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  1. Public Bookmark 68

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    She threads their fingers together as she reaches for her suitcase. Conrad’s faster, and their hands brush just for a moment, her fingertips sweeping over his knuckles, a spark zipping up Belly’s arm just from that brush of contact.

    Nice try, his smirk says, as he rolls her pale blue carry-on beside him.

    It’s been all of two minutes and he’s already smirking? What’s she supposed to do, not picture everywhere she wants that smirk lingering against her skin like a tattoo?

    (A few months after Conrad leaves Paris, Belly books a spontaneous flight to California because she misses her boyfriend.)

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    01 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 76

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    If there are infinite worlds, every version of me chooses you in every one of them.

    This includes the one in which Belly Conklin is a licensed therapist and Doctor Conrad Fisher is her newest patient.

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    13 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 74

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    “Belly, you don’t know the effect you have on people.”
    “Effect on people? I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

    “Yeah…” Conrad says, his eyes as soft as his voice, “...you do.” He meets my gaze, and I hold his. The air around us seems to disappear and I find myself taking a deeper breath, willing the air to fill my lungs and calm my heart, which was threatening to leap out of my chest.

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    OR, a partial rewrite of Season 1, inspired by Coldplay's 'Sparks' - what if Belly and Conrad had kissed the night of the 4th of July? What if there wasn't so much miscommunication between them?

    From both Belly and Conrad's POV, and will be mostly canon-ish.

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    31 Oct 2025

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    At the sight of freckled cheekbones and amber eyes, Charlie is suddenly transported back to over a decade prior. To the first meeting of a boy with a kind smile and sweet disposition in his form.

    “Hi,” Charlie had said as he took his newly assigned seat.

    “Hi,” the boy said back, a wary look almost passing his features before it quickly transformed into a polite grin.

    Charlie never forgot the butterflies that swarmed his stomach that day.

    Those same butterflies come storming back now so fiercely that he nearly keels over from the nausea of it. The jolt of panic, fear, and a little bit of something else that he can’t quite name, hitting him all at once.

    Nicholas Nelson, the first boy Charlie ever loved, is standing in his bookshop.

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    or: another bookshop au

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    16 Oct 2024

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    Snippets of Nick and Charlie's lives at university and how they manage the distance

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    Complete and utter nonsense, plotless, boys in love bullying each other...

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    27 May 2024