She was always told she had such a beautiful name but Allison always thought it was too girly. So she went by Ali until she was old enough to feel like she had grown into Allison. Ali spent her entire life trying to get one step of ahead. She wanted to cross that line, to do the unbelievable, to chart the unexplored all before the age of 30.

Ali never did see the point in clinging too tightly to things. Material wasn’t permanent and there were so many other things and people that losing contact along the way with much of it was irrelevant as long as the impression stayed. So she let people go left her home left her family and opened herself up to a great adventure the day she finished high school. But one certain blue eyed boy stayed despite her best efforts to shake him and so rather than fight it Ali allowed it to exist. Ali and Jon, Jon and Ali; maybe it was wishful thinking but to her it sounded so perfect. But how can a homebody ever love the adventurer? The kiss of chance came and went and so did Ali