Devotion in disguise : We were all twisted

Betrayal doesn't always look like a knife in your back.
Sometimes it looks like your brother wearing your face.
Sometimes it looks like your mother choosing his lie over your truth.
Sometimes it looks like the boy you loved leaving you to burn.

Zara remembers Daniel locking the door.
Daniel remembers running into the fire to save her.
Only one of them is right.
And the person who knows the truth has been lying for five years.

He's Daniel's faux twin.
He stabbed kids with compasses. He set fires for fun.
And when Zara picked Daniel instead of him, he decided if he couldn't have her... no one would.

Their mother knew. She moved them to America to protect a murderer.
Daniel didn't know. He spent five years thinking Zara hated him for leaving.
Zara didn't know. She spent five years thinking Daniel tried to kill her.

Now he's back. And she finally says it:
"You left me to burn."

He looks at her like she slapped him.
"...WHAT? I LOCKED HER?"

We were all twisted.
Him for trusting his family.
Her for believing her eyes.
His mother for burying the truth.
And Alex?

Alex for smiling while we drowned.

Enemies to lovers. Twisted twin. Family betrayal. Arson. The kind of miscommunication that ruins lives.

Come for the angst. Stay for the betrayal.