After I met your mother
Chapter III
2016
Ted paused for a moment through his story, with both Barney and Tracey hooked upon his every word. "Wow. I'm surprised that I still remember everything in such fine detail, it's been 3 years." Ted said in wonder.
"Well come on, what happened next." Asked Barney impatiently, "this magazine is terrible," Barney threw the magazine in the bin," and I've got nothing else to do while we wait." Barney explained.
"Marshall how dare you do this to me I hate you!" Lily screamed through the wall just as he said this.
"It was 2 weeks after we met," Ted continued smiling at Tracy, "Barney and Robin had just got back from their honeymoon."
2013
"Hey guys, you miss me?" Barney yelled once he stepped through the entrance of McLaren's pub.
"Barney, Robin hey you guys!" Lily and Marshall exclaimed. Us 5 then joined together for a group hug.
Barney then noticed suddenly after the embrace was over. "Ted what are you doing here?" He demanded.
"Hanging out with you guys." Ted responded like it was the stupidest question ever. " No I mean in New York. What are you doing in New York Ted, your meant to be in Chicago, why are you still here?"
"I met a girl." I responded casually.
"You met a girl. You met a girl. You met a girl." Barney continued with this head in his hands. "Who is this girl anyway, who is so special that you had to abandon your entire trip to Chicago?"
"Her name is Tracy she was the Bass player in the band." I answered.
"Oooo she's great." Barney stopped halfway through. "That was the girl I was going to introduce you too. So you put us through all this stress that you were gone, where if you had just let me introduce you to her, we wouldn't have had to go through that?" Barney asked.
" Yeah, pretty much." I responded matter of factly."
"She's great though, I'm happy you are going out."
"Well guys, how was Greece?" Lily asked, changing the subject while moving her eyebrows up and down.
"It was great, the beach was amazing, Greece really is an amazing place, it was so nice to be somewhere else except from New York for once you know?" Robin stated.
They sat down at their usual booth and began talking about recent events that had occurred recently before Barney yelled excitedly, " Guys tonight is going to be legend….wait for it…..dary. We're doing this until 2 guys c'mon we have to do this. Yeah I know that tomorrow, Me, Ted and Marshall are going to the Knicks game while you two are doing your thing. But this is the last night for a while that we are going to be together as a group. Robin and me are going to go to for her job; I have a lot of money since I sold out GNB to the feds so I am going to expand my blog into something bigger. You guys," Barney continued, pointing at Marshall and Lily, " your moving to Rome in 3 days, Ted he's going to be here, so we will see him a fair amount, when we come back home. Our time together is limited. So we have to make this the most awesome night of our lives people. Tonight we are going to get absolutely smashed." Barney finished with roars of approval from the gang.
Being honest I can't remember that much more of that night. But I remember waking up in Barney and Robin's apartment. I stood up slowly and inspected the place. There were bottles of beer everywhere, and strangely a message spray painted on the wall that said, " We're Marshmellow and Lilypad bitch."
"Ted my man. How you doin' that was pretty wild last night." A man with a weird, blurry face said.
"Korean Elvis is that you?" I asked as I inspected his face.
" That was wild last night. Your one crazy dude Ted." Korean Elvis told me, "I'll see you soon." Korean Elvis told me before walking out of the door.
Robin and Barney walked out of the bedroom, completely sober.
"Morning Ted." Robin greeted.
"Guys what happened last night?" I asked.
"You honestly don't remember." Barney said, grinning.
"No, did I do something bad…." I stopped for a second, " Why do I have bruises on my hands?" I asked curiously.
"Well, to cut it short, you got in a fight with Korean Elvis." Robin told me.
"Korean Elvis…" I said, "Why did he greet me so happily just now then?" I asked puzzled.
" He doesn't remember a thing." Barney said laughing.
"Mind If I use your shower, you know to sober me up a bit, and wait, where are Marshall and Lily?"
"They're out on the balcony. We thought that it would be funny when they wake up there." Robin said, giggling, "Yeah help yourself, you guys are leaving for the game in 4 hours."
2 days later.
The 6 of us, Barney, Robin, Lily, Marshall, Tracy and me walked into the airport, ready to make our final goodbyes, to Lily and Marshall, who were leaving for Rome and Barney and Robin who were going to be in for a month.
"Well guys, I guess this is it. " Lily said. " I'm going to miss you guys so much." She said tearfully.
"You guys have a great time in Rome, we will see you at Christmas. New York is going to be so much different without you guys there." I said tearfully.
" Yeah…I…I" Marshall said before giving me a hug. "You too have fun," he told me and Tracy, " I'll see you soon, I'll keep in touch, you know, through email and that. I'm not good with goodbyes. Well, bye guys." Marshall finished. With that they left through customs.
"Ted. See you in a month man. Have an awesome time with this chick all right. I'll see you soon." Barney told me before bringing it in for a hug.
"Bye Ted, I hope that you enjoy your knew job, and Tracy," Robin stopped, looking at Tracy before smiling." You take good care of him."
" Well that's going to be difficult." Tracy responded, "This guy is more trouble than he's worth," she said making us all laugh before hugging me.
"Bye you guys." We waved at Barney and Robin until they disappeared from view.