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.

just take a shower? He smells nice…' Her thoughts echoed as she tried her best not to

pretend I'm reading,

upside down, Alicia. Are you

"…Eh?"

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

a hurry to act like she

embarrassing!' Her thoughts echoed, mortified

at this point? How could she

if I could understand it upside down. There's a chance that a

under the spot, but Alicia really hoped it helped her save

writings that reading them normally

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

ball was already rolling, she

"Precisely! You get it!"

but this. Rey

her blunder but chose to keep it

it was

recommendations for me today?" Rey backed away

would like to read? Or should I

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

now spoke to each other, and more

to be getting more and more assertive

the 'Rey' that she knew when they first

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

was

I don't know what training they're doing in the Beta

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

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

why he's

try vying for a position among the popular kids, seeing how he had improved greatly since coming to

impressive, but his current

terrible looking.

was pretty chill

why was he not talking to anyone else? Why did he only come to the library and speak

I'm always cooped up here, so maybe he actually had

Alicia had this thought,

did you