Plates clinked as everyone ate hungrily.
But as Bill ate, he couldn't help but notice Lina.
'Wow, she's sorta beautiful…'
Bill thought as Lina pushed away bits of food around her plate and sipped at her Milk, seemingly cherishing the taste.
Tom snorted into his drink, obviously knowing what Bill was thinking.
Bill smacked him upside the head.
"Quit it!" Bill shouted slightly.
"Quit what?" Tom said in a teasing tone.
"OH you know what! Quit laughing at my thoughts!"
"Whoa! Who said I was laughing at your thoughts?" Tom asked.
"There was no way in hell you were thinking the same thing!" Bill said.
"I just don't think you know me that well dearest Billa…"
"My ass I don't." Bill cursed standing up, ready to smack his brother.
"You're twins?" A voice said.
Every head that had been watching Bill and Tom's little spat snapped to Lina.
She was looking up at them with an air of amazement, as if she had never seen a pair of twins before in her life.
"Last time we checked." They said at the same time, causing Gustav to laugh.
"How could you tell?" Bill asked after a pause, he just wanted to hear her voice again.
That clear, almost prudent voice.
"Twins can tell what each other are thinking, your conversation sounded almost as if we were only getting half the story, half a dialog, like we were missing that fist chapter." Lina said as she drank her juice. She sounded like a book reading itself.
"I find Twins quite amusing myself, I like the way they interact, the differences between Identical twins predominantly. I find that the differences in identical twins make the similarities that much more intriguing."
Everyone stared at her.
"OH don't look at me as if I am Josef Mengele reincarnate!"
"Who?" Gustav asked.
"Doctor Josef Mengele, the Doctor (although I hardly think he counts as one, given the fact that Doctors are meant to heal people and not dissect them) who was an Hauptsturmführer, SS during World War Two, worked in Auschwitz-Birkenau….he was famous for his experiments, he had a sick fascination with identical twins, often taking them from their beds at night and performing experiments on them such as dissection, limb removal, twin to twin transfusion, once he even sewed two of them together to create conjoined twins, although the hands of the children became badly infected where the veins had been resected, they got gangrene. Even though he did such horrible acts that if I listed them all would make me sound like a Wikipedia page he often introduced himself as Uncle Mengele to the children, and was even known as Mengele The Protector because, if even for a short time, these children were saved from the Gas chambers and fire pits."
Lina looked at them with an air of one looking at a five year old.
"Now, I might not be that sick as to even think about doing any of those atrocities to a twin, as I said, I rather like them, but I would kill to get my hands on a copy of the Höcker Album."
They stared at her wondering what the hell she had just said and more then a bit scared.
Lina rolled her eyes and stood up from the table.
"And they wonder why I don't ever say much." she said sighing. "Thank you for Lunch Mrs. Trümper." She said as she went back upstairs and closed the door behind her.
And indeed, she didn't say a word to any of them for three days.
