It was 7:30 A.M the following morning. Heather had gotten up early to go scuba diving. She went to where the boat was, rented her equipment and got aboard. She was a little surprised to see that Bridgette was one of the dozen other people on the boat. As soon as their eyes met, Bridgette turned away to avoid her.

Heather was wondering if it would be worth it to reach out to her in attempt to make things go smoothly. This probably won't work, but what the hell, Heather thought.

"Hi Bridgette," Heather said.

"Hello Heather," Bridgette said with such obvious disdain that someone could have mistaken her doing an impersonation of Jerry Seinfield greeting Newman. With this less-than-cordial exchange out of the way, Bridgette decided that there was something very interesting to her left and began looking in that direction with great dedication.

Why can't it always be fun when I'm right? Heather asked herself.

…

After the second dive, Heather had tried to reach out again. She offered Bridgette a mint to get rid of the unpleasant aftertaste of compressed air. Heather did this even though she only had one mint and the aftertaste of compressed air was her least favorite thing about scuba diving.

Heather had noticed that Bridgette had spent all the time on the boat taking turns between ignoring her and giving her the evil eye. This was starting to creep Heather out since Bridgette was normally one of the nicest people of the Total Drama contestants. So Heather decided to try to alleviate the tension.

Unfortunately, the mint offering went even worse than Heather's earlier attempt at a polite greeting. Bridgette gave Heather a stern glare while reaching into her bag and eating a mint of her own, maintaining the glare the whole time.

This is starting to get ri-god-damned-diculous, Heather thought as ate her mint. On the plus side, the inside of my mouth no longer tastes like ass. Sometime later, the boat returned to its dock and all the divers got out. After Heather and Bridgette had returned their rented equipment, Heather approached the blond girl.

"What the hell is going on?" Heather asked.

"You know exactly what's going on," Bridgette replied in indicating her decision to use passive-aggression.

Let's see, Heather began thinking. Bridgette usually doesn't put this much effort into giving me the cold shoulder, so what could have happened recently to make her like this? That was when Heather realized that the most out-of-the-ordinary thing to happen recently was her date with Cody and that probably wasn't a coincidence.

"You heard about my date with Cody last night, didn't you," Heather asked.

"Yes," Bridgette said. "You should be ashamed of yourself."

"For asking Cody out?" Heather asked with her eyebrow raised in puzzlement.

"For trying to take advantage of him so you can use him as a pawn against Gwen," Bridgette clarified.

Of course you'd think that, Heather thought. It wasn't a surprise that to her that people were jumping to conclusions about her dating Cody: it had become pretty routine for people to think of her as evil even when she wasn't up to something.

"That is not why I asked him out," Heather said and began telling Heather about how Cody got Harold and DJ to sing to her in an attempt to cheer up. "And then he started going on about how I'm not as evil as so many people have told me I am. Hell, Alejandro didn't even do that when he was trying to get on my good side for an alliance. Speaking of which, I want you to think for a second about how Alejandro is going to take the news of my dating Cody."

"He is not going to take that well," Bridgette said as she grinned while thinking it over. Heather waited awhile and wondered if Bridgette was enjoying her own daydream as much as Heather enjoyed hers. Surfer chick definitely has her own issues with Al after what happened in the Yukon.

"So you see…..," Heather began.

"I'm not done yet," Bridgette interrupted. A few seconds later, Bridgette's grin faded. "All right. I will give you that some good can come from you and Cody going out and that you might not be going out with him only to screw with Gwen. But what do you have to say about Cody and Gwen's little spat last night?"

"The what?" Heather asked with obvious shock.

"So you haven't heard," Bridgette said. "I wasn't there personally but from what I understand, it went something like this."

(Begin flashback)

"How could you ask Heather out?" Gwen angrily asked.

"Heather asked me out," Cody clarified.

"Whatever," Gwen replied with enough venom to make it clear how she saw that as an irrelevant piece of information. "She's only using you as a way to get to me. You realize that, don't you?"

"There's more to it than that," Cody said.

"Yeah right," Gwen scoffed then took a deep breath as she prepared herself for the next subject. "I know you're not happy that I'm with Duncan now, but there are other ways to deal with it than stooping to Heather's level."

"What exactly do you want here, Gwen?" Cody asked, making it obvious that he was not pleased with Gwen casually insulting Heather.

"I want you to call off whatever you have going on with Heather," Gwen said.

"No," Cody answered. "Heather did not ask me out as part of plan against you. I know that because of how happy she was when I told her how I don't think she's pure evil."

"How could you possibly think that?" Gwen asked with combination of shock and anger.

"I have my reasons," Cody said. "But my point is that me and Heather going out has nothing to do with you. You'd know that if you weren't self-centered enough to think Heather and I only have lives that revolve around you!"

(End flashback)

"There was some more yelling and arguing after that," Bridgette said as she finished her story.

"Let me get this straight," Heather began, "you, Gwen and probably others think that there's no way Cody would have snapped at her like that if not for me, so I must be planning to use him against Gwen and he's pissed and depressed enough about her hooking up with Duncan to go along with whatever I have in mind."

"That's right," Bridgette replied.

"How exactly is taking him off Gwen's hands hurting her?" Heather asked. "Personally, I'm insulted you think I can't come up with a better evil plan than that."

"You could turn Cody against Gwen," Bridgette answered. "She'd lose a friend and gain an enemy."

"But that would simplify things for her," Heather countered. "She can hate Cody's guts for lusting after her and not feel bad about it. As opposed to now, where he's on the 'I only think of you as friend' list and he's not completely happy about it."

"I suppose," Bridgette said.

"Besides, I don't need to hurt Gwen right now," Heather continued. "Not after how she became her own worst enemy with that whole Duncan thing. For now, I'm content to sit back while she deals with the consequences of her actions."

"That didn't exactly make her look good," Bridgette said aloud.

"And yet here you are, jumping at the chance to take Gwen's side over mine," Heather said.

"I'm not entirely happy with how Gwen and Duncan became a couple," Bridgette answered. "But doesn't make it okay for you to take advantage of Cody so you can kick her when she's down."

"Well, you're wrong on both those accounts, so there," Heather replied. She decided that while she was dealing with accusations, she might as well get some more out of the way. "By the way, have you heard of any other news involving Cody?"

"What other news?" Bridgette asked. "What did you do?"

"I may have suggested that Cody get his band back together," Heather said and Bridgette glared at her once more. "It's not what you think."

"Really," Bridgette said. "Because I think you're doing that to mooch off his success for financial and popularity reasons."

"I can see why you'd think that, but that's not the case. You're familiar with all the ways Cody is not an ideal male specimen, aren't you?"

"Yeah."

"I'm going to have to deal with repercussions for that. And I don't mean the accusations of 'what are you up to': I'm talking about the 'what the hell were you thinking' type of repercussions. However, the damage is lessened if they see I'm dating a geeky twerp who's also a successful musician. I just want to eat my cake and have it too."

"You mean have your cake and eat it too," Bridgette corrected.

"I never got that expression," Heather said. "Anyone can have cake and eat it. But to eat your cake and still have it: that's the tricky part."

"Okay," Bridgette said as she began taking everything in.

"Does Geoff know that you're so critical of my dating Cody?" Heather asked.

"He doesn't," Bridgette answered. "Why do you ask?"

"It's just that Geoff was there when I asked Cody out," Heather said. "He was very supportive."

"Really," Bridgette said, not sure what to make of that. "Here's a thought: let's go find Cody and he can tell me about how not evil you are."

"Sounds great," Heather said, and the two went back to the hotel to find Cody.

Bridgette wasn't sure what exactly was going on, but she decided that this whole matter might be less black and white than she originally thought. If Geoff thinks there's nothing fishy going on here, I should trust him about this, Bridgette thought. Still, there's nothing wrong with a little fact checking.