Submitting novel Chapter 13

He seemed unaffected. Until he broke out into the most ridiculously hysterical laughter I had ever heard. The humor in my answer was lost to me even though I knew the reason why it shouldn't have been my answer at all. 

"Boy, you truly should be a part of our family. You aren't even half sane as I thought you would be! My brother sure does have a great taste." With a grin still lingering on his face, he got up from the seat and walked towards one of the locked cupboards in the room and tried to jiggle the handles only to come up with nothing but disappointment.

"How many years are you-" I didn't need to finish the question as he cut me off and replied without any delay.

"Thirty minutes." Confusion clouded my mind as I frowned at the answer I received. Maybe he didn't get my answer after all and thought I was asking something else until it dawned on me. 

They were non-identical twins.

Things made a lot of sense now and more believable. They were by no means closely similar to each other and yet something always seemed to connect them in a way that I couldn't quite put my finger on which I can now. 

"Pizza crust or no pizza crust? His silly questions didn't make any sense yet they seemed to indicate something which I was too naive to understand. These small things even if silly seemed too...informative. You observe these things, and notice them and get to learn a person more deeply. His intentions might seem harmless yet the underlying intent not completely invisible.

"Pizza crust." He smirked all too knowingly. If that was supposed to be a test then I think I might have passed. But then again why would I lie about such a small thing. 

"What...are you doing here?" There were much more pressing questions building up inside me. I wanted to ask them and the answers itself were the sole reason why I agreed to play this stupid game in the first place. I had to tread carefully though and make sure that the ground is clear and unsuspicious before I could walk the thin line and ask about Liza. A kind of warm-up of sorts.

He sighed dramatically with that still smirk on his face making me wonder if that's all the answer I was going to receive until he astonishingly opened up more than I expected him to.

"You see, I lost this bet to him. It was sad because I almost won! I almost had you or I thought I did haha." His callous laugh reverberated in the room and seemed to last in the quiet echoes inside the room.