Ted pulled over a chair. Tracey was confused about the mention of Chicago and the rest were confused about why he wasn't in Chicago.

"Hi Ted." Tracey greeted, with a large smile. "I was just catching up with your friends ." She paused. "Now
what's this I hear about Chicago?"

Ted looked at each of his friends, he really didn't want to talk about this now.

"Ted was going to go on a trip to Chicago." Barney said. "Must've got cancelled."

"Yeah." Ted said. "Mix up with the fights and accommodation stuff ."

Tracey looked at Ted suspiciously, that was a lie if she'd ever heard one. She decided to drop it, she'd ask him some other time.

Ted looked over at his friends, motioning for them to leave.

"Well, me and Barney have to go pack, for our honeymoon." Robin said. "Right Barney?"

"I'm good here." He replied. She nudged him. "I mean, yeah sure." He said as they both left.

"And we have to unpack." Marshall said, grabbing a seriously hungover Lily.

"Sorry about them." Ted said, as they moved further into the booth.

"No it's fine." She replied. "I actually met them at the wedding."

Ted looked surprised. "Really? All of them?" She nodded. "They didn't say anything about me did they?"

Tracey thought back to Marshall and Lily's argument in the grooms suite the previous day.
"Marshall may have tried to set me up with you." She said, laughing.

He started laughing too. Now that phonecall he got from Marshall in the early hours of the morning made sense.

"So, where are you from?" He asked.

"New Jersey, and you?"

"Ohio- wait did you say New Jersey?" He said.

"Yeah, why? Are you one of those people who live in New York so they think they have to hate everything about New Jersey?"

"Umm."

She began laughing. "You know, New Jersey isn't that bad, have you even been there before?"

"Yeah." He said. "I used to date a girl who lived there."

"Oh, and."

"It wasn't that bad, I was all set to move there until.."

"Until what?"

"She left me at the alter."

Her expression changed. "I'm so sorry."

"It's fine, it was a long time ago, but funny story, have you ever seen the Wedding Bride?"

A few hours later.
"Well this was fun." Tracey said, beginning to stand up.

"Yeah." Ted replied. "Seeing as bar is a terrible place for a first date, I'm gonna give you the best second date ever, I'm gonna go all out."

"So your saying there will be a second date." She said.

She began to walk away. He then realised he'd made a mistake like this before, eight years ago.
"Wait." He shouted after her. She turned around and he kissed her.

"That should keep me going." She said, smiling and she walked out of the bar.

He couldn't help himself from having a huge grin on his face as he watched her leave. He had a good feeling about this girl.