S2 Week 8 Bonus Story: Something Real

Sebastian Goes on a Date

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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November 26, 2005

Halfway through his date with Autumn Forrester, Sebastian found himself grateful for two things: that Pride & Prejudice was finally over, and that his car hadn’t broken down so far. After the movie, Autumn had complained of hunger—which, according to Dimitri, was a good sign. “If she wants to extend the date, then you’ve made a favorable impression,” he’d told him over the phone last night. So Sebastian had taken her to Pizza Manor, a local chain that always seemed to be on the verge of shutting down for good.

Now, he could not, for the life of him, figure out how he’d made a favorable impression on Autumn when they’d hardly said anything to each other during the movie. She’d watched with starry eyes as Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy argued in the rain after his ill-timed marriage proposal. She’d swooned at the sight of Matthew Macfadyen emerging from the morning mist, coat tails waving. Fair enough, Sebastian thought, he could see the dreaminess of it. But if she was expecting that from him, she was going to be disappointed.