About two weeks ago I got a call from my one of my old best friends from back in the day. He was my older brothers good friend from when he was high school and he was like a big brother to me. When I was a freshman in high school my older brother was a senior and David (his good friend) was a freshman in college. I had my very first boy friend my freshman year and I dated him for about seven months before he just randomly broke up with me. I took it very hard, going into a deep depression, and practically gave up on life. My parents were very protective of me so I was never allowed to leave my house which caused me to have no social life. David was always at our house because of my oldest brother Zack so him and I became very good friends and practically told everything to each other. He helped me out of this hard time, and believe me when I say it was a struggle to get out of how depressed I was. It was all because of David. This was in 2008, but I didn’t get out of the depression till the summer of 2009. Yeah.. I know it took forever. Anyways about two weeks ago I got a random call from David asking me if I could meet up with him in town since he was down from where he lived. I had just got done with a photo shoot, so I agreed to meet him in the high school parking lot in our home town. I rarely get to see David with him being out of college already now and me in college, so it was nice being able to see him after so long. Keep in mind I am in college but my parents make me commute from home to school. He was leaning up against his car when I got out and he began to tell me a story of everything that had happened in the past, about how depressed I was, how my parents were, everything. I was beyond confused about why he would bring this up, but I just stood there and listened. Immediately after he was done talking about me he began telling me a different story. A story about two kingdoms, about a princess in a tower who is kept away from the world because of her parents, and about how her life changes when she leaves. I was really confused after this. He then paused, looked at me, smiled, and reached behind his back and pulled out a book. These were his exact words.
“I have always wanted to write a book, and I always would start then stop or just not get the motivation to keep writing. In the summer of 2009 was when you finally got over Thomas. Something changed in you, you were finally happy again. At that moment an idea sparked in my mind. I began writing and it all just came together. It took a year to edit, a year to find a publisher, and now it is finally here. You are what inspired this story. I took everything that happened in the time we knew each other and created this book.”
He handed me the book and right then I read the back. I opened the book to the first page and there was written “Dedicated to Bailey.” I had tears, I had never in my life thought that someone would ever do anything like this for me. It was an amazing feeling. I got home and read the entire book in a few days. I could pick out the things that happened in my life that are in the book, as well as in David’s. I am not just saying this because I inspired the book, but it is really one of the most amazing books I have ever read. It was so perfect and would even make a great movie if it had the chance to. I’ve read it twice already in the past two weeks and I still can’t even believe that I am the reason that this book exists.
The whole point of me posting this onto tumblr is because, so many people become famous off of youtube, the internet, or at random. I wanted to try and help get this book out into the public so that everybody can get as much joy out of it as I did. It really is good and I am so proud of David for going through with it. He is only 23. I know that I don’t have a lot of followers, I barely have 500, but I would mean the absolute world to me if any of you who actually read this pose would take the time to go read it.
Please please please help me out on this!
Reblog this, go buy the book and ready it. I swear you won’t regret it! :)
Go to the link above or the link here: www.teradil.com
The book doesn’t come out till June I believe, but you can still order it now.
I know that nobody on here will probably read the book, or even this post, but it really is worth the try. Also thanks to the people who do read this and help me out. :) Even if it is just one person. At least it is someone…
