Solving a Cube

When Interrogating a Cube

Jordan: You started Wattpad... four years ago. December 28, 2012.

Rubix: Apparently.

Jordan: You-

Rubix: Let's stop before we go into any more personal details I don't want the internet to know about-

Jordan: (Slams hand on the table) You can't handle the truth!

Rubix: (Blinks) What?

Jordan: (Smiles sheepishly) Sorry. I wanted to say that from the very beginning. But you haven't given me an opportunity to say it.

Rubix: (Sighs) You're the last person I want to be interrogating me.

Jordan: Well, why did you choose me?

Rubix: Don't break the fourth wall.

Jordan: Don't tell me what to do, young lady.

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Rubix: (Repeats incredulously) Young lady? Just because you're older than me doesn't mean you can call me young lady.

Jordan: (Ignores her and continues) I don't do the whole good cop, bad cop. I go bad cop to worse cop. Capisce?

Rubix: You got that from a movie. Why are you-

Jordan: Capisce?

Rubix: Gesundheit.

Jordan: (Lets out a groan in frustration) You're not giving me anything.

Rubix: There's nothing to give. (Shows handcuffed wrists) Especially since I can't give you anything physically.

Jordan: (Gets up from his chair and begins to pace) Why did you do it?

Rubix: Do what?

Jordan: You seemed to fake your death after finishing the book. After you finished TGGBB, you said you were taking a break and just vanished off the face of the Earth.

Rubix: (Huffs) But I posted a few things here and there...

Jordan: But nothing. Why did you do it?

Rubix: (Pauses for a moment) Is that why I'm here?

Jordan: You ask me.

Rubix: (Takes a moment) I really did need a break. Two years writing that book... I didn't know what I was getting myself into. All that time and energy, I have no idea how I was able to handle all of that, now that I'm looking back on it. I thought I deserved that break... Didn't I?

Jordan: (His face softens) Yeah, of course.

Rubix: They don't seem to get it though. I know a year-

Jordan: (Coughs) More than a year.

Rubix: (Shoots a glare then continues) Sounds a lot to my readers, but it's actually not a lot for me.

Jordan: What are you even doing in this... break of yours?

Rubix: Surprisingly enough, I have a life. It must be astonishing to hear that I don't spend every single waking moment of my life writing. Not that I don't want to, but I can't. I've been focusing a lot more on school, my future. As much as I want to believe writing will take care of it for me, I can't take the chance of risking it. But I've been working on both the sequel and the new version of TGGBB.