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diggin' the dancing queen by royalblakes
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022), The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy - Jenny Han
19 Sep 2025
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She feels her heart clench in her chest as she watches them. What she would give to freeze this moment and keep them happy forever. Take a photo and keep it in a locket around her neck. Her brush with death has only seemed to strengthen the urge to hold them close.
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Susannah makes her own observations on a late August night.
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mel doesnt like the holidays. yet somehow she finds herself crowded inside dana’s house on thanksgiving after working a shift. at least frank was there. she wouldn’t have gone without him, after all.
or: mel’s never had a friend before. let alone one she’s in love with.
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20 Dec 2025
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When Conrad was young, his mother told him that someday, someone would make him feel fireworks.
“When you do, Connie,” she’d said, “You hold them close. And you don’t let them go, no matter who tells you to.”
“Is that what you did?” he’d asked.
She’d smiled and smoothed his hair back behind his ear. “Not close enough.” Her eyes were kind. “But I know you won’t make the same mistake. You’re much braver than I am.”
Just once, Conrad had seen his mother and Laurel dance around the kitchen in the summer house, long past the time when he was supposed to be asleep. He’d felt a flash of jealousy, watching them skip and swing and collapse into a puddle on the floor, laughing. Laurel had reached over and brushed a wayward strand of hair out of Susannah’s face. They breathed as though they were one, the set of each of their shoulders matching the other.
He had looked away, feeling heat rise to his cheeks, and had run back up the stairs as quietly as he could. Like he’d seen something he wasn’t supposed to. Like he’d seen something he would understand far too well one day.
(Or: Soulmates are a funny thing. Mirrors, too.)
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06 Sep 2025
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“For five years, I’ve turned our relationship over and over in my head. I lost sleep over how it ended. Even when you responded to my letters, I would think: If I could turn back time and change one thing, one moment, so that I didn’t have to lose you, what would it be?”
Paris, France. Belly and Conrad finally talk about prom.
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05 Sep 2025
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Prenuptial by indolic for sylviaprattle
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022), The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy - Jenny Han
31 Aug 2025
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Conrad’s eyes look almost black in this light. The opposite of a star, he’d told her at thirteen, is a black hole. “I can’t do that to him.”
She shrugs. “So don’t.” Curls her toes in her flats, the adhesive of the sole leaking through. Sticky. “Don’t do it to him, then. Do it for me.”
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03 Sep 2025
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“Belly, I know you. If you want something badly enough, you’ll get it. That’s just the way the world works for you.”
Conrad is Belly’s first kiss which doesn’t change everything, but it changes something.
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02 Sep 2025