An Extra’s POV

Alicia White flipped the pages of the book she was reading, silently consuming the information within it.

As her eyes teetered across each letter—every word—she could see all the information she desired to understand.

Still, for some unknown reason, she could not grasp it.

'Looks like my mind is wandering again…' Alicia thought to herself.

After reading for hours without end, it seemed she had finally arrived at her saturation point for the day.

'It's around 7 PM already. Maybe I should take a break…'

As she sighed and closed the book that she read, a small sigh echoed from her lips.

She glanced around and noticed that no one was present in the library but her.

Times like these felt lonely, but also somewhat comforting.

There were no eyes to glare at her, or no mouths to bash her.

'It's not so bad…'

The moment she had this thought, the doors to the library creaked open, and someone entered.

The moment she heard this, Alicia swiftly carried her book and shoved it in her face, as if she had been reading this entire time.

'He's here!' Her thoughts echoed as she tried her best not to peek behind the pages of her book.

Pretending to be so immersed in reading, she kept her eyes locked on the texts therein.

"Um… hi, Alicia."

The moment she heard the very familiar, but awkward voice, Alicia straightened up and slowly looked up from her book.

As expected, she found Rey standing right next to her.

"O-oh, hi Re—"

"What are you reading?" He suddenly drew nearer as his face closed in on hers.

smells nice…' Her thoughts echoed as

pretend

book is upside down, Alicia. Are you sure you're

"…Eh?"

point, she had no point but to look at Rey, and then turned to see that

she was serious that she didn't realize such

echoed, mortified by

more could she do at this point?

see if I could understand it upside down.

a flimsy excuse that she came up with under the spot,

kinds of writings that reading them

just trying to make her feel better about her mistake,

already rolling, she stuck

"Precisely! You get it!"

but this.

like they both understood her blunder but

it was better

any recommendations for me today?" Rey backed away slowly, his voice still the constant

idea of what you would

them had spoken about two weeks ago, Alicia and Rey's

more often than not Rey

but Rey seemed to be getting more and more assertive as the days went

but the 'Rey' that she knew when they first arrived in this world was vastly different from the one beside

a dreary, sad-looking person, he was now more like

spoke to was Alicia,

what training they're doing in the Beta Group, but it's

baggy clothes, so it wasn't very easy to see his muscle tone and well-defined biceps—among other major improvements—but

up over time, and right now, she could tell

he's like this,

him would try vying for a position among the popular

his current physique was impressive in

also not terrible looking.

was pretty chill to be

anyone else? Why did he only come

overthinking things. I'm always cooped up here, so maybe he actually had friends

this thought, she sighed and

you hear