Conrad, however, tells his brother he is over Belly and it is okay if the two get together. Things seem to go well, but take an abrupt turn for the worse when Conrad walks in on Belly and Jeremiah kissing. The adults leave and Belly and Jeremiah help prepare Conrad for his exams. Fisher that Conrad and Jeremiah can personally keep the house if Conrad returns to college and passes all his exams. In the end, Laurel shows up and makes a deal with Mr. At the beginning of the second novel, he runs away from college to protect the beach house once he finds out his father intends to sell it. However, the relationship is short-lived when Conrad once again slips back into his emotional old ways. At the end of the novel, he and Belly become a couple. It is suspected, though, that he has developed feelings for Belly he is shown several times as either overly protective or jealous of boys flirting with her. In the first book, his character is something of a jerk, having spent the summer at the beach getting drunk or locked in his room. He is known to push away his loved ones and to keep all his emotions and feelings inside. Conrad "Con", “Connie” Fisher: The eldest son of Susannah and Adam Fisher, and older brother of Jeremiah.He proposes to Belly a little over a year later. Conrad shows up at her college graduation, resulting in them getting back together as a couple. Eventually, she begins to stay in contact with him. In the epilogue, Belly has not heard from Conrad for two years, before receiving her handwritten letters from him "each and every month" throughout the rest of her college years. She and Jeremiah, in the end, call off their engagement and break up for good after realizing they are not meant to be. Although Belly blows up at his confession, saying he was too late, her feelings for both brothers are called into question. Toward the climax of the novel, Conrad confesses his love for her.
Because of this arrangement, her old feelings for Conrad, who is staying there as well, begin to slowly resurface. To prove his regret, Jeremiah proposes to her, which she hesitantly accepts however, a result of ongoing fights with her mother (who is furious with her for choosing to marry so young), she stays at Cousins Beach. She slaps him across the face and spends days in bed, crying. In We'll Always Have Summer, which chronicles their two-year relationship, Belly discovers at a frat party that Jeremiah cheated on her with a sorority girl. She then starts a relationship with his brother, Jeremiah, after he kisses her making his feelings known to her. She is known to have had a crush on her friend Conrad since she was young, but her relationship with him falls apart at the end of It's Not Summer Without You after the two become a couple for a short time. She is the daughter of Laurel and the younger sister of Steven. Isabel "Belly" Conklin: The narrator, and protagonist of the series.It shows that even though someone is acting independently, that person will not succeed without the help of those around them. He squanders his independence and ends up needing the help of Belly's mom in order to save the family's home at Cousins Beach. Readers do see the effects that his independent decision-making has on him through the view of Jeremiah and Belly. The impact on those around him, Belly and Jeremiah, is more heavily focused upon rather than Conrad's inner thoughts. Conrad goes to college in this book and thus experiences a new sense of independence. For instance, in It's Not Summer Without You Belly explicitly disregards her mother's wishes and sneaks out of the house in order to try and convince Conrad to go back to school. Independence: This is more greatly emphasized throughout the trilogy as Belly gets older and learns to make decisions on her own, disregarding the opinions of authority figures in her life.The novels illustrate the progression from child to adult through the experiences that both Belly and the Fisher boys encounter as they grow. However, as the trilogy progresses, she deals with bigger and more life-altering situations, such as breaking up with Conrad, Susannah's death due to cancer, Jeremiah's betrayal, and ultimately marrying Conrad. In the first book, Belly is more cognizant of what her elders, especially Susannah, want from her. Coming of Age: The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy shows the transition from childhood into young adulthood into adulthood.
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