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Tiny Moves by hmbarter
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022), The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy - Jenny Han
01 Jun 2026
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“Conrad,” she whispers into his chest, voice blurred at the edges somewhere in the soft haze between drunk and dreaming. “I think I’ve loved you my whole life.”
He doesn’t move, doesn’t dare breathe. He can’t even allow himself to believe that he heard her correctly. Instead, he just pulls her closer into him, fingertips ghosting slowly down the bare skin of her back while he presses his mouth into her hair. Already mourning the fact that he might not remember these words in the morning. He doesn’t check if she’s still awake.
“Me too,” he whispers into the dark.
OR: AU where Susannah died when Belly was 11, and the Conklin-Parks move to London to process their grief. 12 years later Belly is settled into a PhD program, with a flat of her own, a cat, and her safe group of people.
Until one day her PI messages her about the MD/PhD student joining the lab from Stanford....