It's Friday, and Alex is getting ready for the Finals of the Street Luge. Seeing her time was the fastest of all the preliminary times, she gets to choose her starting position.
"I'll take position 8," she says.
Sam and Clover are a bit surprised. "Why position 8, Alex? Isn't position 1 the 'pole position'?" asks Clover.
"That may be true, Clover. But on this track, position 8 gets into the first turn the quickest. If I can grab the lead there, I can run MY race!"
Alex starts in position 8. With Cal out of the race, there are only seven competitors in the Finals.
The flag is dropped, and they are off! Alex does get into corner number one first, and has a slight lead over Cecil. Cecil purposely bumps Alex, forcing her on the grass, slowing her down, as he passes. Alex quickly recovers, but is now third coming out of turn two. She quickly moves into second and is right on the Cecil's tail. It appears that she is biding her time. She is very close to Cecil as they come out of turn three, but she is not passing him. Cecil believes he has her intimidated. But just as they both get to the apex of turn four, Alex slingshots past Cecil in the home stretch, and beats him by a half a luge length!
"She WON! She WON!" says Clover and Sam together as they hug one another. They quickly go down to the Winner's Circle.
"You did it! You won!" says Sam as she hugs a very happy Alex.
"Great win, girlfriend!" says Clover as she hugs Alex.
Alex stands on the podium and receives her first place trophy. Cecil came in second and Tom third. But the reviewing committee saw Cecil's purposeful bumping of Alex, and disqualifies him. Tom moves up to second, Arnie takes third.
Tom congratulates Alex. "Nice run! Especially nice recovery from that bump!"
Alex blushes. Tom is a hottie! "Thanks Tom. You did well yourself!"
A disgruntled Cecil says to Tom, "How can you congratulate her? You were beaten by a GIRL!"
Tom responds, "What difference does that make? She followed the same rules everyone else did. At least she didn't try to force anyone off the track like YOU did. She ran a clean, fair, skillful race! I'll always congratulate someone who beats me while doing that!" Cecil lowers his head and slinks away, mumbling to himself.
Tom then addresses Alex. "There is a dance in about half an hour, celebrating the OTW games. Would you do me the honor of joining me?"
Alex glances at Sam and Clover, who both smile reassuringly at her. "Sure! I'd be happy to go with you! Can my friends come too?"
"Why not?", Tom says as he smiles at Sam and Clover. "They're welcome at the dance too!"
"What do you gals, say?" asks Alex.
"Sure!" says Clover.
"It should be fun!" says Sam.
And the foursome goes to the OTW dance for an enjoyable evening.