sharen
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a sin and a lie by sharen
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022), The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy - Jenny Han
06 Sep 2025
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Summary
“Look at me, please.”
“I can’t,” he replies without missing a beat, low and shameful, and she realizes then that the boy she spent her entire life trying to figure out is unraveling before her like a loose thread. Letting her see him the way she’s always caught glimpses of but never gotten to keep: Weak and small, wanting something entirely out of his control. For the first time in her life, Belly understands him so wholly she feels it down to the tips of her toes.
“Then don’t,” she whispers, “just stay here.”
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Belly calls off the wedding after Conrad's surfing incident and they're forced to stay in the summer house for three weeks with nothing between them but the past they can't forget and the present they're too intertwined in to avoid.