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

just pretend I'm

Alicia. Are you sure you're

"…Eh?"

to look at Rey, and then turned to see that her book was

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

thoughts echoed, mortified

she do at this point? How could she

to see if I could understand it upside

a flimsy excuse that she came up with under the

of writings that reading them normally and

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

already rolling, she stuck

"Precisely! You get it!"

choice but this.

they both understood her blunder but chose to

was

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

you would like to read? Or should

spoken about two weeks ago, Alicia and Rey's Library Relationship

now spoke to each other, and more often

awkward initially, but Rey seemed to be getting

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

now more like a mysterious persona who intentionally refused to

was

a huge boost. I don't know what training they're doing in the Beta

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

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

why he's like this,

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

impressive, but his current physique

terrible looking. He's definitely

importantly, he was pretty chill to

Why did he only

up here, so maybe he actually had friends I don't know

this thought,

you hear