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<\/p>\nAlmost two years ago, the second season of The Summer I Turned Pretty<\/em> ended, and I was feverishly unwell. I could not, for the life of me, accept the fact that I had to wait an unknown amount of time for the third season. Besides the fact that I wanted to keep watching Steven and Taylor bicker like an old married couple for, like, I don\u2019t know, ever, Belly\u2019s choosing of the Fisher boys left me slightly nauseous. I remember thinking, \u201cThank GOD there is another season, so this can be corrected.\u201d Even though Conrad basically told Belly to kick rocks in the season 2 finale, it\u2019s obvious that he is unequivocally the right guy for her, and I really don\u2019t think we need to argue about it. Respectfully, I think that anyone who is Team Jeremiah is\u2026 well, blind.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t want to talk about the fact that we have to wait until September to see if Belly corrects her slight lapse in judgment. However, what I will talk about is who Belly should be walking down the aisle to at the end of the series. Ahead, all the reasons why I think Belly should finally end up where she\u2019s always wanted to be\u2014next to Conrad.<\/p>\n There\u2019s something intensely intimate about knowing all the little details about someone. Throughout the first two seasons, there are hints everywhere that show how distinctly aware Conrad is of Belly. He knows what she likes, how she feels, what she\u2019s interested in, how she thinks\u2014all without having to be told. This shows up in big ways, like when he agrees with Laurel that the debutante ball is not really her style, and in small ways, like knowing she thinks Swedish Fish \u201ctaste like candles\u201d\u2014something he had to fill Jeremiah in on.<\/p>\n I understand that you don\u2019t end up with someone just because they know your favorite candy, but I do think that who you end up with should be someone who really, truly knows you\u2014and chooses you, despite all your quirks and faults. That\u2019s not to say that Jeremiah doesn\u2019t pay close attention to Belly, but he doesn\u2019t perceive her in the same way. When Conrad tells Belly, \u201cYou don\u2019t know the effect you have on people,\u201d or, \u201cYou have the prettiest smile I\u2019ve ever seen, your whole face lights up,\u201d he communicates how much attention he pays to her, which requires a type of commitment and interest that can\u2019t be replicated or forced.<\/p>\n I understood why Taylor was \u201cTeam Jellyfish\u201d in season 2, even though I disagreed with her. She saw how happy Belly was not having to second-guess whether Jer liked her or not\u2014and I get that! As Steven explains to Taylor, and as Belly echoes in the season 3 trailer, being with Jeremiah is \u201ceasier,\u201d but that\u2019s not necessarily a good thing. Steven explains this to Taylor simply, saying, \u201cHe doesn\u2019t challenge Belly\u2026 not the same way Conrad does.\u201d He goes on to say that she is deeper than more people realize and that \u201cshe deserves to be with someone who sees all the amazing, complex things she has to offer.\u201d Damn, Steven. Way to set the bar high for all brothers everywhere.<\/p>\n \u201cFor Belly, Conrad is the sun, and when the sun comes out, the stars disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The point is, because Conrad wants what\u2019s best for Belly, he\u2019s not afraid to push her. He calls her out when she does or says something that goes against who she is, like being a debutante. And he gets her to think and talk about her feelings when her instinct is to try to shut them up for the good of others. Conrad knows how to bring out the best in Belly.<\/strong> Even when we don\u2019t always agree with how<\/em> he does that, he has her best interests in mind, pushing her to be better and happier in every way. <\/strong>That\u2019s what you want out of a partner.<\/p>\n Back in season 1, Belly asks Taylor, \u201cHow am I supposed to fully jump into something with Jeremiah when a piece of my heart still beats for his brother?\u201d All these years later, I think Belly is still asking herself that as she approaches marrying Jeremiah, saying, \u201cEverywhere I go, there is a memory of Conrad.\u201d It\u2019s not a coincidence that Taylor Swift\u2019s Red<\/em> gets increasingly louder throughout the new season\u2019s trailer. There is just the right amount of emphasis on the lyrics \u201cmoving on from him is impossible when I still see it all in my head\u201d to make it abundantly clear that Belly isn\u2019t over Conrad and might never be. Considering Conrad tells Belly, \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever be able to get over you,\u201d in season 2, I\u2019m not really sure why they are still fighting it.<\/p>\n They say you always remember your first love, and I think that\u2019s true for everyone. But the difference with Belly and Conrad is that they are still<\/em> in love with each other, no matter how hard they try to put it behind them. At the end of the day (and as cheesy as it sounds), you just can\u2019t argue with what your heart is telling you. Ultimately, if Belly can\u2019t move on, maybe it\u2019s because she\u2019s not supposed to.<\/strong><\/p>\n The people who are closest to Belly know that Conrad is her world. In season 1, Laurel says, \u201cFor Belly, Conrad is the sun, and when the sun comes out, the stars disappear,\u201d meaning that she can\u2019t help but put him at the center of everything. That\u2019s been obvious since she was a little girl, according to Susannah, who always thought Belly would end up with one of her boys, knowing innately that it would likely be Conrad. Steven sees it, too, and tells Conrad in season 2, \u201cI\u2019m rooting for you, bro.\u201d<\/p>\n Most of all, Jeremiah knows that Belly loves Conrad, even telling Belly, \u201cThere will always be something between you and Conrad.\u201d At the end of season 2, Belly chooses Jeremiah, but he tells Conrad, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel like it.\u201d Jeremiah can see that even though Belly is with him, the love she and Conrad have for each other will always get in the way.<\/strong> In the trailer for the new season, Jeremiah says, \u201cI see the way he looks at you,\u201d and even though Belly tries to convince Jeremiah that Conrad doesn\u2019t matter, I don\u2019t think she\u2019s fooling anyone, even herself. To quote Belly from the most painful teaser, \u201cLife\u2019s too short not to spend it with the person that you love.\u201d For her, that person has always been Conrad.<\/p>\n As Assistant Managing Editor for The Everygirl, Hailey Tagliarino oversees, writes, and edits content across various categories on the site. From the pitching stage through publishing, she works alongside the team to ensure that the content that our readers see every day is inspiring, relatable, and timely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The post I\u2019m Team Conrad in \u2018The Summer I Turned Pretty\u2019\u2014Here\u2019s Why appeared first on The Everygirl.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Almost two years ago, the second season of The Summer I Turned Pretty ended, and I was feverishly unwell. I could not, for the life of me, accept the fact that I had to wait an unknown amount of time for the third season. Besides the fact that I wanted to keep watching Steven and<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7833,7826],"tags":[8000,8029,1345,3459,8028],"class_list":{"0":"post-9663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food","8":"category-example-1","9":"tag-conrad","10":"tag-prettyheres","11":"tag-summer","12":"tag-team","13":"tag-turned"},"brizy_media":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediarevive.com\/deutsch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediarevive.com\/deutsch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediarevive.com\/deutsch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediarevive.com\/deutsch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediarevive.com\/deutsch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mediarevive.com\/deutsch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediarevive.com\/deutsch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediarevive.com\/deutsch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediarevive.com\/deutsch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediarevive.com\/deutsch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Conrad knows Belly better than anyone else does<\/h2>\n
Conrad challenges Belly in the best way<\/h2>\n
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Belly has never been able to move on<\/h2>\n
Everyone sees Conrad is right for Belly\u2014even Jeremiah<\/h2>\n
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\n <\/div>\nHailey Tagliarino, Assistant Managing Editor<\/h3>\n