DAISY'S POV: I don't know when it started, but I hated that woman, and Enos too.
Why was I so possessive? It scares to me even now, and even now I feel ashamed of my past feelings.
NEW ARRIVALS TO HAZZARD
Melanie got out the bus that brought her from the airport to Hazzard; it was all so different from Los Angeles. She wondered if she'd have got used to that new life, even if temporary: be a cop in Los Angeles was pretty different from be a cop in a small County.
The woman took a deep breath and she walked to the Police Department, where she had to meet her new, temporary, chief: Mr. J.D. Hogg.
On her way to the POlice Department, a voice behind her stopped her, "Hey Miss. Youre new in Hazzard, aren't you?"
Melanie turned over, a bit annoyed: in a big city like Los Angeles nobody'd have used a rough approach like that, but then she remembered she was in a small county, where obviously everyone knew each other, and everyone noticed a stranger.
She looked at two young men and a young woman standing in front of her. Of the two young men, one had brown hair, and the other one was blonde; both cute guys, she had to admit.
The blond man was the one who's speaking, a wide smile on his face, "You're welcome. I'm Bo Duke, and they are my cousins Luke and Daisy".
Melanie noticed that the woman too was very cute, but she noticed more their car: a 1969 Dodge Charger painted of orange, a the confederate flag on its roof and a big 01 on its doors. It was the first time she saw something like that, but she knew pretty wll the name of the car: the famous General Lee. So, they were the famous Dukes.
Melanie smiled, "I'm Melanie Tyler. Yes, I'm new here, I come from Los Angeles and I'm going to be a deputy here in Hazzard".
The Dukes looked at her in surprise.
"Deputy? So, you're a cop. I didn't know Boss Hogg wanted a new deputy".
Melanie shrugged, aswering Luke's question, "It's only for a while. You know, there have been a lot of robberies 'round there, it seems from the same gang acting also in Los Angeles, so my chief sent me here in order to help local police".
The Dukes, and every Hazzard's citizen too, knew 'bout those robberies; many banks in the near counties had already been robbed, and Hazzard's one would have been probably the next one; now it was clear why Boss Hogg wanted a new deputy, especially if a cop from L.A.
But there was another surprise for the Dukes.
Melanie kept on speaking, "Anyway, I'm happy to be here; everything is different from Los Angeles, it's true, but there's someone I know very well", then she concluded with a sparkling smile, "Enos Strate still works here, doesn't he?".
Bo and Luke looked at each other.
"Do you know Enos? ", Bo nodded, "Yes, he works here. And he's a deputy".
Melanie sighed in relief, "Well. Now I feel better. I have to go now, bye".
When the young woman left, Luke folded his arms, resting his back against the General Lee and looking at Hazzard's new deputy, "Melanie Tyler. She's very cute. Unfortunately, she works for Boss Hogg, but if she's a friend of Enos, it's a good thing".
Bo agreed, whereas Daisy remained strangely silent, her eyes half-closed as she stared at the woman.
After her meeting with Boss Hogg and Rosco P. Coltrane (the weirdest men she had ever met), Melanie went in the locker room to wear her new uniform.
Only one thing lacked in her first day in Hazzard, the most important thing.
Finally, she heard his voice.
She opened the door of the locker room and she hugged the man who's wearing her same uniform, "I'm very happy to see you again, Enos"
Enos nearly lost his balance because of her impetus, looking at her in surprise, "Possum on a gum buch, Melanie, are you the new deputy from Los Angeles?".
She nodded happily as he burst our laughing, his funny and high-pitched laugh.
Melanie was the only stranger in Hazzard, that day.
Coming back to the farm, Bo, Luke and Daisy found uncle Jesse talking with two men and a woman in the living room. They knew very well one of the men: he was one of their many cousins, Mark Duke, who lived in Los Angeles (that day Hazzard seemed to attract various people from Los Angeles), and he was there with his girlfriend, Stefany Dawson, and his friend, James Brown. Mark usually spent holidays in Hazzard when he was a child.
The cousins hugged, remembering their childhood, and they talked about their respective lives, but Mark and his friends remained rather vague 'bout what they're doing in Los Angeles: in effect, they couldn't confess of being "banks robbers".
DAISY'S POV: If I had only known that those meetings would have changed my life ... Even today I wonder if Enos forgave me for what happened.