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The summer we’ve been waiting for has arrived! After an agonizing hiatus, the third and final season of Prime Video‘s The Summer I Turned Pretty is here, so fans will finally learn who the helly Belly (Lola Tung) ends up with.

In Book 3 of The Summer I Turned Pretty series, author Jenny Han perfectly breaks down Belly’s big dilemma: “I’ve only ever loved two boys — both of them with the last name Fisher. Conrad was first, and I loved him in a way that you can really only do the first time around. It’s the kind of love that doesn’t know better and doesn’t want to— it’s dizzy and foolish and fierce. That kind of love is really only a one-time thing. And then there was Jeremiah. When I looked at him, I saw past, present, and future. He didn’t just know the girl I used to be. He knew the right now me, and he loved me anyway. My two great loves. I think I always knew I would be Belly Fisher one day. I just didn’t know it was going to happen like this.”

As Belly spends the summer before senior year in Cousins, she’s engaged to Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno). But when Conrad (Christopher Briney) comes back into her life, there’s undeniable potential for their spark to reignite. Fans who’ve read the books may think they know how the story ends, but Han assured us, “There are definitely changes… There are surprises. And there are things that aren’t exactly like the books.”

While we’ll have to wait to see how The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 ends to get closure on Belly’s endgame, here are 20 reasons TSITP fans think Belly and Conrad end up together, based on Season 3’s first four episodes.

  1. Christopher Briney and Lola Tung on 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
    Photo: Erika Doss/Prime Video

    Since we don’t know if you’ve read The Summer I Turned Pretty book series, specifically Book 3, We’ll Always Have Summer, we’re not going to spoil the ending for you. But if you’re curious why fans of the books are hoping Belly and Conrad are endgame on the Prime Video series, we’ve got a spoiler-filled breakdown of Book 3’s ending right here. Buckle up!

  2. Conrad in 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
    Photo: Prime Video

    Sure, Belly and Jere have been dating for years and are literally engaged. But the fact that TSITP is so hell-bent on showing that — despite his immense growth — Conrad is still head over heels in love with Belly, means he’s still in the game and still a possibility. Even if Belly doesn’t know it yet. The man goes to therapy now! He’s playing football again! He’s smiling! He has a college bestie named Agnes (Zoé De Grand’Maison)! He’s being studious! And instead of another season spent brooding and shutting people out, he’s actively trying to better himself and enjoying life more as a result. We love that for him. But he’s still down bad for Belly. Heck, when he imagines her in therapy, she was positively GLOWING in a tiny creative touch that speaks volumes. Without Conrad having to articulate it, the scene confirms that Belly taught him love isn’t black and white. It’s golden. For Conrad, Belly is the sun. And that screams endgame to us!

    Two photos of Belly in 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
    Photo: Prime Video
  3. Belly and Sour Patch Kids in 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
    Photo: Prime Video

    Even when Belly is sitting in her college library contemplating studying abroad in Paris for a semester, Conrad and Jeremiah are still on the brain, via thoughtfully selected snacks. The Sour Patch Kids are a nod to the Season 2 finale, when Conrad crushed his brother’s dreams by correctly insisting that Belly liked Sour Patch Kids more than Swedish Fish. And though Jeremiah also has some representation through Belly’s Cherry Coke, there’s no denying those Sour Patch Kids are an intentional reminder of Conrad and how well he knows Belly.

  4. Conrad on the phone in 'TSITP'
    Photo: Prime Video

    At the end of the Season 3 premiere, after Conrad comes clean to Agnes about his feelings for Belly, he steps outside to call Jere and leaves a message to say he can’t make it to their mom’s dedication ceremony. The scene may seem Easter egg-free, but Eagle-eyed Bonrad fans noticed that the bar’s chalk board behind him features the words, “Polar Bear Blues Band.” Could they be a nod to Junior Mint, the beloved stuffed polar bear Conrad won for Belly at the boardwalk when they were young? Our boy’s got the polar bear blues!

  5. 'Sabrina' and 'Bye Bye Birdie' posters in 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
    Photo: Prime Video

    Another good sign for Team Conrad comes in Episode 302, when we get a closer glimpse at Belly’s dorm room posters. The first is a poster for Sabrina, a 1954 film starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and William Holden. Fans know that Belly watched Sabrina on her drive-in movie date with Cam (David Iacono) in Season 1. But a Sabrina poster was also the inspo behind TSITP‘s Season 3 promo shot, which showed Jere kissing Belly’s cheek as Conrad looked on. For those who don’t know, the movie shows Hepburn’s character, Sabrina, in a love triangle with two brothers. So if the Sabrina references are teasing TSITP‘s endgame, based on the posters and older brother status, Belly would end up with Conrad.

    Speaking of Conrad, there’s also a Bye Bye Birdie poster in Belly’s dorm. In Book 3, Belly reminisces about watching old musicals on Wednesday nights as a kid with her mom. She explains that her favorite was Bye Bye Birdie, and says she used to sing, “We love you, Conrad, oh yes we do. We love you, Conrad, and we’ll be true.” Instead of Conrad Birdie, however, she was admittedly singing about Conrad Fisher. Another endgame hint?!

  6. Belly wearing red in 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
    Photo: Prime Video

    As the trailer for TSITP Season 3 taught us, in terms of Taylor Swift songs, Conrad is “Red” and Jeremiah is “Daylight” (aka “golden”). After Belly was spotted wearing red in Season 3 promo material, fans believed the wardrobe could be another intentional Belly/Conrad endgame tease — especially when the bold color continued to appear throughout the two-episode premiere. In Episode 2, after her fight with Jeremiah, she notably wore a RED jacket with golden stripes, ate from a Ramen cup that also featured red and gold at a table with red mustard and yellow ketchup bottles (am I unwell?!), and wore red PJs in her Conrad Christmas flashback.

    Fans are also aware of red and blue symbolism throughout Season 3, as it relates to the “Red” lyrics, “Losing him was blue, like I’d never known…and loving him was red.” When Belly’s at the beach house with the boys in Episode 4, for instance, she wears a bikini with a blue and red plaid pattern and when the brothers go surfing, Jere’s board is red and Conrad’s is blue. So fans are taking the running color themes as confirmation that Belly is still battling feelings for both brothers, and thus, Conrad could be.

  7. TSITP-302 Conrad picks Belly up

    This is simply to say that when Belly does finally leave the floor, does it, uh, look like Conrad is carrying her like a groom would carry a bride over a threshold? Interesting!

  8. Conrad and Belly in 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
    Photo: Prime Video

    TSITP fans know that Season 2’s hot cocoa scene is one of the all-time greats. So when Season 3’s Christmas in Cousins flashback showed Conrad drinking out of The Simpsons mug, the same mug Belly served him cocoa in on their special night together, they got chills!

  9. TSITP-302 Belly fills out the crossword puzzle

    After Conrad leaves the Cousins house in Belly’s Season 3 Christmas flashback, she finds a “Merry Christmas” note he left in his book of crossword puzzles and picks up a pencil to answer 12 Down, “Another Jenny Han novel: P.S. I Still Love You.” If you look closely, you’ll see that Conrad filled in and erased the answer. So Belly write the word “STILL” again, which symbolically mirrors their lingering feelings for each other. In case that wasn’t impactful enough, the word “CROSSWORD” also appears in Taylor Swift’s song, “Red” (aka Belly’s Conrad anthem). Taylor sings, “Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there’s no right answer.”

  10. A crossword puzzle book reflection forming an infinity sign on 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
    Photo: Prime Video

    Don’t worry, we didn’t forget to mention that the reflection of said crossword puzzle book on the table formed AN INFINITY SIGN, a direct callback to Belly and Conrad’s infinity sign lore. IYKYK! So does this all, uh, mean that they’re infinite?!

  11. Belly and Jeremiah in 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
    Photo: Prime Video

    While I do applaud the series for making Jere’s proposal come off a lot less desperate and calculated than it did in the book, as it made the special moment feel more like a mutual idea and less like an ultimatum, proof of commitment, or solution to the problem, fans couldn’t help but notice the major scene was set to Benson Boone’s “Forever and a Day,” not a Taylor Swift song, which seems like another questionable sign for Jellyfish endgame. Right?!

  12. Photo of young Conrad with baby carrots in his ears on 'TSITP'
    Photo: Prime Video

    As Belly and Laurel are sorting through photos ahead of Susannah’s ceremony in Season 3, Episode 3, Laurel finds one of young Conrad with baby carrots sticking out of his ears. “Remember when Conrad told you if you ate enough carrots you’d get x-ray vision and you believed him?” she asks. In the books, Belly hated carrots until Conrad convinced her they would give her superpowers. The anecdote is meaningful, because earlier in the episode, Taylor brought over a book with blueprints for Belly’s dream wedding, which included — wait for it — A CARROT CAKE. Sobbing. In Book 3, Jere also noted that carrot cake was an unconventional flavor for a wedding cake, but not if Belly dreamed of marrying Conrad when she was young and thought carrots gave them special powers, right?!

  13. Belly's right ankle with a band aid on it in 'TSITP'
    Photo: Prime Video

    The scene where Belly cuts herself shaving in the shower ahead of Susannah’s dedication ceremony may have seemed like a throwaway moment to show-only fans. But those who read Book 3 know the Band-Aid was a nod to a sweet Conrad/Belly moment from the text. In Chapter 20, told from Conrad’s point of view, the eldest Fisher brother recalled seeing Belly at the ceremony before she spotted him. As he admired her dress and noted differences since the last time he’d seen her, he thought, “It occurred to me that she had grown up while. I wasn’t looking, that there was every likelihood she had changed and I didn’t know her anymore. But when she stood up to clap, I saw the Band-Aid on her ankle and I recognized her again. She was Belly.” *SQUEAL* There’s a chance the reference will be further explored in Conrad’s POV episode, but either way, it suggests Han is following the text enough to include this detail.

  14. Belly and Conrad looking at each other in Episode 101 and 303 of 'TSITP'
    Photo: Prime Video

    In Season 3’s first two episodes, fans clocked several parallels to TSITP scenes past AND Han’s other projects, To All The Boys and XO, Kitty. Wouldn’t you know it? Episode 3 includes several more callbacks! There’s an argument to be made that Belly’s hand up/ring scene mirrors The Notebook, but three of the biggest Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the screen moments come when Conrad gets a slow motion entrance and meets Belly’s eyes at his mom’s ceremony. Fans couldn’t help but flash back to TSITP‘s premiere, when Belly and Conrad met eyes outside the beach house, Taylor Swift played, and it felt like time stopped. A few minutes later, Jeremiah, Belly, Conrad, and Steven put their arms around each other and posed for group photo, as is their summer tradition. While they waited for the camera, Belly instinctively looked at Conrad first, then smiled up at Jeremiah, clearly torn. Déjà vu!

  15. 'TSITP' menu
    Photo: Prime Video

    In the TSITP books, Belly was actively aware of menu prices whenever her parents were paying, and Season 3, Episode 3 honors that financial anxiety. After Laurel tells Adam that the lunch for six people is on her, Belly gets visibly stressed — especially after Adam and Jeremiah both ordered $75 surf and turf entrees. In response, Belly said she isn’t very hungry and orders cheap tomato bisque for her meal. And Conrad follows her lead, ordering the cheapest entree on the menu, a $40 seared salmon fillet. It’s a subtle but brilliant scene that not only highlights the differences in Fisher and Conklin families finances and lifestyles, but a key difference between Conrad and Jere.

  16. Belly looking in the mirror with a photo of her and Conrad attached to it
    Photo: Prime Video

    In our Episode 3 Easter egg recap, we noted Belly swapped photos with Conrad to photos with Jere on the wall above her bed at home. But in Episode 4, eagle-eyed fans noticed she hasn’t fully erased her first love — in fact, she keeps a photo of the two of them in a prime location on her bedroom mirror! In other words, if you’re in line for Bonrad endgame, STAY IN LINE!

  17. Susannah writing letters for Belly, Jere, and Conrad on 'TSITP'
    Photo: Prime Video

    If you want to remain fully unspoiled about Jenny Han’s third book, skip this blurb! But if you’re curious about the greater significance behind the letters Susannah was seen writing to Conrad, Jere, and Belly before she passed, we’ve got you covered. In the Season 2 flashback, before Susannah put Conrad and Jeremiah’s letters in their envelopes, she dropped them. The scene may not have seemed that noteworthy, but in the third book, as the wedding approaches, Conrad gives Jeremiah his letter, he reads it, and he realizes Susannah accidentally mixed them up! Instead of reading the letter she wrote for him ahead of his wedding, Jere got the letter she wrote for Conrad, which talked about how Belly was the only person she’s ever seen Conrad love! *SCREAMS* If the show stays true to the book, Jere could eventually read the wrong letter and be reminded that his mother thought Conrad and Belly were meant to be. The sheer inclusion of the letters in the series leads some fans to believe that the same events will unfold, which bodes well for Conrad fans.

  18. Conrad standing in front of a painting of a man and two young kids walking in the ocean
    Photo: Prime Video

    To be clear, no idea if this is an intentional Easter egg or not, but once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Fans pointed out this painting of a man and two young children in the ocean. Why? When Belly wakes up and sees Conrad in the beach house in Season 3, Episode 4, he’s standing right in front of it. So the question now…is it just a painting? Was it Adam with Jere and Conrad? Or is it foreshadowing their Conrad’s future with Belly?! 

  19. Belly crying and Conrad staring on 'TSITP'
    Photo: Prime Video

    Shortly before Episode 4 ends, “Landslide” plays as Belly sobs alone in her bed at the beach house. Conrad — suitcase in hand — walks down the hall ready to leave. He intends to say goodbye, but when he hears Belly crying, he walks to her door, and longingly looks on as she breaks down. He can’t go in and comfort her, so instead, he leans his head and hand against the wall and heads downstairs to support her in other ways. He sets his own feelings aside for her wellbeing. He cancels his flight, calls Jere to give his wedding approval, agrees to be his best man, and bakes Belly birthday dirt bombs. (They’re her favorite muffins, and they also have some serious significance on the show. Allow Jenny and cast to remind you!) Tell me that’s not future husband behavior right there!

  20. Conrad hugging Belly on 'TSITP' with the caption "Conrad: What have I done?"
    Photo: Prime Video

    Believe me when I say that I full-on gasped when Episode 4 ended with an unexpected shift to Conrad’s point of view. As he and Belly hugged after a RIDICULOUSLY (IYKYK) sweet moment in the kitchen, a Chris Briney voiceover asked, “What have I done?” and the end credits roll. Book three was partially told from Conrad’s point of view, and Briney confirmed that he’d be narrating a Season 3 episode, so buckle up and get ready to see the world through Conrad’s lens. Will the narration start with Chapter 20’s first sentence, “I saw her before she saw me,” and take us back to Episode 3’s ceremony for Susannah? Either way, in more good news for Bonrad fans, the inclusion once again shows Jenny Han’s commitment to her source material.

New episodes of The Summer I Turned Pretty premiere Wednesdays on Prime Video.