who does belly end up with in the summer i turned pretty
The Summer I Turned Pretty Isabel "Belly" Conklin - The main character, narrator, and protagonist in the series. She is the daughter of Laurel and the younger sister of Steven. She is known to have had a crush on Conrad since she was little, but her relationship with him falls apart at the end of It's Not Summer Without You after the two get together for a short time. She then starts a relationship with his brother, Jeremiah, after he kisses her; making his feelings known to her. In We'll Always Have Summer, which sees the two years the couple have been together, she discovers at a frat party that he cheated on her with a girl in his sister sorority (known as the "sorority slut"), which not only results in her physically slapping him across the face (marking the first time she has ever struck someone), but leads her to spend days in bed crying. To prove his regret, he proposes to her, which she hesitantly accepts; however, a result of ongoing fights with her mother (who is furious with her for choosing to marry so young), she stays at Cousin's Beach. Because of this arrangement, her old feelings for Conrad, who is staying there as well, begin to slowly yet just as strongly resurface. Toward the climax of the novel, Conrad, after discovering his brother's infidelity, confesses his love for her in what is known to be the most dramatic and heart wrenching scene in the series. Although Belly blows up at his confession, saying he was too late and that "they were never anything" (leaving Conrad completely heartbroken) her feelings for both brothers are called into question. She and Jeremiah, in the end, call off the wedding and break up for good when realizing that while they had good intentions, they just simply were not meant to be together. It is told in the epilogue (a basic summary of what happened in the years after the novel) that Belly did not hear from Conrad for two years before receiving her first handwritten letter from him, which then come "each and every month" throughout the rest of her college years- eventually, she begins to stay in contact with him. He then shows up at her college graduation, resulting in their reunion and getting back together as a couple (as Belly "just knew"). Conrad proposes a few years later, and the series ends with their marriage.