Alex awoke to an extremely loud alarm clock, pounding head, and super dry mouth. 'Oh my head', she thinks, "God, what a hang over, It didn't seem like I drank so much last night." She moans to herself as she rolls over and drags herself to the bathroom. She was trying to get ready so she could pick up Mai when the phone rang. She hears Mai at the other end of the line. It sounds like she's screaming, but really it's just the headache making things uncomfortable. Mai tells her friend to hurry or she'll be late for her first duel of the day. She curses the mechanic who couldn't fix her car in time. Alex tells her that she was going as fast as she could. Then Alex looked in the mirror and realized that she looked like a wreck but she couldn't afford to take any more time getting ready so she threw on some clothes and ran out the door.

Alex and Mai make it to the tournament just in time for Mai to take her place in her first duel of the day. Mai was not happy with Alex, which didn't help Alex's hang over situation. Later that morning, Duke finds Alex in Mai's suite and notices that she was hurting in a big way. He realizes that she is hung over and begins to obstinately tease her. His joking just gives Alex a bigger headache and they end up having a little tiff. With a disappointed look on his face, Duke walks out of the room and slams the door. 'Not a good day, please don't let it get any worse', Alex thinks to herself.

Alex convinces herself a little nap will do the trick, but just as she's about to fall into a blissful slumber, someone knocks at the door. 'Oooohhh…' she moans as she rolls off the sofa to open the door.

"Hey, thought I'd find you here. Ready for that ice cream I promised you?" says Mokuba bashfully.

"Hey Mokuba." Alex replies, "You know I'm not really feeling like ice cream right now, how 'bout a rain check." Then she realizes he is unsupervised again and she asks him, "hey, who's watching yo…uhmmm…hanging out with you today?"

Mokuba grins to himself, "I thought maybe that could be you today. Seto said I could come and hang out with you."

Shocked and speechless, Alex just stands in front of the door.

Mokuba looks down at his feet and says," it's okay if you don't want to. I can go hang out somewhere else."

She quickly responds, "Mokuba it's not that I don't want to hang out with you, guess I'm just a little surprised that your brother was cool with you hangin' out with me. I kinda got the impression yesterday that he didn't really like me much. Why don't you come and watch the duels with me."

Mokuba gladly accepts the offer and replies," Sorry about what Seto said to you yesterday, that wasn't cool. He was just looking out for me. Besides, he never lets me hang out with other people, except maybe Yugi, so that means he must be okay with you."

Alex thought to herself, 'what does that mean, he's okay with me?' Then she spends the rest of the afternoon kicking back with Mokuba and having a great time, even with the hang over. Mokuba reminded her a little of her own younger half brother and he seemed to filling a small void in her heart that had developed when Regina cut her off from Nicholas.

Charlie stops by the suite looking for Mai only to find Alex and Mokuba lounging there.

"Hey guys, mind if I hang out with you for a while?" asks Charlie.

Alex replies, "sure, have a seat."

Charlie takes a double take at Alex before he sits down and laughs, "not feeling so hot today are we?"

She replies, " hmmph…very funny Charlie, why don't we just let this one go."

Charlie replies," whatever you say dancer girl."

Alex wrinkled her nose at Charlie and decided not to rebuttal this time around.

Charlie and Mokuba were on friendly terms because of Charlie's relationship to the Kaiba family and Kaiba Corp. So the three of them spend the next hour or so having silly conversations about all the popular duelists in the tournament.

Alex asks no one in particular," I wonder who will take the top spots?"

Mokuba says, "Seto will surely win, he's the best duelist in the world!"

Alex says, "what do you think Charlie?"

Charlie replies, "that's a tough one, I think we'll definitely see Seto and Yugi up there, but who the 3rd place winner will be, it's hard to tell right now. There are a lot of wild cards this time around. What do you think Alex?"

She didn't want to hurt Mokuba's feelings, so she says, "how can I argue with a Kaiba's confidence, surely Seto will win…something?.?.?."

Just as she finishes this sentence, Seto knocks on the open door and peers his head in the doorway.

Everyone turns around and Mokuba shouts, "Seto! We all watched your duels today!"

"Thanks little bro…hey Charlie" says Seto, "By the way, if anyone is interested in my opinion, I think Mai will definitely play in the finals tomorrow."

'Great', Alex thinks to herself, 'he heard me talk about him'. Alex ended up irritated about how Seto could make her feel so unconfident. As she was caught up with her own thoughts, Mai comes back, struts right past Seto, sits down next to Charlie and with a swish of her shiny blonde hair says,

"You better believe I'm making the finals tomorrow, I'm on fire this tournament."

Charlie grins and whispers in her ear, they both smirk to each other, then Alex catches Seto rolling his eyes. The temporary silence is broken when she turns to Mokuba and says,

"well, looks like this concludes our dueling debate for the afternoon, maybe we can continue this tomorrow over some ice cream?"

Alex believed that just because Seto rubbed her the wrong way, didn't mean she couldn't be friends with Mokuba. Mokuba lets out a big smile and turns to Seto to ask,

"Can I hang out with Alex again tomorrow? Can I, can I, huh Seto?"

Seto responds," We'll see Mokuba, now lets go home."

Before anyone could even wave good-bye to Mokuba, he and his brother are out the door. After taking in the fact that Seto didn't bother to say good-bye, Alex thought to herself, Have I just been used as a babysitter, damn Seto'! Now Alex was really getting mad at Seto. It appeared he just came in and out of people's lives with no regard or respect and did as he pleased. Mai interrupts Alex's thoughts by clearing her throat. She motions to her best friend that she wanted to be alone with Charlie. Alex discreetly exits the room, all the while making a mental note that Mai owed her a favor now.

Standing in a hallway of the stadium, Alex considers walking over to Yugi's suite, but then she remembers that Duke is probably still mad. Besides, Yugi's suite is right next to Seto's suite and she didn't want to be anywhere near him right now. For the next couple of minutes, she stands a few steps away from Mai's doorway and eventually watches a man in a black suit drop something off. She heard her name being mentioned, so she decided it was okay to go back in the room.

"Did I hear someone call my name?" Alex asks.

Mai winks at her friend and replies, "this card came for you from the big man himself, 'Mr. Kaiba'."

Alex gets irritated and thinks 'what kind of game is he playing now?' After opening the envelope, she read a formal invitation to a duelists dinner this evening.

Confused Alex asks Mai, "I thought the formal dinner tonight was for duelists only?"

Mai replies, "well, it's supposed to be for only the duelists from this tournament that made it through to the playoff rounds tomorrow."

Charlie says, "Mai's right, but there will be a few people from Kaiba Corp. there, such as myself, to promote some of the new technologies."

Alex says, "this must be some kind of mistake, is Seto trying to play a joke on me?"

Charlie responds by saying, "Seto doesn't make mistakes. If he's invited you, there definitely is a reason behind it."