From here on for a few chapters the wedding will be the focus with some moments with the gang together. I wanted to make these chapters less cheesy and romantic and more to who Barney & Robin are as a couple and how they are as individuals..

Enjoy the wedding stuff it will be a nice few chapters just dealing with the hecticness of preparing for a wedding.

The romantic bliss they have been since getting engaged, finally came to an end after a few days of just being happily newly engaged. The couple spent everyday mostly together, they would go out and have romantic dinners and go to the movies but most of all they spent all their free time with each other. There wasn't a minute that went by that they didn't share or spend together so after sometime just being together and alone. Barney and Robin knew it was time to tell their friends but how will they tell them is the thing they don't know to do yet.

They thought long and hard on how they would tell their friends and the rest of their families they they're engaged. Both are scared of everybody's reactions especially their best friends who might think it's a bit too soon to be engaged since they just got back together. So, the couple thought long and hard about how to go about telling but the only good and normal way of letting their friends know about their engagement.

They are lying on the couch talking about what the next step to take after their engagement. They already figured out their living arrangement but that is being put off until they tell their friends that they're engaged. They both agreed to have Robin move in with him and she agreed to do so if they tell the gang separately and not together.

"So, it's a deal you tell Lily and I will tell the guys." They both came to the conclusion that it's best for them to split the gang up and tell them separately out of fear that they won't take this quick unexpected news well.

"I hope this works, I'm scared of their answers but I know Lily could be happy for us since she's rooting for us but she always likes to change her mind so... I really don't know how she will handle this but hopefully she will be happy for us." Robin takes her legs off of Barney's legs and gets up from the couch going over to the kitchen to put her coffee mug in the sink.

"I'm not sure about the guys either. Especially Ted." This hasn't been brought up between them yet, the tone of his voice is very serious when he says this. He knows Ted could have feelings for Robin, he also knows that she doesn't love him and hasn't in years but he's still unsure about Ted's actions or in this case reaction to his engagement to Robin.

Robin goes right from the kitchen to where Barney's still sitting on the couch. She knew this would come up eventually it's the one and only thing still hanging over their relationship. This wasn't an issue for her or for them but she knows that Ted could still be having lingering feelings for her. She hates this feeling or confronting it but they all need to sit down and have the conversation neither of them want to have but it has to be settled so all of them can move on.

"Look, I love you and only you so if Ted has a problem I will talk to him. But, he has to let go of any possibilities of me. I love Ted but in a platonic friend way there's nothing there between me and Ted you have to know that." Robin takes his hand in her rubbing soft circles around his knuckles that were turning whiter than his natural skin tone. She can see he's getting mad, so she starts kissing his neck to get him to relax. She calms him down right away cause here lips take any kind of feeling off his mind, at least for a little while.

"I know that, I know you love me I just can't help feeling like I'm always second best in everyone's eyes." She stops kissing him as his anger subsided but his thoughts are still on Ted and his relationship with his fiance.

"Not mine. You were always the one for me it just took me a while to realize that or understand what we have together. Ted might be reliable, he's a nice guy and a good friend but there isn't anything between us and if he doesn't understand that by now that I moved on. I don't know what will make him move on from thinking there's a chance with me." She's getting frustrated with his concern, it's understandable considering her friendship with Ted and he's getting angry again so there's nothing else to say until they announce their engagement.

There's only one way to get him to shut up and take his mind off of Ted or their plans to tell their friends about their engagement. She takes his hand and pulls him up from the couch dragging him towards the bedroom. She then starts to kiss him then unbuttoned the buttons on the top of his shirt, roaming her hands down his chest she pushes him on the bed and gets on top kissing him right away. The sex was slow at first, more eager but slow she wanted to show him just exactly who she loves and through out their love making it was her doing most of the work which he didn't care that she took control. She had to make him see it and believe it, Ted's nothing more than a good friend and that she wholeheartedly loves him more than anything ever.

Their love making went on for hours, they lay there completely spent from their love making. Robin gently ran her hand through his hair as he absentmindedly stared at the sealing. The silence between them was defining but she could tell that he isn't thinking about anything but her right now.

"Hey, thanks for that..." And, he's better.

"I'm sorry about earlier or ruining the moment of our conversation." Robin keeps running her fingers through his messy blond hair thanking god that this worked like a charm on him. It always does... She thinks to herself smiling glad that everything seems to be okay now.

"So, back to what we were discussing. How about tonight?" Barney asked, wanting to know if it will be an okay time to tell the gang about their engagement.

"Tonight? I think that will be okay. I have to call Lily she's been busy a lot lately." Robin and Lily haven't had a real conversation face-to-face in a while so she hopes that she has time for her later.

"And, I will call Ted and Marshall." This needs to happen this way, Robin has to talk to Lily alone and Barney has to talk to the guys alone and then they will both talk to Ted alone another time. It's easier this way, both hope this will be a good way to tell their friends.

Robin and Barney call up their friends in hopes that they are all not busy tonight.

"Yes, I'm free tonight how's 8?" Lily said on the other end of the line.

"Great, can I come over I have some news?" Robin tells her while Barney's by her side holding his hand while he is also trying to call Ted.

"Oh, okay you can come here then I will put out some food and drinks." Lily's literally giddy to see Robin and she can hear Lily shout that out to Marshall as they are talking.

"Yes, Ted I want to have a bros night out. We haven't done that in along while." A bros night out and a little drinking might get Ted loose enough to receive the news coming to him.

"Well, then tonight at MacLaren's?" Ted always picks MacLaren's it's his go-to place to go to talk but it's public so Barney hopes that being out in public won't freak Ted out over the news he's about to get later.

"Okay, bye." "Okay, bye."

They all hang up and Barney then turns to Robin while still holding her hand.

"Let's do this..."

He sweetly kisses her hand smiling through the kiss. He's never felt this happy before, having Robin in his life has been not only life changing but the one thing he had almost missed out on and he's grateful for the time he had with her in his life it has really changed his mind and his lifestyle.