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.

echoed as she tried

pretend

book is upside down, Alicia. Are you sure

"…Eh?"

look 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

thoughts echoed, mortified by

this point? How could she salvage

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

excuse that she came up with under the spot, but Alicia

writings that reading them normally and upside down

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

the ball was already rolling, she

"Precisely! You get it!"

other choice but this. Rey was smiling, and so was

blunder

it was

Rey backed away

of what you would like to read? Or

ago,

to each other, and more often

Rey seemed to be getting more and more assertive as the

she knew when they first arrived

now more like a mysterious persona who intentionally refused to associate with

only person he consistently spoke to was Alicia, and

physique has also taken a huge boost. I don't know what training

wasn't very easy to see his muscle tone and well-defined biceps—among

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

he's like this,

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

abilities weren't too impressive, but his current

looking.

he was pretty chill to be

talking to anyone else? Why did he

I'm always cooped up here, so maybe he

had this

Alicia… did you hear