S2 Episode 16B

Confronting Shakespeare's Ghost

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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February 14, 2006

Sir Duke: Got a minute?

Shakespeare’s Ghost: Oh hey Duke

Shakespeare’s Ghost: Yeah, I’ve got time

Sir Duke: This is gonna sound really fucking rude but

Sir Duke: Are you gay?

Shakespeare’s Ghost: I’m dating Luna

Sir Duke: Not what I asked

Shakespeare’s Ghost: I’m literally dating your best friend

Sir Duke: Okay look, there’s nothing wrong with it if you are

Sir Duke: Jeremy’s out and he says Remington’s a great place to be gay

Sir Duke: In fact, forget I asked. You don’t need to tell me if you don’t want to

Sir Duke: The only reason I said anything is cuz if you are gay, you need to break up with Luna

Sir Duke: Cuz me and her other friends don’t appreciate you stringing her along

Shakespeare’s Ghost: Jeremy’s out?

Sir Duke: Yeah dude

Sir Duke: He’s a good person to talk to about that stuff

Shakespeare’s Ghost: Could you send me his email address?

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Sir Duke: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Dimwit_Genius: Let me guess, we were right?

Sir Duke: UUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKK

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Text conversation between Sebastian Velasquez and Jasmine Nolan
February 15, 2006

Sebastian: Glad that Isaac and them were on board with playing for Luna’s party

Jazz: We sounded so good!! She’s going to love it

Jazz: Thanks for indulging me

Sebastian: Anytime

Jazz: And thanks for the Skittles yesterday

Sebastian: I hope you don’t mind me making it a yearly thing

Jazz: Please, as if I’d ever turn down Valentines candy

Sebastian: We should sing together more often

Jazz: Yeah we should

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AOL Chat Room—What Excellent Boiled Potatoes
February 23, 2006

Victoria: That practice could have gone a lot better.

Dimwit_Genius: To think there are high schoolers who don’t know their right from their left yet.

Seblasquez: We can’t all be geniuses like you

Dimwit_Genius: You don’t need to be a genius to know your right from your left!

Sir Duke: By the way, Luna’s friend Xiomara is totally into you

Smooth Jazz: Yikes

Victoria: Is that why she was asking me so many questions?

Dimwit_Genius: Did you tell her I don’t date high school girls?

Sir Duke: I didn’t

Dimwit_Genius: Why not?!

Sir Duke: Because it’s funny lmao

Seblasquez: Duke.

Moona: I’ll try to talk some sense into her. <__<

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Victoria: I’m sorry I won’t be here for your birthday.

Victoria: We’ll be spending all weekend in New York before the audition.

Smooth Jazz: It’s okay, we were just going to hang out at my place and eat pizza anyway.

Victoria: I’ll bring you back a gift!

Smooth Jazz: Ooh, can you make it one of those “I <3 New York” shirts?

Victoria: That’s all?

Smooth Jazz: I have a weird sense of humor.

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AOL Chat Room—What Excellent Boiled Potatoes
February 24, 2006

Moona: You are the greatest piano player who ever lived

Moona: You are the reincarnation of Beethoven himself

Moona: You can play circles around those other kids

Moona: You’ve

Moona: got

Moona: this.

Seblasquez: Go Victoria!

Victoria: I’m confident that I am ready!

Sir Duke: Good luck

Victoria: Thank you

Smooth Jazz: Dimitri, are you moving to New York too?

Dimwit_Genius: Pffffft no. I’m getting my own apartment and staying right here!

Sir Duke: Darn

Victoria: Everyone’s assuming I’m going to get in.

Seblasquez: Only because we believe in you. :)

Victoria: I appreciate you all.

Smooth Jazz: We love you! <3

Moona: KNOCK EM DEAD

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Author’s Note: A little birdie told me Jasmine’s heart skipped a beat up there.

Next week, Victoria takes on her Juilliard Pre-College audition!