I know that there’s this saying that you shouldn’t go to college with your boyfriend, but if it’s Jeremiah Fisher, you do 👏🏼. He was angry at his dad and then angry at himself for not doing the things he loved because he was angry at his dad. He asked what I was doing, and I told him I was driving home, but I didn’t tell him where I was driving from.

But it made my heart swell that he still ate her food and cleaned up after himself—such a gent My mother had gone on a weeklong trip to Turkey, a trip she’d had to postpone twice—once when Susannah’s cancer came out of remission and then again after Susannah died. I liked that Belly threw a bone to the situation and talked to Taylor by asking her about if an outfit would match. Telling both their families about their marriage plans will be a challenge, so they decide to break the news to everyone simultaneously at a dedication event honoring Susannah. At the end of the second book, Conrad, unable to be honest about his emotions, insists that Belly should be with Jeremiah instead.

In the third and final book, We'll Always Have Summer, Belly and Jeremiah start a serious romantic relationship and go to college together. I headed back to my dorm room, ready to pass out until at least dinnertime, and when I opened the door, there was Jeremiah, asleep in my bed.

Oh my gosh, I loved how after that first dinner in Cousins (with the chicken), Conrad and Jere were talking about surfing and Conrad was like, “I don’t want to knock on your door to wake Belly. I told myself and everyone else (including him, including my mother especially) that it was a good school, that it was only a few hours from home and it made sense to apply there, that I was keeping my options open. Conrad "Con", “Connie” Fisher: The eldest son of Susannah and Adam Fisher, and older brother of Jeremiah.Now that I think about it, why was I so hard on Conrad when I would have reacted the same way when I was in his shoes? She needs help with wedding preparations, so he goes with her on various small trips to pick out flower vases and decorations, which just makes Jeremiah more jealous. My face got hot, and I momentarily forgot about how badly my back hurt or how weird it was that he’d brought up Jere. Then she made a dig at his fraternity being stupid and something about an inferiority complex because Jere wasn’t premed like Conrad and just a frat boy. Chicken is the staple protein if you’re not a vegetarian and it’s probably the easiest meat to cook.

Though we see little of him, his truthfulness is a springboard for Belly to make difficult but wise decisions. And the fact that he tried to butter Belly up when he came back from that Cabo trip and didn’t tell her?

Fisher was going to be confused, Steven was going to be shook, and Conrad was going to be heart-broken but numb. However, as the trilogy progresses, she deals with bigger and more life-altering situations, such as breaking up with Conrad, Susannah's death due to cancer, Jeremiah's betrayal, and ultimately, marrying Conrad. It erased what happened and put a band-aid on the hurt and said, let’s forget it and marry each other instead.

I didn’t know if I should have been more upset with Jeremiah or angry at Jenny for making Jeremiah the villain—for tainting him so team Bonrad was not endgame. I bought a new skirt, but I don’t know if I should tuck shirts into it or what …” She pursed her lips for a second and then said, “Okay. The first season of The Summer I Turned Pretty introduced us to all three love interests and it's a pretty loyal adaptation of the first book. People are inherently two sides of good and not-so-good and when you’re in a relationship you take the good with the bad. Rick was nothing but a tiny piece of her past, a piece that she would always treasure, but that was all, because history is just that.

When I finally made it to the bathroom, I locked the door behind me and let out a little sigh of relief. I really felt for Conrad and all he felt inside that I never knew, but had a hunch about—-that he had a lot more going on. Independence: This is more greatly emphasized throughout the trilogy as Belly gets older and learns to make decisions on her own, disregarding the opinions of authority figures in her life. He was giving Jere the go ahead to date Belly because he hurt Belly in an insurmountable way and he knew that she would take a long time—if ever—to forgive him for what he said that day, so to fulfill his promise to his mom and to protect Belly, he let Belly go.