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.

girl in a room together… if I start a conversation now, he

wasn't interested in him,

in, but as a girl, she knew this was

don't want him to get the wrong

been in a lot of her conversations that took a drastic

thought she was interested in them and to make all the

leaning forward and puckering his lips or

That just felt… wrong.

no means a prude, and she had

the issue

issue is when a guy considers a girl's feelings towards them as a license to just go for the kill and

girls were into that sort of thing, but Alicia knew how much

tried to do stuff like that, and itedes up

guys like Billy who seemed so

was a

see you in another

her best

say

to kiss me or

the mood was a

think I'm ready for

good, it could end up completely shattering the

wanted something more intimate in

Less action, perhaps?

mean, I was thinking about you… and how you seem

in her

"I've changed? How…?"

you used to be so assertive and outspoken. That's

remembered those normal

seemed so

and when we came

on to explain the

and

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

only thing Alicia had going for her right

beauty didn't seem to be everyone's main priority—not with Lucielle being the new center of

I see…" Alicia couldn't help but

was talking to her about this. Strangely

got tired of trying to fit in. Trying to help everyone and

feel like Rey was

like she could just speak her mind

to study for my benefit. I want to learn more about this world, and about my abilities. I want to focus on my capabilities, and one day… hopefully find

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