S2 Week 15 Bonus Story: But What If I'd Fallen Instead

Spiraling Together

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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February 14, 2005

“Or you can prove to both of us how bad I really am.”

Jasmine’s hand rested on Dimitri’s cheek. She was close enough to feel his breath against her face, to see flecks of black in his brown eyes. Curse him and his unreadable gaze. How could one person be so damn good at masking his emotions? Mere inches away, and she couldn’t tell whether he wanted her or felt repulsed by her. She must have been desperate. Why else would she keep throwing her most vulnerable self at the feet of Dimitri Hale? Why else would she keep begging this insufferable man for love?

Because she knew he cared. Because when it mattered most, when she’d needed someone, he’d been there. Rescuing her from a locked bathroom. Yelling at her that he never wanted to see her at a house party again. Putting himself between her and every man who’d tried to take advantage of her.