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.

he just take a shower? He smells nice…' Her thoughts echoed as she tried

pretend I'm

upside down, Alicia.

"…Eh?"

point, she had no point but to look at Rey, and then turned to see that her book was indeed upside

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

Her thoughts echoed, mortified by the

more could she do at this point? How could she

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

under the spot, but Alicia really

of some kinds of writings that

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

the ball was already rolling, she stuck

"Precisely! You get it!"

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

like they both understood her blunder but chose to keep

was

recommendations for me today?" Rey backed away slowly,

any idea of what you would like

the both of them had spoken about two weeks ago,

other, and more often than not Rey would ask

but Rey seemed to be

confidence from, but the 'Rey' that she knew when they first

changed. From being a dreary, sad-looking person, he was now more like

spoke to was Alicia, and

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

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

she could tell he was very jacked underneath his

why he's

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

weren't too impressive, but his current physique was

not terrible looking.

importantly, he was pretty chill to be

he not talking to anyone else? Why did he only come

cooped up here, so maybe he actually

had this thought, she sighed

you hear