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    For a second, it feels absurd. Shaking his hand. As if she hadn’t been naked in his bed less than four weeks ago. But Belly reaches out anyway. "I’m Isabel,” she says evenly. “But all my friends call me Belly.”

    There’s the slightest pause. He raises an eyebrow, just a fraction, just enough to register. “Nice to meet you,” he says.

    Just like that. Like they’re strangers.

    So that’s what they’re doing. Good.

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    03 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 31

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    Belly Conklin was eleven when her family moved from Philadelphia to London, leaving behind more than just a house on Cousins Beach.

    Twelve years later, she’s built something new. Something entirely and uniquely hers.

    A PhD she’s finally settled into. A flat in Finsbury Park. A life that is steady, contained, safe.

    So when her supervisor casually announces she’ll be sharing her lab bench with a visiting MD/PhD student from Stanford, Belly does what she does best: complains, reorganises, and refuses to think too hard about it.

    It’s just a name.
    Just a new colleague.
    Just someone passing through.

    It doesn’t mean anything.

    (It couldn’t possibly mean anything.)

    OR: Conrad and Belly haven't seen one another since they were kids, until he shows up in her lab, forcing the two of them to share a space, share old memories, and perhaps share old feelings?

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    03 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 72

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    "You did WHAT?!"

    Belly closed her eyes, feeling the humiliation wash over her again. "I sent Conrad a love letter on the back of his anniversary invitation."

    "On purpose?" Taylor's voice still hadn't quite gone down in pitch.

    "No, of course it wasn't on purpose," she snapped.

    "Okay. Good," Taylor said slowly. "Otherwise I would've thought you'd lost your mind."

    "That's the thing," Belly sighed. "I think I am."

    Or: in the lead-up to hers and Jeremiah's ten-year wedding anniversary, Belly accidentally sends a love letter to Conrad. It's the final nail in the coffin of a marriage that's been dead for quite some time.

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    02 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    Okay...let's try this again.

     

    After Belly chooses Jeremiah at the motel, Conrad Fisher disappears from everyone's life completely

     

    A year later, he’s not at Stanford.

     

    He’s in a cage.

     

    Once a gifted MMA prodigy, Conrad returns to fighting sharper, colder, and cockier than ever.

     

    AU: UFC/MMA fighter Conrad 2.0

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    01 Jun 2026

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    One year after a devastating broken engagement, Belly seems to have landed on her feet: five hundred thousand Instagram followers, a book deal in the works, and a doting—if mysterious—boyfriend. Two weeks before Christmas, however, her prospective publisher throws a wrench in her perfectly crafted life: they want to meet her camera-shy boyfriend before putting pen to paper...and her camera-shy boyfriend doesn't exist.

    Enter Conrad Fisher: her forever what-if and the real-life inspiration for her fictional boyfriend, back in Boston for the holidays for the first time since literally running out of Belly's life six years earlier.

    What starts as a simple arrangement snowballs into a tangled web of old wounds and even older feelings as the counterfeit couple navigates the holiday season, but who are they really deceiving?

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    30 May 2026