S2 Episode 7B

Sebastian is Popular with the Ladies

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
November 21, 2005

Moona: SEBASTIAN GOT ASKED OUT

Moona: BY A GIRL

Seblasquez: Was the clarification really necessary?

Sir Duke: BRAH

Sir Duke: Is she hot??

Dimwit_Genius: Last year’s yearbook confirms she is passably attractive, maybe even out of his league.

Sir Duke: YOOOOOOO

Victoria: You are all being very mean about this!

Victoria: Congratulations, Sebastian.

Seblasquez: Thanks Victoria

Moona: JASMINE WE NEED DEETS

Smooth Jazz: I wasn’t there when it happened.

Seblasquez: There’s nothing to tell…

Moona: BUT IT’S AUTUMN FORRESTER

Moona: Even in middle school she was like one of the top ten hottest girls in the eighth grade!!!

Seblasquez: She was, wasn’t she?

Victoria: I would like to hear the story of this courageous confession!

Dimwit_Genius: Can I tell it?!

Smooth Jazz: You weren’t there either.

Dimwit_Genius: But I heard about it from Seb and I can tell it better than he can.

Moona: Oh my gosh yes please let him tell it

Seblasquez: Fine. Dimitri go ahead. I’m gonna let the dog out

Dimwit_Genius: It was a bright yet overcast afternoon. Young Sebastian sat on a picnic table outside

Dimwit_Genius: enjoying a lunch of mediocre, high school cafeteria quality chicken sandwich with curly fries

Sir Duke: Get on with it already!

Dimwit_Genius: Enter Autumn Forrester, emboldened, I’m sure, by Jasmine’s absence

Smooth Jazz: What’s that supposed to mean?

Moona: That you’re intimidatingly pretty, duh.

Dimwit_Genius: She approached Young Sebastian and inquired after his Thanksgiving break plans

Dimwit_Genius: and when Seb confessed that he had none, Autumn Forrester seized her opportunity.

Dimwit_Genius: “We should go see a movie this week! If you’re not busy.”

Dimwit_Genius: “Sure,” replied Young Sebastian. “Who else is going?”

Sir Duke: LMAOOOOOOOOO

Moona: Oh Seb nooooooooo

Dimwit_Genius: “I meant just the two of us, if that’s okay,” continued Autumn, undaunted by his stupidity.

Sir Duke: I’m gonna piss myself asjkdhsaldkjfshadlkf

Dimwit_Genius: At this point, Young Sebastian realized he was being asked on a date and said yes

Moona: Bravo!

Sir Duke: Encore!

Seblasquez: You guys are jerks.

Sir Duke: You love us. What movie are you going to see?

Seblasquez: Haven’t decided yet.

Dimwit_Genius: If the date goes well, he won’t be seeing ANY movie if you know what I mean.

Sir Duke: Eyyyyyyy!!!!!!

Victoria: Honestly, you two!

Moona: We’ll be praying for you. Game doesn’t exactly run in our family.

Sir Duke: Says the girl who has Patrick Ashley wrapped around her finger.

Moona: I do not!!! >////<

Dimwit_Genius: Who needs game when he has me to give him advice?

Victoria: I’m confused. How can something run in your family when Sebastian is adopted?

Smooth Jazz: Thanks for the laugh guys :)

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AOL Chat Room—So Fetch

Smooth Jazz: Luna. It’s the end of November.

Smooth Jazz: Why haven’t I met Patrick Ashley yet

Moona: Well, we do go to different schools > >

Victoria: Because she’s a coward, that’s why.

Moona: Guuuuuys > <

Victoria: He obviously likes her but they’re both too shy to make a move!

Smooth Jazz: I see.

Moona: You think he obviously likes me?

Victoria: YES.

Victoria: ASK HIM OUT ALREADY.

Smooth Jazz: He’ll make the perfect escort for your sixteenth birthday party. ;)

Moona: Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

Moona: Shouldn’t the guy make the first move?

Victoria: I’m going to kill her.

Smooth Jazz: Down girl.

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Emoticon Key for Emoji Users:

>///< - a blushing face with eyes squeezed shut
> > - a side-eye with no mouth; very suspicious
> < - eyes squeezed shut with no mouth
;) - a winking face
asjkfhsdlf - keyboard smashing, used to indicate excitement, hilarity, frustration, or shock/horror (basically any intense emotion that leaves one temporarily speechless)

Author’s Note: Sebastian’s date with Autumn Forrester will be next week’s bonus episode! And let me entice those of you who aren’t paid subscribers yet by saying it’s quite the episode. But if you can’t afford the subscription, don’t worry, one of our side characters will recount the whole story secondhand later this season.