We'll Always Have Summer: Book 3 in the Summer I Turned Pretty Series

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Dang, don’t even get me started on how I don’t know how I was functioning still to read Belly and Jere’s conversation. I’d really thought I was done crying, but a few tears leaked out anyway. I went ahead and said it. “Jeremiah cheated on me.” Anika sank onto the bed. “Shut the door,” she breathed. “When? With who?” “With Lacey Barone, that girl in his sister sorority. During spring break. When we were broken up.” She nodded, taking this in. “I’m so mad at him,” I said. “For hooking up with another girl and then not telling me all this time. Not telling is the same as lying. I feel so stupid.” Anika handed me the box of tissues on her desk. “Girl, you let yourself feel whatever you need to feel,” she said. 34 · jenny han I blew my nose. “I feel … like maybe I don’t know him like I thought I did. I feel like I can’t trust him ever again.” “Keeping a secret like that from the person you love is probably the worst part,” Anika said. “You don’t think the actual cheating is the worst part?” “No. I mean, yeah, that is horrible. But he should have just told you. It was turning it into a secret that gave it power.” I was silent. I had a secret too. I hadn’t told anyone, not even Anika or Taylor. I had told myself that it was because it wasn’t important, and then I had put it out of my mind. The past couple of years, I sometimes pulled out a memory I had of Conrad and looked at it, admired it, sort of in the same way I looked at my old shell collection. But if he had that kind of effect on her from just wiping her mouth with his shirt, dang. She’s marrying his brother 😂. Her brother doesn’t leave her SHaKiNG. Sis, is so effected by him because she loves him. Duh.

What I also loved was how when Belly was stressing over all the wedding things that two people stepped up for her: Taylor and Conrad. He just wanted Belly to be happy even if that meant he wasn’t the one who was making her happy 😭. Honestly, that’s pure, honest love right there—if they love you to let you go because your happiness matters more. On the morning of the wedding, Belly learns that Jeremiah has vanished and that Conrad went to go look for him. When Conrad finds Jeremiah, they have a verbal fight over Belly that escalates into Jeremiah punching Conrad. Jeremiah agrees to return with Conrad to the wedding but says he never wants to see Conrad again afterward. From there on I set out to destroy the picture of me in his head. I quit our morning runs before he left for work, I quit the fishing trips . . . and I quite football, which I loved. . . I quit it all to spite him. Anything that made him proud of me, I took away. I need you you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you. It was all worth it.'” (pg. 276)

The Summer I Turned Pretty is a trilogy of young adult romance novels written by American author Jenny Han, and published by Simon & Schuster. The series includes The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009), It's Not Summer Without You (2010), and We'll Always Have Summer (2011). [1] Belly and Jeremiah kiss passionately and often sleep in the same bed. They haven’t had sex in the two years they’ve dated because Belly hasn’t felt that the timing was right. It didn’t make sense. None of it. This wasn’t the Jeremiah I knew. My Jeremiah would never hurt me like this. He would never so much as look at another girl. My Jeremiah was true and strong and steady. I didn’t know who this person was.” (pg. 19) Ernie, two commercial breaks ago, you told me that if I didn’t try and break up my brother’s wedding, I was a punk!’

As demonstrated in the first few episode of season 2, Belly and Conrad finally date each other in It's Not Summer Without You. However, Susannah dies in the second book and this causes Conrad to pull away from Belly. They breakup before Susannah dies after prom. They also fight at Susannah's funeral when Belly sees Conrad's ex comforting him. Do I still agree with how he treated Belly? No. But I forgive him for it because I now knew what he was going through. Sometimes we become the worst version of ourselves, but that doesn’t mean we’re bad people. We’re just going through a bad situation.Mr. Fisher was a cheating husband when Susannah was alive and an absentee father to his sons growing up. He tries to re-establish a relationship with them now that they’re in college. The summer when they were dating—when she was sixteen—Conrad did something so unexpected. He drove to Belly’s house in the middle of the night and celebrated Valentine’s Day with her. I agreed with Belly that Valentine’s Day didn’t seem like something Conrad would care much about, but he did. He set up a blanket and texted her to look out her window. SO CUTE. And then they lied under the stars and he told her all about the constellations and shooting stars and planets. When I thought about it now, that moment, in the motel, I understood I was the one who’d set this thing in motion. Pushed them together. It was my doing. I was the one who was going to have to live with it. They were happy.” (pg. 165) Belly found him in the lifeguard stand when Jere returned from the bachelor party. When he told Belly that Jere cheated, I could see how torn he was because he felt happy that he had bad news and that that might end the relationship, but also sad because he didn’t want to hurt Belly. I thought it meant a lot that he even told her rather than protect his brother. When she started to walk away after she felt judged for continuing the wedding even if Jere cheated, and Conrad called out, “I still love you,” (pg. 236), CUE THE SIRENS 😫💚!!!! The next day, Jere still wasn’t there for the wedding. I was like, “Sis, why are we getting ready when we weren’t even sure Jere was going to show up after running off last night.” But I loved how Taylor and Steven were a united team in Belly’s happiness, and again how they consulate reassured her how she could call off the wedding. The fact that their wedding day was also a gloomy day felt like a bad omen 😅—gloomy weather fit the somber mood. It didn’t even feel like a happy day or that Belly wanted to go through with it.