Viggo was sitting alone behind a desk in the silent study room of the library. He had come to school early and had so much time to kill so he thought he might as well do some studying for his exam that morning. As he was reading he was suddenly startled as he heard the door shut soundly. He looked up and saw non other than Tristan with a deadly look in his eyes staring at him at the door as he was turning a key into the lock most likely locking them inside.

Tristan had a key that fitted every room since his parents owned the school. There were no windows in the room and no other door to help Viggo in exiting in case Viggo became desperate to flee. Viggo knew he was no match for Tristan. Only Vincenzo was. Sometimes he wished his brother didn't hold back when he dueled with him so he knew how it was like to face Tristan since Vincenzo and Tristan were evenly matched in terms of physical strength. But their father had warned Vincenzo not to use full force. Viggo was shorter and quite skinny compared to the bulky Tristan and muscular Vincenzo. Maybe he could break the door but he doubted it. Tristan and Vincenzo were killing machines.

Viggo cautiously stood up from his desk "Tristan..."

Tristan walked towards his desk "You punk. I know what you did last night." He then without warning grabbed the collar of his shirt. He threw him with force across the classroom making him hit the wall.

Viggo stood up "What the hell?" He knew he had no chance but he wasn't one to go down without a fight. So he then charged at Tristan.

Tristan threw a punch into Viggo's stomach making him kneel to the floor.

Tristan threatened "Stay down and listen to what I say to you carefully."

Viggo recovered and stood up and attacked Tristan throwing punches that Tristan blocked easily.

Tristan warned "I said stay down and listen. I am not in the mood to teach you a lesson."

Viggo punched him "Its about Vienna. Isn't it?..."

Tristan stated "That's it." He then threw a strong punch into his stomach making him lose his breath and drop to the floor on his back."

Tristan spoke firmly "Enough. Stay down..."

Viggo raised his voice looking at Tristan " Why can't you get the message to keep your distance and not pressure her. You dared ask her to the prom so soon. She has found out you fancy her for two days now for crying out loud. " He then tried to tackle Tristan to the ground but Tristan managed to grab him from the floor and pushed him to the wall. Tristan grabbed his hand and twisted it behind him making Viggo wince in pain. With one hand he had Viggo's right hand and with another hand he was pushing his left hand and his body to the wall.

Viggo spoke "Let me go."

Tristan spoke as his voice boomed "I told you to stay down. Now if I break your arm, then it would be your fault. Now are you going to back off."

Viggo growled and looked back at Tristan "You threw the first punch."

Tristan stated "I did. Didn't I? But you didn't answer my question..." He then twisted his arm painfully making Viggo press his lips but he held Tristan's stare making Tristan admire him for being brave enough to defy him. Viggo must have been in immense pain but he didn't complain.

Tristan laughed bitterly "I don't ask twice Viggo..."

Viggo looked at Tristan defiantly " Go ahead and do it." He closed his eyes shut. He didn't put it past Tristan to break his arm.

Viggo's expression reminded him of Vienna and how she had cringed away when she thought he was going to hit her. Tristan sighed. He couldn't hurt him any more. Vienna could get upset. With reluctance he let go of Viggo and took a step away. " I wish you weren't her twin. You are going to leave this room in one piece because of her. Now stay down or I might forget who you are related to..."

Viggo turned around and held his arm to his chest breathing hard from the pain rubbing where he nearly was going to have a breakage " I am listening... What do you want?

Tristan grabbed Viggo's collar of his shirt and pinned him to the wall as Viggo was holding his painful hand. Tristan spoke with a low threating tone "You know, I really wish I could snap your neck right now so you wouldn't be able to stick your neck in my business again. But of course I can't..... Listen here. I will only say this to you once. Back off. It is really not any of your business what Vienna decides to do with her life. Its her choice. I haven't done anything to hurt her so there is no reason for you to go to your father..... Do you have a problem understanding what I am saying to you right now or you would like me to rephrase it?"

Viggo spoke " I don't need you to rephrase anything. I get it.... But I wont back off. She is my sister. I want her to be with someone who doesn't pressure her into something she is not ready for."

Tristan stated "I would never ever force her to do anything. if she is not ready she doesn't even have to come to the prom. My father hasn't raised a son who would force a woman's hand...."

Viggo spoke "You are more of a Giovanni than an O'Neil."

Tristan spoke "I can't help who I am related to and neither can you. Your people are not saints either... But I didn't bring you here to argue with you. I brought you here to give you a warning to back off but also to let you know the consequences of your actions..."

Viggo spoke "Consequences? Really? For defending my sister? You are crazy?"

Tristan gave out a menacing laugh "You actually thought you can go behind my back and speak to your father riling him up with no consequence? Did you? I know you tried to turn your father against me too. My father heard your voice in that room... So here is where we are standing... You are throwing obstacles in my way and my relationship with your sister. Fair enough.... I would exact revenge on you. I would throw obstacles in your way when you get yourself a girl. I would call it justice. Obviously you deserve much worse. if you were anyone else, I would have destroyed you in every way for daring to come between Vienna and I. But you are her twin. I can't really do that now. Can I?"

Viggo stated "Your threats don't scare me?"

Tristan spoke "I don't care what you think. I give you the heads up now .... Beware and watch your back because I may not destroy you for your futile attempts to break Vienna and I up before our relationship has even gotten anywhere but I am coming for you. That is the consequences of your last night's attempts. If you try again to ruin my chances of being with your sister, I would rethink my approach. I wont show you any consideration. I can't wait to see who is going to catch your eye and I don't mean Azurine. I know you are not interested in her. I will be waiting for you and will watch you. Lets see who you will fall for as hard as I have fallen for your sister. Guess what? I will make sure you would feel as frustrated as me when someone throws obstacles at you. Good luck Viggo because you will need it." He then let go of him.

Viggo was pretending that Trsitan's words didn't affect him but they did. Inside him, he was afraid for Angelia and what Tristan would have done if he found out. He was certain he wasn't going to hold back. Indeed he had to watch his back.

Trsitan walked out of the room without another word looking like he was about to kill. He was rageful and he hadn't let out his wrath properly and had held himself back for obvious reasons. He was almost shaking with rage. The students outside the library noticed the not so friendly look on his face and got out of his way. No one wanted to risk it being in his reach when he was mad. He walked out of the library and made his way through the corridors to get to his locker. The corridors were mainly deserted since most students were in the cafeteria or around the library lucky for them since it wouldn't have been them whom he took out his rage on.

Tristan reached his locker and opened it taking out his stationary needed for his exam. As he closed his locker soundly and turned around he found himself bumping into non other than Letizia.

Letizia took a step back and waited for him to apologise but when she found his stare narrowed on her, she raised an eyebrow "No apologies?"

Tristan stated "Watch where you go."

Letizia laughed from outrage "Or what?"

Tristan chuckled darkly "You know, your boyfriend is not here to protect you. Do you really think its wise to taunt me when you know I can snap you in half."

Letizia stated "Go on then. I am waiting."

Tristan took a threatening step towards her making her take a step back. His intimidating stare put her on alarm. "Any last words?"

"What was with him that day over reacting like this?" she thought to herself. She was aware the place was deserted. She had been warned by Vincenzo to not get in Tristan's way again. He had told her what he had threatened to do to her if she annoyed him and Vincenzo wasn't around. Letizia was fearless but this guy's mother was the principal. He could get her expelled in a heart beat. She breathed "Any last words before what?" She was dreading the response and knew what he could say back.

Tristan smirked "Any last words before I carry you upstairs and throw you in that ice bath after all." He nodded towards the elevator that was right opposite of his locker.

Letizia took a deep breath and was on guard ready to defend herself "What do you want? An apology?"

Tristan stated "No. I want you to tell me if you want me to throw a snake in that ice bath or a scorpion. Both are not deadly."

Letizia gulped and took a step back.

Tristan mocked "So I will throw in both then since you don't show preference."

Letizia thought about a plan to run. She was thinking of which exit to take after she hit him.

She made a decision and kicked Tristan hard in his stomach and ran to the opposite direction that she had come. She used all her power to run and heard Tristan growling "I will make you pay for this" as he was chasing her most likely since his foot steps were echoing in the corridors.

As she got close to the fire exit suddenly she bumped into a group of students who came around the bend before the fire exit. She stopped as they all blocked her as they spotted Tristan coming behind her. They were Tristan's group; Joshua, Nick, Sebastiano and Alton.

Sebastiano Giovanni, son of Sergio Giovanni who she had crossed in the morning in the car park spoke first "Hey cousin. Is she disrespecting you too? She is in need of a lesson." She was done for.

She didn't even want to turn around to look at Tristan. His voice was scary as he instructed "I know. Vincenzo wasn't very specific about his instructions. He said we can't hurt her. But throwing her in the ice bath with a snake and scorpion is not hurting her by definition. Its scaring her. Grab her now."

Letizia looked at Tristan and saw his dark smirk. Why did she have to cross him of all the people. At that point she wished Vincnezo could arrive now. She really needed him. He was the only boy who could get Tristan off her back and didn't find her offensive.

Alton stated "Wait. Give her the last words option."

Tristan stated "She didn't take her chance. So we give her what we choose. Anything goes. Lets do it. Grab her now."

Just then Tristan heard the last voice he thought he was going to hear. It was Vienna laughing "Come on Clarisa. We can find some people to get them to buy muffins here. Surely..."

Tristan quickly put his hand up as a sign of halt knowing she could be coming that way. He gave Letizia a look and whispered "You breathe a word to her about this now and I will slaughter you. Keep quiet."

After seconds passed, he saw her appear alongside his sister with a tray of muffins around the bend in the corridor.

The boys quickly backed off and started coughing having a normal conversation not allowing Vienna notice what was going on as the girls reached around the bend. As they parted, Vienna became face to face with Tristan freezing in her spot. She gasped and then averted her gaze and saw Letizia who had backed off towards the wall looking at the boys as she was shaken up and couldn't react. Vienna was too affected by bumping into Tristan to be able to tell what was going on. She was blushing as a shade of red had come to her cheeks. She asked "Letizia, would you like to buy some muffins. I baked them last night? The money goes towards a good cause."

Letizia smiled nervously "I don't have any money on me at the moment..... I will get some money from my locker and if there were any left i will buy them." She then turned to the others "Bye boys. We can do this another time when Vincenzo arrives."

Tristan stated "I have money. I will buy them all of course. Its for a good cause."

Vienna bit her lip and looked up at Tristan "Thank you for your donation."

Trsitan then took a note from his pencil case and handed it to Clarisa "Is that enough?"

Clarisa stated "More than enough. I will go and give it to our coach. See you later Vienna."

The boys also looked at each other and slowly made their way out of there knowing their captain needed privacy.

Vienna handed the tray of muffins and as Tristan took the tray his hand brushed against hers making him take a quick breath masking it with words "Wow. I am looking forward to eating them all."

Vienna couldn't help laugh "Aren't you going to share them with your team?"

Tristan shook his head vigorously "Over my dead body any of them taste these muffins. I don't share. They look tasty." He then thought to himself "This is as close as I get for now to tasting your lips."

Vienna looked away " They are not that good. But sure. Thanks for buying them all. It was hard to sell them at this hour."

Tristan stated " Don't mention it. Its other students' loss. I will take them upstairs to put them in the fridge. Do you want to come with me? Help me with unlocking the doors upstairs and tell me what ingredients you have in your muffins. They look great."