Episodes 01

“Love Lost”

Susannah’s cancer worsening means her sons coming to terms with her looming death and their conflict over Belly. Belly wants to resolve the conflict as well but also wants to help the two families stand up to an apparent threat against their beloved summer house. Valedictorian Steven seems to act strangely after his high school graduation.

Episodes 02

“Love Scene”

Laurel’s book about her friendship with Susannah means an important trip to New York to promote it, which she’s reluctant to make. Conrad disappears after Susannah’s funeral and an argument with Belly. Belly and Jeremiah search for him and try to resolve the conflict over the triangle involving them and Conrad. The boys learn the threat to the summer home both families loved—their aunt, Julia, who has somehow become its legal owner and intends to sell. Their plan to keep the house in the family faces a disheartening obstacle.

Episodes 03

“Love Sick”

The summer house is up for sale, but Belly, Jeremiah, and Conrad will leave no stone unturned to let it slip away so easily. While Conrad works on a secret plan, Belly and Jeremiah try a more direct route. But being back in Cousins with the Fisher brothers means Belly cannot escape painful memories of the past year.

Episodes 04

“Love Game”

Conrad runs to the beach where he has another panic attack. Steven comes to his rescue. The next day, Aunt Julia announces that she is adamant to put up the summer house for sale and decides to go ahead with the open house, despite strong opposition from Conrad. To beat the heatwave Belly, Conrad, Jeremiah, Taylor, and their cousin Skye go to the state fair to play boardwalk games and relive old memories. Meanwhile, Laurel is at her book launch, unaware of the family drama happening at Cousins. After a fun-filled day of games and competition, the group get a huge shock when they come home to find Susannah’s beloved summer house emptied, affecting them all.

Episodes 05

“Love Fool”

Jeremiah narrates this episode, which begins with the group of kids going to the country club to spend the night. They split up to find food and places to sleep. Steven and Taylor dance together in the ballroom. Jeremiah and Belly go to the movie theater together where they watch an old movie and share a soda with Twizzler straws. Jeremiah’s narration reveals how jealous he was of Conrad and how he has been in love with Belly for years. Eventually, the group decides to sleep on the golf course. Skye dares Belly to kiss Jeremiah, who refuses. Belly confronts Jeremiah and he confesses that he can’t kiss her because he doesn’t think he’d ever be able to stop if he did. They fall asleep next to each other on the green.

Episodes 06

“Love Fest”

With the house’s sale an apparent done deal, Belly convinces the group to throw a blow-out farewell party the night before it must be turned over to the new owners. Before leaving, Aunt Julia collects everyone’s keys to the house and confesses to Skye that hard feelings from her youth made her more resolute in selling the house. During the party, disconcerting events include an unwanted intrusion from Taylor’s estranged boyfriend, Steven’s bold protection of and bolder confession to her, another confrontation between Conrad and Jeremiah in which Jeremiah gives his brother a jarring pronouncement, and Belly’s heartache when she learns the truth behind Conrad’s funeral behaviour.

Episodes 07

“Love Affair”

After Belly’s tearful call for help, Laurel returns from New York hurt and angry over Belly keeping her in the dark over the last few days. They have a confrontation over the funeral resulting in Belly running away to the beach. Afterwards, Laurel apologises to Belly, confessing her anger over Susannah’s death and agrees to help the boys keep the beach house. After which the kids begin the hard cleanup following the “farewell” party. Julia is at first against the idea of keeping the house, but when Laurel expresses empathy towards her, she admits her lack of closure with Susannah and agrees to back out of the sale.

Laurel also convinces Adam to let the house stay in the two families. Adam agrees to sell the house in Boston to buy the house back from Julia. Steven goes home to pursue his relationship with Taylor after the kids also help Conrad with an all-night study session to prepare for the Stanford entrance exam. Belly and Jeremiah visit her own prospective college destination, where she thinks about playing championship volleyball again and a college life together with Jeremiah, prompting the two to share a passionate kiss, which is interrupted by Conrad.

Episodes 08

“Love Triangle”

Conrad’s continuing conflicted feelings about Belly come to a head when he, Belly, and Jeremiah are stranded in a storm and forced to share a motel room for the night. Steven convinces Laurel to attend a writers group meeting she fears, and Laurel seems to make a new friend of a fellow suburbanite writer who also attends. Despite Taylor’s ex making a recording that seems to embarrass Steven, he and Taylor admit their feelings for each other and finally get together. Jeremiah tells Conrad that he’ll step back if he really still has feelings for Belly and she still loves him too, so he asks his brother to tell her how he feels because she deserves to know to make her own decision. Conrad does as Jeremiah has asked, but the next morning Belly chooses Jeremiah anyway, assuring him they are together and sharing a romantic and passionate kiss. Then, Conrad takes it all back saying that he didn’t mean it and they’re friends, making Belly definitely realize they’re not right for each other and that it’s definitely over between them.

In the end, Belly and Jeremiah are finally happy together as he takes her at the volleyball camp to make her reconcile with her volleyball coach, asking forgiveness, with the coach allowing Belly to suit up and re-join the team as Jeremiah watches her and the team enthusiastically.