This is basically an excuse for me to write about Belly& Conrad’s magnetic pull to one another
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take it now (everything that I have) leaving nothing left by AutumnsAwakening
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022), The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy - Jenny Han
01 Nov 2025
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His hands are the first thing she notices—large, with long fingers shaped with a kind of deliberate artistry. There's a precision to them, she thinks, in the way they might move, in the way they might touch. Her stomach coils at the thought, but she's unable to look away until the warm weight beside her shifts.
Jeremiah sits upright on the couch. A jolt of something sharp, like a knife of panic, cuts across his features before he clears his throat, settling into a mask of calm that doesn't quite reach his eyes.
"Conrad," he greets very quietly, voice taut, "this... this is Belly." He pauses, his jaw locking at a stiff angle. "My girlfriend."
Conrad, the tall man standing before her with careful hands she imagines are both soft and callused at the same time, immediately looks like he's been punched in the gut.
Or: Belly, in her grief (and misguided determination), makes a life-altering decision that results in her spending the summer in Cousins with her boyfriend's brother, Conrad, whose gaze carries a heavy weight she doesn't quite understand.
Loosely inspired by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.