Ramy

Ramy is the het ship between Ricky Underwood and Amy Juergens from the The Secret Life of the American Teenager fandom.

One Night at Band Camp
During the summer of 2008, the summer before Amy's freshman year, Amy Juergens and Ricky Underwood shared a night at the 'Best of the Best' band camp that they would never forget for the rest of their lives, a night which turned the lives of these teenagers upside down.

The two first caught sight of each other when Amy was playing in the marching band while Ricky was hanging out with a couple of guys, watching on from the bleachers. As Ricky waved to her, however, Amy gets thrown off and breaks the formation, prompting Ricky to have a little chuckle to himself.

While Amy is sitting alone in the lunchroom, Ricky introduces himself to her and tells her that someone had told him that she was due to go to the same school, Grant High, in the fall, meaning they would also be in the same band together. As Ricky sits down opposite her, he enquires if Amy has a boyfriend and mistakenly thinks that Amy's lack of interest in boys is because she swings the other way, which she amusingly clarifies to him that it wasn't the case. Ricky calls Amy pretty which makes Amy rather nervous as she starts to think that this mysterious boy likes her. Ricky asks her if she wants to do anything that night, but after finding out that she is due to play the freshman solo, he guarantees Amy that he will be there to cheer her on. After Ricky leaves, a girl approaches Amy and reveals that Ricky is the most popular boy at camp and that all the girls want to go out with him, making Amy feel a little embarrassed. The girl does warn her, however, telling her to be careful.

Later, Ricky walks in on Amy practising for the big solo and volunteers to help her practice. In order to try and combat her nerves, she tries telling her that he was 'just a guy'. As Amy starts to play in front of him, Ricky leans in for a light kiss, making Amy all flustered. Ricky tells her that he isn't looking for a friend, rather a girlfriend and the two walk over to Amy's cabin arm in arm.

After the performance, Amy asks Ricky out for coffee and the two sneak into the cafeteria at night and decide to stay and hang out. As they are talking over hamburgers, the two decide to move over to the more comfortable couch and after convincing Amy, they start to make out and soon, the two end up having unprotected sex, causing Amy to get pregnant and thus her life would never be he same again.

Amy: I've never done that before.

Ricky: Oh yeah? Bet you'd be good at it - making out.

Amy: Oh, you do that a lot? Make out?

Ricky: I've made out with a few girls before but not every girl I meet, just if they're special.

Ricky: You're special Amy. I like you. I like you a lot. We're going to the same school and I thought... I don't know, maybe you and I could be... well, this could be the start of something big.

Ricky: I mean you feel the same way about me as I feel about you?

Amy: I think

Ricky: Then what's a few more minutes?

Amy's Pregnancy
After arriving home from band camp, Amy takes a pregnancy test and the test comes back positive and all her worst fears are realised, she was pregnant, and it was Rickys baby.

When Amy starts high school at Grant High, she was initially intrigued when she saw Ricky with another girl (Adrian Lee) but also felt extremely embarrassed about the events that unfolded in the summer, neglecting to tell her friends that it was with Ricky and instead telling them that it was with some guy from a different school. Despite this, she did seem quite interested in Ricky and as she tried to walk past without being noticed, he stops her and reminds her of their night together and strokes her hair.

However, Amy soon falls in love with Ben Boykewich, the kind and caring son of the Sausage King. This annoys Ricky as he feels that Ben is just trying to be like him in order to win over Amy which in turn is causing her to lose interest in him. In spite of Ricky’s attempts to get Amy to remember what happened that summer, she repeatedly rejects him, insisting that she has a boyfriend and chooses to not tell Ricky that she was pregnant, not wanting to have anything to do with him

Amy: I’m seeing someone

Ricky: Who are you seeing? That little geek who wants to be me?

Ricky: Come on, why would you do that when you could be out with the real thing?

Soon, Ricky moved on from his pursuit of Amy and switches to trying to capture the affections of the virginal Grace Bowman while simultaneously having a physical FWB relationship with Adrian Lee behind her back and against Amy’s wishes, rumours started to circulate around school that Amy was pregnant Ricky being the father which leaves Ricky shocked, regretful and distraught.

Regardless of Rickys promises to Amy’s dad to leave Amy and the baby alone, Ricky decides to confront Amy and tell her that he wants to be involved with the baby. However, at this point, Amy is irritated and angry at Ricky as she doesn’t want Ricky to have anything more to do with her, wishing to have Ben by her side instead.

Ricky attends Amy and Ben’s illegal wedding and insists that he does not care for Amy and that she is better off with Ben. This does not stop Ricky from going to the wedding with Grace, however.

Whilst Amy wishes to give the baby up for adoption, explaining that it would be best for the baby, Ricky strongly disagrees with the idea, preferring that he and Amy raised their kid together at her house with him coming over to see them.

In order to try to do the right thing for their son, Ricky and Amy decide to work things out between them, meeting with each other in order to talk about 'baby stuff', much to the annoyance of their respective partners and the intrigue of their friends. Before Ricky arrives, Ashley finds Amy looking for something to wear and asks her if she's 'dressing up for Ricky' and tells her that she doesn't want her to make the same mistake of Ricky twice. This angers Amy because, despite what Ashley and Ben think, she claims that she is not interested in Ricky and that she is only talking to him because she needs his permission to put the baby up for adoption. Ricky reveals that it was Amy who wanted him to be involved in the decision making process, which prompts Ben into realising that he should give Ricky and Amy some space because he cannot change the fact that Amy and Ricky will always be bound together by the baby which might lead to Amy and Ricky wanting to be together at some point, something which would be out of Ben's control. In order to get Ben back, Amy calls Ricky and tells him that raising the baby together wouldn't work out for the baby and if he truly loved his son, he would go along with whatever Amy thought was best for the kid. Reluctantly, Ricky agrees to put his child up for adoption.

Amy feels guilty for Ben's decision to back out because she doesn't want to be tied to Ricky so she goes along with the idea of her dad's co-worker Donovan and his partner Leon being possible candidates for being the adopted parents. Ricky, however, soon reverses his decision and tells Amy he doesn't feel like he could just give up their child to a random couple which overwhelms Amy causing him to embrace her in a hug, as Ben, Adrian and Grace watch on. As Grace's ex-boyfriend Jack Pappas drops by Ricky's place while he's studying about babies, Ricky reveals that he's only interested in one thing - being with Amy Juergens before he individually tells Adrian and Grace quite bluntly that he and them are done for good.

Ricky: I'm not interested in Grace anymore, or Adrian.

Jack: Who are you interested in?

Ricky: The mother of my son - Amy, I'm interested in Amy.

Jack: What? For real?

Ricky: Yeah, for real.

Jack: What about her and -?

Ricky: I think they broke up

Jack: Yeah but Amy and Ben got married

Ricky: Yeah but Amy and I had sex and we're having a baby.

Ricky also proclaims this to his shrink Dr. Fields, but he also tells him of his plan to go along with whatever Amy wants until it looks like the baby is set for adoption, when he'll try to get his mother on his side in a custody battle. Despite Amy's attempts, Ben is still trying to stay out of everything which includes not talking to her which makes her think that she is probably better off being with Ricky considering that it is their baby.

Dr. Fields: Who are you in love with?

Ricky: Amy.

Dr. Fields: Now it's Amy?

Ricky: I'm not a careless guy, I've never been a careless guy, but with Amy... I dunno, maybe I wanted her to get pregnant?

Dr. Fields: Because you love her?

Ricky: Yeah.

Ricky: Maybe Amy and I would be good parents

Ricky: I have my heart set on Amy and our baby.

Amy starts to have a few doubts about putting her baby up for adoption, telling her dad what Ricky told her, that she doesn't know if she could bring herself to just give her son away. With his plan in motion, Ricky agrees to meet Donovan and Leon with Amy to talk about the adoption of their baby but tells her that he wants the adoption to perfect because he doesn't want to hurt her more than he has already.

George: You don't like Ricky do you? I mean, as a boyfriend?

Amy: No, but...

George: But what?

Amy: I think Ricky likes me and when someone likes you, you can't help but like them back.

Amy: Maybe fate just intervened.

George: Oh no, I know what you're thinking - you're thinking maybe you'll marry Ricky cos he's the guy you had sex with

George: You had sex with the wrong guy and you can't fix this by marrying the wrong guy.

Amy: Maybe even though I love Ben, I was meant to be with Ricky.

Ben and Amy reconcile, however, and Ricky sets his sights back to Adrian and Grace.

Fanon
Ramy is the most popular ship in the Secret Life fandom, mainly due to the chemistry between the two. Despite this, it is rivalled by a number of smaller ships such as Bendrian, Bamy and Radrian. Over the course of the show's 5 years on screen, we have seen Amy and Ricky's relationship evolve and blossom, all starting from that one night at band camp. The addition of their son John brought the two teenagers closer then the would have ever imagined and against all the challenges and problems they faced, both Amy and Ricky got through them, strengthening their relationship in the process.

Fandom
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