Context: future-set (2021)
Prompt: #111 The last one
Word count: 200
Comment: Great minds think alike, don't they? ;)
Of the six of them, Barney and Robin have always been the odd couple out. Pet names, lunchtime calls, corny post-its – they recoil at the thought of such blatant displays of affection.
They're more subtle.
It's in the way she orders his iced coffee at their favourite café, or how he lets her have the window seat whenever they travel. It's in the way he watches all of her shows. It's how she gets him vitamin-D-tablets in the winter and how they reach for each other's hands in crowds.
It's how his gaze will linger a fraction of a second longer whenever she wears something red. It's how even years later, when she's more of a New Yorker than any of her friends, she still feels like he's showing her a whole new world when he takes her to an off-Broadway-show or a high-class bar none of them have heard of.
It's how, when Marvin is in third grade and asks them what love means to them for some homework, they both say "liking the same positions." And it's definitely in the way they both have to bite their tongues to not bust out laughing when Lily tells them off.