Let’s rewind. In the third The Summer I Turned Pretty book, We’ll Always Have Summer, the third and final book in Jenny Han’s bestselling trilogy (yes, the one the show is based on), Belly Conklin finds herself engaged to Jeremiah Fisher after two years of dating. But it’s not exactly a fairytale.
The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 Drama Will Make Your Head Spin
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Jeremiah, our golden retriever boy, cheats…or does he? Depends on who you ask. While Belly and Jere were on a break (cue Ross and Rachel energy), he hooked up with another girl in Cabo.
Still, Jeremiah proposes. And Belly says yes. But deep down, it’s Conrad, her first slow dance, first heartbreak, and the first love who still has her heart.
As Jenny Han told TIME, “There’s something so potent and powerful about being really young, never having been bruised by love before… You can get a lot more hurt by the experience, but I also think there’s so much you gain.”
Of course, it wouldn’t be The Summer I Turned Pretty without some last-minute chaos. At the wedding weekend, Conrad confesses he still loves her (after overhearing Jeremiah’s frat bros talking about Cabo girl again, yikes). The brothers fight. Punches are thrown. Jeremiah drops a brutal truth bomb on Belly: “That’ll always be Con. I won’t be your excuse. You’ve got to see for yourself, or you’ll never be able to let him go.”
Fast forward: Belly calls off the wedding. She studies abroad. She and Conrad write handwritten letters (how very Notebook of them). Years later, at her college graduation, she sees Conrad—and it’s game over. Or rather, game on.
At age 23, Belly marries Conrad at Cousins Beach, the place where it all began. After the ceremony, the couple runs straight into the ocean in their wedding clothes. Why? Because that’s who they are—nostalgic, messy, and madly in love.
Conrad’s final words in the book? “I go wherever you go.” Cue the tears.
Will There Be a Twist Ending That No One Saw Coming?
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But don’t count Team Jeremiah out—many still hope the show will surprise us. As Jenny Han teased to Entertainment Weekly, “There are the things that [fans] know and then there are things they think they know… and then there’s going to be, hopefully, things that surprise them.”
Could the series switch it up and give us a different ending? Maybe. Han isn’t afraid of bending her own rules, and fans love a good twist.
Until then, we’re holding onto our seashells and rooting for Belly to choose not just the boy, but the version of herself that feels most like home. The Summer I Turned Pretty will debut its final episodes in July, and fans are both excited and dreading the end of the epic series.
Emma Taylor 
