S2 Episode 15B

Did You Hear About Seb and Autumn?

Welcome to Trainwrecks: Season 2 (2005-2006)! If you haven’t read Season 1, please start there! Trainwrecks is a free-to-read fiction serial that follows a group of six Seattle-adjacent friends from the year 2004 to the year 2015. Join Luna Cruz, Sebastian Velasquez, Dimitri and Victoria Hale, Duke Kingston, and Jasmine Nolan as they stumble their way from adolescence to adulthood, falling in love, making mistakes, overcoming their pasts, and staying together through it all.

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AOL Chat Room—What Excellent Boiled Potatoes
February 1, 2006

Moona: New group chat! I thought we could all use a cleanse.

Seblasquez: Where’d the potatoes quote come from?

Moona: Pride & Prejudice aka the GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME

Smooth Jazz: It’s been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable

Moona: LOL

Moona: Seb didn’t you watch it in theaters with Autumn??

Seblasquez: I’ve tried hard to block that memory out

Victoria: How go things with your Mr. Darcy, Luna?

Moona: >///< They’re fiiiine

Seblasquez: He walks her to the door after their dates

Seblasquez: And kisses her on the cheek

Moona: HAVE YOU BEEN SPYING ON ME

Seblasquez: Is that not what siblings do?

Sir Duke: You should see them holding hands at school

Moona: DUKE AKSJHDLKASDF

Smooth Jazz: Is he a good kisser though?

Moona: Umm

Sir Duke: They haven’t kissed yet.

Victoria: WHAT

Smooth Jazz: Hasn’t it been a month already?

Sir Duke: That’s what I’m saying

Moona: I LIKE that he hasn’t tried to kiss me yet! We’re taking it slow!

Sir Duke: More like glacial

Seblasquez: Lol

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Moona: I apologize in advance for my friends.

Shakespeare’s Ghost: Your friends are nice.

Moona: You haven’t met all of them.

Shakespeare’s Ghost: Come on, how bad can they be?

Moona: Anywaaaaaay

Moona: I also apologize for how many times I’m going to step on your feet during practice.

Shakespeare’s Ghost: Apology accepted. :)

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Itz_Destiny: Thx for the therapist rec

Itz_Destiny: She’s legit

Smooth Jazz: Glad you’re getting help.

Itz_Destiny: Been meaning to ask but r u and Velasquez goin out

Smooth Jazz: No we aren’t.

Itz_Destiny: Ur not???

Smooth Jazz: Does it seem like we are?

Itz_Destiny: Uh ya

Itz_Destiny: U two r always together even outside school

Smooth Jazz: I work at his mom’s dance studio.

Smooth Jazz: And we go to the same church.

Itz_Destiny: Uuuuuh huh

Smooth Jazz: He went on a date with Autumn Forrester a few months ago!

Itz_Destiny: Lol ya and it was a real shit show

Smooth Jazz: What do you mean?

Itz_Destiny: She was tellin her friends how serious he was

Itz_Destiny: Talkin bout how just cuz they went out don’t mean they’re together

Itz_Destiny: She was like why can’t we just have fun

Itz_Destiny: and he was like I’m not dating for fun

Itz_Destiny: and then she got all mad cuz she thought he liked u

Itz_Destiny: started cryin about how u stole her bf in 8^th grade

Itz_Destiny: talkin all kinda shit

Smooth Jazz: I had no idea

Itz_Destiny: That u stole her bf?

Smooth Jazz: Oh that I knew.

Smooth Jazz: I didn’t know about the date stuff.

Itz_Destiny: No wonder he left her ass at the restaurant lol

Smooth Jazz: I’m sorry he did WHAT

Itz_Destiny: Autumn had to call for a ride home

Itz_Destiny: He didn’t tell u?

Smooth Jazz: We were kind of fighting at the time.

Smooth Jazz: Did she say anything else?

Itz_Destiny: Just that u a ho

Smooth Jazz: Figures.

Itz_Destiny: Want me to beat her ass for u?

Smooth Jazz: Please don’t.

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Emoticon Key for Emoji Users:

>///< - a blushing face with closed eyes

And Other Vernacular:

Thx - Thanks
Rec - Short for recommendation
Legit - Short for legitimate, which for a while was used to describe something as great
Ur - You’re
Cuz - Because
Bf - Boyfriend
Ho - A woman of loose morals

Author’s Note: Aww, Destiny’s ready to throw hands for Jasmine. She’s also willing to ask the question that’s on everyone’s mind. What will Jasmine do with this new information? Feel free to speculate wildly. :D