This is probably my longest chapter yet but I wanted to explore somethings that I didn't think I would do before. This chapter introduces Tracy/The Mother, but first this is the morning after B/R planned their wedding so enjoy I think I love this chapter the most because of Tracy being in it.
The next day, it was about 9:30 which was a bit late to get up since Barney and Robin had to get to the train station to get back to the city. The night before had been one, if not the best nights of their lives. Meeting with the minister of that small but perfect church where they planned their wedding in only an hour. They didn't even get to go to the beach as planned but they didn't care because they actually planned their wedding and it wasn't as hard as they thought it would be. Of course, they would still need to plan the reception but that didn't matter at this moment. They had been woken up by some noise coming from down stairs, Barney had looked at the time and realized that they over slept.
"Hey, Robin looks like we're late to get to the train we wanted to take." He mentions that the train they wanted to take was at 10 which is in only 45 minutes but Robin simply didn't care she was still basking in the fact that she's happy. For the first time ever, her life is perfect and she just wanted to stay in bed with his arms protectively around her enjoying the embrace and the sun beaming through the windows.
"Oh." Robin says smiling as Barney showed her his cell phone with the time on it.
"We're late to get back home." He says, she still didn't seem to care about the time at all.
"Yeah, okay but I don't want to leave just yet can't we just stay here, in bed for a little bit longer?" She's so at peace right now, happy, glowing, basking in the morning light beaming through the windows. It was truly her time, she's at the happiest place in her life and any thoughts of rushing anything after rushing everything her entire life. She just wanted to lay her in his strong arms letting the sun light glow on her face. She really didn't care to get up anytime soon and so they didn't. Instead the laid they quiet, without saying anything or moving anymore than they wanted to. They stayed in the bed for another 10 minutes before there was a knock on the door.
'Hey, Robin it's me Lily. Are you up yet, you are going to be late for the train." Lily's at the door, it was now almost 9:40 so Lily was worried that Robin and Barney were going to miss the train they wanted to catch to get back to the city.
"Um, yeah we're up. We decided to take the eleven o'clock train. Sorry, we over slept." Robin answered back, opening the door to her friend.
"Oh, okay then… How did you sleep and when did you get back you seemed to be gone along time last night." Lily was a little worried for a while there that her friends were still sleeping and was going to miss their train.
"Very well. Best night of sleep in a while actually." Robin smiled as Lily entered the room.
"Actually, we have something to tell you. All of you in fact." Robin looked to Barney who was putting on his under shirt to put on his dress shirt afterwards. She hoped that he was ready to tell Lily about their new, news about their wedding. Barney nodded and smiled then Robin told Lily about their plans.
"We, have found a place to get married." Lily's face went from a happy good morning smile to a shocked frown of disappointment. Robin knew that Lily wouldn't take this well, she was right to be worried and wait till this morning to tell their friends.
"Really? I was hoping we would start planning this week though." Lily feels a little portrayed, a little disappointed and a bit annoyed that her best friend had started planning her wedding without her. To say that the maid of honor is mad is a bit of an understatement.
"Yeah, but last night we were walking towards the beach which is where we wanted to go but then we saw this little white church. We were curious about it so we went inside. We loved it right away, it was small, quaint, intimate, perfect place to get married. We instantly loved it, so the minister there had saw us up at the alter watching us kiss when he cleared his throat and introduced himself to us. We talked about us" she points at herself and to Barney who is now standing by her side partially dressed. "getting married and that we hadn't found a place to get married yet. One thing lead to another and before we knew it we planned out the entire ceremony." Robin was still beaming, happy that her and Barney made the right decision to plan the wedding. They weren't even thinking much about their friends reactions to this news but they knew that they would have wanted to at least help them plan.
"Wow, guys that's great I'm happy for you." Lily's still disappointed kind of sad that they didn't think of her to help them plan their wedding but nonetheless she is happy for her friends even though she's a bit mad at them.
Barney and Robin kissed as Lily left the room looking sad.
"I feel bad that we didn't think that Lily wanted to help us plan." Robin says as the broke apart from each others arms.
"I know, but she can always help us plan the reception. That part isn't much but we have it somewhat planned already since we're having it outside the church." Barney mentions, he does feel bad about this too but they were so blissfully happy last night that he wasn't really thinking about how his friends would feel about them planing their wedding without them.
"Yeah, she can do that." Robin tells him as she goes to the bathroom to get washed and dressed it was now 10 o'clock so they have an hour to go until they had to get to the train station.
"I'm sorry, we just planned the whole wedding and wasn't thinking about what you would think or say about it." After a few minutes of getting dressed and packed to leave to their train back to the city Robin and Barney came down stairs seeing Lily preparing breakfast for them all to eat. But, because of the short amount of time they had they couldn't sit and eat breakfast so Lily made them a goodie bag to go just in case they got hungry.
"That's okay, you two do look happy so I'm happy that you're happy it doesn't matter that you planned your wedding without me. It is your wedding, your day after all." Lily smiled, seriously she was happy for her friends and understands why they unexpectedly planned their wedding.
"Well, we are sorry so we talked about the wedding last night but we didn't plan much of the reception so if you want to you can help plan that and help with the invitations which are a lot since we are planning for 200 people at the wedding and maybe more at the reception." Lily looked like she was about to fall down as she turned around fast on her feet when Robin told her this.
Robin didn't forget about her after all that caused Lily to hug her best friend.
"Really?" Lily asked after the hug and Robin nodded with a smile.
"Yeah, we will need your help and you are great at planning things. We just got lucky to find that church and its minister. We want you to help, as we both go back to work our time is going to become limited so if you don't mind you can help with that." Lily hugged her again saying thank you and that she will help plan the reception.
After some short time talking with Lily and Marshall, Barney and Robin said their goodbyes and left to catch their train. It was a short ride by cab to get to the train station so as they got their it looked like it was about to start raining so they took out their umbrellas just in case they needed them before the train comes.
"So, Lily's ecstatic about planning the reception she was so excited she hugged me twice." Robin said as they sat waiting for the train to come.
"I know, I saw her hugging you that second time. I'm glad she's going to help, she's great at that stuff." Barney had placed his hand on her leg and she placed her hand on top his hand smiling at each other still very happy over their wedding planning.
The train had been a few minutes late, as they sat waiting they noticed something that was talked about a little bit by Ted for a good time. It was a yellow umbrella, the one that Ted talked about taking from that club that one time on St. Patrick's Day a couple of years ago. Now, it's not usual to have that kind of color as an umbrella so at first neither Barney or Robin realized that umbrella was the umbrella that Ted was talking about for years.
"Hey, do you see that girl over there with the bright yellow umbrella?" Barney asked, he usually doesn't notice many things, sometimes anything but he remembered Ted going on and on about this umbrella. Robin remembers it too, she had to do a double take look to figure out what Barney was talking about but then she saw the girl with the yellow umbrella and realized that maybe that's the girl Ted was talking about and looking for all this time.
"Yeah, is that the girl Ted was talking about?" Robin asked not sure if that's really the girl, she can literally be anyone who has that color as an umbrella.
"I think she is, we should go talk to her. Ted's been looking for that umbrella for years now." Barney said, at this time the rain was coming down stronger and the train was taking its sweet time due to the rain so they got up from the bench and went over to the girl with the yellow umbrella.
"Hey, sometime ago my friend was at this party. A St. Patty's day party a couple of years ago, he had gotten caught in the rain and had gone back inside the club to get shelter as the rain went on, he found this umbrella, it was the same color as yours, took it back home with him and then suddenly lost it about a year ago. I was wondering if you're the person who left that umbrella because yours is the same color as that one your holding." Robin says, she didn't even stop herself from talking as the girl stared at her, this unknown person is talking to her and reminding her that she did lose it for sometime but then found it again in her apartment which is weird.
"Huh, interesting I had misplaced my umbrella," the girl says "but, it suddenly showed up at my apartment which is weird because I had realized it was in my apartment until recently. That's odd, so your friend did have my umbrella after all?" The young girl was shocked but is glad to know that she wasn't crazy in thinking she had had the umbrella in her apartment all this time.
"Yeah, he had it for sometime too but lost it again but he didn't know where he left/lost it. So, you're the girl he's been looking for all this time?" The girl looked at Robin blinking rapidly trying to understand what Robin was talking about.
"He's been looking for me?" The girl ask, looking oddly at the woman talking to her.
"Well, not really but he sort of thought it might belong to a woman since of the color of the umbrella. So, he had been trying to look for the person with the umbrella but never did. Wow, you much be that girl." Robin, knew that this is the girl Ted was going on about and was looking for this whole time.
There was some silence before Robin extended her hand to introduce herself but the train came by so they had to stop their conversation to board the train. On the train, the three sat together still talking about how weird it is that their worlds collided at a train platform no less. Robin really started to like this girl, Barney introduced himself since he didn't get to on the platform and soon enough they got to know each other. The girl, Tracy is her name started talking about her life, that she's still going to school, wanting to travel the world helping charities, she said she had went to that St. Patrick's Day party just to check it out but it wasn't her scene so she left early. The three new friends chatted until the train had reached Penn Station.
"So, where are you going?" Robin had made a new friend really quickly and she really likes her. Tracy's a really nice girl someone she can really be friends with, she doesn't have many female friends and it's nice to have another one in her life.
"I have a gig, I play bass in a band. They are playing tomorrow night downtown." Tracy said saying goodbye to Robin then Barney.
"You guys could come if you want to. Here's the place." Tracy gave them a card with her name, phone number and the place she's performing on it to Robin.
"Oh, cool we will be there." Robin says smiling at her new friend.
"Oh, before you go does your band take requests?" Robin asked wanting, hoping that maybe she can play at her wedding reception.
"Yeah, why?" Tracy replied wondering why Robin is asking this question.
"We, Barney and I are getting married in July and I thought maybe you and your band can play at the wedding." She hoped that Tracy would say yes because she really wanted a band for her wedding.
"Um, sure I have to talk to the others in the band but I would love to play at your wedding." Tracy smiled then hugged her new friend before walking towards the exit of the station.
"Well, that was pretty awesome." Barney and Robin said in unison looking at each other.
"She's a really nice, cool girl I like her already." Barney said before kissing his fiance.
It's still a little weird that he has a fiance, a fiance it still makes him shake his head to see if he's still living or in a dream. A wonderful, awesome, perfect, amazing dream but he loves this feeling having Robin as his fiance and soon his wife. Barney and Robin left the train station and caught a cab. The rain had stopped so no umbrellas necessary. They hopped in the cab and went home, unpacked their things and just rested for the rest of the day. They go out to dinner that evening to celebrate their engagement and their wedding some more.