But then there were both getting angry at each other because she was nervous about him going and Lacie there but also knowing she didn’t want to go because she was going home to her family.

Like how obnoxious he was when he smoked weed with his suitemates and they ate pineapple-and- ham pizza and listened to “Gangsta’s Paradise” by Coolio and they would laugh for, like, an hour.Maybe we’d been codependent, maybe we’ll always have summer · 51 more me on her than the other way around, and now I needed to stand on my own feet. Before I could answer, before I could say, You’re not stupid or selfish or wasteful, before I could end the fight, Jeremiah said, “Fuck it. The novels follow Isabel "Belly" Conklin in the summers she spends at Cousins Beach with her mother and older brother, along with her mother's lifelong best friend and her sons. It shows that even though someone is acting independently, that person will not succeed without the help of those around them.

They eventually become a couple again, and the book ends with a torrential downpour on their wedding day as they jump into the ocean in their tux and gown. Laurel is furious, saying the couple are far too young for such a commitment, even going as far as refusing to show up for the wedding, which leaves Belly devastated. Honestly, I’m proud of Conrad and all that he had to endure in all these years and how he tried his best when he wasn’t doing his best—when he didn’t let anyone in. But what I loved about TSITP books, especially We’ll Always Have Summer was how Jenny Han made me so confused, conflicted, and combusted over Jeremiah and Conrad because I genuinely loved them both that it hurt to think about either of them being heartbroken or sad because one of them was going to end up with Belly and the other wasn’t.When Belly later comes across him, Conrad confesses his long-hidden love for her before begging her not to marry his brother and to be with him, breaking down into tears.