S2 Week 5 Bonus Story: Say Yes to the Dress

Luna Ignores the Issue

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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October 22, 2005

Luna loved many things, but her favorite money-permitting pastime had to be clothes shopping, hands down. Her father often joked that when she was finally old enough to get a job, she’d be spending every paycheck at the mall. He was kind of right: she’d spend half her paycheck at the mall and the other half at Joann Fabrics.

As an aspiring fashion designer, she’d tasked herself with drawing up her own quinceañera dress, bringing it forth from the swirling clouds of her creativity. She envisioned a galactic purple ball gown with twinkling stars that would catch the light as she waltzed around the room with Patrick—err, whoever she chose to be her escort. But she was not yet skilled enough to produce an entire gown by herself, so altering a pre-made dress was her best option. Given how many sparkly dresses she’d seen during her various mall visits, she hadn’t imagined having a very hard time finding exactly what she was looking for.

Now here she was, at the mall, having a very hard time finding exactly what she was looking for.