Disclaimer: I love Jeremiah so pls don't hate on me for this post I just think that if Jelly stans can claim Conrad is so toxic ( and more toxic than Jeremiah) and the better choice they should be able to handle the truth about just how Jere is, was, and can continue to be.
You know it's so crazy to me that no one talks about how canonically Jeremiah stole Belly’s first kiss even though she literally told everyone just seconds prior not to kiss her because she didn’t give them permission. (“Hey, I’m a person you can’t just kiss me without my permission” and “Permission not granted to either of you”) in Book one (Chapter 28-pages 175-179) when Belly was 14 (which means Jeremiah being 14-15ish knew what he was doing, i don’t want to hear any excuses for him). Taylor was visiting and everyone was playing truth or dare and she dared Jeremiah to “Kiss somebody in this room right now” thinking he’d kiss her (her being Taylor). He responded “Easy” leaning towards Belly and kissed her. This here is Belly’s exact inner dialogue; “Before I could answer he kissed me right on the lips…I tried to push him off ,but he kept on kissing me, for a few more seconds. I pushed him off again, and he leaned back into the couch, as casual as can be…I couldn’t believe Jeremiah had stolen my first kiss like that. I had been waiting, wanting it to be special……….He had only done it to make Taylor jealous not because he liked me……My lips were no longer my own. They had been touched.” Do with this information what you will but it's 100% cannon that Jeremiah is a douchebag and basically doesn't care about consent. There were two other people in that room he could've kissed just to get his dare over with(Taylor and Steven) but instead he kissed Belly without her consent and proceeded to kiss her while she pushed him away.
