About time I finally updated, huh? :P
Anyways, I finally got some new ideas to write some more little one shots for you after taking an extended summer vacation, so here you go! (:

Disclaimer: No, I don't own anything sadly! (:

Summary: After Katie's departure, Sadie finds a new comfort and friend in Bridgette.

Pairing: Bridgette/Sadie. Friendship, no romance related. :P

And for the record, I DO support gay and lesbian pairings; I'm just not good at writing them, since I have no idea how to write feelings for things I don't feel….xD

And I decided to do a Sadie pairing since I find she has an underdeveloped personality in the show that needs some work…so maybe I can fix hat up a bit here. ;)

Okay, I REALLY make these notes too long…so here's the next chapter that you guys have probably been waiting for for awhile…

Sadie had been lying down now on the Dock of Shame for quite some time now, crying her eyes out, which had since turned a puffy red color, but of course, the overweight teen had her reasons.

Sadie could honestly say that Katie was the only friend that Sadie had on the island, let alone at home too. At school, kids always made fun of Sadie and stereotyped her as the "fat girl" just because she was a little large. On the island here, it was the same thing. Duncan always made a point every challenge to single her and Katie out, and calling them "Tweedle Dum" and "Tweedle Idiot", or something along the lines of that…Sadie didn't really keep track. She didn't really like remembering them. It always hurt to think of them. And the worst part about the whole situation was that the majority of the team had joined in, laughing at her and Katie in the background. But now Katie was gone, and Sadie was left to face them all on her own.

The fact is that it wasn't Sadie's fault that she was so big. Sadie's parents were a little bigger then most adults, but they looked tiny compared to her. Her family was bigger boned, but Sadie had problems of her own. Up until the point when Sadie was 8 or 9 years old, she was a pretty normal sized person, but after that, she began to get bigger. Her parents noticed it, and thought that maybe their daughter was eating too much, so they put her on a bit of a diet…but she continued to grow after that, so they took her to a doctor. It turned out that Sadie had a rare bone disorder that caused her bones to inflate when she hit puberty, and then they would start to decrease when she was around 18 or 19. There was nothing Sadie could do about her size, and she was used to that by now.

Sadie cried some more and grabbed onto the dock as she cried. She had to face the facts. Katie was gone, and she was now going through this whole "competition" thing alone.

Sadie sighed. What was she going to do without her BFF?

The Killer Bass were all gathered around the campfire, save Sadie, who was still crying by the dock. Usually you would be celebrating something around the campfire, or roasting marshmallows, or hot dogs-something fun! But not at Camp Wawanakwa tonight, barely ever for that matter. There was no celebrating going on for the sad group of teens who had just lost anther member of their team. Just when they thought they were getting their act together, it was all falling apart again, and by the looks of it, they probably weren't going to win the next challenge either.

Duncan, the delinquent of the group, finally broke the silence. He stood up, and snapped the stick he was holding in half like it was a twig. He let out a loud groan, which sounded a bit like a roar as he was doing so.

"Why do we keep losing!" he yelled, to no one in particular.

While half the team looked too scared to answer, Harold, the nerd, decided to answer Duncan.

"I think we need to strategize more," he started. "I have actually gathered a lot of skills up over the years from summer camps I've been to, like-"

"That is not strategizing Harold!" Courtney interrupted. The preppy teenage didn't really care for Harold, or his ideas. Or anyone's ideas actually, apart from her own.

"Guys, I…I think we need to work through some of the group friction…" DJ put in. The gentle giant immediately sat back on his log stump, hoping not to get snapped at by someone in response.

"Friction?" Geoff asked. His cowboy hat and undone button shirt that revealed his abs showed that the teen obviously got through life with his looks and not his brains.

"Isn't that, like, scientific stuff?" Tyler asked, sounding just as confused, if not more confused then Geoff.

Bridgette, the surfer girl, giggled in the background at how clueless Geoff and Tyler were.

"Guys, DJ means that we need to work things out between us!" she explained. "We're fighting a lot, and that's probably a good reason why we're losing challenges!" she added.

"Oh please!" Courtney retorted as she rolled her eyes. "Like that's going to help us out!"

"It might…" DJ shrunk back again as he spoke.

Geoff, now that he knew what everyone was talking about, decided to defend DJ's idea.

"Guys, I think that might actually work!" Geoff shouted, as he pumped his fist into the air.

Bridgette smiled at him before she spoke. She and Geoff had a little "fling" going on, and almost everyone in the competition knew about it. She was definitely happy to see him defending her ideas, now that he understood them.

"We're going to need everyone here…has anyone seen Sadie?" she asked.

"Down by the dock, bawling her fat ass out." Duncan smirked as he replied, enjoying insulting Sadie as he spoke.

Harold, one of the many people offended by the comment spoke up.

"Duncan, that's mean…." he commented.

"What?" the delinquent retorted. "It's not like she can hear us!"

Bridgette shrugged.

"She might be able too Duncan!" she argued. "Sadie's right down there! And she's your team mate….you should be a little nicer to her, even when she's not here!"

"Well if you're so keen on her, why don't you go get her and bring her into our uh…team bonding session?" Duncan rolled his eyes as he replied, not too sure what to call the conversation they were now having by the campfire.

Bridgette stood up angrily, and glared and Duncan. She walked a few feet away from the campfire, then stopped and crossed her arms.

"Fine!" she shouted, as she started walking down towards the Dock of Shame.

Moments later, Bridgette stood at the end of the Dock of Shame. Duncan was right about one thing-Sadie was still crying. A lot. The fact that her best friend had left the island for good had really hit her hard.

Bridgette gulped as she approached Sadie. Bridgette had never really defended Katie or Sadie when Duncan would mock or make fun or them, and now she regretted it. She was just a bystander in the whole thing, and she felt terrible about it.

The surfer girl thought about how hard it must have been for Sadie to go through life. She was shy by the looks of it, and Bridgette hated to judge, but Sadie was a bigger girl, and that was probably one of the reasons why Duncan and the others made fun of her so much.

Bridgette had been lucky her whole life. She had nice, natural blonde hair that guys always loved. She always had a nice, slim, athletic body, so she never had to deal with people making fun of her. And at school, Bridgette was fairly popular. By the looks of it, sadly Sadie wasn't as fortunate.

She thought closely about the words she spoke to Sadie as she walked in behind her, since Bridgette didn't want to upset her anymore then she already was. Sadie had had a rough day, and by no means did Bridgette want to make it worse then it was to date.

"Katie would want you to keep going!" Bridgette told her softly. Sadie seemed, to take no notice of her, and continued crying.

Bridgette sighed.

"Come on, let's go back and join the others!" Bridgette proposed, but still got silence as a response.

Bridgette then needed a new plan. She grabbed Sadie's leg, and dragged her off the Dock of Shame. In the process, Sadie managed to still hold onto the dock, so she was carrying a piece of it with her.

"Kaaaatiiiie!" Sadie sobbed. "I miiiiiissss yoooooou!" she cried.

Bridgette sighed. Sadie didn't deserve this. She felt really bad for her, especially since she voted for Katie herself, which she regretted the instant the last marshmallow was given to Sadie.

Bridgette stopped Sadie in her tracks, who was still crying. She sighed.

"Sadie, I know that Katie's gone, but do you remember what she told you before she left?" Bridgette asked. Jeez, she felt like a mother comforting her daughter…

Sadie sniffled a bit before responding.

"S…she said to k…keep going…a…and win….f…for both of us," she stammered through her tears. Bridgette felt tears come to her eyes as well, since it hurt to see someone this upset.

"You promised her that, didn't you?" Bridgette asked.

Sadie gulped, and nodded slowly, hesitant at first.

"But you to win, you have to try your best and not give up!" Bridgette encouraged. She then saw how upset this made Sadie look, so she looked Sadie in the eyes and continued speaking.

"Sadie, I know you can do this!" she started. "Sure, you may not win, but at least you can tell Katie that you gave it a shot without her! I know she'll be really proud of you if you do it! You're a beautiful, strong person and I know that you can do this!" Bridgette told Sadie, encouraging her.

Sadie's crying eventually started slowing down as she thought about what Bridgette had said.

"B…but I don't know if I can!" she protested.

Bridgette smiled at her.

"I know you can," she replied.

The rest of their walk back to camp was silent, but when they reached the campfire pit, Sadie pulled Bridgette aside for a moment before they rejoined the others.

"Thanks Bridgette," Sadie whispered.

Bridgette only smiled in return. As she pulled over an extra log stump next to hers for Sadie to sit on, Sadie finally felt that in the world she now made another friend, and had possibly started another friendship that would last her a lifetime.

I didn't originally plan for it to be this long…or for it to include the whole team. But it did, which isn't such a bad thing, since it also got into the Killer Bass' team dynamics as well as deeper into Sadie, and even Bridgette's personality. (:

Cheers, and thanks for reading everyone!

~Lauren! (: