[The Introduction]

I was dragged by my mother to meet our new neighbor. Mom said that the lady who lived there was her bestfriend in high school and in college they parted ways. She said that the lady has a little girl of my age and she still doesn't know anyone. So mom asked me to show her around and be her friend.

Since I had nothing to do, and Gullah Gullah Island had just finished, I decided to go with mommy next door.

We walked hand in hand until we stopped in front of a big house. Mommy pushed the doorbell and when the door opened, out came a woman about 30 with short blonde hair and dressed like she's going out on a very private party for adults, a boy whose a lot taller than I am with blonde hair and a girl about my age who is currently looking at the ground.

"Lucille, is that you?" the lady next door said.

"Oh my, Derby. How are you?"

"Oh, fine, as always. By the way, these are my children, Ryan and Sharpay." The lady introduced her children to us. "Ryan is turning 8 next month and Sharpay is 3 and will be turning 4 in 3 months." Then she spotted me. "Now who is this little fella'"

Just then, Ryan saw Dylan. He was 8 years old and our neighbor across the street. He practically ran to Dylan and Dylan led Ryan inside their house.

"Sorry, Ryan met Dylan a while ago. He just wanted to go to their house and I said it was okay but only after we meet the Boltons."

"That's okay. I'm used to kids by now. Oh by the way, this is Troy. He just turned 4 last week" then the lady approached me. "Oh, Belated Happy Birthday, Troy!" then she turned to mommy. "Hey, Lucille why don't we catch up inside? I bet these kids just want to play here outside."

"Sure" then mommy crouched to my height. "Now Troy, be good okay? Show Sharpay around or play with her and be a good friend". And I nodded my head.

When mommy and that Derby woman went inside, I looked at the girl and she was staring at me but when she realized I was staring at her, she suddenly turned to face the ground. She's blonde and had pigtails. She was wearing a blue dress, and I really thought she was pretty.

I decided to break the silence between us. "Hi, my name is Troy. You're Sharpay right?" She just nodded her head, still staring at the ground. "How old are you?" She raised her hand and showed 3 fingers. "Oh well, I had my birthday last week. So now I'm 4." She didn't respond. "So uhmmm… 'wanna see around? Mommy said to show you around."

I pulled her hand and we walked towards our house. The whole time, she just looked at our hands. Then, we went to our porch. "This is my house. It's not as big as yours but I like it" Just then I saw her look at me. She looked at our house and back at me. And to my surprise, she smiled. It was not a very big smile, but it was the first and cutest smile I've seen and at that moment, I fell in love with the new girl next door.

[A/N:]Well, I thought about this story while we were in church. "Easter Sunday" was the event. It just came to me. I guess it was because of the kids I saw in church. And I thought about making a story of Troypay. This is gonna' be a series of "childhood" memories of Troy and Sharpay. I didn't make Ryan her twin 'cause it could be a threesome friendship if he's her twin 'cause you can't really separate twins, right?