Throughout season 1, Belly has a brief dalliance with Cam Cameron, a sweet, vaguely unimportant local boy. She does the Cousins debutante ball. She tries to figure out what’s going on with the distant Conrad. She notices that Jeremiah is flirting with her. Jeremiah sets off a firework at her when she’s about to kiss Conrad. Conrad almost gives her an infinity necklace. At the debutante ball, Conrad steps in (in slow-mo, naturally) to dance with her instead of Jer. It turns out, Conrad has been distant because Susannah has cancer. He finally confesses his feelings for her on the beach.
Season 2 takes place the following summer. Susannah has tragically died. Throughout her illness, Belly and Conrad dated, but they were driven apart by the emotional weight of the circumstances. (Belly couldn’t really understand it, though, and assumed that Conrad was just being a shitty boyfriend. His mum is dying, Belly!) She soon finds herself flirting with Jeremiah again. Belly, Conrad, Jeremiah, Stephen, Belly’s bestie Taylor, and some other kids have a party trashing the beach house when they think it’s going to be sold. At the end, Belly and Jeremiah kiss on the hood of Conrad’s car, leaving him distraught. The three teens end up sharing a motel room during a storm—Belly lies in bed and tries to decide which brother she’s going to choose. Even though Conrad expresses his feelings, she goes for Jeremiah, once again, leaving Conrad distraught.
The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 plot
So far, four episodes of TSITP season 3 have dropped on Prime—and it’s been messy. The new season is set four years after the events of season 2. Yes, Belly and Jeremiah have been dating for four years. They’re both in college and Belly seems to be placing him at the center of all of her decision-making (I can’t possibly study abroad in Paris and leave Jeremiah here! I can’t possibly go study with my friends and leave Jeremiah alone! etc.). Meanwhile, Conrad is now training to be a doctor in San Fransisco. He has a new friend named Agnes who asks him a lot of questions about his past, which is very helpful for exposition purposes. He doesn’t ask her one. (Oh yeah, and he has a Connell’s Chain moment thanks to a new watch that the girls are going feral for.)
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