Thanks to everyone for your reviews! Reviews make me happy! Here's your info:

First, to H357, the non italics is the present, just to clear that up. The italics are memories.
Next to thefanfichunter, sorry this isnt a ryan/sharpay! I have plans for a troypay later on, if you like those.
Finally, to Charmed OTH fan, emily fila, pollypocket911, and everyone else, thanks again for the reviews! Well, on with the next chapter!

When I was four, nothing really changed since I was three. Well, the good thing is that when I was four and a half, I lost the habit of sucking my thumb, finally. Oh yeah, and I made a best friend, Rachel. But that was way at the end of the year, so she wasn't a real big chunk of my childhood. Ryan was a different story. He was my only friend and I was his. We did everything together. But now I have to admit that he was just a tad bit overprotective.

For example, like every time that somebody would come over to me and try to play with me, like if they tried to take away anything I was playing with, he would get mad and tell them to "Go 'way!". Then he would have to sit in the blue chair for a time out for three minutes. But I think that he thought it was worth it or something like that. Around the time when I hung around with Rachel, Ryan kind of drifted away from me. We didn't notice that because he had his best friend, Steven. For the last two or three months of the last year of Preschool, we hardly paid attention to each other.

.:FLASHBACK:.

Rachel and I were at the tables, scribbling "pretty" pictures with markers, crayons, and all that stuff. Ryan was with Steven building towers with blocks and then smashing cars into them to make them fall over. They did this over and over just for the thrill of it.

"Okay, everybody, time to clean up!" Miss Shannon announced. Then she put that Barney song on the radio to help us get into the mood to pick up what we played with. And everybody, except me, who thought cleaning up was dramatically overrated, ran off to the bathroom to hide out until everybody else finished cleaning without me. I'm such a sneak, aren't I? We left, for the day after that, never giving each other a second glance. Ryan and I, that is.

.:END OF FLASHBACK:.

That part is true. Once Ryan met Steven and I met Rachel, we weren't as close. I mean, we weren't as close as we were before. Ryan would still protect me and stuff, but that wasn't very frequent. This went on of course, until when we were five, and something very unexpected happened that changed our lives forever.


Sorry that this chappie was so short, but I can't think of too many things that can happen! Oh well, in the NEXT chapter, something bad happens. DUN DUN DUN...so stay tuned!