It's Not Summer Without You: Book 2 in the Summer I Turned Pretty Series

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But when I slept that night, I dreamed of Susannah and the summer house, and even in my sleep I knew exactly how good it used to be. Fisher, negotiating with him so he won’t sell the beach house, which leaves Belly in awe of her mother’s skills. I went straight to my room and got back into my big Cousins T-shirt and undid my braid, brushed my teeth, and washed my face. My mother crossed the room and knelt down on the floor with me, hugging me, rocking me back and forth. One time, after dinner, I asked Conrad if he wanted to go get frozen custard at Brusters, and Steven chimed right in and said, “Sounds good to me.

Then I tried to count stars, which is pretty much as silly as trying to count grains of sand, but I did it anyway because it was something to do.Steven’s only suit, the one he’d just worn to prom, was wrapped in plastic and hung in the backseat. She and Conrad exchange some tense words, but even though he’s jealous, he won’t actually say that he loves her.

By July, I was already at Cousins Beach, and home and school and school friends were a million miles away. When I begged for Lucky Charms or Cap’n Crunch, my mother would say, “Beck will have plenty of cereal that’ll rot your teeth out, don’t you worry. Before Conrad can reply, Jeremiah says that he himself truly likes Belly, which prompts Conrad to say that he doesn’t like her and only took her to her prom because she asked him.But I couldn’t get the words to sound right in my head, and before I could figure them out, he hung up.

She claims Susannah would never forgive Laurel for allowing the Fisher boys to lose their beach house and that she wishes Susannah were her mother rather than Laurel. Fisher is invited to the beach home by Laurel, who persuades him to abandon the property so the lads can use it. The boys were messing around in the pool and us girls were lying on beach towels, all lined up in a row. Even though her interaction with Conrad is tense and unfriendly, Belly is thrilled to be back at the beach house where she made so many childhood memories.If I forgot Conrad, if I evicted him from my heart, pretended like he was never there, it would be like doing those things to Susannah. Belly lies and tells her mother that she’ll be staying at her best friend Taylor’s house for a day or two. I said hi to Marcy, to Frankie who I used to ride the bus with in middle school, to Alice who was my best friend in kindergarten, to Simon who I was on yearbook with. In her best professor voice, she told Steven and me that we would drive ourselves up in two days, the day of the funeral. At prom, Taylor says that she and her boyfriend are planning to lose their virginity to each other that night.

In another, Jeremiah was eight or nine and he had on the Red Sox cap he refused to take off for, like, a whole summer. Belly misleads her mother by saying that she would be spending a day or two at the home of her best friend Taylor.Book reviews cover the content, themes and worldviews of fiction books, not their literary merit, and equip parents to decide whether a book is appropriate for their children. Belly sees Jeremiah bending his head as if in prayer at the funeral and notes that it’s not like him to pray. She braided quickly, with fast and sure fingers, and when she was done, she pinned the braid over the crown of my head, to the side.