First crushes
In my story Didn't Have Time, I mentioned that Daisy fell in love with Enos when she was about 5 years old. This is how she fell in love with him. There will be one more chapter, about when Enos fell in love with Daisy. I'll be posting it in the next week or so.
Daisy Duke sighed with determination and looked up at the monkey bars, she was going to try to climb all the way to the top today at recess. She was going to do it alone, which meant she had to do it at recess, not lunch time. If she tried to do it at Lunch time, then Bo or Luke would help her, and she couldn't do it with them, she had to do it alone. The bell to start class rang and she hurried into her classroom deciding she'd climb the money bars at recess and if she didn't reach it then she'd try again at Lunch time.
Luke Duke looked over at Daisy again; he could tell what she was thinking. She wanted to try to reach the top of the monkey bars all by herself. That meant that she'd be climbing at recess, not Lunch time. "Hey Enos," Luke stopped his friend. "Today Bo and I have to stay in during recess because we skipped school yesterday. Well, Daisy's going to try to reach the top of the monkey bars today at recess, could you make sure that she doesn't get hurt?" Luke asked.
"Sure, Luke, anything for a friend" Enos said. There, Luke had done the best he could; he knew he couldn't be out at recess that had been decided yesterday when he and Bo had accidentally skipped the last part of school to go swimming. They'd actually meant to be off the school ground just for Lunch, but 1 hour turned into 2 and then three and then Uncle Jesse had come looking for them. Luke's bottom still smarted from the spanking he'd received.
It seemed to take forever for the recess bell to ring. But if finally did, and Daisy ran out to the monkey bars, she looked up at them and started climbing. She got about halfway up before looking down, wow that was a long way down. Daisy started to climb back down, when she got down, a boy in Luke's class started taunting her. "Ohhh, Daisy Duke's a chicken; she's too scared to reach the top of the monkey bars." He teased.
Daisy nearly burst into tears. "I am not!" she said even though she knew it was true.
"She's a liar too." The boy continued to tease.
"You leave her alone." A boy's voice said. Both of them turned to see Enos Strate. "I know you don't like Luke, but that doesn't mean that you can be mean to Daisy." He said.
"Yeah, actually it does." The boy said, he grinned and poked Daisy "there, take that, that's for being such a chicken." He taunted, Enos turned to leave and was gone.
"You leave her alone!" 8-year-old Cooter said, he walked up to the three of them and glared at the boy. "Daisy didn't do any harm to you, so you just leave her alone!" he said.
"Make me." the bully said as he continued to tease and poke Daisy. "You're too chicken to stand up to me." The boy said. But soon a teacher came and took the boy by the shirt collar. "You're coming with me to the principal's office with me Lawson." She said.
"I didn't do nothing!" Lawson cried.
"Enos Strate says differently." The teacher said. "He's more honest the you are, so I believe him." And with that the teacher took Lawson down to the principal's office.
"Thank you Enos for getting the teacher." Daisy said. "And thank you Cooter for defending me."
"He had no right to tease you like that." Enos said. "I'm just glad a teacher was so close and they believed me." He added.
"Don't you listen to him Daisy." Cooter said. "You aren't chicken; you can reach the top of the monkey bars by yourself."
The warning bell rang and Cooter left, going back inside his class room. Daisy however, was a little slower, she quickly decided that she had enough time to climb up tot the top and back down again before the second bell rang. She quickly climbed up as far as she could and then slowed down as she got higher and higher.
As she neared the top, Daisy looked down; it was so far, she hadn't realized the top would be that far up. As she froze, the bell rang, it was a loud bell and Daisy lost her footing in surprise and fell to the ground. She landed with a thump right on her bottom, of course Daisy started crying. She sat there crying for a few minutes and then she felt someone wrap their arms around her and say "It's okay Daisy, you'll be okay it's just a little fall."
Thinking that Luke or Bo had finally come out; Daisy wrapped her arms around the body and sobbed into him. "We'll do it together after we eat our lunch okay Daisy?" the voice suggested, Daisy looked up and was surprised to find it that it was, not Luke or Bo, but Enos Strate once again.
"Thank you" she said, still hiccupping "Thank you Enos." She said, still crying. "Why aren't Bo or Luke here?" she asked, getting up.
"They had to stay in during recess." Enos said. "Before school he asked if I would make sure you didn't get hurt. He thought you might fall"
"Thank you." Daisy repeated. She finished standing and glared at the monkey bars, "You think you've gotten the best of me, but you haven't." she said fiercely, before heading into her classroom.
She got into the classroom just as her teacher was giving out an assignment. "You need to write afew sentences about some one you love, it can be a family member or a freind, bbut it needs to be 5 sentences long." the teacher said. After giving out additional directions the class started to work. Daisy took her pencil and wrote: I love Enos Strate. He is my freind. He helps me on the monkey bars. He helps me with Lawson. He is a very good friend.
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