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.
For series introduction, character profiles, relationship charts, and general orientation, check out the Table of Contents!
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AOL Chat Room—The Best Kind of Prize is a Surprise
September 8, 2005
Sir Duke: I need you all to do me a favor and buy a CD by this band called Paramore
Sir Duke: You’ll thank me later
Smooth Jazz: That good huh?
Sir Duke: I’ve listened to it like a hundred times already
Seblasquez: Album name?
Sir Duke: All We Know is Falling
Victoria: I’m borrowing it right now. It is very good!
Moona: Sigh
Dimwit_Genius: What’s eating Luna?
Sir Duke: A guy
Smooth Jazz: No way
Moona: DUKE!!! >O<
Victoria: I’m sorry, did sighing mean you wanted us to bring it up or not?
Seblasquez: Who is it??
Sir Duke: Patrick Ashley
Victoria: I hear he’s got his sights set on Broadway
Dimwit_Genius: Oh so he’s gay.
Moona: Just because a guy is interested in theatre and poetry doesn’t mean he’s gay!
~*~
Dimwit_Genius: So he’s gay, right?
Smooth Jazz: I’d be willing to bet money on it.
~*~
AOL Chat Room—The Best Kind of Prize is a Surprise
Seblasquez: You should invite him over
Moona: UMM NO???
Smooth Jazz: Yeah. See if he’s got what it takes to be one of us.
Victoria: You talk as if this friend group is exclusive.
Sir Duke: I’m with Seb on this one. I had a class with Patrick last year. He’s kinda weird but not in a bad way
Dimwit_Genius: Our little Moon is growing up!
Moona: You’ve been seriously out of the loop if you think this is my first crush.
~*~
Dimwit_Genius: Alright so let’s talk about your quince plus one.
Dimwit_Genius: Your… what’s the Spanish word for sixteen?
Moona: Dieciseis
Dimwit_Genius: Your dieciseisanyera.
Moona: Can I wash my eyes first? That made up word was seriously atrocious >__>
Dimwit_Genius: The answer is yes: I will be your escort.
Moona: Who said I wanted you to be my escort?! D8<
Dimwit_Genius: You can’t ask Duke now. Tor will get jealous.
Dimwit_Genius: Assuming they haven’t broken up by then.
Moona: Drat
Moona: Seb can be my escort.
Dimwit_Genius: Why can’t I do it?!
Moona: Because first of all, you won’t take it seriously
Moona: and second of all, you only want to do it so you can be the center of attention
Moona: On MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!
Dimwit_Genius: Luna, you wound me!
Dimwit_Genius: I would never dream of stealing the spotlight from you!
Dimwit_Genius: To think that after all these years of friendship, I should be treated thusly!
Moona: I’m logging off if you don’t have anything important to say =A=
Dimwit_Genius: Okay but me as your escort. Think about it.
~*~
AOL Chat Room—Scotty Doesn’t Know
Sir Duke: Poll question: Which animal do you think you could take in a fight
Dimwit_Genius: Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Seblasquez: A dog? Not that I’d ever fight a dog
Dimwit_Genius: Black bear. Those things are skittish as hell.
Seblasquez: What about you Duke?
Sir Duke: Wolverine
Dimwit_Genius: PFFFFFFFFFFFFT
Sir Duke: What?!
Dimwit_Genius: Have you ever seen a nature documentary before?
Dimwit_Genius: Those things practically kill each other while they’re mating.
Sir Duke: Oh so like if you and Jasmine ever hooked up
Dimwit_Genius: I would never hook up with Jasmine, but yes.
Seblasquez: Let’s change the subject.
Emoticon Key for Emoji Users:
>O< - a frustrated face with closed eyes and a big mouth
>__> - a side-eye
D8< - an angry face with open mouth and drawn eyebrows
=A= - an irritated face with open mouth
Author’s Note: “The best kind of prize is a surprise” is a quote from the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
I don’t see why anyone wouldn’t believe Dimitri. He has such an honest face!
Lol I love that Jasmine and Dimitri are on the same page about the new guy!
Wooo Trainwrecks Wednesdays are back!! A great start to the new season. :)