Leigha couldn't sleep, her parents just told her they were getting a divorce but for some reason she was relieved...she did but she was still really really sad, it was stupid she tried telling herself, she shouldn't be upset. She sighed, it was late everyone else in New York was asleep. But she knew one person wasn't asleep. She crawled out of bed and walked out of the apartment. She hopped into a cab and drove to an apartment she knew way to well.
She had the guy let her in, the doorman had a bit of a crush on her. She walked up to the room and used her key and let herself in.
"Come on in Leigha." She heard a familiar voice say and she walked into the bedroom. She saw Robin laying there in bed, she had two dogs now. They were very old and she had moved apartments and got them their own room. So it was just her laying in bed. She crawled into bed with her Aunt Robin. "Hey sweetie." Robin said, Leigha crawled over and laid her head on Robin's stomach. Robin ran her fingers through Leigha's hair. Robin, knowing Leigha turned the tv on, loud enough so Leigha wouldn't think Robin could hear her when Leigha's tears finally began to fall. But Robin knew, even if the TV was on all the way and Leigha's tears weren't soaking through Robin's shirt. Robin would know.
When Robin was sure Leigha was asleep she turned down the volume. She reached to her bedstand and dialed his number.
"Ted, our daughter's here." Robin said.
"She's there? Why is she there?" He yawned but she could almost hear him sitting up and turning on the lamp.
Robin sighed, "She came over here..." she bit her lip and tried to think of an excuse, Leigha was more than part of her. They didn't like admitting themselves to one another, they didn't want kids, they didn't want commitment and they never cried. "She couldn't sleep and I told her I rented the Notebook so she just felt she needed to come here." Robin lied.
"Since when do you lie for her?" Ted asked.
"She doesn't want you to know but I think she was upset over the news. It was a shock for..well all of us." Robin ran her fingers through her daughters dark brown curls.
"Since when do you act motherly towards her? If I remember correctly you even tricked my now ex-wife, into thinking that Leigha was hers." Ted said remembering the time.
Ted had been dating his now ex-wife. He had been happy and they had gotten engaged. But one night, he had gotten scared. He said he was hanging out with the boys when really he had gone and gotten drunk at the bar. He had called up Robin and they had slept together. That night he had also slept with his ex-wife. So both girls had wound up pregnant with, imagine that, the same due-dates.
Robin promised to keep it a secret, she was drunk too, plus she was dating Barney. And surprisingly she had stayed extra skinny through the whole thing. While his ex-wife had gotten huge. So it was easy for the two to keep Robin's pregnancy a secret.
Robin had the baby a day before Ted's ex-wife. And Ted and Robin had no idea what to do, then they found out that Robin and Ted's ex-wife had the same doctor. So Robin had this idea, convince the doctor to pretend that Ted's ex-wife had twins. It was extremely easy to pull off, the doctor did it without question saying Robin was her favorite celebrity. And Ted's ex-wife had been put down during the birth, because of a heredity heart thing.
She pressed her lips together in thought. "Remember how easy it was to pull off?"
He laughed, "So easy. But the doctor was a lesbian and had a huge crush on you."
"What?" Robin said, a little to loudly, almost waking up Leigha. "She was not."
"Yes she was but you still didn't answer my question."
She closed her eyes, "I've always been motherly, in my way, to her."
"I thought you said you hated kids and never wanted any."
"When we were dating I never wanted kids..but I would have had your kids, if it meant making you happy." She said, remembering something she had told her mother. "But when I was pregnant I thought we could have been a family, but I saw your face when I had the kid. You were so..disgusted" She said her lips wavering. "So let down. I never wanted kids but you didn't want my kids." She said, she then shut her phone and looked down at her daughter. She was sleeping so peacefully, she was the beautiful thing she'd ever seen. She sighed and fell asleep.
