Star Crossed

Call It Fate

There was a bright flash of light and all I could hear was a ringing in my ears. "Ben" was all I thought to say at the time not knowing where I was. "I'm over here, what the fuck just happened" He responded walking over to me. "I have no idea, do you know where we are?" I asked worriedly. "No clue lets go see if we can find help." He said reaching his hand out helping me up. We walked as far as we could until we ended up in a town that looked nothing like where we had been before there were 60s and 70s model cars around and phone booths by the dozen.

"Ben umm I think we should be asking when are we and not where." I said looking to him like I was looking for some kind of answer. "I think you're right, I think we should go find a newspaper stand or something" He said pulling me along. We arrived at a paper stand and Ben bought todays issue. "No fucking way, you've got to be joking." He said looking down at the paper. "What is it" I asked. He handed me the newspaper and there it was. "September 8, 1973" Ben said with fear in his voice

I grabbed Bens hand and pulled him into a nearby alley way. "Ben how did this happen, I mean one minute we're on bloody set and now we're in the middle of 1973. That's scientifically impossible" I said with a hushed panicked tone in my voice. "I know its absolutely bonkers but we need to find a way out of here." He said looking down. "Wait, do you still have my phone maybe we can call someone. " I asked. Ben fumbled around in his pockets finally going to his back pocket and pulling out my phone. "Yeah here it is." He said handing me my phone. "Fuck I don't have any signal. I don't know why I thought that would work cells phones wont be invented for another 20 or so years." I said putting my phone in my pocket.

"So what do we do now?" Ben asked pacing back and forth. "Honestly I don't know. I really fucking need a drink and something hard because this day just keeps getting better and better." I said walking out of the alley way. "Cheers to that" Ben said following close behind. I walked back to the newspaper stand and asked the man where the nearest pub was. I thanked him for my time and headed towards the center of town.

We walked for about 10 minutes before arriving at the pub. "Well here we are" I said turning to Ben. We walked into the pub and sat down at the bar. "I want a gin and tonic, you?" Ben told the bartender and then turned to me. "Give me something strong. I don't care what just something strong" I said putting my elbows on the bar. The bartender came back with our drinks and set them down.

"Wow I didn't know you were into the hard stuff." Ben said laughing "Normally I'm not but tonight is a VERY special occasion" I said taking a swig of my drink. "So what'd it turn out to be" Ben asked sitting his drink down on the bar. "Well if my days of drinking my liver away would come in handy it's most likely Jameson, which is an Irish Whiskey" I said inspecting the drink like I was some kind of genius. "I think you're wrong lets ask the bartender to call your bluff" Ben said with a grin on his face. "Excuse me, what exactly did you put in her glass?" Ben asked. "Jameson, have you tried it?" The man responded. "Bloody hell what are you some alcoholic Einstein or something?" Ben said to me laughing. "No, just an alcoholic" I said with a smirk.

"Well if you don't mind me I'm headed to the loo for a minute" Ben said getting up. "Well I wouldn't want you to do it here so please be my guest" I replied laughing. Not even a few minutes after Ben left a blonde boy replaced the seat that Ben was sitting in. "Mind if I sit here?" I heard the boy asked his voice was smooth but very high pitched, it sounded vaguely familiar but I couldn't place where I had heard it before. "Yeah sure go ahead love." I replied finishing off my drink. "Care if I buy you another one?" He asked me. "Sure, why not god knows I need it" I said looking up to see that the boy  I was with wasn't only vaguely familiar he was someone I had just talked to earlier that same day. "By chance your name wouldn't happen to be Roger would it?" I asked "How'd you know?" He asked with a smile. "Call it fate" I replied