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Duke watched as Viola ran away down the beach. Every fibre of his being was telling him to go after her. He knew this was all a misunderstanding, mainly stemming from his confusion from the letter that he had received from Olivia. Sighing he realized it may be best to just let her cool off and maybe go talk to Olivia and get some answers.

Turning around, Duke headed back up the steps and started to look around for Olivia. However instead he overheard a fight going on between Yvonne and Toby. Momentarily distracted Duke headed over to see what was going on between those two now.

"You are the most annoying male on the face of the earth you know that?" Yvonne said throwing her hands over her head in frustration at Toby's latest attempt to get Yvonne to admit to the feelings that he thought she had professed to him in the letter.

"Come on baby it's time to turn all that hostility to love." Toby said with a wink then added, "Come on I know you have been dreaming about this."

"You keep saying this but I have no idea what you are talking about." Yvonne said looking around and seeing Duke said, "What the hell is your friend going through?"

Deciding to help out Yvonne to see if after she could help him, Duke asked Toby, "Where have you been getting all this?"

"Man if you read the letter that she wrote me you would understand where I'm coming from." Toby said winking at Yvonne who looked even more confused than ever.

"What letter? You know what; I think you have gone completely out of your mind." Yvonne said.

With the mention of the word letter, Duke said, "Yeah man what letter?"

"The one that you left in your coat pocket. You know when I went to get your chap stick, you winked and said there may be a surprise in it for me." Toby said, "Any of this ring a bell?"

"None at all. I never wrote you a letter, let alone a love letter."

All of a sudden things started to click in Duke's head, "Wait, a love letter. What did this letter say?"

Yvonne and Duke both looked at Toby waiting for him to talk.

Toby now looking confused started going through the details of the letter, that he seemed to recall with certain accuracy.

When he was finished Duke said, without even really thinking, "That's the letter that Olivia sent me."

Just as Duke said that, Olivia and Sebastian were walking by and stopped when they heard Olivia's name being spoken.

"What letter did I send you?" Olivia asked sending Duke a quizzical look.

Everyone was starring at Duke who was now really nervous. Especially seeing the new revelation that Toby seemed to have received the same letter that he had seemingly received from Olivia.

"I think there has been a huge misunderstanding." Duke started.

"Explain." Sebastian said who was a little curious of why his girlfriend was sending his sister's boyfriend, and also best friend a letter. Also thinking of his sister, Sebastian started to wonder where she had gotten too.

"Well you see Olivia asked me to go get her book for her and while I was there a letter feel out of it." Sighing, Duke continued, "It was a letter confessing ones love."

"And you figured it was to you?" Sebastian asked now wondering why Duke was finding a letter in Olivia's book.

Shaking her head, Olivia said, "I never wrote you a love letter."

"Then why was there a love letter in your book, that you ask me specifically to get for you?"

"One I asked you to get my book because you were going inside and second I have no idea why there was a love letter in my book."

Just then Toby cleared his throat and said, "I know why that letter was in Olivia's book."

All eyes turned on Toby and waited for him to continue.

"Well you see when I went into Yvonne's coat and found the letter I panicked and I stashed it in a book a found on the table. I figured it was Sebastian's dad's or something, I didn't think anyone was going to bring a book with them."

"OMG!" Duke said shaking his head, "I panicked when I heard Olivia coming inside and slipped the letter into my pocket which must be how Viola found it."

Sebastian looked between the faces and said, "So who wrote this letter then?"

Everyone exchanged glances between each other yet no one said a word.

Jon, who was off to the side, was listening to the whole exchange with mild amusement. Part of him was hoping that there would have been a fight or at least some screaming, but instead the mass confusion on everyone's faces was really amusing him.

He hoped that their confusion would keep them busy long enough for Justin to get to Viola.

Everyone erupted into speculation into who actually wrote the letter and that Toby probably created the letter as a joke to have a little fun of his own. Toby swore up and down that he wasn't smart enough to come up with that kind of idea. Andrew, who had joined the conversation followed by Paul and Kia, agreed that Toby wouldn't be smart enough to come up with that on his own.

****

Viola ran down the beach as fast as she could. When she reached the water she kicked off her shoes and ran into the water not caring if she ruined all of Yvonne's, Kia's, Olivia's and Paul's hard work. Taking a deep breath, Viola dove under the water and stayed under the water until her lungs burned in protested the need for oxygen.

Resurfacing, Viola pulled her hair out of her face and took a couple deep breaths. Sighing she knew that her talk with Duke didn't go anywhere's near the way that she wanted it to. Trudging her way back to shore, Viola felt a shudder of the cool breeze hitting her damp skin and clothing.

Viola wondered if she over reacted to the comment that Duke made about her and Kenny. She knew that if she had seen him with some girl, laughing and smiling, she would be jealous. Especially if she knew they had a past, even if it wasn't a romantic past.

Running away probably wasn't the best solution. But then again Duke did lie to her. Viola thought, as million other things were going through her mind. Viola started to wonder how well they really knew each other. They were thrown together during an intense situation, maybe that made for a good beginning but did they really know each other.

All of sudden Viola started to laugh to herself. She started to question herself and what would make her doubt her relationship. Ok they had a fight, so what, everyone has fights. The more she thought about it, Duke was always careful around her since the whole Justin thing, but he saw her in her darkest moments and they survived it. He never ran away. The whole rivalry, everything, they made it through together.

Viola turned her head back towards the cabin, a little shocked at how far she had ran before she dove into the water. She could hear the echo of the music, and the glow of the lights coming from the cabin. Viola started to debate heading back; no matter how awkward it would probably be with Duke, Viola knew that they would work through this. However she feared the wrath of the other four when they saw how she destroyed all their hard work.

Viola turned back to face the water, figuring that if she was going to face their wrath a few more minutes in front of the ocean would kill anyone, and would prolong her life. Crossing her arms across her chest, Viola gazed out to the ocean and let all her focus rest on the sound of the waves crashing on the shore.

With all her concentration on the ocean in front of her, she never heard the person approaching from behind. When she felt a pair of arms wrap around her waist tightly she felt her heart stop. Her first thought was Duke until she caught whiff of the cologne the individual was wearing. It was a very familiar sent and her heart refused to start up again.

****

Meanwhile back on the deck everyone was still going on about the letter when Kenny walked up and tapped Duke on the shoulder.

"Did Vi and you get a chance to talk?" Kenny asked.

One look at Kenny and Duke once again felt guilt over what he had accused Viola of.

"I don't know if what we did would be considered talking." Duke said.

From the expression on Duke's face he knew he wasn't referring to the two of them making up in ways he didn't want to think about. Also he noticed that Vi wasn't here so whatever happened couldn't be good.

"Where is she now?" Kenny asked a little concerned about Vi, especially after how he saw her earlier.

"She took off down the beach." Duke said and once he said that he realized what an idiot he was for not going after her. He loved her, no matter the fight they would get through this because they belonged together. "God I'm such an idiot."

Kenny watch Duke take off down the steps and down onto the beach.

Sebastian glanced over at Kenny and asked, "Where did Duke go? And where had my sister gotten too?"

"Man where have you been all night?" Kenny said laughing shaking his head and patted him on the back before walking away.

****

Viola finally had to breath, much like it was when she was under the water, she once again felt that at any moment she was going to drown, except this time it would be from panic.

Finally finding her voice, Viola said, "Why.....? How....?"

Justin smiled and tightened his grip around her waist. "All in time, but right now we need to go somewhere a little more private seeing I feel we'll be interrupted standing out here in the open."

Viola realized if she thought she was panicking before she was really panicking now. She knew if she got out of sight of the cabin she would be in real trouble.

"Don't even think of screaming Vi." Justin said, using his arms around her waist to turn her toward the cabin that he had been staying at.

"No." Viola said shaking her head, digging her heals in to the sand.

Justin was prepared for her to struggle but wasn't prepared for her to dig her heals into the ground. The abrupt force of her stop sent the two of them flying forward, with Justin on top of Viola.

Viola couldn't breathe, her face pressed tight into the sand. She felt her whole body starting to convulse as she struggled to get Justin off of her. Viola felt Justin move off her enough to turn her head and she greedily gulp in the air.

Just then she heard Duke's voice yelling her name in the distance.

"Shit." Viola heard Justin mumble behind her.

Viola felt a little bit of joy in her heard, which just as quickly diminished as she realized he was going in the wrong direction.

"Don't move." Justin warned Viola.

Realizing that the worse that Justin could do to her was hit her, and that wouldn't be something new, Viola took a deep breath and screamed as loud as she could Duke's name.

She only managed a few seconds of her scream before she felt her face being slammed into the ground again.

Justin knew it was a matter of seconds before Duke got turned around and minutes before he got to where they were. Taking his arms off her waist, Justin wrapped his arm around her throat and pulled her out of the sand.

"Do you know what I realized Vi with all our time apart? If I can't have you, no one can." Justin said pulling something out of the back of his pants and pressed it against Viola's temple. "No matter what Viola you'll be all mine, even if I have to take everyone out."

Viola started hyperventilating. She felt the cold steel on her temple and didn't have to guess what it was.

Between gasps of air, Viola asked, "Where did you get a gun?"

"This is America Vi, everyone has a gun." [AN: ok this is speculation, I am not an American, so this is in no way to insult anyone.]

They started to make their way up the beach but Duke was quickly ganging on them seeing he was by himself and not having to run with someone against him.

They were a couple steps away from the porch of Justin's cabin when Duke caught up to them.

"Justin?" Duke asked when he got close enough to make out who was with Viola. When he heard her scream his name he felt his heart stop. All those feelings of the last month filled his head and his heart filled with dread when he saw two silhouettes on the horizon. He knew that Viola was one of them and he feared who the other one was.

Justin turned around, without letting go of his grip on Viola. Viola locked eyes with Duke when they were face to face and saw the reaction of horror fill his eyes when he saw the gun at her head.

"Duke." Justin said, "I think we find ourselves in another predicament. Except this time I seem to have the upper hand."
"Let her go Drayton." Duke said still not taking his eyes off Viola.

Viola shut her eyes tight; she knew that this whole thing was going to end badly. In the end someone was going to get hurt and all she knew was this time it was going to be more than a couple bruises. Opening her eyes, Viola sent Duke a small smile and mouthed I love you, then took a deep breath, leaned her head forward and snapped it back in about half a second as hard as she could.

Justin felt his nose snap and black dots started to fill his vision. His grip loosens on Viola who quickly used this moment to get out of his hold, but not before Justin managed to get a shot off. Viola felt a sudden burning sensation fill her left shoulder. When she hit the ground she realized that her hit must hand knocked the gun off its original placement.

Everything was going black though she tried to keep conscious because she realized that Justin still had a gun and Duke was still there. However Viola could only concentrate on the burning, blinding pain from her shoulder. Then Viola's whole world stopped when she heard another gunshot go off.

I love clift-hangers!!! Not so much when I'm the reader!!! But I hope you all enjoy. Got a couple papers to write but I'll try to update while on my spring break!!!! Almost done, only a couple more chapters to go :) So the letter revealing wasn't more dramatic! R&R!