Annie and Ricky

**Annie and Ricky** is the romantic pairing between Annie Williams and Enrique Montoya. At this current point, they aren't on speaking terms because it came out that Ricky had been playing her for a Blue Royalty task.

## Storyline

Despite meeting prior, they first began speaking when they both had detention. Enrique for getting into a fight with Elio Esposito, and Annie for trashing the principal's office. Annie initially responded distastefully towards Ricky's approach. Their first conversation quickly escalated when he suggested walking out of detention, with plans to steal his father's cop car. Watching the way Ricky manipulated his father in order to steal the car keys, Annie learned both that he had a bad relationship with him - and that he was an impeccable liar. But they were successful nevertheless, Annie taking the wheel due to his leg injuries.

After Annie found out that her father was expecting a baby with his girlfriend, she was also sat down by him to announce their engagement - which caused an argument to which Annie decided to recruit recently-acquainted-with Ricky. She came to him with her request to borrow his car, without explanation as to what for. Agreeing, Annie and Ricky drove to this mystery location that he soon correctly suspected to be Mexico. Because it was only legal to do so without parent permission in Mexico, Annie took him to go hand-gliding with her. This ran successfully until reaching the border where they needed passports that neither knew they had to bring. This meant that they had to stay overnight in a hotel room while waiting for Ezekiel Griffin to bring them.

After Annie found out that her father was expecting a baby with his girlfriend, she was also sat down by him to announce their engagement - which caused an argument to which Annie decided to recruit recently-acquainted-with Ricky. She came to him with her request to borrow his car, without explanation as to what for. Agreeing, Annie and Ricky drove to this mystery location that he soon correctly suspected to be Mexico. Because it was only legal to do so without parent permission in Mexico, Annie took him to go hand-gliding with her. This ran successfully until reaching the border where they needed passports that neither knew they had to bring. This meant that they had to stay overnight in a hotel room while waiting for Ezekiel Griffin to bring them.

The day of her parents wedding found Annie's attempted entrance to be interrupted by Quinn Castillo, bringing up the past which caused her to bail on the wedding and go to a bar. Ricky soon finds her after she was several drinks in, and they open up to each other, him about his ex-girlfriend Veronica Parker's announced pregnancy, and her about the loss of her best friend Finch. But because she is too drunk, Annie's rant becomes more derailing, attempting to get rid of him because they aren't friends.

After Annie later gets in her car accident, she is surprised to see that Ricky had been waiting in the hospital, despite their last explosive interaction. Surprisingly to Ricky, Annie apologised for the interaction, and Ricky proceeds to reassure her that her accident wasn't intentional. However, they are interrupted by paparazzi wanting to question the perpetrator, being Annie. But Ricky quickly gets them out of the situation, carrying her up and away from them.

The news came days later that her father had woken up from the accident, to which Annie soon found out that he suffered memory loss from the injuries. That memory loss including memories of Annie altogether. When she said she would leave she knew going home wouldn't feel right, she instead headed for Ricky's. Arriving at his door, though, it seemed Ricky had also been facing his own problems, drunk and clearly just coming out of a fight. When Annie concludes that is definitely Ricky who needs the help in this instance, she tries to help clean him up, which is made difficult by his less-than-sober state. While in such a state, Ricky begins to admit feelings that had come a long way from the initial hatred.

Soon after this, Annie and Ricky attend prom together. This is something Annie would never have considered happening, not after the failed relationship with Quinn, and while she had prior admitted a care for Ricky she was beginning to realise that maybe it could be more than that. However, their evening is interrupted by Quinn himself, who decides to make a speech, dedicating part of it to Annie's part in Finch's death. Trying to get out of the school, Ricky tries to join her but Annie is convinced that no one- including him- would look at her the same after that, and therefore tries to make him leave. Though as someone who pushes people away, Ricky can see right through her and insists on staying. But just as they were about to leave, Annie is arrested, a warrant prompted by Quinn's speech.

When Annie is discharged, both Ricky and Paige were in the waiting room. Though as she was leaving, she got the message that her father needed her in the hospital - indicating that he may have his memory back.  She returns to Ricky after seeing her dad, where she later opens up to him about feeling like she could never feel how she did about Quinn again. But that she was wrong, and that she was beginning to feel it again for Ricky. Then Ricky follows this up with a confession of his own, telling her that he was falling for her. But what he realises after saying all this is that Annie had fallen asleep, and missed what he said.

That's when it came out, the Blue Royalty post. The task that Ricky had from the beginning. To make Annie Williams fall in love with her. Had he succeeded? It didn't matter now, Annie didn't argue with him when she saw it, she just left. It had also come out that Ricky slept with Paige Pierce, her sister. At this point Annie was only blaming herself, for somehow believing that this could have been real.

After a while of ignoring him, Annie was disappointed to see that her seat on the plane to the ski trip was situated next to Ricky's. Making very tense small talk, Ricky attempted to give his apologies. But Ricky had broken all the trust she could have used to believe what he was saying.

In a game of dare or drink at the ski trip, Annie is dared to kiss everyone she has slept with - which had included Ricky. She made sure it didn't last too long, and proceeded to give Ricky the same dare, knowing what that would mean for both Ricky and Paige, but to skip her out. Once completing the dare, he tried to explain how none of them had been while he was with Annie. When trying to ask him to expand, they are interrupted by Lenora Foley daring him to reveal the last person he loved. To save him the trouble, Annie tried to give him a drink to get out of the dare. But to her surprise, Ricky publicly admitted that it was her. For a moment, Annie's hardened facade faltered. She had to believe it was a lie, though. Regardless of the increasing doubt, protecting herself meant needing to believe he was still lying.

## Songs

* Cruel Summer (Taylor Swift)
* Labyrinth (Taylor Swift)
* Halley's Comet (Billie Eilish)
* Call It What You Want (Taylor Swift)
* Vicious (Sabrina Carpenter)
* Take A Bow (Rihanna)
* favourite crime (Olivia Rodrigo)
* No Time To Die (Billie Eilish)
* Untitled (Rex Orange County)
* I know it won’t work (Gracie Abrams)
* What A Time (Julia Michaels, Niall Horan)
* Dangerously (Charlie Puth)

### Lyric Parallel

* Halley's Comet

*Halley's Comet (Billie Eilish)*

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