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  1. Public Bookmark 28

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    In Taylor Jewel’s words – all great ideas are bad ideas at one time.

    When Taylor, Jeremiah, Steven and Denise all show up late at the beach house on the 4th of July before Belly and Jeremiah’s wedding, the fireworks aren’t just in the sky. Taylor’s frustrated with Belly, Steven and maybe life. She enlists a reluctant Conrad in a fake dating scheme.

    Taylor is playing two games, one to get Steven to stay away from his co-worker (or just walk away with a small piece of pride) and another to get her friend (whom she’s increasingly convinced isn’t over her first love) to admit maybe the wedding shouldn’t happen.

    Promising this isn’t a Taylor-Conrad pairing. Rather a Taylor-Conrad buddy fic.

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    28 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 39

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    It made sense the first time. The first time Belly stepped off that plane and suddenly walked around through the everyday scenery of his life in Palo Alto like she’d always been there, like he hadn’t just spent years with nothing more than the unbearable idea of what that might look like. It made sense that he could barely talk, barely think, barely shift the half-awe, half-panic caught somewhere in his chest as he watched her trace the metal numbers on his front door with her finger.

    But this—this was the fourth time Belly had visited him here. And Conrad was starting to wonder if he was ever going to start being fucking normal about it.

    Summary: Belly visits Conrad in Palo Alto and they go out for dinner. It really is that simple. Just not for Conrad.

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    20 May 2026

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    "You shouldn't be out here," Conrad says without looking at her, even though he's only here so she can be too. "So close to the water when it's this dark."
    Belly sits down anyway. "Then neither should you."

     

    (Belly kisses Conrad that first night, at the bonfire. somehow everything changes and stays the same.)

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    21 Apr 2026

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    Conrad knows their moms are downstairs now, making black eyed peas like his mom does every New Year’s Day. He knows that Steven and Jeremiah are three rooms over playing video games. He knows his condoms are down the hall in his bedroom and that there’s no way he can make it there and back completely undetected. He knows they’ve only done this twice before—and does it even count as twice if it was all on the same night?—and that this isn’t how he wanted their next time to go. At the very least, he hoped he could get her to a bed. But oh, does he want her again.

    (Conrad and Belly have a history with the couch in the Fishers' rec room, and it's not just that she found him there the day of the funeral.)

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    19 Apr 2026

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    This time was always coming, she reasoned. The point had finally arrived where she and Conrad had to navigate being around each other again—only this time, both immersed in the consequences of the unspeakable things they had done that night. And of the decision she had made to marry his brother anyway.

    Summary: In the days leading up to her wedding to Jeremiah, Belly crossed every line with Conrad Fisher. She married Jeremiah anyway. Three and a half years later, everything comes undone across the course of one weekend and the year that follows.

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    18 Apr 2026