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

pretend

is upside down, Alicia.

"…Eh?"

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

hurry to act like she

thoughts echoed, mortified

what more could she do at this point? How could she salvage

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

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

have heard of some kinds of writings that reading

trying to make her feel better about her mistake, or if he genuinely thought she

the ball was already rolling, she

"Precisely! You get it!"

this. Rey was smiling, and so

her blunder but chose to keep it under

was better this

backed away slowly,

you would like to read? Or should I just choose

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

and more often

awkward initially, but Rey seemed to be getting more and

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

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

he consistently spoke to was Alicia, and she preferred it that

know what training they're doing in the

his muscle tone and well-defined biceps—among other

and right now, she could tell he was very jacked underneath his current

wonder why he's

the popular kids, seeing how he had improved greatly since coming to this new

impressive, but his current physique was impressive in

also not terrible looking.

pretty

did he only come to the library and

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

this thought, she sighed

Alicia… did you