Amy watched Ricky watch John with a smile on her face. The ding from the microwave brought her mind back to her dinner. She brought it out, and stirred the steaming spaghetti. She walked to the table and took a seat, gave a small smile to Ricky before starting to eat her dinner. She watched as John finished and Ricky picked him up to take care of getting the boy clean. He set John on the floor after he was clean and started working on getting the high chair clean. Amy felt herself smile at the action.

She finished her dinner and went to stand up, but Ricky beat her to it. He took her plate to the sink and rinsed it off before putting it in the dishwasher. "Thanks Ricky," She smiled at him. He gave her a dazzling smile in response.

"You're welcome," He picked up John and went to start getting him ready for bed. Amy sat in the dining room and smiled, she felt amazing right now, and didn't think anything could bring her down. So what came next kind of shocked her.

She looked up as a knock came on the door and frowned. She pulled the door open and spoke quietly. "What do you want Ben," She glared as he played with his hands and looked her in the eye.

"I wanted to apologize," When Amy went to close the door he grabbed her arm. The glare on her face intensified. "Amy just let me explain, and apologize."

"Let go, Ben," Her voice was firm. Ben glared at Amy somewhat angrily and pulled on her arm. He pulled her into him and put his lips on hers. With her free hand she tried pushing him away while trying to step on his foot with hers. She felt tears come to her eyes and wished he would just let her go.

A few moments later she felt herself get pulled from Ben and looked up just in time to see Ricky punch Ben in the face. She wiped at her mouth and then her eyes. And watched as Ricky punched Ben a couple more times before kicking him in the stomach and shoving him. "You better get out of here before I really lose it," He growled angrily. Ben spit up some blood and slowly made his way towards Adrian's house.

"Thanks Ricky," Amy mumbled quietly. Without warning she clung to Ricky and cried into his chest. He wrapped his arms around her and rubbed her back lightly. He let her cry and quietly soothed her.

"It'll be okay. If he touches you again, he'll be trying to apologize from the inside of a hospital room," Ricky stated firmly. Amy nodded with a sniffle and wiped at her eyes again. "Come on, you look tired. Why don't we work on homework in your room?"

She nodded and the two went to her room after putting John to bed. She frowned at a problem on her homework and looked over to see Ricky playing with his pencil with nothing filled out on his paper. "Really, you say we should do homework and then you just sit there?" She asked with a slight teasing tone in her voice.

"It's boring," He stated plainly. He looked at her with a bored look on his face. She bit her lip and decided to take a chance. She leaned over and kissed him quickly, she pulled away turning red.

"I…Sor-" She was cut off as he turned her face to look in her eyes and then pulled her close. Before she could say anything else he kissed her. She closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around his neck, before she knew what was going on, she was pulled into his lap and the two were making out in her room, with the door closed.

A/n: Alright so I may be one of the worst authors in the world for making you all wait this long, and I apologize. I am just going to be completely honest.

In August my Dad had been in and out of the hospital. They thought originally that it was just a prostate infection (sorry if this seems like TMI), but he ended up in and out of the hospital for a month. They finally did some kind of test that told them he would need a new liver. Well I got a call on Sunday September 19th or a day before or later, I had been talking to my best friend and had to told her to give me a second to answer the phone. My dad was on the transplant list and it looked like he would be getting a new liver, I got so excited. My friend actually laughed at a statement I made, I was so excited. All they had left to do was a liver biopsy to make sure the cells were alright.

They weren't. They found cancer in his cells, and they found it too late. I went and visited him Tuesday, September 21st, and at Nine forty something at night, the hospital called right after my step mom came home. And I knew before she even started talking. My dad died that night and I just fell apart. I just kinda got writer blocked and stayed away from this story. I'm really sorry.

Also, I don't know when the next update will be. I've still got finals to take care of and at least 2 weeks left of school. I just wanted to update and apologize. I couldn't control what happened, and I didn't think to warn you guys that an update would take awhile. Anyways thank you for reading. Sorry the chapter was short, and let me know what you think of the new Ricky/Amy development... Not moving too fast I hope.