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 her best

pretend

is upside down, Alicia.

"…Eh?"

had no point but to look at Rey, and then turned

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

thoughts echoed,

could she do at this point?

I could understand it upside down. There's a chance that a hidden message could be

that she came up with under the spot, but Alicia

kinds of writings that reading them normally

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

already rolling,

"Precisely! You get it!"

other choice but this.

seemed like they both understood her blunder but chose to keep it under

it was better this

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

what you would like

ago, Alicia and Rey's

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

Rey seemed to be getting

no idea where he was getting his confidence from, but the 'Rey' that she

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

was Alicia, and she

has also taken a huge boost. I don't know what

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

now, she could tell he was very jacked underneath

wonder why he's

vying for a position among the popular kids, seeing how

his

also not terrible looking. He's definitely above

he was pretty chill to

why was he not talking to anyone else? Why did

things. I'm always cooped up here,

this thought, she sighed

Alicia… did you hear anything