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1. Rekindling Christmas by prettysailorsoldier

   Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 Dec 2025

   Tags

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   • Isabel "Belly" Conklin/Conrad Fisher
   • Isabel "Belly" Conklin
   • Conrad Fisher (The Summer I Turned Pretty)
   • Jeremiah Fisher
   • Taylor Jewel
   • Steven Conklin
   • Fake/Pretend Relationship
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • Mutual Pining
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Christmas
   • Holidays
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

   Summary

   One year after a devastating broken engagement, Belly seems to have landed on her feet: five hundred thousand Instagram followers, a book deal in the works, and a doting—if mysterious—boyfriend. Two weeks before Christmas, however, her prospective publisher throws a wrench in her perfectly crafted life: they want to meet her camera-shy boyfriend before putting pen to paper...and her camera-shy boyfriend doesn't exist.

   Enter Conrad Fisher: her forever what-if and the real-life inspiration for her fictional boyfriend, back in Boston for the holidays for the first time since literally running out of Belly's life six years earlier.

   What starts as a simple arrangement snowballs into a tangled web of old wounds and even older feelings as the counterfeit couple navigates the holiday season, but who are they really deceiving?

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