— the girl who never learned how to move quietly through the world. she speaks in quicksilver thoughts and half-breath laughter, feels everything a little too deeply, and lives as if hesitation is something meant for other people. at Briar, where she studies theater, performance has become second nature - not just beneath the stage lights, but in classrooms, crowded hallways, and all the fragile little moments where everyone expects her to hold herself together more gracefully than she truly can.
…she is wit wrapped in warmth, sharp-edged when she needs to survive, and impossibly alive even in the middle of disaster. the kind of girl who can take heartbreak, chaos, and all the ugly parts of living and turn them into something almost beautiful simply because she refuses to let the world swallow her whole.
beneath all the laughter and easy charm, though, allie is still someone in the middle of becoming. constantly recalibrating. quietly searching for who she is when no one is watching, needing, expecting. when there’s no script in her hands and no role left to play. she has never fit neatly into the shapes people try to give her. instead, she resists them, rewrites them, stumbles through them with bruised grace until they begin to feel like something she chose for herself. so maybe that’s what this chapter of her life really is: a slow unlearning. a realization that she does not have to keep shrinking into the version of herself that makes everyone else comfortable.
now for the first time in a long time, allie hayes is beginning to wonder what it would mean to choose herself first and not apologize for it.” —
✧・ﾟ:* based on the Off Campus books&tv series; semi active. mutuals only.
forever thinking about that one craigslist ad that was like
"i need somebody to chase through the woods and i need them to try their hardest to not get caught and when they do, i want them to tell me im so fast and etc etc"
do you know how badly i wanna be chased? i wanna be chased so bad!!! so so bad!!! when! when will it be my turn!?
