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 her best not to look directly

pretend I'm reading,

upside down, Alicia. Are you sure you're

"…Eh?"

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

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

embarrassing!' Her thoughts echoed, mortified by the

do at this point? How could she salvage this

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

she came up with under the spot,

of writings that reading them normally and

just trying to make her feel better about her mistake, or if he genuinely thought she

was already rolling, she stuck

"Precisely! You get it!"

this. Rey was smiling, and

blunder but chose to keep it under

was

backed away slowly, his voice still the constant in

idea of what you would like to read? Or should

both of them had spoken about two weeks ago, Alicia and Rey's

each other, and more often than not Rey would ask for

to be

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

now more like a mysterious persona who

spoke to was Alicia, and

don't know what training they're doing in the Beta Group, but it's definitely

wasn't very easy to see his muscle tone and well-defined biceps—among other major

up over time, and right now, she could tell he was

wonder why he's like

among the popular kids, seeing how he had

but his current physique was impressive in

also not terrible looking. He's definitely

importantly, he was pretty chill to

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

I'm just overthinking things. I'm always cooped up here, so maybe he actually had friends I

this

you hear anything