There’s life in the ol’ girl yet! I was beginning to lose hope, but Belly and Conrad almost kissed! All season long, everyone has been too busy contemplating their own unexpressed feelings to act on them. However, now, finally … well, okay, they’re still not exactly acting on their feelings since this was an almost kiss and not a real kiss, but we take what we can get around here. This is still momentum.

We’re at the end of the episode, where Belly and Conrad are once again alone together in the Cousins’ house. Conrad has hobbled back inside after a surfing accident, and a concerned Belly follows the trail of blood up the stairs to find him hunched over a gnarly cut on his thigh. Rather than drive him to urgent care, Belly nearly brings Con to his knees with a splash of hydrogen peroxide.

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