S2 Week 10 Bonus Story: The Eye of the Hurricane

Memories of Happier Days

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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July 1997

There was a time, Sebastian recalled, when Dimitri’s mother stopped drinking for a while. It resulted from an incident where Luna accidentally ran Dimitri’s leg over with her bicycle, and though no bones were broken, the sight of Dimitri limping around was enough to change Makoto’s behavior for the better. Sebastian remembered him being angry about this at first. Dimitri didn’t trust his mother, would believe in her sobriety when he saw it with his own two eyes. But as the months went on and she continued to be not only sober, but interested and involved in his life, a side of him emerged that Sebastian had never seen before: a doting, affectionate momma’s boy.

In those halcyon days, Sebastian was allowed to visit Dimitri at his house. His parents had deemed it safe now that the supervising guardian was in her right mind. He was nine years old then, and still painfully shy around Makoto, who loomed like a fairy tale dragon in his mind. They could play, watch television, go wild in the backyard, raid the pantry for snacks, and do whatever they wanted as long as she remained undisturbed. “Mom gets cranky if her writing time is interrupted,” Dimitri explained to him.