decades ago two girls meet in middle school, Susannah fisher and Laurel Conklin, they proved that soulmates could be platonic, they where eachothers other half, best friends for life, and they still are, even now that their grown up. Susannah always had a lot of money, while Laurel was only middle class. When Susannah found out she was pregnant with the first baby, Conrad, she bought a beach house out in cousins beach, then came laurels first son, Steven, then Susannahs second son, Jeremiah, then lastly laurels daughter Isabell, who everyone just calls 'belly'. It became a tradition that Susannah, Laurel and the kids would spend the whole summer at the beach house in a small rich beach town called cousins, the husbands came sometimes too, but it wasn't their place. When in cousins 3 years ago they meet two locals, Cameron Joyce (who they call cam Cameron) and his little sister, Ayla Joyce. They immediately fit in with the group, and belly and Ayla became best friends, and have been inseparable sense, they text all the time and are only getting closer as the years pass.last summer, Conrad found himself falling hard in love for moony. Susannah always took a special liking to Ayla, the way she brought sunlight in a room of darkness, the way she got excited over the little things, she was like the sun reincarnated, just like Susannah, Susannah started seeing Ayla as a daughter of her own, and saw the way Ayla and Conrad would interact and she had that motherly instinct that some day, they would end up together, and Ayla would be her daughter through law