Chapter 4 - Rush

Ricky's POV

I got out of my car and went to Ben.

"What the hell are you smiling for coming out of Amy's house?" I said as I approached him. He backed up and almost tripped.

"Um, I, um." He hesitated.

"You um, what? Tried to heal Amy's broken heart?" I said. "Because you know we're together."

"What?" He said looking confused.

"She didn't tell you." I said kind of shocked.

"No. She didn't even mention you in the conversation." He said.

"Really?" I said as we walked towards Amy's door. From the looks of it, it doesn't seem like I'll be spending the night tonight. When we got to the door I opened it with the key Amy gave me.

"Why do you have a key." Ben asked looking down at me unlocking the door.

"Because my son is in here." I said not looking up at him. When we got inside, no one was downstairs so we quietly walked upstairs to Amy's room. I opened the door and saw Amy holding a sleeping John.

"Why does Ricky have a key to your house. I'm your boyfriend." Ben said loudly startling John.

"Shhh!!" Amy said as she quickly got John to relax. She put him back in his crib and pushed us out of the room quietly shutting the door behind her.

"First, Ben. You broke up with me. You're not my boyfriend. Second..."

"Why didn't you tell him about us." I said interrupting.

"Ricky." She said almost inaudibly. She looked at Ben and took my hand. We went down the hallway.

"I thought you wanted to keep us a secret until the time was right." She asked looking up at me.

"No, you wanted to keep it a secret." I said kind of upset that she would want to keep us a secret.

"But you agreed that we should." She replied back.

"Only to please you. I don't want to keep us a secret. Amy, I love you. I don't want to ever lose you, but if we keep this up..." I stopped thinking of the idea. "I might." She kissed me.

"You will never lose me." She said as she looked into my eyes. I looked into hers. The way the light hit them made them sparkle. They were the most beautiful eyes that I will ever see. "But you are right about the secrets. I have officially had the most secret life of the American teenager. I'm tired of secrets, and we're nothing to keep secret. Ricky, I love you, and I don't want to be a secret anymore. I want the world to know about us." I smiled at that, and I kissed her. It was a long, passionate kiss. I didn't want to stop kissing the most wonderful, beautiful girl in the world, but then there was Ben. He coughed and we slowly separated. We looked at him. "Um, well, um.....if you haven't noticed, um, Ricky and I are sort of a couple." She said as she left from me and went to Ben.

"Um, hi, I sort of got that." He said and mockingly smiled.

"So." Amy said.

"So." I said.

"So." Ben said. "Yeah, this was fun and all, but I've got a plane to catch tomorrow, so yeah. Bye." Ben said as he descended the stairs and exited the door.

"I love you." I said as I put a hand on her cheek.

"I love you too." She said. I bent down and kissed her. Then the phone rang.

"Oh, hold on. I'll go get it." She said as she ran to answer the phone downstairs. I went downstairs too, but first I grabbed the baby monitor out of Amy's room just in case John woke up and started crying. I sat on the couch.

"David surprised my mom with a trip to Paris, so they will be leaving tonight. That means that I'm going to be here by myself for one week." She said hinting to what I knew she wanted.

"Do you want me to stay here with you this week?" I asked knowing what she'd say.

"You know me so well." She said as she sat on my lap. I kissed her innocently at first. Just a simple kiss, but from there it turned into something different. Something that shouldn't have happened, but something that felt so right. I hope we didn't rush, and I hope nothing serious comes from it. But the first time.............................came John.