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 13, 2005
Dimwit_Genius: Uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh
Moona: Are you complaining about dinner with your dad again?
Dimwit_Genius: It’s not dinner, it’s coffee.
Smooth Jazz: I thought you and your dad were getting along better now
Moona: They are. Ignore him.
Dimwit_Genius: UUUUUUUUUUUGH
Seblasquez: You’ll be fine.
Dimwit_Genius: He’s just so……………
Dimwit_Genius: British.
Victoria: What’s that supposed to mean?
Sir Duke: Seriously ignore him
Dimwit_Genius: I used to want to hang out with my dad. I thought he was cool.
Dimwit_Genius: HE DROVE A MOTORCYCLE
Victoria: And now he’s not cool because he drives a BMW?
Dimwit_Genius: Do you think I can convince him to pull a bank job with me?
Moona: I’m gonna guess no.
Dimwit_Genius: Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh
~*~
AOL Chat Room—So Fetch
Moona: I talked to Patrick today. He’s in my math class.
Smooth Jazz: How did that go?
Moona: I think it went well?? We talked for like ten minutes.
Victoria: !!
Moona: He’s really nice and also super funny AND he complimented the piece I did for my painting class
Smooth Jazz: All good things. :)
Victoria: Have you invited him over yet?
Moona: NO
Victoria: Shall I do it for you?
Moona: NO!!!!!!!!
Smooth Jazz: Wow I like this gutsy new Victoria.
Victoria: I’ve always been gutsy!
Smooth Jazz: Ask him out! Ask him out!
Moona: You guuuuuuuuuuuys!!! TOT
~*~
AOL Chat Room—Scotty Doesn’t Know
Sir Duke: You really don’t think I can take a wolverine in a fight?
Seblasquez: Why is this so important to you?
Dimwit_Genius: Hey what do we know about this Patrick Ashley guy?
Sir Duke: Marcus went to middle school with him. Says he was a weirdo then too.
Dimwit_Genius: Like normal weird or might-be-in-the-closet weird?
Sir Duke: Gee I dunno Mr. Likes It Both Ways
Sir Duke: Maybe if we get him to come over your gaydar can tell you for us
Dimwit_Genius: You want to know what my gaydar says about you? :)
Seblasquez: Knock it off you two
Dimwit_Genius: You SHOULD invite him over. I want to meet my competition.
Seblasquez: What
Sir Duke: Competition?????
Seblasquez: Dimitri what does that mean
Dimwit_Genius: For Luna’s birthday party escort?? What did you think I meant???
Sir Duke: Oh thank god
Seblasquez: …
~*~
Seblasquez: Can you cover for me at the dance studio on Saturday?
Smooth Jazz: Short staffed at the mall again?
Seblasquez: It was a fun summer job but I’m thinking it might be time to quit.
Smooth Jazz: But you look so cute in your train conductor costume :)
Seblasquez: Jasmine
Smooth Jazz: Hehehe yeah I can cover for you.
Seblasquez: Thanks.
Seblasquez: You’ll be teaching the salsa class.
Smooth Jazz: Wait
Smooth Jazz: Seb you know I’m bad at salsa
Smooth Jazz: Seb
Seblasquez: No takebacks :)
Smooth Jazz: Seb!!
Seblasquez: Choo-choooooooo
Emoticon Key for Emoji Users:
TOT - a crying face with a wide open mouth
:) - a smiley face
Author’s Note: Duke and Sebastian lost ten years of their life to the anxiety Dimitri’s comment gave them.
Sebastian’s job running the mall train was proposed by my husband, who proceeded to make me cry laughing imagining him getting fired after Dimitri and Duke try to pull a dramatic train heist.
Not Dimitri giving his friends a panic attack 😅
Also the cute banter between Seb and Jazz!! Always makes me smile! :D