The flyer flew over The Pink Flamingo Tailor Park. An old man sat in his lawn yelling at his neighbors "get your house off my lawn." He sat there in his ripped jeans, plaid shirt, bits of food stuck in his gray facial hair. The flyer landed in the dirt next to him. The wind blew and pushed his head to slightly right. He took notice of the paper below crumbled up, half of it covered in dirt, but it caught his eye with the words "Shawn Hunter" in black print.
"Hey Mary, come out here" he called out as he picked the flyer and cleaned it off.
Mary came out of the trailer in a stained apron, gray hair tangled, holding a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other. "What do want Mike?" Mary yelled. Mike got up from his chair and called out. "Hunters"
"We didn't do it" voices cried out around him.
"Get out here, you wouldn't believe this." A group of people rushed out of the surroundings trailers all with messy hair and tore up clothes. They all stood around looking at Mike.
"Okay Uncle Mike you got us out here. What do you what?" said a younger dirtier man.
Mike handed the flyer. "Look at this Eddie"
"Okay well there's a picture of a boy front of a trailer" Eddie started telling the crowd, "It says the downtown New York theater is proud to present "It wasn't me" written and directed by…..Shawn Hunter"
Everybody's face showed a mixture shock and confusion.
Eddie looked at over the picture next to the name.
"Wow my little half-brother sure thinks he's something now. Hear this 'real life story of rising from the secrets, lies, and crimes of a trailer park kid.' what a snob."
Mike took the flyer, "Maybe we should go. You know yall; New York isn't too far from here."
Everybody frowned at him. "Why should we?" Eddie yelled out.
"He's a city folk now" a cousin yelled.
"Yea he thinks he's better than us" said someone else.
Mary threw her hands up, "Hey, hey yall maybe we should see it. Shawn is family, after all and we support family."
"Opening night is tomorrow, that plenty of time to get cleaned up and drive my trailer into the city." Mike said.
The rest of them looked at Eddie as they were waiting for his command. Eddie signed and pushed his brown hair back. "Yall are right, Shawn is family, and we haven't seen him in years. Plus I'm mighty curious about this play."
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The theater wasn't small but wasn't that big.
Mike parked his trailer across five parking spots in the back. The family walked out, showered wearing their best clothes.
Eddie stopped and raised his hands motioning them to stop "Okay everybody remember our plan? The back door is right there, sneak in quietly and quickly. And if anybody asks we already paid."
They all nodded.
"Now do have what we everything? Jake?"
Jake nodded opening his jacket revealing several bags of microwave popcorn.
"Lisa?"
Lisa shakes her coat and pulls out a few candy bars.
"Clay?"
Clay shows him one of the six packs of beer in his shirt.
"Okay let's get sneaking" Mike said opening the door.
The family made their way into theater and quickly got seats in a dark row in the back. Mike and Mary heard laughter in the lobby.
"We will be right back" Mike said to them taking Mary's arm. Eddie and Stacy gave them a couple of dirty looks and then chased after them.
The lobby floor was cover with white tile, the walls were red with posters of plays scattered around. People scattered around wearing collar shirts, fedoras, and suits talking to each other and drinking colorful cocktails. They hear a voice coming from the center for the room
"Oh my god! Look!" Mary said.
There were four men stood in the middle of the room, two were tall, greasy black hair wearing white suits.
Eddie's eyes went to the other two men "There's Shawn and that suburbs living dorky friend of his…Cory right?"
"Yea" Stacy said "That half-brother of ours sure does clean up nicely"
Shawn's brown hair was short and spiked, he growing a goatee. His blue eyes were brighter than ever. He was wearing a nice red collar shirt unbutton at the top.
Next to him was Cory. He had grown his black curly out, his face was clean and shaved and he was wearing a pair of small rectangle glasses. He was wearing a black suit, with a blue unbutton collar shirt.
"Why won't you just look at that" Mike said, "Those two are still buddies."
"So what is it going take to get your amazing play in our theater?" One of the white suit men asked Shawn.
Shawn smiled "I would love to work with you guys"
Eddie watched at Cory placed his hand on Shawn hip and pulled Shawn closer to him.
"I'm so proud of Shawn, and I just know his play is going to be a hit." Cory said moving his hand up and down Shawn's stomach.
Cory and Shawn smiled at each other.
"House is open" a voice called out. Everybody started moving into the theater.
Eddie, Stacy, Mike, and Mary raced back in the theater and join the rest of the family.
As people settled down, Eddie couldn't help to whisper to Mike "Did see the way that Cory guy was touching Shawn."
Mike gave him a confused look, "What? What do you mean?" He said.
Eddie was thinking of how to response, when the lights went down.