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.

Her thoughts echoed as she tried her best not to look directly

just pretend

book is upside down, Alicia. Are you

"…Eh?"

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

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

echoed, mortified by the

this point? How could she salvage

to see if I could understand it upside down. There's a chance that a hidden message could

that she came up with under the spot, but Alicia

kinds of writings that reading them normally and upside down bring

know if Rey was just trying to make her feel better about

already rolling,

"Precisely! You get it!"

but this. Rey

her blunder

it was better

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

Got any idea of what you would like to read? Or should I

two weeks ago, Alicia and Rey's Library

now spoke to each other, and more often than not

Rey seemed to be getting more and more

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

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

was Alicia, and

don't know what training they're doing

baggy clothes, so it wasn't very easy to see his

time, and right now, she could tell he was very

he's like

thought guys like him would try vying for a position among the popular kids, seeing

but his

looking.

was pretty

he not talking to anyone else? Why did he

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

Alicia had this

did you hear anything I