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.

start a conversation now, he might think I'm interested in

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

was a weird state to be in, but as a girl, she knew this

want him to get the wrong idea,

her experience with guys, Alicia had been in a lot of her conversations that took a

usually went south when a guy thought she was interested in

want him leaning forward and puckering his

That just felt… wrong.

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

the issue at

a girl's feelings towards them as a license to just

into that sort of thing, but Alicia knew how much

tried to do stuff like that, and itedes up

also why she didn't like guys like Billy who seemed so fixated

it was

don't want to see you

trying her best not to

say he was thinking about

tries to kiss

the only ones in the room, and the

think I'm ready for

the kiss wouldn't be good, it could

more

Less action, perhaps?

how you seem to have changed a lot

her

"I've changed? How…?"

to be so assertive and outspoken. That's why you became our

those normal

seemed so

and when we came

to explain

politics and

friends that she hung around with, and her presence in the group had faded

had going for her right now was her

seem to be everyone's main priority—not with Lucielle being

see…" Alicia couldn't help

talking to her about this. Strangely enough, she didn't

just got tired of trying to fit in. Trying

bitchy and selfish, but Alicia didn't feel

could just speak her mind to

want to learn more about this world, and about my

as soon as

want to