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Chapter 2:Telling the Family

When we left last ol' Bo an' Michelle, she had just dropped a real big bomb on poor Bo. Let's see how he handles it.

"You, you're, you're, what?" Bo stuttered, unsure if he had just heard what he thought he heard.

"Pregnant . . ." Michelle said, voice trailing off.

"How'd that happen?" Bo wondered aloud.

"Well," Michelle said, matter-of-factly, "when two people really love each other, they--"

"I know that!" Bo said. "I mean, how did we let this happen? Uh, the baby is mine, right?"

"Who else would I be having a child with?" Michelle asked. "Of course the baby is yours, you dummy!"

"Sor-ry," Bo said. "Had ta make sure."

"No, I'm sorry. And no, I don't know how it happened."

"So . . . now what?" Bo asked, feeling a little helpless.

"I think we should tell yer family," Michelle suggested.

"Yeah, yer right," Bo admitted, "but they ain't gonna like it, especially Uncle Jesse."

"Well, I guess that's the price we have to pay," Michelle said. "I mean, we did create this baby."

Bo nodded. "How far along are you?"

"Only three weeks," Michelle informed him. "So, not too far."

"Well," Bo said, "I guess we'd better head back to the farm and face the music. Man, Uncle Jesse sure ain't gonna like this." Michelle shook her head in agreement.

Looks like these two's is gonna have some interestin' times ahead.


"Uncle Jesse!" Bo called as he exited the General Lee; Michelle imitating his movements with ease. "Uncle Jesse? Ya here somewhere? Uncle Jesse!"

"Hang on, Bo," Luke's voice came from behind him. Bo wheeled around to find his dark-haired cousin standing next to the General's tail end. "Uncle Jesse's in town. An' what's so all-fired important he has ta know now?"

"Uh, well, I, uh," Bo stuttered nervously. "Me an' Michelle, we, uh--"

Michelle cut him off before he could manage to get the words out. "Bo, why don't we wait until Uncle Jesse gets back, so we can just tell them all at once?"

"Cause," Bo said defiantly, "I think it might help if we practiced on Luke. Might make me less nervous when we get around ta tellin' Uncle Jesse an' Daisy."

"I don't know, Bo," Michelle said, reluctant. "I just think it would be nice to save you the trouble from having to say it twice."

"But Shelly," Bo said, using the nickname only he used on Michelle, "it might be easier if I've already practiced on Luke."

"Ya, maybe ya should practice on Luke," Luke said, smiling. "Maybe Luke won't freak out as much as ya think."

"I think Luke will freak out," Michelle supposed. "But go ahead and do what you want."

"I'm gonna tell him," Bo affirmed. "Luke, I think we were bad."

"Okay, continue," Luke prompted, snickering.

"Well," Bo went on. He looked at the ground, not wanting to see the look of dishonor in his older cousin's eyes. He sighed. "Shelly's pregnant. With, uh, my child."

Luke remained speechless for several moments. Finally, after searching hard, he found his voice. "Bo, I didn't think it was gonna be that, uh, big."

Bo, who was still looking downward, remained silent. Michelle spoke. "See, Bo? I told you it wouldn't be a good idea to tell him first."

Bo looked up at her. "I still think it is. I'm sorry, Luke. Please, don't be mad at me."

"Oh, Bo," Luke breathed. "I'm not mad, I'm just a little shocked." He sighed. "What're ya gonna do?"

"I guess we have to do our best to give it a good home," Michelle said. "It wouldn't be fair to the poor baby if we were bad parents, it's not the baby's fault we fooled around too much one night, is it?"

"You're right, Shelly," Bo said. "That's all we can do." He stayed silent before asking the question all three were wondering. "Do you think we should get married?"

"Maybe we should," Michelle decided. "It would secure our relationship so the baby will have normal parents."

"I'm sure you guys could live here at the farm," Luke offered. "I'm sure me an' Bo could build a small addition on the house fer ya." Bo nodded his consent. "But ya know whatcha gotta do fer now, right?"

"Tell Uncle Jesse," the three said in unison.


A couple hours later, Jesse had come back from town, and Daisy had come back from working at the Boar's Nest. Luke informed the two that Bo had something important to tell them, so they sat in the Duke living room as Bo and Michelle prepared themselves to tell Jesse and Daisy.

After a few minutes of making Jesse and Daisy and Luke very impatient, Bo and Michelle finally materialized into view through the storm door. Bo looked around at Jesse and Daisy and sighed.

"Ya needed ta tell us somethin', Bo?" Jesse asked. Bo nodded, but stayed silent. "Can't hear ya, Bo. Speak up."

Bo half-smiled. "Uncle Jesse, Daisy, I ain't quite sure how ta tell ya'll this, so I'm just gonna say it. Michelle an' I are, uh, well, we're, uh, p-pregant."

Neither Jesse or Daisy could say a word for a few seemingly never-ending moments. Finally, Jesse broke the uncomfortable silence.

"Bo, I expected better judgement from the two a you's," was all he could think of to say. After the words escaped his lips, he immediately regretted his word choice and the harshness in which he had said his poor phrasing.

"I know, Uncle Jesse, I know!" Bo said, mentally kicking himself now. "Please don't be mad, Uncle Jesse."

"I ain't exactly mad, Bo," Jesse told the boy. "I'm just a little disappointed in yer actions."

"I'm sorry Uncle Jesse!" Bo apologized. "I know whatcher gonna say next!" He was almost in tears. "'Bo, I thought I broughtcha up better than that!' or 'Bo, ya lemme down!'" He didn't wait for a reply, he just headed out the door.

"Bo, I--" Uncle Jesse started to say. "Luke, would ya go make sure that boy don't do nothin' stupid?" Luke nodded before retreating to find his youngest cousin. Jesse glanced over at Michelle, who hadn't yet spoken a word. "Michelle, it ain't nothin' against ya, ya know I love ya an' consider ya part a the family, but I didn't think--"

"It's okay," Michelle cut him off, looking about ready to cry herself. "I know, you're just being a good uncle."

Jesse didn't know how to respond to this, so he just said, "Thank ya" before going off to find his nephews. Daisy stayed behind to comfort Michelle. The two had become good friends in recent months. Daisy had even helped her get a job waitressing at the Boar's Nest.

"Oh, Daisy," Michelle said, taking a shaky breath. "This isn't going at all how we'd hoped it would."

"Did ya really expect everyone ta be all happy with it?" Daisy asked. "I mean, ya did just spring this on us, no warnin'."

Michelle chuckled a little. "When you put it like that, it does kinda sound, um, like bad news."

"But it ain't all your fault, either," Daisy reassured. "Bo does kinda have a tendancy ta git sensitive when he thinks his uncle's real mad at 'im. Most a the time, though, Uncle Jesse ain't even that mad, he's just a little, well, disappointed. An' I also don' think Uncle Jesse wanted his reaction ta come out that way, either. Think he's feelin' a little low, too."

"I hope you're right, Daisy," Michelle said.


Uncle Jesse and Luke found Bo sitting on the hood of General Lee, who was restin comfortably in the barn. "Bo?" Luke called as he spotted a piece of cornsilky hair from over the General's roof.

Jesse and Luke went around and sat down on either side of Bo. Bo shifted uncomfortably, but remained where he was.

"Bo, I'm sorry," Jesse said. "I didn't mean ta sound so upset earlier. It didn't come out quite the way I wanted to."

"How did you want it to come out Uncle Jesse?" Bo asked, his voice heavy with remorse.

"What I meant ta say is, it saddened me a little ta see that yer life is about ta change, an' although I didn't agree with yer choices in the firs' place, I know you'll make the right choice now an' yer gonna be the best dang father Hazzard County ever saw."

Bo nodded. "I owe it ta the baby, don' I?"

Jesse nodded, too. "Tha's right. An' ya ain't in this alone, ya gotcher family, which is about ta git a little bigger. Ya plan on marryin' that gal in there, right?"

"Shelly an' I think we should, an' it wouldn't be all bad! I do love 'er!"

"Glad ta hear that," Jesse said.

"But I ain't ready ta leave the farm yet, so ya think we could build a little addition on ta the house?" Bo wondered, asking about Luke's idea from earlier.

"Well, Bo," Jesse said, "I ain't sure if we have the money, but we could try. But I think we'll have ta do it ourselves. There ain't no way we could afford outside help."

Bo nodded. "Okay."

Aww. Don't ya'll just love that kinda family love?


The first month of the pregnancy went by, and it looked like the Dukes were just barely going to have enough money to build the new addition. Luke and Bo were getting ready to start construction. Michelle and Bo set a wedding date, and it was going to be in three months. Originally it was going to be a small wedding, family and close friends (like Cooter, and Enos, since Daisy had recently started to date him), but word of mouth spread the news like wildfire around Hazzard. The Dukes didn't want to hurt people's feelings, so now it was going to be a bigger wedding. Michelle would move in with the Dukes after the wedding, if Bo and Luke were done with the addition by then. So far, Michelle's pregnancy was going pretty well, however she was still getting used to all that morning sickness and mood swings and all that.

One day, when Bo and Luke were working on the new addition, Bo got a little too distracted.

"Bo," Luke said. No response. "Earth ta Bo." Still no answer. "BO!" he shouted into his evidently deaf younger cousin. This got his attention. "Hey, Bo, will ya take the ladder an' start layin' some a those boards on the top?"

"Sure," Bo said. Luke began to wonder if that was such a good idea, since Bo seemed so out of it. But he let it go. Bo grabbeed the ladder and set it up where he would work. Then he pulled Jesse's truck around to the side, which held the lumber.

Daisy came outside, searching for something to do. Michelle was at her own house, and she had finished all her chores. "Can I help ya boys?"

"Yeah, Daisy," Bo replied. "Can ya hand me these boards while I nail 'em up?" Daisy nodded, and handed Bo a stick of lumber.

"So," she said, "how long you two think ya's gonna be workin' on this?"

"Oh, I don' know," Luke said. "I just hope it's done before the baby's born. I don' want it sleepin' in our room." He chuckled.

"Oh, yeah, why not?" Bo said jokingly.

"Cause," Luke said, "yer the daddy. So if it's anything like you I ain't gonna git any sleep."

"Cute." He drove the hammer into the nail again.

They worked in silence for a few moments, Daisy handing Bo the boards, Bo nailing them down, Luke nailing boards at the bottom. Then Bo lost his footing on the ladder. He slipped off, and it retracted and squished his foot between two of the rungs.

"Ow!" Bo yelled. "Someone get it off! 'S killin' m' foot! Git it off! Owwwwwwwww!"

"Hang on Bo!" Luke called to his pained cousin.

"Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Bo wailed.

Well, Bo, sorry ta leave ya trapped in that there ladder, but we's gonna take a break. Ya'll stick around.


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