Fic: A Little Spill

For the allbingo meet-ugly prompt spill, Johnny meets a mysterious woman by spilling beer on her.
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Johnny thanked the bartender and took a step back, holding his pint glass aloft to move past the man seated at the bar, and as he turned bumped into someone.

They were also holding a glass. Beer sloshed over the top of both glasses, wetting Johnny's sleeve and the woman's purple-clad shoulder.

"Sorry!" Johnny glanced ruefully at his shirt. "I wasn't looking."

"Oh, no, it was my fault," she said. "I wasn't looking either. Just a little spill. No harm done?"

"Nothing a turn in the washing machine won't fix," Johnny said and flashed her a smile. She was close to his age, thirty-ish, with pale skin and deep brown eyes to contrast with his olive complexion and blue eyes.

She laughed. "It'll dry out for the moment. I'll go and sit in the sun."

Johnny watched her move toward the outdoor seating. He sipped at his beer, savoured the cool taste. No-one joined the woman at the table she chose and she didn't take out a book or e-reader from her handbag, not even her phone. It wouldn't be interrupting if he asked to join her, would it?

He'd promised himself he'd take more risks this year.

"Hey," he said, gesturing as he approached the table. "Can I join you? If you'd rather be alone I get it though."

She smiled. "Sure."

"Sure I can sit or sure I should go away?" He smiled again.

"Sit," she said, nodding to the bench opposite her. "You can dry your shirt out too."

He took a seat. "Thanks. I'm Johnny."

"Talluah."

Johnny tried to stifle a laugh. "Really?"

She giggled. "No." She lifted her glass. "Cheers."

Johnny clinked his glass against the mysterious woman's. Despite the initial circumstances he had a good feeling about meeting her.

Ostara

~Magickal Graphics~



Ostara is the Spring or Vernal equinox when days and nights are once again equal in length. It is a time of renewal and rebirth. The name Ostara is believed to be derived from Eostre - the Teutonic lunar Goddess (see more on this below). Her chief symbols are the hare, which represents fertility, and the egg, which is a symbol of rebirth.
Ostara is close in symbolism to the Church festival of Easter, but Ostara is fixed at the equinox while Easter is a moveable feast decided by the phases of the moon. The Jewish holiday of Passover also falls during March or April, depending on the moon phases of each year.
Ostara also falls close to St Patrick's Day amongst other festivals – there's more detail in this article: Spring Traditions around the World.

Traditionally this day marks the start of Spring, and is a good time for cleaning in the physical, emotional, and spiritual sense.

This year, Ostara falls on the 20 March. It almost coincides with a supermoon due at 2am GMT: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/20/rare-super-worm-moon-will-loom-large-as-it-coincides-with-equinox


[note: the following is an unedited repost of last year's post]

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In the Southern Hemisphere, it is Mabon that this being celebrated today at the time, with the balance of daylight about to go in the opposite direction, from more daylight to less.

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