Meant to Be

Ricky & Clementine

Ricky

Ricky listened as Clementine talked about another time she remembered when her and Ricky were in foster care. He would never get tired of hearing her voice, or seeing her face. She was beautiful beyond compare. When she spoke it was with intelligence, not just meaningless words that didn't make sense. She was wiser than most woman her age, and she had things to talk about besides the regular gossip he was forced to hear everyday of his life. He hated politics, but the moment it came from her mouth it suddenly made sense.

It had only been weeks ago that Ricky decided to break it off with Amy. She was angry with him and told him that she was taking John. Legally he knew she couldn't, but Ricky understood if she needed to take him away for a few weeks. If he were in her shoes, he would feel sad, overwhelmed, and angry. But he knew that it would hurt her even more in the long run if he got married to her knowing he wasn't in love with her. It wasn't like Clementine and Ricky decided that they wanted to be together or anything. When he first saw her although he found her very attractive, he was still in love with Amy. It was only after time that he realized how much him and Clementine had in common, and how much he cared for her. So of course he didn't do anything the second he met her. He never believed in love at first sight, he believed that you needed to get to know a person to love them. But Ricky and Clementine had met long ago, and for some reason it felt like they were meant to be, like there was some reason that they met up after all of these years.

Clementine was definitely different from all of the other girls he had seriously dated.

She wasn't too fiery like Adrian.

She wasn't too dependent like Amy.

And she was nothing like Ashley, who mostly kept to herself.

Although he felt something for all three of those girls, he felt like with Clementine he had finally met his match. Clementine knew her limit, and would make sure he knew it too. She wasn't the type of girl to have sex on the first date, or the third. She was the type of girl that you had to be serious about. She was the type of girl that was independent and didn't need a man, yet Ricky wanted to be her man. In a lot of ways, she was almost like a mixture of the girls he had seriously dated.

She was fiery when she stood up for herself like Adrian.

She was sweet and modest like Amy.

And she was bold and smart like Ashley.

He knew that she wasn't perfect, there were things that they would argue about once they got past the puppy love stage, but he was in love with her. Clementine felt the same way about Ricky, and as her feelings for him started to escalate, she suddenly felt guilty because of Amy. She liked Amy as a friend. She seemed like a sweet enough girl and she would never want to hurt the mother of Ricky's baby. When she saw Ricky she wanted to be with him but she thought Amy and Ricky were a great couple, and she decided to stay out of their way. She noticed that when they were with John they were the happiest, but she also noticed how stressed Ricky seemed to be. And most teen parents do get stressed for long periods of time, but it seemed different. He never seemed happy, and so she wasn't too surprised when Ricky told her that be broke it off with Amy.

However, she was completely shocked when he explained that he left Amy for her.

But now they were putting the past behind him as they strolled through the park. Ricky talked about John, how much he missed him and Clementine brought up every subject she could think of. When they held hand she felt something, and when he kissed her he was shocked that it felt so exciting because he had kissed plenty of girls before. Her beauty captivated him, and his personality excited her.

Ricky and Clementine got what they deserved.

Their happy ending. Though they were separated after switching from one foster home to another, they found each other again and after that nothing separated them again.