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 13, 2005
Victoria: My great aunt is coming to visit for Thanksgiving!
Sir Duke: Which one?
Victoria: Carmine. The others don’t like to travel much.
Smooth Jazz: That’s exciting.
Victoria: I haven’t seen her since we left London!
Victoria: Father and I will be showing her all around Seattle.
Dimwit_Genius: Am I expected to participate in this?
Victoria: Yes. Duke as well.
Sir Duke: Huh??!?!
Moona: Dimitri you’ve never even met your great aunts
Dimwit_Genius: And yet I feel like I already know them. :)
Victoria: Meaning?
Dimwit_Genius: Nothing! Nothing at all~
Sir Duke: Bowling time. Ttyl
Smooth Jazz: You’re going down Kingston.
Sir Duke: BRING IT NOLAN
Smooth Jazz and Sir Duke have signed out.
Moona: Hey Seb did you invite Jazz on your college tour yet?
Dimwit_Genius: <w<
Seblasquez: I haven’t.
Dimwit_Genius: Seb’s mad at her.
Seblasquez: No I’m not.
Moona: Huh?? Why??? oAo
Seblasquez: I’m not mad!
Victoria: He sounds mad…
Seblasquez: I’ll bring up the tour tomorrow at school. Talk to you guys later.
Seblasquez has signed out.
Moona: Why is he mad at her? D:
Dimwit_Genius: She told him to quit taking his anger out on God or something.
Moona: Did she really????
Dimwit_Genius: He didn’t give me a lot of details, but I could tell he was annoyed.
Victoria: Why’s Sebastian angry at God?
Dimwit_Genius: Cuz his mom got deported and then she died before he could see her again.
Dimwit_Genius: Which is a perfectly legitimate reason to be angry.
Dimwit_Genius: I’m pissed and it didn’t even happen to me.
Victoria: Oh dear.
Moona: He doesn’t like to talk about it ):
Moona: Poor Jasmine. She must have been scared to bring it up…
Dimwit_Genius: She shouldn’t have bothered if she knew it would upset him.
Moona: I don’t agree with that
Dimwit_Genius: What good did she think it was going to do?
Moona: What good has it done Seb to not talk about it if he’s mad at God?
Dimwit_Genius: You say that like he’s still subscribed to your religion.
Moona: You’d hate that wouldn’t you? -.-
Dimwit_Genius: Oh, Moon. You know what they say about making assumptions.
Dimwit_Genius has signed out.
Moona: UUUUUUUUUUUUUGH
Victoria: That could have gone better…
Moona: HE’S SO FRUSTRATING
Victoria: Technically you’re the one who threw the first accusation.
Moona: I knooooooooow
Moona: Ugh now I’m going to have to bribe him so he won’t get back at me.
Victoria: Does that work?
Moona: Powdered donuts and gummy worms are his weakness.
Victoria: Noted.
Moona: I’d better act fast
Moona: Last time he rearranged my CD collection according to some ancient cipher
Moona: I had to check out a library book and it still took hours to decode
Victoria: Why didn’t you just open all the cases and figure it out from there?
Moona: He put so much effort into the prank, the least I could do was go along with it. D:
Victoria: I’m sensing my brother’s feelings are more delicate than he lets on.
Moona: You sense correctly.
Emoticon Key for Emoji Users:
<w< - a smiling side eye; very gossipy
oAo - a concerned face with a small mouth
-.- - a glaring face with a small open mouth
Author’s Note: Today’s subtitle and Dimitri’s comment make reference to the phrase “When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.” Unfortunately, this won’t be the last time Luna makes assumptions this season.