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 she tried her best

pretend

down, Alicia. Are

"…Eh?"

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

like she was serious that she didn't realize

embarrassing!' Her thoughts echoed, mortified by

do at this

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

with under the spot, but Alicia really hoped it helped her save

of some kinds of writings that reading them normally and upside

was just trying to make her feel better about her mistake,

already rolling, she

"Precisely! You get it!"

but this.

both understood her blunder but chose to keep

it was better

backed away slowly, his

you would like to

two weeks ago, Alicia and

spoke to each other, and more often than not Rey

little awkward initially, but Rey seemed to be getting more and more assertive

but the 'Rey' that she knew when

he was now more like a mysterious persona who intentionally refused to associate with anyone

was Alicia, and she preferred it that

taken a huge boost. I don't know what training they're doing

wasn't very easy to see his muscle tone

things up over time, and right now, she could tell he was very jacked underneath his

he's

among the popular kids, seeing how he had improved

but his

also not terrible looking. He's

pretty

did he only come to the library and speak to

just overthinking things. I'm always cooped up here, so maybe he actually had friends I don't

had this thought, she sighed and

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