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I said it would shorten her life span by years but she waved off my worries and called me a doomsdayer. My mother said smoking with Susannah made her feel young again. They only smoked when they were together, so it was a special occasion. "Because her maiden name is Beck," my mother explained, grinding out a cigarette. Card games bored Jeremiah, and he was always looking for something more interesting to do, to talk about. He and my brother, Steven, were a team, and they were losing. "Laurel, why do you call my mom Beck when everyone else calls her Susannah?" Jeremiah wanted to know. The sun was starting to go down, and soon the mothers would have to go inside and boil corn and hot dogs. We were playing cards outside on the porch, and my mother and Susannah were drinking margaritas and playing their own card game. Not the way we all did, the mothers and us kids. Sure, they'd come to visit, but it wasn't their place.
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And anyway, dads didn't belong in the summer house. He should be the one calling me not the other way around. As if there were some secrets I needed to tell my father that I couldn't tell him in front of her. She always left the room when I called my father, like she was giving me privacy. "Call your father," she said, leaving the room. My mother got up and handed me the phone. My mother was the only person I knew who could have a reasonable divorce. Why did she have to be so reasonable? Everything was that way with her. You, on the other hand, won't get to see him until the end of summer." "Your dad and Steven are about to spend two weeks together looking at colleges.
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"No, I haven't," she said, her tone level. "Well, have you made Steven call him?" I countered.
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"I doubt he's sitting at home worrying about it." "Still." "I think you should call him and tell him how you're doing."
#Conrad fisher the summer i turned pretty series#
She now lives in Brooklyn, New York where she works part-time as a children's librarian, in between writing her new series for teens."Belly, have you called your dad yet?" my mother asked me. 'This book is what every girl wants in a summer' - Sarah Dessen About the author: Jenny Han was born in Richmond, Virginia, and later studied at the University of North Carolina. Who will you choose? *Contains exclusive extra material inside, including Conrad's letters to Isabel* The complete series includes: The Summer I Turned Pretty, It's Not Summer Without You, and We'll Always Have Summer. Experience first love's butterflies with The Summer I Turned Pretty Collection - for the first time all three books together in one. Now Isabel must make the most difficult decision of all. From first kisses to first loves, seasons pass, promises are made and hearts are broken. Jeremiah - friendly, relaxed - the only one who's ever really paid her any attention. Conrad - unavailable, aloof - who she's been in love with forever. This is the summer she turns pretty - the year two brothers will notice her for the first time. The bestselling The Summer I Turned Pretty series is now available is one gorgeous new edition, with exclusive material inside! She has only ever loved two boys.