Next weekend Matthew came to spend some time at Parker's. They were talking about last weekend's occurrences. Amanda was so into Mathew's narration that she would cuss Mr. and Mrs. Collins for not taking care of their children properly, sometimes she would just hug him if needed. She felt like he's a lost child, who needs proper care and love. She's ready to provide him with all that.

Mathew didn't know how and why he opened up to Amanda. He is not a person who is easy to trust everyone. But, he felt like he could trust them, he has known both of them for over a year and felt like she would understand him. At first ,when he saw how close both the mother and son were he felt envy, after he got over it and saw how beautiful their relationship was and wanted it. For the first time in his life he wanted to talk to his mother and get close to her. He even tried, but it didn't turn out well as she only cared about getting him into their business.

"You should've listened to what Max has to say. At least he's trying." Amanda said when she came to know that Matt didn't give the chance for his brother to talk to him. He didn't tell her about how he avoided it though. Even though she knew their act, he's pretty sure she wouldn't approve of him using her son like that.

"I was numb. It's like I really don't care anymore." Mathew replied kinda regretting not talking him now.

"I understand" Amanda said patting his shoulder "but if he tries again don't shut him out. He suffered as much as you. I'm not saying that's a reason to hurt you, but there will be ups and downs in every relationship. You've to get past them if you want to be happy."

"It's hard." Mathew said looking at his lap.

"I know. I'm not saying you should forgive him. Just listen to him. Even then you don't have to forgive him. Take your time. All I'm saying is don't shut him out completely."

"Okay" Mathew replied.

Ryan was in his room doing nothing but giving his mother and teacher some privacy. That's why he don't like getting into people's drama. They suck you right into them and make you wanna do something you wouldn't normally do. Even though he didn't like what he's feeling right now, like he should do something for the teacher, he's not regretting what he has done. When he thought he has given enough time for them, he went to living room only to find both of them watching a sappy romantic movie together.

"Mom, you can't force him to watch something he doesn't want to." Ryan said shaking his head disapproving his mother's actions.

"She didn't force me. It's actually a good movie." Ryan heard as he was searching for something to eat. He didn't find anything, so he started his search to make something.

"You don't have to say it for her sake Sir. I know how she gets." he found all the ingredients to make his mother's favorite.

"If you would just listen to me you wouldn't be a virgin who gets mad at every little thing." Amanda said walking to kitchen to see what her son was doing. Ryan froze for a second before he started to wash some Vegetables.

"Wait. Does that mean?" now Mathew came too.

"No. I'm not a virgin."

"Yes. He's a virgin" they both said at the same time. "why do you think he's mad at everything that has to do with romance?" Amanda continued further.

"No I'm not. And I don't get pissed off easily" Ryan said with a straight tone.

"I know everything about you Ry."

"You don't. I don't want you to see that your son is not innocent as you thought" he lied through his teeth.

"Uhuh. Whom have you been with then?" Amanda will prove anyone wrong if they said she didn't know her son well.

"You don't need to know."

"Why? You already told me you are not as innocent I thought. What more can a name do?" when Ryan didn't reply, she continued further "You don't have to think that I'll get mad. Trust me, I'll be the only happiest mom to know her son isn't innocent."

"Ja- Jennifer" he finally provided a name since her mother won't leave him alone till she got a name.

"I've known everyone from your class Ry, there's no Ja- Jennifer." she laughed at the name.

"She's not from my class." he is quick to reply.

"Okay. I believe you. When exactly did you get with her? Cause I remember forcing you to go for parties and failing miserably."

Ryan groaned before turning to his mother and finally admitting the truth "So, what if I'm a virgin? What's wrong with it?" Ryan's face turned bright red at the revelation. Matthew and Amanda cackled at that.

"Aww you're blushing. How cute." Mathew said cooing and laughing.

"Stop laughing at me. This isn't funny." Ryan turned away hiding his face.

"Oh it is." he said still chuckling.

"I never said it was wrong honey. All I'm saying is, you should stop getting annoyed for every little thing." they are still laughing, it irritated Ryan to no extent.

"I'm never annoyed." he said annoyance dripping from every inch of his body.

Amanda raised her hands as if she's giving up and said "Okay. Okay. You're never annoyed about anything. Especially not when the subject is about romance." she thought it will stop annoying her son so she asked "What are you gonna make?"

"I was going to make your favorite. You annoyed me mother Laura. So, I'm going to make it for me and going to eat all of it by myself." he turned to continue with his work.

"No Ryan. I'm sorry. Can you please make it?"

"No." he said simply before getting to his work.

Amanda started to bug him. Even Mathew joined, getting into his personal space and whatnot. Ryan is not giving in easily either. He finished his cooking, filled his plate with it and sat on the dining table to devour. Both Amanda and Mathew followed him to the table and sat either side of him looking expectantly. Ryan placed his hand around the plate protectively and gave both of them a glare which didn't work at all.

"I can't eat when you're both looking at me like that."

"Then share with us." Amanda gave solution to Ryan's problem.

"That's not gonna happen." he said simply taking a bite out of his food.

"Please Ry. Just a few bites." she whined like a kid "Please, Please, please." Ryan was shaking his head like he was dealing with an annoying child. Mathew couldn't help but think how wrong he was about their relationship. Even though Amanda was the parent, Ryan acts more like a protective father and Amanda like a whiny child. When he realized how beautiful it actually is; the roles were being reversed, he wanted to be included someway.

"Fine." he gave in after some more whining. Amanda started to dig in as soon as that word left his mouth. Mathew took the first bite and moaned. "I thought you were exaggerating when you told he was a good cook." he told Amanda remembering the incident.

"Am I?" she asked smugly.

"Nope. Not at all."

After some more of devouring Mathew voiced his thoughts "Whoever is going to marry him will be the luckiest."

"Right? Why don't you put a ring on that finger before someone takes him away and starve both of us of this goodness." she pointed at the plate.

"I don't know. Will he accept me?" Mathew played along.

"I know everything about him. I can help you with that." she said seriously.

"Would you both please stop acting like I'm not here?" Ryan said which was ignored by both of them.

"I think, I also got your approval, so extra points for me."

"You definitely got my approval. Now all you have to do is woo him." Amanda spoke like she was revealing a top secret.

Ryan shook his head at both of the wackos and left them alone to their craziness to do the dishes. Amanda came in "I'll do it."

"Don't bother. These are not hard." but Amanda wanted to help him and tried to get him out of the way even though she knew she can't do that because she was tired more than usual. In the whole process she got some water on him. "Mom." Ryan screamed.

"Oopsy." Amanda said and slowly backed away.

Ryan took his shirt off and started working. Amanda started to say funny things and act out which made Ryan laugh out. She made Mathew join both of them and they all had fun; laughing and bickering. Mostly, Mathew and Amanda would team up to have fun with teasing Ryan. Ryan would obviously get annoyed, but he didn't mind much as they were all having fun genuinely. Ryan strangely didn't feel jealous at how his mother and teacher are being with each other. Mostly because he knew his mother has enough love to give them both also because she always wanted another son or daughter which she couldn't get obviously. Ryan told her to marry again, but she will always say "I loved your father Ry and I still love him. I have you to take care of me. There's no need for any other man in my life,I don't have time for it either. When I finally meet your dad I want to brag about how well I raised you even with out his help."