#BIR2010 -Laura Kreizter - Guest Post

Laura Kreitzer is an author that Yara from Once Upon a Twilight mentioned to me; Laura is a 2010 debut author. I have read her first book Shadow of the Sun; which is a unique take on Angels. I can't wait to continue the Timeless Series with Soul Stalker.  If you like Angels and all things Supernatural you will enjoy her Timeless series. Laura also has another series coming out next year called Summer Chronicles - sounds like a very interesting read!

We had asked Laura to write about an embarrassing moment or Christmas memory - but she didn't really have anything to share. So she told us a little story about herself. I know understand where her main character, Gabriella (Timless Series)  gets her fierceness.

I have no interesting or endearing Christmas moments and I don’t have any truly embarrassing moments because it is rare that anything actually embarrasses me. So, I hope you don’t mind, I decided to tell another story about an independent little girl named Laura Kreitzer.

A three year old Laura was riding her bicycle—equipped with streamers and training wheels—down the sidewalk. She was learning how to ride for the first time and after twenty minutes she had finally figured it out. With nothing but open sidewalk ahead, Laura began her journey.

Another little girl, though a bit older—about eight—peeked out her window and grew green with jealousy over Laura’s awesome new wheels. We’ll just call this girl Julie (because memory has failed Laura after all these years). Julie, with her pathetic looking crayons and coloring book in hand, marched outside and glared at Laura as she rode past Julie’s house for the tenth time.

Laura, oblivious of this girl staring daggers at her, rode happily with the wind in her face, her blonde hair blowing backward, and her dad cheering her on. Julie refused to go unnoticed, though. As Laura pedaled past Julie’s house again, Julie stomped over the grass, dropped her coloring book and crayons on the sidewalk, sat cross-legged on the grass, and began to color with a smug expression on her face. One that said “You won’t be riding your bike in front of my house anymore!” But there is one thing about Laura that Julie didn’t know. Though Laura was only three (and a half), she refused to take any poop. Not even from grown-up eight year olds.

As Laura turned her bike around to go back down the sidewalk, she threw her feet back which instantly slammed her breaks down. Politely, Laura asked if Julie would please move her coloring book off the sidewalk so she could pass. Julie stuck her tongue out and went back to coloring, thinking, “Hah, watch her drive past my house again!”

Laura, unperturbed, awkwardly backed her bike away from Julie until she was roughly fifty feet away. With a sly grin spreading across her face, she pedaled as fast as she could, picking up speed quickly, the air whipping faster through her hair than ever before on the bike. Julie looked up just in time to see the rocket that was Laura and her blurred wheels as they spun around. Laura ran right over that coloring book. Julie flew backward and dodged the bike just in the nick of time, but to her dismay, her coloring book and crayons were now torn and broken like fallen soldiers across the sidewalk.

Laura’s dad stared at her with approval and pride, not even apologizing to Julie who quickly removed her stuff from the sidewalk. Never again would Julie park her butt on the sidewalk when Laura was riding her bike. This was her sidewalk, bitch!

Hahah! This is a true story, by the way. Now that I am done writing about myself in the third person (which is kinda creepy, fyi), I hope that this will satisfy your thirst for some kind of story about myself. 

Laura Kreitzer