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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October 30, 2005
Sir Duke: So what’s your great aunt like?
Victoria: She’s… stern.
Sir Duke: Okay?
Victoria: And a little old-fashioned.
Victoria: She likes things a certain way.
Sir Duke: Opinionated, got it.
Victoria: But I don’t think it’s a bad thing!
Victoria: She practically raised me while my father studied.
Sir Duke: So that explains your prissy personality. :)
Victoria: Bugger off.
Sir Duke: Heheh.
Victoria: We’ll have to make sure you pick the right clothes to wear to dinner with her…
Sir Duke: What does that mean?
Victoria: Something nice. Do you have a sport coat?
Sir Duke: I’m 15.
Victoria: Never mind, I’ll just ask your mum.
Sir Duke: DON’T.
Victoria: Why not? I’m certain she knows a thing or two about formal dress.
Sir Duke: I don’t want to wear formal dress to dinner at your house.
Victoria: Please? ):
Sir Duke: I see Luna taught you how to make a sad face.
Victoria: I’ll never ask you for anything again. <3
Sir Duke: And a heart! Wooooow.
Victoria: I just want her to like you!
Sir Duke: Relax V. I’ll wear a sport coat or whatever.
Victoria: Thank you.
Victoria: I promise I’ll make it up to you.
Sir Duke: I like how that sounds. :)
~*~
Sir Duke: Tell me about Great Aunt Carmine.
Dimwit_Genius: She’s a rich, stuck-up Indian woman.
Sir Duke: But you’ve never met her.
Dimwit_Genius: I don’t need to meet her to know she thinks she’s better than us.
Dimwit_Genius: She didn’t give a shit about Dad until he divorced Mom
Dimwit_Genius: Then all of a sudden he was the tragic, noble patriarch raising his daughter alone.
Sir Duke: Victoria likes her though.
Dimwit_Genius: I love Tor, but she’s not the greatest judge of character
Dimwit_Genius: as evidenced by her dating you.
Sir Duke: Aaaaand I’m out.
~*~
AOL Chat Room—The Best Kind of Prize is a Surprise
November 1, 2005
Moona: Alright guys, I’ve decided on the winners of this year’s Halloween costume contest!
Victoria: There was a contest??
Sir Duke: No. She just thinks there was.
Moona: In fifth place is *drumroll*
Moona: Dimitri Hale, with Bedsheet Ghost! ^O^
Moona: Is Dimitri in the chat with us?
Victoria: He’s here. He’s just too hungover to look at the computer monitor.
Smooth Jazz: Lol
Moona: In fourth place: Sebastian Velasquez Cruz, with Revenge of the Emo Kid!
Seblasquez: Sweet.
Moona: In third place we have Jasmine Nolan, with her BoA cosplay
Smooth Jazz: Only third?? ):
Moona: You got points deducted for obscurity. D:
Smooth Jazz: By who? You’re the judge!
Moona: In second place…
Moona and Seblasquez have logged out.
Sir Duke: …?
Victoria: Did she log off?
Sir Duke: Seb’s gone too.
Smooth Jazz: The suspense is killing me.
Dimwit_Genius: If someone could run me over with a cement truck, I’d appreciate it.
Sir Duke: Gladly
Victoria: Duke, please.
Moona: BACK SORRY
Seblasquez: The dog knocked out the internet.
Moona: IN SECOND PLACE: DUKE KINGSTON, PIRATE KING
Sir Duke: Wait a minute
Moona: AND IN FIRST PLACE WE HAVE VICTORIA HALE WITH PIRATE QUEEN!!!!!!!
Sir Duke: How was hers better than mine?!
Victoria: Don’t be bitter, darling.
Sir Duke: SHE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THERE WAS A CONTEST
Victoria: YOU SAID THERE WASN’T A CONTEST!
Moona: Thanks for playing folks! Better luck next year. :D
Emoticon Key for Emoji Users:
^O^ - a happy face with closed eyes and an open mouth
Author’s Note: Luna is such a troll.
If there are delays with the bonus story this Friday, it’s because my husband and I are flying off to Seattle for the weekend to eat food, see the cherry blossoms, and scout some Trainwrecks locations—specifically, the place where the first “I love you” will be said. :D
Me laughing and smiling at the costume contest shenanigans and preparation for Carmine's visit as if I can't read the title of this episode :)))))))