S2 Episode 3B

Jasmine Thinks About Her Future

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—The Best Kind of Prize is a Surprise
October 1, 2005

Victoria: I don’t need to have a birthday party.

Moona: Why not? Was last year’s too boring? D:

Moona: I knew I should have bought more party games…

Victoria: It wasn’t boring! It was nice for what it was: a slumber party for just the three of us girls.

Victoria: But a birthday party implies more people.

Moona: And? It’s not like our classmates hate you. .o.

Sir Duke: What V’s trying to say is that she doesn’t want to make a big deal out of her birthday

Sir Duke: but she’s afraid of hurting your feelings

Moona: You could have just said so! My feelings are not that easy to hurt >O<

Sir Duke: You bruise like a banana…

Moona: What about a small deal then?

Moona: We could go to the Cheesecake Factory!!!! OwO

Moona: Sure I’ll gain back all the weight I’ve lost this year

Moona: but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make for your happiness ^w^

Sir Duke: Moon I’M taking her out for her birthday

Moona: …

Moona: Are you guys going to the Cheesecake Factory without me??? OAO

Victoria: She’s really hung up on the cheesecake…

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Moona: So have you decided which colleges to apply to yet?

Smooth Jazz: Umm…

Moona: Isn’t the deadline coming up? O.o

Smooth Jazz: I’m flattered you think I’m smart enough to get into college but…

Moona: Wait

Moona: Don’t tell me you’re not applying

Smooth Jazz: I might

Smooth Jazz: I just haven’t given a lot of thought to what I want to do with my life.

Moona: What did you want to be when you were younger?

Smooth Jazz: A rich old man’s sugar baby…

Moona: I don’t need to know what that is. :D

Smooth Jazz: Sigh

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Text conversation between Luna Cruz and Sebastian Velasquez

Luna: Ur touring UW soon right?

Sebastian: In November. Why?

Luna: Take Jasmine w/ u.

Sebastian: Does she want to go?

Luna: Yeah she just doesn’t know it yet

Sebastian: -.-

Luna: Aren’t u worried about her future???

Sebastian: Quit texting me I’m working

Luna: )8<

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Smooth Jazz: Is not knowing what I want to do with my life a bad thing?

Dimwit_Genius: It is. How dare you steal precious air from us motivated individuals!

Smooth Jazz: I’m serious

Dimwit_Genius: Have you thought about community college?

Smooth Jazz: Isn’t that kind of embarrassing?

Dimwit_Genius: Only if you think of it that way.

Dimwit_Genius: Community colleges are great. You can take classes for way cheaper

Dimwit_Genius: talk to career counselors and try out different things

Dimwit_Genius: and if you decide school isn’t for you, you’ll pay off your student loans a lot faster.

Smooth Jazz: That does sound pretty nice…

Dimwit_Genius: What can I say, I’m a pretty nice guy.

Smooth Jazz: Ugh

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Emoticon Key for Emoji Users:

D: - an unhappy face with open mouth
.o. - a neutral face with an open mouth
>O< - a complaining face with eyes shut and a wide open mouth
OwO - an excited face with big eyes
^w^ - a happy face with closed eyes
OAO - a screaming face with wide eyes and small open mouth
O.o - a weirded out face with one eye bigger than the other
-.- - an annoyed face with closed eyes
)8< - an angry face with drawn brows

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