The Kissing Booth 2 trailer: Joey King is seen pining for her boyfriend Jacob Elordi

The trailer for the highly anticipated sequel to Netflix’s popular 2018 film The Kissing Booth was released on Monday.

And in the clip, plenty of details were shared as Elle Evans (played by Joey King) faces her senior year of high school while her boyfriend Noah Flynn (played by Jacob Elordi) is making new friends at Harvard University.

The new movie, which is set to start streaming on July 24, also sees the return of Lee Flynn (played by Joel Courtney) and Mrs Flynn (played by Eighties icon Molly Ringwald). 

King and Elordi dated in real life after making the first movie, but he has since moved on with his Euphoria co-star Zandaya.

There had been talk that reuniting for the sequel would be uncomfortable but they seem to handle the roles just fine as they are seen in new footage.

The clip opens with Elle getting close to her handsome beau Noah while enjoying California as they ride a motorcycle together, hit a merry-go-round and enjoy the beach during the summer.

She explains that they spent the entire summer together but then he went off to Harvard while she stayed at the high school they met at to complete her senior year.

‘My heart flew off to Harvard,’ she says in voiceover.

‘I miss you jerk,’ the beauty says when on FaceTime at home with Noah. ‘I miss you more,’ coos back her love.

The next scene is Elle in a blue convertible Mustang with her best friend Lee, who is the brother of her boyfriend.

All seems back to normal once on campus except there is no Noah around to catch her eye.

‘And here I am first day of senior year,’ says Elle while at a lunch table with Lee. ‘And here we go,’ she adds as the three most popular girls – named The OGs – walk up and sit near her.

The trio immediately try to make Elle feel insecure as they insinuate that Noah – the star athlete she fell in love with during her junior year – has moved on with other women at Harvard.

‘There are so many beautiful girls at Harvard, experienced girls,’ says one of the mean OG girls.

Then there are flashes of Harvard student Chloe who looks like a supermodel and can also play a mean game of pool in front of Noah. Chloe played by English actress Maisie Richardson-Sellers who is best known for The Originals as well as DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.

Trust issues swirl as Elle wonders if Noah is having just too much fun at Harvard. 

One high school queen suggests Elle and Noah have broken up but Elle says not so fast.

However, another counters, ‘With different zip codes, break ups are basically automatic.’

King’s Elle looks overwhelmed and heartsick at the same time. 

Then in comes a welcomed distraction: the ‘seriously luscious’ Marco, played by Taylor Zakhar Perez of Embeds fame.

‘The OGs literally describe a hundred different ways Marco is a snack,’ says Elle wile by her locker, not realizing Marco is standing right behind her.

‘Nice to meet you,’ says Marco as Elle turns around, clearly mortified.

‘But I am a little hungry so I am going to get myself a snack,’ making fun of her comment.

Then comes the drama: Lee wants to go to Berkeley with Elle because that is where their moms met but Noah wants her to go to school at Harvard with him.

‘This is definitely a problem,’ Elle says in voiceover as she feels the pull between Lee and Noah.

The trailer moves to the beach where hunky Marco offers to help Elle during what appears to be a very strenuous obstacle course.

‘Need a hand,’ he says before Elle says ‘hell no’ and falls from her rope climbing session into a bath of mud.

Lee then gives her the idea of asking Marco to participate in the kissing both, but he flatly says no.

Meanwhile, Elle applies to Harvard and when her pal Lee finds out, he is upset because he wants them to go to Berkeley together.

Next Elle is seen landing in Massachusetts where she is greeted by doe-eyed Noah who holds a cute sign up for her that reads I Love You More.

They have a great time together but there is still the distraction of Marco, creating the ultimate love triangle.

It’s clear Marco has ‘changed’ her and, as she says it, ‘made me question everything.’

There are flashes of Elle and Marco getting along well, flirting and staring into each other’s eyes. 

The trailer ends with viewers not knowing if she takes up with Marco or waits for Noah.

In late May it was revealed by King and Courtney that the movie will be streamed on July 24.

King, 20, and Courtney, 24, took part in a live-stream event on the Netflix YouTube page where they revealed the date to their fans. 

They did so by putting a puzzle together that revealed the new poster and the release date, while revealing other behind-the-scenes tidbits. 

The puzzle pieces came in a group of lockboxes, which she opened with the help of some of her co-stars like Courtney. 

When it came time to reveal the last piece, they were both extremely excited that it revealed the date of July 24, which King added is close to her birthday.

‘That’s like six days before my birthday, what a wonderful birthday present,’ King said after revealing the release date. 

After finishing the puzzle, King added, ‘I’m very emotional right now and I don’t know why but I’m very excited.’

Courtney added, ‘I’m so excited, this is the best’ after the date was revealed.

Earlier in the call, King brought on her co-stars Taylor Zakhar Perez (Marco Pena) and Maisie Richardson-Sellers (Chloe Winthrop), who are new characters in the sequel. 

Richardson-Sellers revealed that her character Chloe Winthrop is quite ‘worldly’ who has ‘traveled all around the globe.’

She added that Chloe becomes ‘best friends’ with Noah (Jacob Elordi) at Harvard, the older brother of Courtney’s Lee and Elle’s love interest.

Perez plays Marco, ‘Elle and Lee’s musical and charismatic new classmate’ who Elle spends a lot more time with her while Noah is away at college.

Jacob Elordi also sent along a video message to fans, hoping they’re ‘staying safe and healthy inside’ amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

Elordi also debuted a deleted scene from the first film, where Elle tries to flirt with Noah after he comes out of a bathroom.

Writer-director Vince Marcello, who wrote and directed both movies, also debuted another scene, that is the first time Elle ‘lied to Lee’ about seeing Noah.