An Extra’s POV

"You."

The moment Alicia heard this, her eyes widened in shock.

'W-what is he saying?!'

Alicia was expecting a lot of things, but not this!

Not yet!

'He was thinking about me? That's why he hasn't been focusing on reading?!'

Even though Alicia didn't say anything, she had been glancing at Rey at intervals to see if he was indeed focused on reading.

Or if, like her, he couldn't concentrate.

At first, he was turning the pages, so she assumed he was paying attention.

She didn't want to disturb him with a conversation, or something that would disrupt his focus.

The sole reason she was here, with him, was so they could enjoy the unspoken camaraderie they shared in books.

If she sullied that with pointless conversations just to selfishly while away time, it would be unfair.

Just because she wasn't into the books today, that didn't mean Rey wouldn't be.

However, her thought processes soon changed when Rey stopped flipping his book pages.

'Hm? What's going on?!' She had thought.

Within herself, she had a faint hope that he too wasn't very invested in what he was reading.

She knew it was a terrible thing to wish for, but she had had no choice in the matters of her emotions.

As time passed, she hoped he wouldn't flip the page and regain his momentum.

She hoped he would talk to her instead.

She hoped…

However, nothing happened.

'Should I just talk to him and start the conversation?' Alicia finally thought to herself.

It wouldn't be a big deal to do so.

But, she didn't want Rey to misunderstand her intentions.

if I start a conversation now,

wasn't like she wasn't interested in him, but Alicia didn't want him

weird state to be in, but

him to get the

had been in a lot of her conversations that

usually went south when a guy thought she was interested

forward

That just felt… wrong.

was by no means a prude, and she had lots of experiences kissing

wasn't the

feelings towards them as a license

were into that sort of thing, but Alicia knew how

of guys had tried to do stuff like that, and itedes up ruining the chemistry they

also why she didn't like guys like Billy who

it was a little

want to see you in another light,

best not to show that she

he had to say he was

tries to kiss me or

ones in the room, and the

don't think I'm ready for

kiss wouldn't be good, it could end up completely shattering

more

Less action, perhaps?

I was thinking about you… and how you seem to have changed a lot since we arrived

her

"I've changed? How…?"

assertive and

remembered those

seemed so far

and when we came here…

to explain the 'change'

class politics and other issues.

hung around with, and her presence in the group had faded away—almost to

going for her right now was

seem to be everyone's main priority—not

I see…" Alicia couldn't help but

time anyone was talking to her

I just got tired of trying to fit in. Trying to help everyone

but Alicia didn't feel like

felt like she could just speak her mind to

my benefit. I want to learn more about this world, and about my abilities.

as soon

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