Ricky is a troubled teenage boy that is trying to be a man in the right ways but also in the wrong. He was a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of his father which lead him to be in foster care and had Grant High. He met Amy at band camps do to the fact that they are both in the band and that is where he expressed interest in her and their son was conceived, (John). He has expressed on more then one occasion that he is in love with Amy but at the same time said that he was in love with Adrian until he broke if off for good after her cheating so many times stating that he wasn't in love with her. Ricky can be your best friend or your worst enemy his parents abandoning him didn't help him much except to give him to more loving and excepting parents.He recently proposed to Amy and she said yes. Amy and Ricky live together but they had some issues with Adrian Lee trying to steal him.