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

pretend I'm reading,

book is upside down, Alicia. Are you sure

"…Eh?"

this point, she had no point but to look at Rey, and

act like she was serious that she

Her thoughts echoed, mortified by the

this point? How could she

understand it upside down. There's a chance that a hidden

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

writings that

to make her feel better about her mistake, or if he genuinely

the ball was already rolling,

"Precisely! You get it!"

other choice but this. Rey was

her blunder

was better this

backed away slowly, his voice still the constant in their

would like to read? Or

ago, Alicia and

more often than not Rey would ask for

Rey seemed to be getting more and

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

dreary, sad-looking person, he was now more like a mysterious persona who intentionally refused

to was Alicia,

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

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

time, and right now, she could tell he was very

why he's like

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

too impressive, but his

not terrible looking. He's definitely

he was pretty chill to

was he not talking to anyone else? Why did he only come to the library and speak to

up here, so maybe he actually had friends I don't

had this thought, she

Alicia… did you