This continues after the last episode "Cramped". After Amy's dad yelled at him, he took it out on Adrian. This is the next day after. So if you notice the characters are a little OOC(out of character), well this is just what I imagine ricky being like after. This is what I imagine him saying to Amy. After seeing this weeks episode, I've gotten a bigger idea of Ricky's character and I've seen how breakable he is. Although we already knew he was before. But anyway, I hope you don't think it's out of character. I don't expect it to happen in the show, but I hope you like this story! So tell me what you think and review! And yes, I will continue my other stories. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Happy reading! =D

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Chapter One

Amy had just gotten to school after dropping John off at daycare, and it was seven forty in the morning. She walked up to her locker and opened it, stuffing her bag into it before she slammed the locker shut. She was startled when she turned around and saw Ben standing there. He had a surprised and upset look on his face.

"Good morning, Amy," he told her, not smiling like he usually did.

"Hi, Ben." She crossed her arms against her chest and bit her lower lip in disgust, figuring that Ben was upset about something she had done or said. "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing," he said quickly. "Nothing is wrong with me. I- I just wanted to tell you that I can't come over this evening. I know we had this planned for a few days, but something has suddenly come up, and I'm going to have to cancel." Amy started to say something, but Ben quickly cut in. "Maybe we can reschedule for some other day?"

She rolled her eyes at him and scoffed, "No, I don't think we can schedule for another day. Would you like to tell me what you're doing that you have to cancel? What's so important to you that you suddenly can't come over today?"

"It- it's nothing. Really. Don't worry about it Amy," he said. Amy nodded down to the ground and looked up at him, waiting for him to tell her. "It's just- I have to meet up with someone today."

"Oh?" She raised an eyebrow at him. "You have to meet up with someone? Who would this someone be? Adrian? Someone from Italy that you didn't tell me about?" Ben slowly looked away. "Tell me what you're hiding from me, Ben."

"Amy," he sighed. "It.. she is someone from Italy, but I'm not interested in her, really, I'm not. It's just a friend that I met there. Just a friend and nothing more." Amy studied his face for a second, and she knew he was lying to her.

"Yeah, right. You had sex with her in Italy, didn't you? Is that what you aren't telling me? I can't believe you would lie to me. Actually, I can. I already knew that you weren't telling me something. I knew that you had sex in Italy! I just knew it, and all along you've been lying to me. How could you? I trusted you! You said you loved me! I thought-"

"Amy," he stopped her rambling. "I do love you. This summer- before I left for Italy, and I came over that night and saw you with Ricky.."

"Ben! You know we weren't doing anything! How could you even think that? Was this all about revenge?"

"No!" he shouted. "This isn't at all about revenge. I didn't m-"

"You didn't mean to? HOW COULD YOU NOT MEAN TO HAVE SEX?!" she blew up. She saw everyone turn around and look at her, but she ignored them. She was too mad to even care about people looking at her.

"Kind of like you didn't mean to have sex.." he said quietly. "But that wasn't what I was going to say. I was going to say that I didn't mean for you to find out about this. Did Ricky tell you?"

"No. Ricky did not tell me. It wasn't hard to figure out. Forget about rescheduling. I don't want you to ever come back over again! Just leave me alone," she said coldly and stormed away from him. She stomped down the hallway, and she saw Ricky in the corner of the room with Adrian. He looked at her with a confused look on his face, and argued with Adrian about something before walking up to Amy. She stopped and stared at him unwelcomely, but he just ignored her.

"What happened?" he asked dumbfoundedly.

Normally she wouldn't have told him, but she was too upset, and she had to get it out to someone. She needed to take it out on someone, and Ricky seemed like the best person considering what he put Amy through.

"Well, Ben just told me that he couldn't come over later because he has to meet up with someone! Guess who he's meeting up with? His girlfriend from Italy! Did you know? Did he tell you? Did Ben tell you that he had sex in Italy? You told me you didn't know!" The whole school was staring at Amy now. She was yelling where everyone could hear her, and Ricky looked nervous and embarrassed as everyone looked. But Amy still didn't care.

"Would you quit yelling, Amy? Just calm down. It isn't the end of the world if Ben cheated on you. And no, I didn't know that he had sex. Why would I know that? I don't talk to Ben except at the butcher shop. I could care less what he does, and you shouldn't care either. Just get over him. If he doesn't want to be with you anymore, then there's nothing you can do about it."

"This is all your fault," Amy said in a quiet, low voice. Ricky scowled at her, but then saw the desperate, overwhelmed look in Amy's eyes and all he did was nod. He didn't want to upset her anymore. "If you didn't ever have sex with me, then Ben wouldn't have felt like he had a competition or whatever and he wouldn't have felt the need to cheat on me. Maybe it's my fault. I don't know. I mean, who wants to be with a girl who has a baby? I knew it was too good to be true." By the time she finished saying that, she had tears running down her cheeks. "God, I can't believe I did something so stupid!"

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about band camp," her voice cracked. "I can't believe I let you take advantage of me like that. I know it isn't just your fault, but-"

"I already told you that I didn't plan on taking advantage of you. Amy, if I could take it back, I would. But I don't want you to hate me forever just because I got you pregnant. Was having a baby really so bad? For me it wasn't. I know it isn't the same for you and me, but still, for me it was a good thing. Having a baby. Having John. In a few years, it isn't even going to make a difference that you had a baby at fifteen years old. The only thing that's ever going to bother you is that you had a baby with someone you hate. So would you just get over it and forgive me already? The truth is that you're just ashamed. But you aren't ashamed from having sex with me," he paused and looked into her confused eyes. His voice was cold and filled with hatred, but Ricky wanted to get his point across. "You're ashamed because you actually liked it."

She looked down at the ground and wiped the tear from her eye and stuttered, "No, I- I didn't like it."

"Yeah, I think you did," he said. He waited for Amy to look back into his eyes, but she never did. He was now sure that she was lying to him. "I think you liked it so much that you're just taking it out on the word. That's why you're always angry. Amy, I was there, remember? I think it was obvious that you enjoyed it."

"I-" she ran her fingers through her hair and looked away again. "I'm not going to talk about this when we're at school. Everyone's staring."

"I don't care!" He shouted angrily. Amy started to walk away, but he grabbed her by the arm. "Wherever we go, there's always gonna be someone around! You never want to be alone with me! No one else is comfortable with you being alone with me! The only time we're ever alone is when we're with John, and I can't talk to you when you're so upset about everything! So we might as well talk about it now! You didn't seem to care if anyone heard us before when you were yelling!"

"Yeah, well now I do care. We are alone sometimes, and we could talk about it then! But all I know is that I don't want to talk about it now, and I probably never do! Can't we just forget about it? It really doesn't even matter. I don't want to talk about it! Everyone is staring at us!"

Ricky suddenly pulled her by the arm and walked her down the hall. She at first wanted to push him away, but he had his hand gripped tightly around her and she didn't know what he would do if she tried to pull away. Ricky led her down to the band room and opened the door. There was no one inside, so he walked in the room and shut the door when they were both in there together. "Is this better?" He asked.

"I don't know. Why did you bring me here?"

"You didn't want to talk in public. That was your problem, right? Well now we're alone. So go ahead and tell me what's bothering you."

"I already told you! Ben!"

He shook his head. "It's more than that."

"Yes, it is more than that. It's just everything! How could you say that? How could you say that I had fun at band camp? I told you I didn't!" Amy paused. She knew she was lying to herself. The truth was that she did have fun, but she didn't want Ricky to know that. She didn't want anyone to know that. Ricky was right- that was the reason she was always so angry with everyone and herself.

"Come on, you know you did," he said playfully, but Amy stared at him coldly, and he was serious again. "Maybe just a little bit?"

She sighed and looked away. She didn't know what to say, but she hoped Ricky would just take this as a yes and not bother her about it anymore. But she was prepared for disappointment. Ricky chuckled and said, "I knew you had fun. I know I did."

She swallowed and was surprised at what Ricky was saying, but she forced herself to say something. "H- how? It only lasted for a few minutes."

"It lasted more than a few minutes, Amy. Like fifteen," he told her. Amy clenched her teeth together and still didn't look at him. She remembered that she had told a few people that it only lasted a couple of seconds, she never wanted anyone to know the truth. She didn't even want to believe it.

"I- I don't want to talk about this," she managed to say.

"You don't trust me?"

"This has nothing to do with trust," she said slowly. "I- don't feel comfortable talking about this with you."

"Seems like trust to me," he rolled his eyes. "You don't feel comfortable talking about it, but you actually did it with me?"

"Ugh," she groaned. "I don't wanna talk about it. Not now anyway. We have to go to class in a few minutes. I- um, we should go before someone notices we're missing and comes looking for us or something. I don't want anyone to find us in here alone. They'll think that we're-"

"So? How long are you gonna care about what people think?" He interrupted her. Amy felt her heart thudding in her chest, and she had goosebumps all over here from being nervous.

"I don't, but-" she stopped. She listened closely and thought she heard Ben talking to someone behind the door, and she gasped when the door flew open. She took Ricky by the arm and yelled, "Hide!" She ran around the band room to a closet, but she hesitated, not feeling right about going in there with Ricky. What if Ben found them in there? But she didn't have time to think about it because Ricky opened the door and pulled her inside the dark closet with him.