A/N- I don't own anything, it's all Jenny Han's

A continuation of sorts? The next summer from where 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' left off, basically how I think the sequel 'It's not Summer Without You' should be. It's my first fanfic so, hope you like it!

A/N #2?- still need to reread the book, so forgive me if I have some wrong details about the setting etc, etc. I'll edit them as soon as I reread the book

The car started and they were finally on their way. Back to the beach house, back to the place of her second family, back to the place of her first loves and first heartaches, back to the place which forced her to grow up and man up, time after time again.

It had been several hours, but it felt like just a few minutes. Belly could hardly contain her excitement as the salty summer air wafted in her nose, and the faint crashing of the ocean waves sent chills down her spine and goosebumps up her arm. The car slowed to a screechy halt and Belly hardly let the car come to a complete stop before jumping out of the car.

As she smiled into the sun she heard Susannah's joyful voice greeting her mother, and heard the slap of Jeremiah's slippers (A/N- im frm Hawaii, 'slippers' in Hawaii are 'flip-flops' in the maineland) as he stomped down the steps toward her mother. He gave her a quick hug and tackled Belly just as she turned to face them.

"Ahhh! Put me down!" Belly laughed as Jeremiah effortlessly gathered her up and tossed her over his shoulder.

"Gained a little weight there didn't we Belly Flop?" Jeremiah yelled as he started to spin around, taking Belly with him. Susannah and Anna (A/N-Belly's mother, I forgot her name! would be greatly appreciated if someone told me what it is)laughed at the two jokesters.

"Belly, go wake Steven up, he completely conked out after we left Dennys!" Anna yelled at her daughter.

"I'll go wake him up!" Jeremiah says after letting Belly down.

Belly looked toward the house as her mother started carrying their luggage in. She peered inside the door a bit before walking towards the sides of the house.

"He's not here honey," Susannah told her, with a tinge of sadness in her voice.

Belly froze. "Oh, Conrad didn't come down yet?"

"No, he hasn't. I'm not sure he's coming this summer." Susannah said. Belly could tell she was trying to hold back her tears and she walked over and gave her a hug. They stood there hugging for a while as Jeremiah and Steven ran towards the house.

Belly tried to be strong for Susannah but she couldn't stop the memories of that past summer and all the events that followed it came rolling downhill, rolling from the back to the front of her head as random images of that past year crossed before her eyes.

Belly jumping into Conrad's car, Conrad's weekend visits to Boston, the sweet messages he would leave on her phone, his hand pressing to the small of her back, his lips on hers,

All the nice memories.. Belly thought to herself as Susannah broke the hug and they walked arm in arm towards the house.

"Where's Conrad?" Steven asks, as Belly and Susannah entered the kitchen.

"Uh, he's coming later on in the summer, hopefully." Jeremiah said as he gave Belly a sad glance.

"Damn, that sucks. He taking summer school or something?" Steven asks.

"No sweetie, I think he just needs a rest, you know, time to himself. You guys drive him as crazy as his teachers do!" Susannah said with a smile, as Belly tugged hard on her hair tie.

Jeremiah noticed this and put his hand over hers. He looked up at her, into her eyes and smiled. Belly smiled back, enjoying the closeness of Jeremiah. Then she snapped her hair tie on his fingers and ran upstairs as Jeremiah chased her yelling his revenge.

REVIEWS ARE LOVE3 I know, it's really short, totally boring and doesn't deserve a T rating! Don't worry, next chapter will be longer, juicier, and worthy of its T rating ;)