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.

take a shower? He smells nice…' Her thoughts echoed

just pretend I'm

Alicia.

"…Eh?"

at Rey,

like she was serious

thoughts echoed,

do at this point? How could she salvage

trying to see if I could understand it upside down. There's a chance that a hidden message could be located

was a flimsy excuse that she came up with under the spot, but Alicia really hoped it helped her

kinds of writings that reading them

just trying to make her feel better about her mistake,

already rolling, she stuck to

"Precisely! You get it!"

but this. Rey was

her blunder but chose to keep

it was better

recommendations for me today?" Rey backed away slowly,

Got any idea of what you would like to

had spoken about two weeks ago,

and more often than not Rey would ask for

awkward initially, but Rey seemed to be

where he was getting his confidence from, but the 'Rey' that she knew when they first arrived

had changed. From being a dreary, sad-looking person, he was now more like a mysterious persona who intentionally refused to associate with anyone around

consistently spoke to was Alicia, and

boost. I don't know what training they're doing in the Beta

his muscle tone and well-defined biceps—among other major improvements—but Alicia was

right now, she could tell he was very jacked

he's like this,

guys like him would try vying for a position among the popular kids, seeing how he had improved greatly since coming to this

abilities weren't too impressive, but his current physique was impressive

not terrible looking. He's

he was pretty

else? Why did he only

just overthinking things. I'm always cooped up here, so

this thought, she sighed

Alicia… did you