S2 Week 17 Bonus Story: Cold Like Me

Jasmine Turns 18

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 28, 2006

Duke had never been to Jasmine’s place before, so he hadn’t known what to expect when his mother turned onto a quiet Renton street only a few minutes away from Seb and Jazz’s high school. “Let’s see, it should be… this one!” she announced as they stopped in front of a small, blue craftsman style house at the bottom of a slope. Sebastian and Dimitri’s cars were there, so it was definitely the right place. Why had he thought Jasmine would live in a gated community, or some magnificent condo in a high-rise downtown?

Luna threw open the door before he was halfway down the front walk and ushered him inside. “Duke’s here!” she yelled, then said to him a normal voice, “They’re a shoes-off household.” He took the opportunity to look around as he removed his shoes. Directly to the right was a staircase leading up, and to the left were the living room and kitchen, plus a cramped dining area where Sebastian, Dimitri, and Jasmine were clearing space on a table for a pile of pizza boxes. On one side of the living room was an enormous fish tank. The opposite wall was taken up by a large bookcase, which hosted volumes on interior design and cooking, some decorative plates, and a few family photographs. His eyes lingered on a picture of an elementary aged Jasmine in a traditional Chinese gown, dancing on a stage.

It reminded him of a certain someone who’d had a very important performance earlier that day.