Gina, Ricky and Nini

Portbozar is the trio pairing between Gina Porter, Ricky Bowen and Nini Salazar-Roberts.

Moments[]

Nini notices Ricky and Gina flirting with one another.
Nini accidentally sees Ricky singing to Gina When There Was Me and You and walks away. Neither noticed her.
Nini watches Ricky and Gina's spin-hug and shared smiles with discomfort.

Big Red at first thinks Just for a Moment is for Gina, but Ricky tells him it's for Nini.

Ricky thinks Nini is at his door and at first seems disappointed when it turns out to be Gina.
Nini calls Ricky when him and Gina just had a moment.
Ricky sushes Gina, not wanting Nini to know she's there.
Gina gives Ricky unprompted advice to sing Even When to Nini over the phone and leaves.
Ricky receives a text from Gina a second before Nini's voicemail.

Ricky and Gina look guilty when Nini surprises everyone at rehearsal.
Ricky tries to stop Big Red from asking Gina for advice about a text to Nini but fails.
Gina tells Ricky not to send his text to Nini while hiding her sadness.
Gina watches as Ricky decides to see Nini just before she leaves at the train station.

Ricky asks Gina for advice on whether he should go behind Nini's back to get her in the show.
Gina tells Ricky off, saying that they aren't dating and there are better people to go to advice to about Nini.
Nini and Ricky present Gina to the stage.
Ricky seems to notice Gina is sad on stage while sitting next to Nini.
Ricky, still next to Nini, says "wow" in awe of Gina performing A Dancer's Heart.
Gina's eyes are teary as she watches Nini and Ricky stare at one another.

Gina tells Ashlyn that Ricky is happy ever since Nini came back, when in reality he was very unhappy.

Gina walks into the dressing room where Ricky is, not knowing he was just with Nini nor that they got back together.
After Gina confesses her feelings to Ricky and walks away, he looks between the tag Nini just gave him and the door Gina walked out of.

Gina tells Nini she's been wrong about romance before, referring to herself and Ricky.
Nini finds out about the chocolates Ricky and Gina had joked about while her and Ricky were still dating.
Nini is bitter to Gina the rest of the night, feeling weird as to why she or Ricky never told her.

Nini tells Gina her getting upset about the chocolates was more about them two than her and Ricky, in that she was hoping Gina trusted her.
Ricky's verse in Second Chance refers to him and Nini as well as foreshadows the resurfacing of him and Gina.

Gina and Nini watch Ricky perform Kristoff Lullaby, but Ricky only looks at Gina in the end.
Gina tells Ricky to open Nini's opening night card, and lightly smiles at his reaction of it being a lottery ticket.

Ricky asks Gina for advice on Nini about not saying "I love you" back.
Gina chuckles when Ricky reveals his ex is called Nini.
Gina gives Ricky the idea to audition for HSM with I Think I Kinda You Know, indirectly getting him the co-lead with Nini.

Their love triangle was the only one of the core four to be focused on in more than one season.
The trio only had one scene together with just them three across the whole show, in Thanksgiving.
There's an unreleased 1920s dream sequence near the end of season 1 involving only them, rumoured to be about Ricky struggling between Nini and Gina.
Nini wasn't aware the love triangle had continued in season 2 until The Transformation, weeks after her and Ricky had broken up.
Ricky confessed to Nini in The Storm that he wanted her to stay with him in SLC "forever", something Gina told Ricky not to text her earlier that day. Many months later in Born to Be Brave, Ricky confessed his love for Gina with Love You Forever, a song he wrote her.
Nini didn't stay in SLC for Ricky while it was one of the main reasons Gina did.
Tim's plan was Nini and Ricky would end up together if the show ended at one season. If the show was renewed, Ricky and Gina would have a slow-burn endgame. The latter happened.
Tim Federle was inspired by the Dawson's Creek love triangle between Dawson, Joey and Pacey.
Ricky played Troy with Nini's Gabriella in season 1 and Gina's Gabriella in season 4.
Ricky use to only confide in Nini (and Lynne). But Gina became that person to him, even while he was back together with Nini.
In an alternate ending of Let It Go, it's revealed Ricky got Gina the chocolates on Valentine’s Day while he was still dating Nini.^[1] This was later implied to be canon on-screen in Admissions.