Put Out to Pasture by Amanda Flower

Author:Amanda Flower [Flower, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2022-01-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

After I left Jessa’s Place, I headed to the Michigan Street Theater. Even if practice wasn’t in session, I knew my cousin Stacey would be there, because she lived there. Literally. In early fall, she had a small one-bedroom apartment put in the old office. She had a private bathroom, a bedroom, and a kitchenette. It was a lot smaller living quarters than she had when she lived in the farmhouse on the other side of Bellamy Farm, but she was happier than I had ever seen her. In fact, she was almost cheerful about life now. Almost.

Huckleberry pranced down the street beside me with the piece of rawhide Jessa had given him when we left the diner. He was quite proud of his gift and lifted his puggish chin as if he wanted to show it off to anyone who happened by.

I glanced down at him. “When we get to the theater, I need you to be on your best behavior. You know Stacey doesn’t like you coming inside. If we want you to be able to keep doing that, you need to be good.”

He held his rawhide a little bit higher. I wasn’t sure if that meant that he had heard me or that he was blowing me off. Knowing how stubborn pugs could be, and especially Huckleberry, I would guess it was the latter.

The Michigan Street Theater was the crown jewel of Cherry Glen’s recent revival, and that was all thanks to my cousin, Stacey Bellamy. Stacey was nearly a decade older than me, and other than my father, she was my only living relative. She was a stunning woman in her forties, and when she was in high school, she was voted “most likely to be a star.” She tried to live up to that. After high school, she went to New York City with the hopes of making it on Broadway. Except for a few that become megarich, it was hard to make money acting. It was even harder to do it in live theater, but she scraped by until she came back to Cherry Glen when her father died and she inherited the farm.

Last year, she sold her land to a developer in secret. When it came to light, no one was that surprised. She had no interest in farmwork when she was younger, and she always had bigger hopes. What was a surprise was that she used the money to buy the old, dilapidated theater and proceeded to fix it up.

For my entire childhood, the Michigan Street Theater had been an eyesore. It closed down in the late 1970s and fell into disrepair. Every year, the town council talked about tearing it down. The only problem was that the building was so massive the town could not afford to pay the bill to have it razed.

By the time Stacey was ready to make her move, Cherry Glen was in the midst of a revival. The old mill had been turned into a microbrewery, and boutiques were popping up all along Michigan Street.

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