It's almost summer break after a long school year as freshman at college. It, was a long school year of studying, going to class and hanging out but Barney had been thinking about Robin after seeing her again when he went back home for spring break. He, had dated some but nothing really worked out for him during this year.

"Welcome home, sweetie how is school going?" Loretta was over the moon happy seeing her son again since he left for college. Even though they talked almost every day on the phone she still missed her baby boy very much.

"It's going well. A lot of studying and going to classes but that's what college is in a nutshell." Barney was glad to be home but wasn't really happy about knowing what Robin was up to since they talked the last time.

It was December 2000 when Barney went home for the Christmas break. At first, he didn't want to go home and face Robin again because he thought that seeing her again would be too much for him. After leaving for college and not talking to her everyday as he had told her he would. Breaking that promise to her, and her telling him to move on broke his heart but he did move on. He moved on by going to classes and, tried dating, and just living his life as a college student but it still hurt because he really didn't move on at least not fully. When, Robin told him she had moved on and is seeing someone else at the time it killed him but after some time he recovered and started dating other girls.

"So how is Robin doing?" Barney asked Loretta, Loretta knows about what happened between her son and Robin in December and how heartbroken Barney was after that time in December.

"She's okay, I talk to her almost every day." Loretta had been talking to Robin a lot, especially after Barney left. Robin had told her not to tell Barney about the fact that she had been missing him a lot and tried to move on after he left for college but she really didn't. She told Barney she has a new boyfriend, which is true she is seeing someone else because after not hearing from Barney for two months she told herself that he had moved on and that college is a much different time in someone's life than high school is. So, Robin moved on as she thought Barney did but she really didn't because her heart is still with Barney and her love for him hasn't gone away yet. But, Robin asked Loretta to promise her not to tell Barney how she really feels because she wants Barney to have a normal fun college time without thinking about her.

"Really?, what about?" Barney asked his mother wanting to know what his two favorite girls talk about every day.

"School, boys, family, that sort of stuff we actually became good friends. I sometimes think of her as my daughter that's how close we became since you left." She told the most parts of her friendship with Robin with the biggest thing being kept to herself until Robin wants to tell Barney about her feelings for him.

Spring Break was a nice time, Barney saw his mother, hung out with his brother and his new boyfriend and on his last day before leaving back to his college life. He ran into Robin at the local hang out where they used to go when they dated.

"Hi." Robin smiled lightly trying to stay calm and cool like casually bumping into Barney like any other person she knew.

"Hi, how are you?" Barney asked her after hugging her quickly, you know in a friendly/buddy kind of hug way.

"I'm okay, I've been hanging out with some new friends and going to school." Robin didn't want to sound upset, sad, mad or nervous as she talked to Barney but deep down her heart was a bunch of nerves so this brief friendly encounter was just that. Brief!

After the conversation was over Robin and Barney went their separate ways. Barney went back to his mother's house, but doesn't run into Robin again after she tells him to move on because she already has, then he goes back to college. Robin stood at the diner waiting for her friends to come meet her. She was going bowling with her boyfriend, his friends and some of her friends but after seeing Barney again her mind wasn't really in the game of bowling so she caught some gutter balls and had the lowest score but she didn't care. Seeing Barney again after what happened in December was too painful for her. She wouldn't admit it to him because he was supposedly having a good time in college and she didn't want to ruin his happy days in the college world. But, it did still hurt seeing him again seeming so happy in his life.

But, what Robin didn't know was that Barney was still thinking about her after they talked in December but tried to move on by distracting himself with school work, his job and seeing some other girls, one of them being the girl he met at the party at the beginning of the year. Shannon, she was a really nice girl and they hit it off really quickly, but the relationship wasn't that serious... at first.

So, both finally in the summer of 2013 moved on Robin kept seeing Sam her boyfriend and Barney dated 3 girls but broke up with them because they reminded him of Robin. His mind wasn't at all into those girls when he just saw Robin for the first time in 3 months so as the summer went on he stopped dating all together. Instead, he hung out with his roommate Ted and his new friends Marshall and Lily.

He, does beginning to move on when he returns to school after the break. He asks Shannon out a while after going back to school, and they had been dating ever since.