An Extra’s POV

The night was awkward after that.

They had to speak to Justin, who was just returning from his meeting with his Party Members when he saw them in that corner.

As expected, he poked jokes at them and tried to probe further into what they were doing alone in the dark, but none of them answered honestly.

Thankfully, Justin only caught about a second of it, so he couldn't make any concrete case.

"Well, I hope your Party meeting went well. I'm supposed to rendezvous with them at our Group Room later, so I'm just whiling the time away exploring the city." He explained with a casual smile.

It might have been casual information from his perspective, but both Rey and Alicia received a rude awakening the moment he said this.

'THE PARTY MEETING!'

The had completely lost track of time, and now the meeting was probably over.

Justin, being the perceptive guy that he was, observed their shocked expressions and cocked his head slightly.

"You guys okay?"

"Y-yeahh…" They both muttered, their heads hanging in disgrace.

Who would have thought that Alicia—the stern and disciplined one—and the Extra—who didn't cause trouble for anyone—would be the ones to default in the plan?

Their heads were still spinning as to the consequences of their actions when Justin waved them goodbye.

"Welp! I gotta go now! You people can continue what you were doing back the—ouch!"

A slight jab from Alicia sent him hopping away, hurriedly waving as he ran off in both pain and fright.

"See you guys at the Conquest!"

As both Rey and Alicia heard his last words, they sighed simultaneously. Rey's sigh was louder, though.

'There's no way we can continue now…'

right, but they had to deal with their lateness to their respective

if he said he wasn't aware that time was passing and that he was

Skill to create another duplicate to take his place, since that meant he would be momentarily

do that with Alicia—especially in

the end, he messed

our Party Meeting…" She muttered, causing Rey to

in that

"Mine is over there."

which clearly meant they would have to

dash off, not wasting any time at all, but something about the atmosphere caused their feet to

guess we won't see each other till the Conquest. Maybe even until

able to talk until

both stared away from each other in silence, feeling the awkwardness creep

seemed like neither of them wanted to be

Rey swallowed his saliva and

delaying despite how precarious their situation was. Before he could

go now. Bye

ran off, almost as fast as the gust of

raised his

a while, soaking in the disappointment that now filled his body at a massive

was so close…' He closed his eyes, clenching his fist while his upper and lower

forget this moment? Will

Rey wasn't sure.

thing he couldn't deny now, though, and

pretty sure she

made him so happy that he could scream at

exactly what he

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

anyone else from hearing his thunderous shout of triumph, so he didn't really

just felt so

definitely confess to her when we

that time wouldn't be appropriate considering how many moving pieces there would be after everything was

Plus, the