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It was late at night, Mar and Summer had gone to their own room, but Mar couldn't fall asleep. Knowing the truth and not telling Baxter straight away was eating her alive, her anxiety was eating her at the age of seventeen.

Alone in her own thoughts Mar made the mistake that every teenager makes when they are in need of company, she texted Baxter to come to her room.

When she opened the door not even seven minutes after the text, she was faced with a messy pink hair, shirtless, hung low shorts Baxter. Probably, the most gorgeous Baxter she had ever seen. 

"Hi" She shyly said, he smiled at her shyness, something he hasn't seen in a while "Hey" His voice was low and husky.

Mar moved to the side for Baxter Radic to come in, he stoped looking around, noticing her room was a lot diferent than his.

"You got the best room, that's on pretty privilege" He turned his head just enough to see her face, she smiled looking down at her feet. Baxter knew something was wrong, he knew that there was something happening with Mar, but he didn't wanted to push her to talk. If he was there, that was because she trusted him, and he had all the intentions in the world to keep it that way.

"You think I'm pretty?" She asked, genually confused and wondering if the stantemnt was true. Radic moved closer to her, grabbed both sides of her face in his hands, making her look in his eyes "You are the most gorgeous person I have ever seen, with the most purest of hearts" Her eyes filled with tears, she wanted to tell him right now. So before her mouth spoke she kissed him. 

The kiss was more desperate and fuming than ever before, feelings that she had never felted with anyone else, Mar felted it all with Baxter. He grabbed her hips pressing the Pauli girl to the wall. Mar's hands explored Baxter's back and chest, he took a hand to the edge of her shirt, stopping there, he looked at her, asking for permission and certification of what they were about to do.

"You are sure about this Mar?" He asked lookinginto her eyes.

"I am Bax" She replied, noddin her head.

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"Where have you two been?" Summer asked the couple that just showed up at the beach, minutes before the comp started. Baxter and Mar looked at each other not sure of what to say.

"We were just cleaning the clothes and stuff" Mar replied, however Summer kept looking at the two, her eyes got bigger when she realized.

"Yo Bax, where were you last night?" Griffen asked, joining the conversation, Baxter looked at Mar, her cheeks were a dark shade of pink, and she was bitting down on her lower lip.

"You two slept  together?" Griffen and Summer asked at the same time.

"You guys, shut up. Today is a big day for you all, so just focus in what really matters" Mar whsiper shouted to the two. She looked up to see Baxter smirk, she hitted his arm playfully, before leaving to set her camera.

For the Gibson older kid the day started the worst way, Ari was out of the competion, he had lost. All eyes, and expectations were on him and he failed. 

"I don't get what happened" Elo shouts inside the building, the rest of the team was there supporting Ari. Even Mar, she asked her supervisor to go see how Ari was, he understood and gave her a couple of minutes.

"I thought I had more time" Ari responds, in a total state of anxiety.

"Really? You didn't hear the five minute warning?" Elo asked sarcastly "Or the two minute warning or the one minute warning?"

"I'm sorry" Ari says crying.

"Sorry for what?Costing me a title?" Elo asks. Mar can't help but chuckel at her words, her title, like she is the one hunting those waves.

"Elo he's out. Just let him process" Baxter intervenes.

"Honestly, I had concerns you were gonna crack under the pressure, but Wren kwpt telling me that you had clutch"

"Alright back off" Summer said, she looked at Mar, it was time to tell the truth "You don't get to talk to him like that"

"Do you wanna join him on the bench?"

"I'd rather quit surfing forever than win anything for you, actually" She smiled.

"Summer just chill"Poppy spoke.

"No Poppy, there's some things that need to be told" Mar spoke this time, steping in.

"You guys remeber the purge paper?" Summer asked the group "Elo wanted that to happen, she set it all up"

"What?"

"She did the same thing to Tuscany a year ago. The bonfire, the stray paper, everything" Summer admited, the whole group looked at Elo shocked, while Mar she looked at Baxter that was aleady looking at her.

"Wren, you said Tuscany bullied you" Bohdi says looking at Wren, that didn't look surprise for a minute.

"She did, she wrote horrible things about me" 

"Because you made her life hell" Mar shouts, annoyed at her playing to be the victim" That is what Elo does, she gets you all aginst each other just to get you all fired up in the water. She even used me this time, a non-surfer"

"I don't know what you are talking about" Wren commented.

"Yes you do, you both do" Baxter said joining Mar and Summer expose" Could we just be honest for once?"

"All of you listen up" Elo shouts "When I took thsi job, you were the team who could barely beat  Tasmania. You might not like my methods, but here we are. We are in reach for the trophy. Obviously, you needed to hear some harsh truths." The last sentence was the the last straw for the two burnettes that knew that truth.

"Harsh truths? Yeah? If you really are about the truth, you should Bax what you did" Summer said, walking closer to Elo.

"What is she talking about Elo" Baxter asked, he looked over at Mar, she had concern all over her eyes. Summer kept it quiet, agreeding last night to let Mar tell him the truth.

"Bax, Queensland never dropped you. They fired Elo for her garbage methods and Wren for bullying" Mar said, approaching them.

"They didn't fire me, they forced me to resing and it was one complaint from Tuscany's parents" Elo defended herself.

"She stayed quiet and blamed you for move to Shorehaven, and the blonde princess here knew about it all" Elo turns around to face the middle Radic.

"Bax, I was just trying to keep our family together, your carrer depend on my reputation" Baxter looks at his sister hurted, Ari that untill this point was sat in the chair, runs outside, followed by Wren.

"Your reputation?Goldy's got the right idea" Baxter said, ripping his pass and giving it to Elo

"Radic" Mar said, running after him" Bax, Bax" she calls out, walking inside the mans bathhouse with her hand on top of her eyes.

"You can take your hand of your face Mar" He chuckeld at the sight of the girl.

"Right, sorry" She said, walking closer to him"Bax, I'm so sorry. I wanted to tell you all last night, but Summer wanted to surf so she asked me not to say anything, and I don't want you think that I care for her more than I do for you, because that is simply totaly not the truth but-"

"Pauli, it's fine" he said grabbing the side of her face "You couldn't be together anyways, this kinda of just makes it easier" Mar shakes her head, disagreeding with every word that left his lips.

"No Bax, no. That is not true" She said holding back the tears "You can't leave" she said as he got up from the bench "Bax you are not your sisters, you can't leave"

"No, I think I'm worst. I'm completely gullible. Ever since we got down here, it's Baxter this, Baxter that. Like, I'm ruining her life?" He said looking at Mar, something to fight for" And all this time it was just her bruised ego..I'm just so stupid! How did I not see.. it was right there"he confessed looking at Mar, devstaded.

"Bax, you are not stupid for trusting your family, plus people treat you exactly how they fell about you, thats why we are suppoused to protect the people we love" Mar admited, letting one tear fall.

"Like you protected Poppy, by telling the truth?" Mar shaked her head, no.

"Like I protected you, by telling the truth" Mar whispered, steping closer to Baxter.

"You know, it kills me that you are leaving. Send me more pictures like the one I have, when you are in Paris?" He asked, smiling down at her, with a tear on the corner of his eye. She nodded her head repeatedly.

"Yeah, I will" She said, before steping in her tiptoes to kiss the Radic boy.

"Goodbye Pauli" Her tears kept on falling as she stood there watching him leave, never thinking it would be so hard watching those you love leave. She knew that sooner or later it would happen, after all she was moving for Paris later that day, but watching him leave hurted much more.

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"Mar"Poppy called sitting beside Mar on the sad, she tryied to hold Mar's hand but Mar moved it away.

"I don't feel like talking right now"Mar commented not looking at Poppy.

"Mar, I am sorry. I just.. how come you didn't tell me that you were leaving?" Poppy asked, Mar turned to her with tears all over her face "We are best friends, we tell each other evrything. And you are leaving today Mar, you can't leave if we are mad at each other, I don't want that" Poppy cried.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to leave mad at you either. I wanted to tell you, but I didn't really wanna face it honestly, I don't want to say goodbye" Mar explained, just know being things so clear to her.

"It's okay babe, I get it, it's scary but it's your dream Mar. Isn't it worth risking it?" Poppy asked, Mar moved her hand to stay on top of Poppy's.

"It's my dream just for like two year now, is it even worth saying goodbye to all of this?" Mar asked looking around.

"What does the time have to do with anything. It doesn't matter if it's your lifelong dream or your three days dream, what matters is the passion towards it Mar" Poppy explained.

Mar placed her head on Poppys shoulder, still holding her hand in hers "He left, I love him Popps" Mar confessed, saying her feelings for the first time out loud.

"I know babe. I'm here, everything will be okay" Poppy said hugging tighly Mar's hand.

Ari Gibson appears with a loud speaker playing a very much familiar song to both Mar and Summer, he then starts dancing to Summer's old choreography.

"Uh..okay. What?" Marlon laughs confused.

"What are you doing?" Summer asked laughing .

"You should know it's your choreography" Ari said, laughing at himself.

"No, but why are you doing it?"

"Every other team has something they do to psych themselves up. Come on I'm dying yp here please" Ari begged.

"We can see that"

"You remeber it right?" Ari asks as Summer joins her, eventually Poppy and others joined the two friends dancing.

"Mar, it's almost your part" Summer alerted, she laughed and denied with her head.

"I'm not sliding down and knock you guys" She laughed, cleaning her fallen tears of her face.

"Yes, you are come on" Poppy said, grabbing her arm to make the girl join the duo. And so she did, Mar joined Ari Gibson and Summer Torres, running towards them falling down and kncoking the two down, just like in the original video.

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Once again Mar was filled with anxiety, this time a diferent kind, where did they stand in the championship. The teams were being announced, it was between team Victoria, New South Wales and Queenslands.

The woman announced that the New South Wales got thirds place, and than team Victoria got second place, incredibly close as the first place.

The group shouted and jumped in pure amusemnet, Mar prepared her camera to take her last photo of those faces for a while. A last tear for the day fell on her face, those were her people. And this was her passion, photography as itself, no avaliotion, no rules, just passion.

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Six a.m the alarm went off, as usual she ate avocado toast to have energy, making the same disgusted face she always did, regreting it as always. Mar then went to her wradrobe, grabbed her green bikini and a white dress overall, black hat and a totebag and then she made her way to the beach.

It was hard to pick up the surfboard, specially at six in the morning, but Mar managed to pick it from the truck of her car. 

She placed the surf board on the water watching in the distance the ocean, in the same place that she had been a couple of days ago with Baxter Radic, she was back there.

"Not terrifying anymore?" A smile grew imidiatly as that voice sounded.She looked to her side, and there he was Baxter Radic, in his own surf board.

"I guess I have outcome some fears" He nodded his head, smirking at her choice of surfboard " I like your board" she rolled her eyes at him, hitting him playfully.

"No Paris?" He asked then, Mar breathed out finally telling him her choice " I don't want to lose this" She said pointing between them, Baxter smirked at her "Guess I will stay too, I don't want to break your heart, that's the only reason" Mar went to hit him on the arm again, but Baxter grabbed it, pushing her towards him.

Baxter got a hold of her waist, she immediately wrapped her legs around his waist, and her arms around his neck "Oh is that the only reason?"

"There's also this one girl, she's pretty cool" Baxter jokes.

"What's her name?" She asked, moving some wet heairs out of his face.

"Sea, her name is sea" Mar smilled wilddly at the pink haired boy "You know the meaning of my name?" She asked shocked.

"I searched it the moment we met" Baxter admited.

"You are a big softie Radic" Mar chukeld kissing the boy "Remeber when I said I didn't want a summer love?" Mar askes, whcich the boy nodded "I take that back" Baxter smiled at her, holding her tightly closer to him.

"A girl like you deserves a love that always feels like summer"

"You talk like a book Radic" 

Just like the waves return to it's ocean they returned to each other, it's the way the water loves, and it's the way they love. They go through phases of emptiness, just like the moon does, in order to fell full again. That's Mar Pauli and Baxter Radic love