Random TMI/TID things

Ashton is a foster Child who her birth parents are dead or in a coma since she was a child. She and her foster brother get into a fight after he beats up a guy that she will be following around school all day. Riker is attracted to her but hides it from her and almost loses her and realizes that he should tell her but should he do it on her 17th birthday or wait a few months? Does she feel the same way about him?