barney." He heard her say.
"For what?" He thought she was asleep, but he'd probably woke her up or something.
"For everything," she answered in a sleepy voice.
"Oh, it's nothing," he answered and pulled his duvet over him and lay down on his comfortable bed.
"Good night, Barney."
"Good night, Robin."
It'll get better.