Gabi walked aimlessly through the alley which lead to Surf Central. She was in total thought about what could possibly be happening with Ricardo and Antonio at that moment. She couldn't stop thinking something terrible was going to happen. She was upset with herself for not having followed Antonio after he had taken off after Ricardo. She had managed to pull herself together after the episode and by that time she had no idea in which direction either of them had run off to. Gabi was so distraught, with her thoughts, she was not paying attention to where she was walking. She ran right into Michael and Casey as they were coming home from the beach. Gabi didn't even relaize who they were until Casey grabbed her by her shoulders to face him.

"Gabi, are you alright? My God, when did you get back? Does Ricardo know you're here?" Casey stopped. He could see that Gabi was not really there. Her mind was someplace else. Her eyes were slightly puffy from what he assumed was caused by having been crying. She was obviously upset about something. Casey and Gabi exchanged worried glances and sensed something was terribly wrong. "Gabi, Gabi, look at me. What's wrong? Can Michael and I help you? Tell us what is making you so upset?"

Michael chimed in. "Gabi, is it Ricardo? Antonio? Is something wrong with them?"

At the mention of Ricardo and Antonio's names, Gabi snapped out of her fog and became fully alert. Her eyes widened as she grabbed both Casey and Michael. She was terrified and Michael and Casey sensed her fear. "CASEY, MICHAEL, you have to find Antonio and Ricardo!! My God!" Gabi placed her hands over her head and lifted her head to the stars. She was barely able to speak. She was getting hysterical with fear. "Please find them. I'm so worried about what they will do to each other. Please! I can't explain now but please find them. They ran off toward the pier." Gabi grabbed Casey's hands and calmed herself enough to get the next few words out.

With extreme emotion, Gabi managed to pour a little of heart to them. "They are brothers. Brothers shouldn't want to hurt each other. Casey, they are going to get hurt because of me. Please, Please stop it from happening!" Gabi was clutching to Casey's jacket, desperately searching for him to listen to her.

Casey and Michael didn't hesitate. They didn't know what was going on exactly but they were afraid for Ricardo and Antonio just by viewing Gabi's desperate plea for help. Michael took Gabi inside and watched her go to her room. He met Casey outside, both of them extremely worried.

"Casey, what the hell was that all about?" Michael asked confused.

Casey was deep in thought with his hands to his hips. He turned to Michael. "I don't Michael. All I know is that something is going down with those Rick and Antonio and we have to try and stop it. I have a bad feeling about the whole thing." Casey finished thinking about his good friend and hoping he was ok.

Michael and Casey began their descent towards the pier, unaware that it was already too late.......

Antonio was looking directly into his brother's eyes, which were shooting daggers at him. Ricardo's grip on his neck was getting tighter and he was now starting to gasp for air. He brought his hands to his neck trying desperately to pry Ricardo's hands from his neck. "Riiicardooo! Let me go! Don't do this! AW AWWWWWW!!"

Ricardo looked into his brothers's eyes, who were pleading t be freed from his grasp. Ricardo let him go and roughly pushed against the pillar again. Antonio dropped to the sand, slumped over, grasping his neck and coughing and trying to catch his breath. Ricardo simply stood over him and glared. Antonio looked up at him with meek eyes. Very slowly, and delicately, he brought himself up with help from the pillar. He was still holding his neck with one hand and breathing a little hard. The brothers stared each other down as if ready to do battle. Antonio began to feel rage building up inside of him but he tried deperately to suppress it.

"Let me explain---"

"Explain!!" Ricardo screamed. "You want to explain! Okay, okay, you do that, T! You explain how you slept with the woman that you knew I loved! You explain that to me, try to get me to understand how that would happen! COME ON! Explain it to me! Come on!!" Ricardo was screaming loudly and becoming sarcastic in his tone. He was working himself up to the point where he was ready to lunge toward Antonio again, but he kept himself at a distance.

Antonio didn't know what to say all he could muster was an apology. An apology which he felt throughout his entire body. "I'm sorry Ricardo." He couldn't look at him. If he did he would burst into tears and he couldn't allow himself to do that.

"No, no, I want more. You tell me, why, dammit! Ah! I get it! You two wanted to make a fool out of me didn't you. What was it huh?! Some game to you? Oh! Let's so how far we can take this before Ricardo finally finds out. He's too much of an ass to ever figure it out." Ricardo starts laughing sarcastically as he walks back and forth and side to side using his entire body to express his emotions. He finally stands still and looks down, with his hands on his over his head, now becoming overcome with emotion, but trying to hide it from Antonio. "When I think of all the times you two were together, doing whatever you were doing, and me...." He laughs again this time at himself for being stupid. "Here I am thinking that you were discussing me and my relationship with her. All the while you were going behind my back, having sex with my fiancee." Ricardo begins to get angry again as he remembers who his brother is. He steps in front of him and eyes him down. "And your a priest! What kind of a man are you? I don't even know who you are? Your dispicable!! You have no loyalty to God and you have no loyalty to your own family!!!" Ricardo looks him up and down in disgust. "Your a disgrace of a human being. You disgust me. I hope you rot in hell!" Ricardo finishes, looking menacingly at his brother.

Antonio let him unload without interrupting. The entire time his brother was berating him he merely looked him in the eye, taking it all in. He deserved what Ricardo was dishing out, but he could not control the anger that was building inside of him. He was slowly disassociating himself as Ricardo's brother and becoming the man in love with Gabi. He knew he had no right to feel this way, but he could not control himself.

Ricardo smiled chillingly at his Ricardo. "Did you two have fun making that tape? Where were you exactly, huh T?"

Antonio's attitude was changing, he was becoming more and more irritated, but he answered his brother's question. "It happened during the explosion. We thought we were going to die. We really thought we were going to die. I loved her before that happened Ricardo. You have to believe that I struggled with this. We both did----"

"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! What are you gonna tell me? You both struggled with your feelings? Oh really? You were right when you said you didn;t deserve to live. I should have left you there. You piece of---" Ricardo couldn't finish, his anger all of a sudden shifted to Gabi. "She's no better than you? Did she seduce you? She seduced me when we first had sex! Tell me bro, did she throw herslef on you and tell you you were going to die therefore, you should sleep together, huh!"

Antonio was now fully ready to explode. He could yell insults at him but he would not allow Ricardo to trash Gabi. That he would not accept. "Watch it, don't say anything else about her you'll regret. She loves you man!" Antonio was livid.

"LOVES ME!! LOVES ME!!" Ricardo was now at his boiling point. "Let me tell you something, T? Gabi is a whore, ok? She is nothing but a lying, deceitful----" Ricardo was cut off.

Antonio had had enough. He was beyond any anger he had ever felt. Ricardo's insults toward Gabi plus the fact that she loved Ricardo as oppose to him catapulted his emotions. He lunged toward his brother and the two fell to the sand, punches flying everywhere. Antonio hit Ricardo square on the nose and blood started flying everywhere. Ricardo managed to get a grip of Antonio's neck and pushed him off of him. Antonio flew onto his back. Ricardo got up and charged his brother like a bull and landed a punch to his stomach and then across his face, busting Antonio's cheek and lip. They both struggled standing until Antonio managed to lift Ricardo with his back turned out. Antonio, ready to body slam him, lost his balance and lost his grip. Ricardo came crashing down on the edge of the pillar, hitting his head. Antonio screamed for him to get up but there was no movement. Catching his breath, he stood still, all of a sudden a wave of fear hit him. He immediately lost his anger and ran towards his brother. He knelt down beside him, frantic at what had just happened. Ricardo was not moving and his eyes were shut. Antonio began to panic. He placed his hand under his head and he felt something warm and sticky. He lifted his hand to his fave and saw that it was covered with blood. A wave of fear struck him as he stared at his blood soaked hand. Casey and Michael came running up and saw Antonio leaning next to his unmoving brother. Antonio looked over at them with a lost look on his face. "Help my brother." That was all Antonio was able to get out.....