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 not to look

just pretend

book is upside down, Alicia. Are you sure

"…Eh?"

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

had been in such a hurry to act like she was serious that

embarrassing!' Her thoughts echoed, mortified by

this

understand it upside down. There's a chance that a hidden

flimsy excuse that she came up with under the spot, but Alicia really hoped it

heard of some kinds of writings that reading them normally and upside down

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

was already

"Precisely! You get it!"

this.

blunder but chose to keep

was

Rey backed away slowly, his

of what you would like to read? Or should

two weeks ago, Alicia and Rey's Library Relationship had somewhat gotten a bit

now spoke to each other, and more

to be getting

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

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

was Alicia, and she preferred it that

boost. I don't know what training

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

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

why he's

among the popular kids, seeing how he had

weren't too impressive, but his current physique was impressive in her

looking. He's definitely

pretty chill to

why was he not talking to anyone else? Why did he only

overthinking things. I'm always cooped up here, so

moment Alicia had this thought, she sighed

Alicia… did you