hi. I decided to do a story on the Ryder/Mel relationship, which isn't shown at all more or less on the show. I'm go name do a few of these scenarios. This one is about the first time Ryder moves in to Mel's house. Hope you like it xxx

He looked around the room. It was no where as near as big as his old room, but it was nice that Mel had made an effort to please him.

"Do you like it?" Mel asked, smiling at him. He nodded, opening his suitcase. "I'll let you unpack." With that, Mel left, closing the door, but not fully.

He began to unpack hos clothes, mainly made up of hoodies and baggy jeans, his typical style. He knew that he would be here for a while, but he didn't want to believe that. He loved his mum. She was the closest thing to him. And his dad. He was closer to his parents than Lennox was, mainly because he was younger and at the moment, he was at the age when he doesn't get embarrassed by his parents like his sister does, or did. Tears began to well up in his dark brown eyes. No, he thought. He couldn't cry. Boys didn't cry. But he couldn't help himself. Next thing he knew, he was drowning in his own tears. He cried into his pillow, thinking about everything he was going through. Just then, Lennox came in. Ryder tried to hide the fact that he was crying.

"Ryder, dinners ready." She knew he was crying, but she didn't want to bring the topic up. "Are you not hungry?" He shook his head, burrying it into his pillow. Lennox shrugged and left. She went downstairs trying to remember when she saw Ryder last cry. It was when he found out about the whole Ponzi scheme. Before then he hadn't cried for years. She was deep in thought when Mel asked her where Ryder was.

"He said he's not hungry. He didn't look well to be honest." Lennox tried to act like she didn't care when in fact she did, but would never admit it.

"I'll take something up for him." Mel made him a sandwich and grabbed a can of coke from the fridge and went to Ryder's room.

"Ryder, are you okay?" She asked when she noticed him crying. He shook his head, looking hurt and embarrassed when he found out Mel saw him crying. She put his sandwich on his chest of drawers and sat on his bed. "Honey what's wrong?" She asked, looking concerned about him.

"I...I wanna go home to mum and dad and want things back to how they were." He replied, tears falling from his eyes. Mel pulled him into a tight hug, rubbing his back to calm him down. She sat next to him on the bed, pulling the duvet over both of them and putting an arm around his shoulder. He out his head on her shoulder. She wiped his tears off his face.

"Honey, you know if I could make that happen I would. All I want is for you to be happy. You know what, why don't I re paint this room to how you want it." She tried her hardest to comfort him.

"Thanks aunt Mel." He replied, tears still falling from his eyes. "It's just...I didn't even get to say goodbye. It all happened so fast."

"I know, honey I know. But do me a favour. Treat this house like it's your own. It'll help you, I promise." Mel kissed his head. "You don't find that embarrassing like Lennox do you" Mel joked, making him smile. "There's that smile." She pinched his cheek. The tears were still falling from his eyes. "Calm down, it's all gonna be fine." She soothed. He looked exhausted. "Are you tired?" He nodded, yawning. He turned on his side, putting his arm around Mel's stomach. He shut his eyes. Mel held on to his hand, rubbing her thumb on his hand. They were both fast asleep in minutes.

An hour later, Lennox came to his room. Mel had her arms wrapped around her nephew. Ryder had his head on her shoulder and was holding Mel's hand. A part of Lennox did awe, but she had to post this on Instagram. She wrote the caption as #NephewLove and posted it.

I think scene like this are missing from Melissa and Joey. I'm going to do a few more chapters. Please review xoxoxox