Worlds Colliding (The Summer I Turned Pretty) Book One

chapter 1 - Summer House

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Flashback 1

Cousins, Massachusetts

Day - Beck House - Living Room

(Song:) Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra

There was a slow pan over the city of Cousins, a summer town like the Hamptons, before Susannah's beach house was finally shown.

AJ: (voice over) "My family's been going to Susannah's beach house in Cousins every summer since I was a baby. Since before I was even born. All year long, I count the days until I'm in that house."

Young Amina "AJ" Jalali, Young Isabel "Belly" Conklin and her older brother Steven, and their cousin Percy Smythe, and the young Fisher brothers Conrad and Jeremiah, were playing in the house with their toys, just having fun.

Their parents were nearby, watching them play with smiles on their faces.

AJ's parents, Adilah and Khalid Jalali, who would sometimes go by KJ. Both happily in love and with an intense past, but they gladly let it go to be happy with their little family.

Belly and Steven's parents, Laurel Park and John and Conklin.

Percy's parents, Reagan and Helaena Smythe. Reagan was Laurel's brother, but they agreed to take the Smythe name.

And Conrad and Jeremiah's parents, Susannah Beck and Adam Fisher.

The last three marriages were far from perfect and would quickly lead to divorces.

Percy: (voice over) "The dads come to visit, but it's not their place. They don't belong to it. Not the way we do. The mothers and us kids."

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Flashback 2

Day - Mako Marine Aquarium - Outside

Reagan, Adilah and Khalid were present, as were the other moms and the kids as they were opening Reagan's aquarium / hospital, and all of the kids thrived seeing the animals inside and helping Reagan treat and release them when they could.

Belly: (voice over) "But Reagan lives in Cousins unlike the other dads, and Adilah and Khalid helped him open his very own marine hospital and aquarium. We all practically lived in there growing up."

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Flashback 3

Day - Country Club

The kids were all dancing around at the country club, and Helaena watched them with a fond smile.

Belly: (voice over) "And Helaena didn't stay with us. She had her own place with Reagan and Percy, but Percy went back and forth between home and with us... all while he was a child genius. He grew up in elementary and middle school normally because Reagan wanted to try and give up a mostly normal life, but then he breezed through high school in nine weeks, and then college three years later, and continued on to med school. Helaena saw that he was a medical child prodigy and took full advantage of it to make him into a doctor just like her... as soon as she could."