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

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After picking her up, Jeremiah takes her to Conrad’s college so they may ask his roommate about his absence. 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. In her best professor voice, she told Steven and me that we would drive ourselves up in two days, the day of the funeral. When Conrad comes after her, she grabs a bottle of tequila from his hand and drinks directly from it.

Susannah had made my mother executor of her will, and there was a lot of paperwork involved with that, I guessed. On the day of his mother’s funeral, to the boy I loved more than I had ever loved anything or anyone, I said, “Go to hell. Afterwards he declared that she is so immature that he was mistaken to ever begin a connection with her. It confirmed every mean and low thing I’d ever thought about myself, the stuff you hope and pray no one will ever know about you.

As soon as I got home, I put on my big Cousins T-shirt, filled a water bottle with grape soda and crushed ice, and I watched TV until my head hurt.

Belly’s relationships with the boys are examined in the book along with how they develop over the course of the summer.Taylor looked around quickly before she leaned closer and said, “Don’t act like Susannah’s the only thing you’re sad about, Belly. When Conrad sends the woman away and informs her that the house isn’t going to be put up for sale after all, Belly realizes that Conrad didn’t come to the summerhouse to skip his exams and escape his problems. We were all surprised when it happened, and even when it became inevitable, a fact, we never really believed it.

Belly understands that Conrad didn’t travel to the summerhouse to avoid his exams and run away from his difficulties when he sends the woman away and tells her that the house won’t be put up for sale after all.I listened to you cry about Ellen for months, and then Susannah dies and you want me to just make out with Cory and play beer pong and forget about her? When Conrad drives to his institution to take his examinations, Belly and Jeremiah have a heart-to-heart conversation.

Family – The beach house and the residents’ shared recollections of prior summers are major themes in the book. Belly lies and tells her mother that she’ll be staying at her best friend Taylor’s house for a day or two. I hated to leave her and I hated to be near her, because she made me remember what I wanted most to forget. That’s when Conrad looked over and saw me standing in the doorway with a plate of cheese and crackers. He looked terrible the entire night, wouldn’t dance or make conversation, and wouldn’t engage in any of the romantic prom activities she had imagined.Han treats these subjects with tact and candor, never downplaying the characters’ reactions to these events on an emotional level. I never want to see you again,” I said, and then I pushed past him, and I ran up the staircase so fast I tripped on the top step. I wondered if she knew them, if they knew who she was to Susannah, how she was her best friend, how they’d spent every summer together for almost their whole lives. When it was over, after we’d said the Lord’s Prayer, we formed our processional, everybody taking their turn to offer condolences. He was upset that she would pick Conrad over him and even more so that Conrad had suddenly shown interest in Belly after years of ignoring her.