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.

nice…' Her thoughts echoed as she

pretend I'm reading,

upside down, Alicia. Are you sure

"…Eh?"

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

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

embarrassing!' Her thoughts echoed, mortified by

at this point? How could

it upside down. There's a chance

was a flimsy excuse that she came up with under the spot,

see. I have heard of some kinds of writings that reading

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

already rolling, she stuck to

"Precisely! You get it!"

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

they both understood her blunder but chose to keep it under

it was

Rey backed away slowly,

any idea of what you would like

both of them had spoken about two weeks ago, Alicia

now spoke to each other, and more often than not Rey would

little awkward initially, but Rey seemed to be getting more and more assertive

from, but the 'Rey' that she

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

person he consistently spoke to was Alicia, and

has also taken a huge boost. I don't know what training they're doing

very easy to see his muscle tone and well-defined biceps—among

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

wonder why he's like

position among the popular kids, seeing how he

impressive, but his current

not terrible looking.

was pretty chill to be

Why did he only come to the library and

things. I'm always cooped up here,

had this thought, she sighed and

you hear anything I