Summary: A family tragedy brings two people together. Some of the ideas are based off previews that I have seen. The title is based off of the song "In My Arms" by Plumb

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. The fanfic is merely a manifestation of my own thoughts.

Author's Note: The ones with the * are not my text. That text was from some of the promos but I felt was needed as part of my personal storyline.

Part 1: Safe in My Arms

Amy hated it here. She hated being back at school because people were able to see what she saw everyday in the mirror: a flat stomach as if nothing had been there at all. But something had been there, something small but growing that had not gone unnoticed.

What people could not see however; was the internal pain Amy was struggling with. Things had at one time been normal, at least the new kind of normal that she had come to accept but now nothing was normal and it never would be again.

Ricky saw Amy at her locker. She looked the same but different too and he knew why. This hadn't been easy for him either but unlike Amy he just couldn't walk around school with his emotions on his sleeves. For so long he had kept his feelings to himself and at this time, it felt like the right thing to do. And speaking of the right thing to do- seeing Amy standing at her locker all he wanted to do was to be with her, talk to her. Ricky took a deep breath and started making his way towards her.

"Hey," Ricky said to her.

"Hey," Amy said softly not looking at him.

"How are you holding up?"

Amy closed her locker and turned to face him. It was then Ricky clearly saw the emotions in her eyes. Now he had wished he had not asked that question. Instead Ricky opened his arms to her and Amy embraced him intensely. Nothing mattered now except for this moment. Amy clung to Ricky, too afraid of letting go.

"I'm so sorry," Ricky whispered into her ear.

Ricky closed his eyes as he hugged Amy; hanging tightly onto her as tightly as she hung onto him. He caressed her back trying to smooth over the pain that Amy was feeling. He could feel Amy tightening her arms around him and so Ricky did the same. He heard Amy sob in his shoulders. He moved his head so that his face caressed her hair. As painful as this moment was for the two of them at the same time it did bring them some relief. If anything the two needed each other now more than ever.

Ricky and Amy didn't care that people were starting to watch them. They were in their own little world and the only thing that mattered was them. Together Grace and Adrian had walked in from the double doors. They had been talking but that soon stopped when they saw Ricky and Amy in an intense hug. Adrian tensed when she saw the look on Ricky's face as he clung to her. This was not the Ricky she knew- normally he would give simple hugs but never was he so focused in it and so interested.

"What's going on?" Grace whispered to Adrian.

Adrian had no words.

At the other end of the hallway, Ben had exited one of his classes to also catch Ricky and Amy in their hug. Amy could feel Ben's eyes on her and she looked up to see him just in time to see Ben walking away. She wanted to let go of Ricky and to go after Ben and explain but she could not will herself to do so. She was still too terrified of letting go. The two of them stood there a little while longer, even as the second bell rang to go to their next class; the hallways now empty.

The two of them finally let go.

"Why don't I take you home?" Ricky asked her whipping away some of Amy's tears with his thumb.

Amy nodded, picked up her bag from the floor and walked out of school with Ricky's arm safely around her.