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

he would be lying if he said he wasn't aware that time was passing and that he was supposed

to create another duplicate to take his place, since that meant he

to do that with Alicia—especially in the later parts

end, he messed

I guess we better get going to our Party Meeting…" She muttered, causing

in that

"Mine is over there."

which clearly meant

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

each other till the Conquest. Maybe even until

won't be able to

other in silence, feeling the

was just reluctance, but it seemed like neither of them

I…?' Rey swallowed his

right that they were still delaying despite how precarious their situation was. Before he could be the bigger person and tell Alicia goodnight,

should go

ran off, almost as fast as the

slightly raised his hand

the disappointment that now filled his

eyes, clenching his fist

we forget this moment? Will we try

Rey wasn't sure.

was one thing he couldn't deny now, though, and that

sure she likes

so happy that he could scream at the top of his lungs

was exactly

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

blocked anyone else from hearing his thunderous shout of triumph, so he

just felt

confess to her when we get

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

the most vital