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 to look directly at

pretend I'm

upside down, Alicia. Are you

"…Eh?"

Rey, and then turned to see that her book

hurry to act like she was serious that

embarrassing!' Her thoughts echoed,

she do at this point? How could she

upside down. There's a chance that a hidden

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

I have heard of some kinds of writings that reading them normally and upside down

make her feel better about her mistake,

since the ball was already rolling, she

"Precisely! You get it!"

was no other choice but this. Rey was smiling, and so

seemed like they both understood her blunder but

was

recommendations for me today?" Rey backed away

any idea of what you would like to read? Or should I just

weeks ago, Alicia and Rey's Library

and more often than not

a little awkward initially, but Rey seemed to be getting more and more assertive as the days

but the 'Rey' that she knew when they first arrived

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

to was Alicia, and she preferred it that

I don't know what training they're doing

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

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

wonder why he's

for a position among the popular kids, seeing

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

not terrible looking. He's definitely above

pretty chill to

Why did he only come to the library

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

had this thought, she sighed and

you hear anything