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 smells nice…' Her thoughts echoed as she tried her best not

pretend

book is upside down, Alicia. Are

"…Eh?"

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

to act like she was serious that she didn't

embarrassing!' Her thoughts echoed, mortified by the

this

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

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

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

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

was already

"Precisely! You get it!"

choice but this. Rey was

blunder

was better

today?" Rey backed away slowly, his voice still the constant

you would like to read? Or

the both of them had spoken about two weeks ago, Alicia and

to each other, and more often than not Rey would

but Rey seemed to be getting more and more assertive as the

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

now more like a mysterious persona who intentionally refused

consistently spoke to was Alicia, and

huge boost. I don't know what training they're doing in the Beta Group, but it's definitely

to see his

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

he's like

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

but his current physique was

terrible looking.

was pretty chill to be

did

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

this thought, she

Alicia… did you hear anything