That next morning, as she was waiting for Cindy to finish getting ready, Tracy couldn't stop thinking about Ted Mosby. He was so vexing, she thought he was really handsome, but something about him just struck her and she couldn't shake the feeling that she wanted to see him again. When he gave her back her umbrella, she couldn't explain it, she thought they made a connection.
"You ready to go?" Cindy had snapped Tracy out of her deep thought.
"Oh, yeah. Yeah let's go."
When they got to the university, Tracy had time before class and she told Cindy she'd meet up with her later. She stopped by the architecture room, hoping to maybe see Ted, but the room was empty. She hovered for a second, and when she heard someone coming she hightailed it out of there. She wanted to see Ted again, but she wasn't ready for any emotional confrontations with anyone right now.
When Ted had left the apartment the previous night he was slightly heartbroken. He'd met Tracy, but he was unable to do anything about it. He fell in love with her the second he saw her. He didn't tell the gang about it because he knew just how they would react. Barney would freak out halfway through thinking that Ted banged both of them, then Robin would start singing "Bang Bang Bangity Bang", and when he finished Marshall would feel bad for him, and Lily would call him a jerk for obsessing over Cindy's roommate when he was on a date with her. So he decided to just keep it all to himself.
He considered telling Marshall and only Marshall, but he knew Marshall would tell Lily and everything he predicted would come true. He wanted to call Cindy, but he decided not to, knowing that she would still be mad at him, and not wanting to talk to him, and she had probably already convinced Tracy to hate him.
So he decided to just leave it alone and not think about her again. But little did Ted know that he would meet Tracy again a long ways down the long and difficult road.