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.

thoughts echoed as she tried her best not

pretend I'm

book is upside down, Alicia.

"…Eh?"

no point but to look at Rey, and then turned to see that her book

had been in such a hurry to act like she was serious that she didn't realize such a

thoughts echoed, mortified by

she do at this point? How could

I was trying to see if I could understand it upside down. There's

flimsy excuse that she came up with under the spot, but Alicia really hoped

kinds of writings that reading

better about her mistake, or if he

was already rolling, she stuck to

"Precisely! You get it!"

choice but this. Rey was smiling, and

understood her blunder but chose

was

recommendations for me today?" Rey backed away slowly, his

Got any idea of what you would like to read?

ago, Alicia and Rey's

other, and more often than not Rey would ask for

little awkward initially, but Rey seemed to be getting

he was getting his confidence from, but the 'Rey' that she knew when

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

consistently spoke to was Alicia, and she preferred

don't know what training they're doing in the Beta Group,

very easy to see his muscle tone and well-defined biceps—among other major

and right now, she could tell

why he's like

a position among the popular kids, seeing how

weren't too impressive, but his current physique was impressive in her

also not terrible looking. He's definitely

was pretty chill to

talking to anyone else? Why did he only come to the library and

I'm always cooped up here, so maybe he actually had

this thought, she sighed and

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