*First chapter plenty more to come hope everyone likes it , not too much romance in this chapter, don't want things to be too rushed between Amy and Ricky *

Change, That's the Name of the Game

Amy was in a quarrel with her mom, it was early almost time for school and she was looking a mess; Not to mention she still had to get John ready for daycare. It had been about a month into the custody agreement, that was recently enforced by the mediator Ricky had established and to her surprise it was better than she had expected it to be. In the beginning she was a bit disgruntled at how selfish she had been and how much work it would take off of her not to take care of John on the weekends, it also gave her the little freedom she wanted when she first gave birth to John. She was finally having her chance at being a normal teenager, for two days of the week so to speak.

She had her new boyfriend, Jimmy and now she's able to manage time to spend with her friends; all this while keeping a steady pace with her drama issues and avoiding confrontation if necessary; Amy's perfect world she had envisioned was finally forming around her. Or so she thought, the first two weeks she had handed John over to Ricky. After about three weeks of their custody agreement with her having to go to his place so much and he to hers, while trying to find some common ground to be nice to each other and overlook their resentful feelings, Amy had developed some mild feelings for Ricky. The feeling was mutual on his part considering he had already had an eye for Amy beforehand.

These mild feelings developed the day of John's 1st birthday; it was something the both of them had been looking forward to for a while. Amy wasn't making too big a deal of it while Ricky was trying to juggle how to make his son's birthday right for the most part. Having never had a childhood party because of his dark past Ricky had no idea where to start. "What the hell do I do? Get some hot wheels, pizza and soda and call it a day? Ha! He'd probably try to eat the hot wheels and … choke" Ricky made a grim expression as he said the word. "I wonder" Ricky picked up his cell phone and dialed Amy's number. It rang a few times "Who am I kidding? I just forcedly got her to give me her most prized possession on the weekends; she probably hates me more than ever … DAMN IT!" Ricky yelled into the phone as he held it close to his ear waiting to leave a voice mail. Ready to leave his message the other end of the line picked up "Hi, what do you need" Amy answered, "I don't need anything, I just thought we should talk about John's birthday party" Ricky responded surprised she answered. "How much do we need to talk about it? It's just your family and my family at the park tomorrow afternoon around five and then after the party you take him home; mom's baking the birthday cake and you're doing everything else" Amy replied they continued their talk for a moment hanging up on a somewhat good note.

"She hates me" Ricky said a bit upset, "How much more do I have to do to get her to even acknowledge me? You'd think she'd be happy I was taking my …" Ricky paused at the word, "Our son for the weekend but no that's too much to ask for coming from her, she had her reasons to hate me before and now I just gave her another" Ricky said heading for his bed. "And I told myself I don't care what she thinks of me anymore yet I'm sitting here mopping about the fact she hates me even more? What's it going to take to come to a FREAKING UNDERSTANDING!?" Ricky yelled throwing himself back onto his bed.

"Never had a birthday party till he was with his foster parents?" Amy said to herself holding her cell phone thinking of words Ricky had spoke to her during their conversation. "Amy …" Ashley came into Amy's room, "Amy!" Ashley said again trying to snap Amy out of her daze. "Wha- What!" Amy said startled, "Are you just going to stand there or are you going to put my nephew to bed, I'd like to see him happy and AWAKE on his first birthday; not cranky and whaling because his mother couldn't manage to get out of LALA land to put him to bed!" Ashley said before turning around and marching down the hall. "Ugh!" Amy groaned, rolling her eyes and looking at her phone before she sat it back on the dresser. Amy had walked into the room where her pride and joy waited alongside his aunt; John smiled at the sight of his mother. "Hey there my little JJ, are you ready for your first birthday?" John had giggled at Amy's touch. "There you go" Amy had laid John to bed in his crib "I'll see you in the morning okay? Get some rest my little birthday boy" Amy smiled and turned around to head back to her room. "Goodnight nephew" Ashley said following her sister out, "So have you and Ricky come to an understanding and planned a party that's not going to include resent from the two of you the whole time?" Ashley asked sarcastically. "What is with you, I just gave him what he wanted and I'm trying to get over the fact that if it wasn't for HIM … um-uh I mean …" Amy couldn't finish her sentence realizing that it was her fault too that her chance at a normal teenage life was taken.

Ashley smirked at Amy's realization to her words, "So a day of resentment? humph figures" Ashley said showing no remorse towards her words. "I-I'm at least trying to be NICE!" Amy yelled back, "Yeah, you sounded oh so nice on the phone." Ashley said. "You were listening!? For how long" Amy asked anxious. "Calm down I only heard the last part of your conversation when I was walking to your room" Ashley said "…" Amy couldn't respond. "Why do you still hate him? I mean after everything the two of you have been through, all of the obstacles, everything! Why do you still hate him? You would think with how defensive you were over giving him John, that you can't still be angry at him for giving John to you!? So why do you hate him so much?" Ashley asked a little flustered trying to find the real reason why her sister still resented Ricky. "Because … because" Amy said frantic, "Because what Amy just say it!" Ashley said trying to get a straight answer out of Amy. "Because I hate him! I hate him for who he is, for what he does!" Amy said her face turning red. "What does he do Amy that makes you hate him so much?" Ashley asked speculative.

"You knew the way he was with Adrian and every other girl he's lead to believe that he was in love with or they were SPECIAL or-or how he … how he pretends to care for you one day and disappears without any word as if you mean nothing the next!" Amy exclaimed becoming more and more emotional as she spoke. "Oh please Amy! You're so stubborn you know that? You hardly know anything about Ricky and anything that had to do with Adrian is between him and Adrian it doesn't have anything to do with you and you know maybe he did think you were special and what do you care about him disappearing? I thought you hate him." Ashley said trying to talk some sense into Amy. "I do" Amy said crossing her arms "Yeah keep telling yourself that" Ashley said as she headed for the garage "I-I don't care what you think and you should mind your own business …" Amy said trying to find a come back to the truth her sister had just told her, after starring as her sister walked away as if she didn't hear her Amy turned around and headed for her room. Tired, angry and confused the only thing she could do was sleep to stop the ongoing thoughts in her head.

It was morning, Ricky jumped up off his bed astonished at how much was going on in this one day. Not only was it his son's birthday but Leo and Betty were to be married that same day. "What time is it?" Ricky asked, the clock read "8:47 a.m." the wedding started at 10:30 a.m. Ricky quickly got himself up showered up and threw on his suit for the wedding he still had enough time to spare before Amy and her family left to go drop off John and Robbie at the daycare and head to the wedding. Rushing out of his apartment, Ricky managed to make it to the Jurgens household with plenty of time to spare, "Hi … Ms. … Mrs. Jurgens?" Ricky said to Anne. Anne smiled "Hi Ricky, and call me Anne, you here to see the birthday boy?" Anne said smiling while inviting Ricky in. Ricky kept his head down and smiled, before making it into John's bedroom Anne stopped Ricky before he walked into the room "Ricky, it's been a tough year for the two of you, you and Amy have been through a lot and … and" Anne couldn't find words to express her feelings. "I just want you to know that I'm proud of you" Anne said but Ricky interrupted. "No … no Mrs. I mean um Anne you don't need to say anything to me, Amy is who you should tell that to … she really is amazing" Ricky said looking in the direction of Amy's room.

"Yeah she is" Anne smiled "and you are too, I have to admit Ricky at first … well up until recently I never really took into consideration how much you had been trying to help out and I never thought of you to be the type of guy to stick around and stick by my Amy and support her through this even when she's giving you a hard time and I hope that she'll stop giving you a hard time sometime in the near future; I don't know how you do it but thank you Ricky" Anne said going in to give him a hug. Ricky who was surprised by the sudden hug "Thank you … Anne, I'll try to do better than my best" Ricky said dumbfounded. Anne giggled "Let's go see the birthday boy" Anne said as she led him into see his son. John stood happily in his crib, his hands shot up at the sight of his father asking to be picked up. "Hey there buddy happy birthday" Ricky said to John, picking him up and bouncing him on his hip, Anne smiling behind the two. "ANNE!!! I-I CAN'T FIND MY TIE!" George yelled from upstairs. "I better go help him or we'll never get out of here" Anne said leaving the room. As Anne passed through the door frame Ashley walked in "Well look at my nephew all happy with his daddy" Ashley said grinning widely. "Hi Ashley" Ricky said smiling back, "Hi Ricky, I can't believe he's one already!" Ashley said fiddling with John's fingers. "I know my little buddy is getting so big so quick on me huh John?" Ricky said looking at John who smiled happily at his father.

"I'm going to um … I'm going to go check my make-up I'll be right back" Ashley said, Ricky confused as to why the sudden rush. "Hi" Amy said from the doorway, Ricky turned around to see Amy standing there with a blank expression on her face. "Hi, Amy" Ricky said, there was a short silence, Amy finally breaking her position in the doorway to walk over to where Ricky was standing holding John. "I can't believe it's been a year since I had him" Amy said playing with John's hair. "And almost two since …" Ricky stopped himself not knowing what her reaction would be. "Yeah since that one night at band camp" Amy said sarcastically "still can't believe something so beautiful came from … huh well I wouldn't call It a mistake" Amy said "What?" Ricky was confused as to why she didn't refer the night he impregnated her with John a mistake. "Well … I mean" Amy didn't know what to say "look at him he's way to amazing to consider a mistake right?" Amy said hiding what she really wanted to say. "Yeah … yeah" Ricky said with a speculative look. "What? Something wrong? Don't tell me you think that night was a mistake! That's just like saying John is a mistake! Its like-" Amy said beginning to get angry. "No, Amy I was just confused that's all! Can we not … hold on" Ricky's cell phone was ringing uncontrollably. Ricky smirked "it's Ben" Ricky handed John over to Amy, her focus was set on John until she looked away only to see Ricky starring directly at her their gazes both directed towards each other's eyes. Amy broke off and smiled at John "Hey there John" Amy said."Hello?" Ricky said into the phone. "Ricky … uh … hi … um … you're not busy or anything are you?" Ben said, "No Ben what's wrong?" Ricky replied. "It's just I'm … I'm freaking out and … and do you think you could come to my house before the wedding starts, I just really need to talk to someone" Ben said trying to give an explanation. "You couldn't call Alice or Henry?" Ricky asked "… I could but it'd be nice to get advice from a different source for a change" Ben answered. Ricky gasped and replied "Alright I'll be there in a minute" Ricky said looking at John and Amy. "Thank you" Ben said before Ricky hung up the phone still starring at John and Amy. Amy stood giggling playing with John's hands, John laughing while Amy played with him.

Ricky stood for a moment and just starred at the two and thought "What if?". Amy finally looked up "So what did Ben want?" she asked curious. "… Ricky?" Amy looked at Ricky who was still starring at her and John "Ricky!" Amy said again. "Uh … yeah, he said he wanted me to head to his place I guess something's up" Ricky said rubbing his forehead. "Are you okay?" Amy asked worry shown on her face, "I'm fine Amy, thanks uh I got to go" Ricky said he moved closer to Amy and John, Amy had handed over John before he could ask to take him. Ricky smiled "Bye buddy I'll see you later okay, I love you" Ricky said bouncing John who was clapping his hands. Amy was smiling looking at them, Ricky took his attention off of John "Alright I'm gonna go" Ricky said to Amy he handed John back to her and she placed him back in his cribs "Okay well … thanks for coming" Amy said light hearted. "Yeah, anytime" Ricky replied, before he walked out of the room to take his leave he moved closer to Amy wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her. Amy who was shocked by the sudden action was shocked by her own action as she wrapped her arms around his neck and rested her head on his shoulder.

John looking at his parents in their embrace giggled from his crib, Ricky let Amy go "Tell your family I'll see them at the wedding for me". "Yeah, yeah sure" Amy said still disgruntled by what had just happened, "Okay you should go, you don't want to keep Ben waiting" Amy said smiling at Ricky. Ricky smirked and headed for the door Amy turned and looked at John and bit her lip confused and nervous. "Making the moves on my daughter are you?" George said catching Ricky before he could get out the door. "Mr. Jurgens I-" Ricky tried to explain, "Ah! I don't want to hear it, you've got somewhere to be don't you? Come on Ricky pull yourself together Amy doesn't make you that crazy does she?" George said "I-" Ricky had tried to get an explanation out. "We'll talk later, go sausage prince is probably going insane with nervous break downs, you better go save him before he does something else crazy … like throw himself out the window … or do something so extreme as to try to get Betty back into the business if you know what I'm saying" George let out a short burst of laughter. Ricky stood there in awe, "get out of here don't stand there starring at me like I'm crazy sheesh!" George said, "Oh right thank you Mr. Jurgens" Ricky said heading out the door. "We'll talk at the wedding!" George said before he shut the door.

"Talk about what?" Anne asked, "Oh just him and Amy you know that stuff" George said sarcastically. "Know what stuff? You don't think …" Anne said a bit shocked. "Anne you have to admit it was bound to happen eventually, Oh! Where's the boys we got to get ready and scram!" George said running off to grab Robbie, Anne still standing in shock at the realization that just hit her.

*Chapter 2: Coming soon! Hope you liked it!*