Letter from Lara Jean to Peter

Lara Jean’s letter to Peter, the one that first brought them together, becomes the most significant keepsake in the scrapbook she gives him. By returning the letter she once wanted to keep, Lara Jean turns a private beginning into a shared record of their love and the time they have had together.

Origins and Place in the Scrapbook

The letter predates the scrapbook and belongs to the start of Lara Jean and Peter’s relationship. She identifies it as the letter that brought them together, giving it a different weight from the photographs and mementos collected around it: it is not only evidence of what happened, but part of what made their relationship possible.

Lara Jean has assembled the scrapbook from traces of their time together, including a homecoming photograph, pictures from Senior Week and prom, dried rose petals from her corsage, and a note from Peter. Against that accumulation of shared memories, her letter is the item she calls especially meaningful. Its place in the scrapbook makes the relationship’s beginning part of the couple’s preserved history.

Giving the Letter to Peter

Lara Jean had considered keeping the letter herself, but decides that Peter should have it. When he reaches its page, he stops and recalls that she had wanted to keep it. She explains that she changed her mind and asks him to promise he will keep it forever. The exchange makes the transfer an intentional act of trust: the letter passes from the person who wrote it to the person it brought into her life, carrying their shared past with it.

Memory and Meaning

Lara Jean understands the scrapbook as proof that they were present in one another’s lives and loved each other. The letter anchors that claim in the story’s beginning, while its return to Peter extends the keepsake’s meaning into an uncertain future: whatever happens to them, the time they shared remains theirs. Peter lingers on the page, and Lara Jean frames the scrapbook as something to remember them by. The letter thus becomes both an intimate relic of their courtship and a tangible reminder of a relationship whose future is not guaranteed.