Letizia felt trapped. What was she to do? All these boys had sorrounded her in a large circle. She had no way out. Even if she kicked one or two of them, the door was locked. But she felt frustrated at the choice. She did not want to be humiliated in front of these boys. She knew if she was thrown in ice water, she was going to scream or even cry. They were surely going to make her lie there long enough. He looked at Vincenzo. Kissing him did not seem like a bad option now. He had his hands on his hips staring at her with a faint smile on his face. He was definately enjoying this.

Viggo was the one to break the silence as the boys were waiting "Guys, this has gone too far. Let's cut her a break. She is new...."

The other boys turned on him and made threats left and right. "Back off man." Alexander said.

" Do you want to ruin the fun?" Trent shouted

Sebastiano spoke "Man, keep the peaceful talk to yourself."

Tristan punched him in the arm and spoke " Back off with the nonsense. You sound like Stefano now. I am glad he isn't here yet. You don't want to be the one we take it out on if we don't get some entertainment. Do you Viggo?"

Vincenzo nodded "That's right Viggo. If you do not like it, don't look. This is our common room. We rule it. She trespassed. She gets what she deserves."

The door was unlocked and Stefano entered with a sandwich in his hand. He froze as he saw Letizia in the middle of the room "Guys, what is going on?"

Tristan spoke "Lock the door. Will you? She trespassed. now she needs to face the consequences.

Stefano walked to the door as he murmured "This is totally unnecessary. She is new....."

Tristan spoke "Be quiet Stefano. If you weren't Vincenzo's cousin, I would have given you a proper traitor treatment by now for your over-neutral approach. You are pushing it. We let you off with a warning after just making the girls be cheer leaders after the match yesterday when we could have so much more fun. Now you want to save Letizia. Don't speak again or we will all give you a proper belting." He then turned to Letizia. "You will learn your lesson not to mess with us."

Letizia then saw a new comer came inside as Stefano was about to lock the door. She recognised him. He was an Irish American, Alton McNamara. His father was an ally of O'Neil family. She had seen him before in weddings in Italy and some events. Who were they holding here? Seriously she knew this was a school training the most vicious criminals internationally. Alton's family were so crazy.

Alton raised an eyebrow "Well, look what we have here. Letizia Marciano. You thought you drop by and pay a visit. Did you? Some of the guys told me some girl trespassed. I did not think it was you on your first day..."

Vincenzo looked at him suspiciously "Do you know Letizia from before? You sound like it? What is your relation with her?"

Alton walked in as Stefano locked the door and spoke "No relations. Her father does business with mine. I met her in Italy when my father's office was transferred there for a few a short while. She went to the same American school I did in Milan for a few months. Then we moved back here." He walked to the circle slowly and put his hand on Vincenzo's shoulder "What is the verdict?"

Tristan spoke "She will be thrown in the ice bath and stay there until we say so or she will kiss one of us."

Alton joined the circle and gave Tristan a high five. "Which one has she chosen yet?"

Tristan spoke "None." He then turned to her " Choose an option. Kiss one of us or we will throw you in the ice bath."

Stefano walked to the circle and stood next to Viggo as he spoke "Guys, break this up. Will you?"

Tristan spoke "That's it. Lets give him a belting. Everyone throw him punches..."

Suddenly Letizia watched as Joshua and Nick grabbed Stefano's arms and held him in place as the boys took steps to him. They were going to beat him up.

Viggo stood in front of his cousin as he pushed Trent away who was going to be the first to land the first punch. He spoke quickly "Hold up guys. He is my cousin. Let him off with a warning." He was looking directly at Vincenzo.

The boys who were taking steps to surround Stefano stopped immediately.

Tristan turned to Vincenzo "Stefano is going too soft and Viggo is really getting on my nerves by getting in the way right now. Will you sort them out?"

Vincenzo nodded and spoke in a bored tone "I will have a word with them both..."

Tristan turned to the boys " We don't have time for this... Disperse. Vincenzo will sort them out later.... Stefano won't protest again. Will you Stefano?"

Stefano sighed in defeat as Sebastiano and Trent let him go "Fine. Sorry."

Tristan sighed "Keep out of my sight Stefano for the rest of the day."

Letizia was watching the group with her mouth open. What was wrong with these kids. They were all sons of criminals and businessmen who worked with criminals. It was crazy how they acted already with a hierarchy in place. They had created this small society of elites and had their own rules. The prospectus of the school said, it trained future leaders but these were dangerous criminals of future. These were kids growing up to be controlling future leaders as mob bosses and untouchable CEOs. She found the exchanges between Tristan and Vincenzo most peculiar. They were equals but they had boundaries. Vincenzo did not contradict Tristan and did not openly challenge him but he had his say smoothly and respectfully. So did Tristan. They compromised and took turns to lead even by the looks of it because you couldn't have two alpha males in one place.

The boys again took their place in a circle around her and the attention was on her again. Letizia had enough and raised her voice "All of you are jerks. I can't believe this school lets you get away with any of this..."

Tristan spoke "I think we are too nice to you right now. We can do anything right now. My mother is even the principal. It is this whole room against you. Three-quarters of this school is boys. Watch what you say to us. You should make a choice between the options we have given you before we change our minds and just do what we want with you. One signal from me and we could act like real criminals that we are and we will have to drop the clean act that we have to put on in public...."

Letizia laughed bitterly " You call this a clean act. Taking over a whole floor and enforcing your own rules is no clean act. What I see is Anarchy."

To Letizia's surprise all boys started laughing. All except Viggo and Stefano. Even Vincenzo was shaking his head.

Alton McNamara spoke " That's exactly what it is. We do believe in Anarchy. That is what binds us. We will make our own rules one day in the real world outside this not so significant place. If you are smart, you will make some friends now. Take the right side and years later you will not regret it."

Vincenzo spoke " Drop it Alton. She doesn't need to worry about years later. Her man will make sure to protect her. I am pretty sure."

Alton laughed " I think chances are slim she will get a man. In case you haven't noticed she is pretty hostile. When I went to school with her, no boy went near her because apparently she made an impression after making an example of a boy trying to come on to her ..."

Letizia gritted her teeth " I defended myself. He deserved what he got. I made sure no one bothered me. I don't apologise for that."

Vincenzo smiled knowingly " Really? Good to know. Alton we need to talk more about your past you keep it secret just like Cain."

Tristan spoke " Guys, we should move it. We want to have half of the lunch time left by the time we are done....." He turned to Letizia." Now which is it? You kiss one of us or we will throw you in the ice bath."

Letizia looked at the circle of boys one by one and she narrowed her eyes as her eyes zeroed on him. He had nerve looking at her with triumph in his eyes. It seemed like he could tell she couldn't stand the ice cold water. Maybe her horror struck look the day before when Vincenzo had declared he used ice baths for training had made him aware of it. Vincenzo also seemed sure, she was going to kiss him. Letizia felt so defeated. She just didn't want the ice bath but she felt it was so unfair to have to kiss Vincenzo."

Tristan looked at his watch " Choose or we will choose for you."

Letizia looked at the faces of the other boys. She wished she did not have to give the satisfaction to Vincenzo that he had won. The thought had crossed her mind to test Vincenzo to see if he could drop this issue altogether if she rebelled. What if she picked another boy to kiss. Someone like Tristan... But no, she couldn't do that. As much as she wanted to increase the tension between the two alpha male leaders, there was no way she would have wanted to touch him. His behaviour was appalling. She looked around the circle. Who didn't she mind to kiss or rather who could she pretend to want to kiss? Her plan was to make Vincenzo back off and to get him to cancel this punishment by making him jealous.

Letizia suddenly considered Viggo. She was certain, Vincenzo was not going to kill Viggo if she ever kissed him. He must have been immune to Vincenzo's full force wrath as his younger brother. But either way she didn't think Vincenzo was going to let anything go that far. If she kissed Viggo, she was certain Vincenzo was going to stop her by hopefully cancelling the punishment. The question was that if she announced she was going to kiss him. Was it going to make Vincenzo jealous enough to stop her? Maybe or Maybe not.... But still it was worth it to show him, this was a two way street. Maybe it was worth showing him that he could not have her first kiss that easily...

Letizia looked at Tristan and Vincenzo whom were standing side by side and announced "I have decided. I will kiss... Viggo." She then watched the transformation on Vincenzo's face. His smile disappeared and was soon replaced with a murderous look. What was he going to do next? Was he going to call off the punishment? She thought to herself. No one else was really looking at vincenzo to notice his rageful expression. Everyone was looking between Letizia and Viggo.

Letizia turned to Viggo and took a step towards him. She expected for Vincenzo to stop her at that moment and maybe to call off the whole nonsense. But everything happened so fast. She had hardly stepped in front of Viggo and little time to react when she found Viggo taking her hand in his. He lifted her hand to his lips and planted a kiss on her hand. He then gently let her hand down and let it go as he spoke in the most gentle and respectful tone "You do not have to kiss me. I think a kiss must be earned. Not won."

The boys were looking at Viggo with their mouth open. There was shock and silence and then objections started to pour in.

Tristan roared "You will pay for that Viggo. You just wasted a chance for us to have a show."

The boys started cursing at Viggo and making explicit threats about what they were going to do to him.

Vincenzo ordered "Viggo, you have some explaining to do. Letizia you may leave." Letizia quickly glanced at him and found him quite scary. He was beyond furious with the same menacing murderous look in his eyes. Of course Tristan and the others thought he was angry at Viggo and had no idea his anger was at Letizia.

Tristan spoke "Viggo You will pay dearly." He then walked to the door and unlocked it and gestured for Letizia to leave.

Letizia felt so bad for Viggo. This was not her plan. Her plan was to get Vincenzo to stop her before she kissed Viggo and for him to understand he couldn't have her first kiss just because he wanted it without working for it...