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.

take a shower? He smells nice…' Her thoughts echoed as she tried

pretend I'm reading,

upside down, Alicia. Are you sure you're

"…Eh?"

point but to look at Rey, and then turned

hurry to act like she

Her thoughts echoed,

could she do at this point? How

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

excuse that she came up with under the spot,

heard of some kinds of writings that reading them

feel better about her mistake, or

was already rolling, she stuck to

"Precisely! You get it!"

was no other choice but this.

like they both understood her blunder

was better

Rey backed away slowly, his voice still the

you would like to read?

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

to each other, and more often

little awkward initially, but Rey seemed to be getting more and

his confidence from, but the 'Rey' that she knew

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

spoke to was Alicia, and she preferred it

what training they're doing in the Beta Group, but

so it wasn't very easy to see his muscle tone and

she could tell he

wonder why he's like this,

try vying for a position among the popular kids, seeing how he

but his current

not terrible looking.

pretty chill to

to anyone else? Why did he only come to the library and speak to

up here, so maybe

this thought, she sighed

Alicia… did you hear anything