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She was on thin ice. She knew—She knew that. She wanted to pretend like everything was back to normal between the two of them but she was just lying to herself. He was her best friend. He was her person. The things she felt when she was together with him last summer were things she never expected but it was real.
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Belly's thoughts starting from after Skye dared her and Jere to kiss all the way until the morning in the motel.
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Even In The Shadows by s_zl
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022), The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy - Jenny Han
06 Sep 2023
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It started to rain ever so slightly. The kind you don’t even really feel. The only reason Belly noticed was because of the little raindrops that would shine under the streetlights, against the otherwise black sky. It felt so peaceful to her. Whenever she was with Jeremiah, that was always the baseline. Even if they were laughing until they cried or fighting over something stupid, she never doubted the feeling of safety and contentment she had with him. Sometimes, Belly felt like she was floating away from herself. When she felt too insecure that she didn’t want to look in the mirror or Steven won another award and she wondered why she couldn’t ever win something so effortlessly the way he did, being around Jeremiah pulled her back into her body. He was the solid ground that made her feel real. That made her feel alive.
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Jelly's first time saying "I love you"
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On the night of Freddie's birthday, he ended up breaking up with Pearl and going off on a sudden 3-week roadtrip alone. He's now welcomed back with a homecoming party at Spencer's Sister Axe bar while Harper's trying to convince Carly she has feelings for him. Carly herself is sticking to status quo, hellbent on denying that there's more than a platonic relationship between them. All is fine until she sees Freddie spending his first night back flirting with a complete stranger.
Canon Divergence with a bit of a merger of Season 3's episodes 1 and 2 and a dash of jealousCarly.
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Carly continued to talk to him from her spot on his shoulder. For some reason, it was easier to say everything she’d been wanting to say to him when she didn’t have to look him in the eye, when she had his hands on her waist. “I want to touch your chest.”
Without words, Freddie gently took her hand and placed it over his heart.
Gently, he asked, “What else?”
“I want my face in your hands.”
She lifted her head to see his grin. He placed his hands right where her face met her neck. They looked at each other for a moment before he lightly squished her cheeks.
“You’re so cute. What else?”
She tugged at the edge of his form-fitting t-shirt which earned her a touch of his forehead on hers, “Words, Carly. Please. I need to hear you say it. I just…” He needed to hear her say it. All the years he’d told her he’d loved her through his actions. All the years he’d thought that her actions meant the same. He needed to know what everything meant to her, he didn’t want to guess anymore.
“I want you to take off your shirt.”
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“Carly? Hello? Juice?”
And strangely, that was it for her.
A life of running low on juice and then getting some more, with him. That was what she wanted.
“Oh, uh, yes! Please, thank you.”
He nodded and jogged off to the wall of refrigerators. The cashier was still beeping their groceries along in the background. She could hear it just below the sound of her own heartbeat.
As she watched his retreating figure, she let slip in a soft voice,
“Wanna marry me?”
He didn’t hear a thing.
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Carly works her butt off to give Freddie an epic proposal