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Barney's POV
It starts raining on the way to my apartment and when I arrive I see Talia sitting on one of the steps leading up to the apartment doors, her hear is soaked, she's not wearing her jacket anymore and it is freezing, but she doesn't seem effected.
"Talia?" I call out as I walk up the steps towards her.
"Oh, hey Barney" she says looking up at me for a second before dropping her head back down.
"What are you doing sitting out here in the rain? I gave you a key" I ask sitting next to her.
"I think I left the key at Ted's place" she says fiddling with a loose piece of thread hanging off of the sleeve of her top.
"We need to talk, but not out here" I tell her, I take her hand and pull her up.
Once we're are inside and sitting on the sofa, I take out the pair of scissors Marshall found in Talia's bag and place them on top of the coffee table in front of us.
I notice Talia freeze and clench her hands
"Marshall found these in your bag" I tell her, she doesn't say anything.
"Talia. Show me your arms" I say, trying to look her in the eye, but she keeps looking away and avoiding my eye contact.
Talia starts fidgeting uncomfortably, shaking her head refusing to pull up her sleeves.
"Talia, show me your arms!" I say, raising my voice this time.
She pulls her right arm sleeve up slowly with her shaking hand.
I grab her wrist and my breath hitches when I see the recent looking scars criss-crossing her right arm.
I'm about to say something, when I see her trying to hide her left hand and I remember the broken mirror.
"Let me look at your hand" I say, grabbing her hand and unwrapping the bandages.
There are multiple small cuts littering her knuckles.
I get up and go to the bathroom to get the first aid kit.
I grab her hand and start cleaning it, when I'm finished I re-wrap her hand with some fresh bandages.
"You are not getting these back" I tell her.
"Fine" she says stubbornly, looking annoyed.
"there was something I was meaning to ask you, after the party because I didn't want there to be any tension between us during it, and it seems appropriate, I guess, to ask you now" she says.
"What?" I ask.
"Do you still cut yourself? Please be honest because you know that I do, and I just wondered because you always wear long sleeved t-shirts" she asks looking nervous.
I take a deep, shaky breath before answering.
"Yes, I do, sometimes" I admit, and it feels good to tell someone, it's like a huge weight has been lifted off of my shoulders.
"You're not mad at me, are you?" she asks, looking worried.
"Of course not, I would be a hypocrite if I was, I was just worried about you" I tell her.
"Have you done it recently?" she asks, holding my hand.
"Yeah, I have" I say, remembering what happened, and I decide to tell her what happened between me and Robin a couple weeks ago.
I tell her about me and Robin both cheating on the people we were going out with, with each other, and about how I covered her bed with rose petals and lit some candles because we had both agreed to break up with the people we were going out with, how she didn't and I ended up broken up with my first serious girlfriend, clearing all of the rose petals out of her bedroom and blowing out the candles.
-Flashback-
I can't believe she's still with Kevin, I love her so much.
I broke up with Nora for her.
I bitterly shove the expensive rose petals I had bought and covered Robin's bed with and blow out the candles I lit.
I hear the floor boards creak slightly but I decide to ignore it, it was probably nothing.
For a couple minutes I sit on the bed with my head in my hands and take a deep breath before getting back up and walking out of Robin's room, the apartment, and back to my apartment.
I throw my blazer carelessly on the sofa and run into my bathroom, locking myself in.
I take out my old pocket knife and slice into my wrist with it twice, for a second I just watch the cuts bleed.
I feel like I can't trust anyone, everyone lies to me, they betray me, my dad left me, my mum lied about who my real father was and Robin promises me she would leave Kevin for me, but I turn up at the bar and she's still with him.
I cut further down my arm, a little deeper and I feel kinda faint, I grab one of my towels and apply pressure to the cut.
-End of flashback-
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