Context: post season 6, shortly before July 23rd, Robin's birthday
Prompt: #096 Birthday
Word count: 200!
Comment: Don't we all love the Barney/Lily friendship? :')
Barney sighed. "Lily! I can't separate those stupid eggs."
The kindergarten teacher appeared in her kitchen. "Here, let me." Patiently, she took the egg from his hands. "So, how come you're baking a cheesecake for Robin?"
Barney rolled his eyes. "Because it's her birthday, Lily. You do nice things for your friends on their birthday," he said in a 'duh'-voice.
Lily smiled to herself as she separated the eggs with practiced ease. He couldn't fool her – when he'd shown up on her threshold half an hour ago, laden with grocery bags, asking (announcing, rather) to use her kitchen for a bit – she'd known what this was about. And since she was now pregnant, those things seemed even more obvious to her.
"Did you know that cheesecake is Robin's favourite?" she teased him as she washed her hands.
"Oh, you don't say," he answered, rolling his eyes again while adding the yolk to the cream cheese. "Would I be going through all this trouble if it wasn't?!"
Instead of giving him a clever answer, she just hugged him from behind as she left the kitchen again.
The way to a woman's heart is through her stomach, she thought happily.