So here is the next chapter. I'll give ya guys a little hint. There is mud wrestling involved. At least if you want to call it that.
I don't own Dukes of Hazzard.
"Clara. It's time to wake up." I hear being said softly.
I open my eyes and see Grandma kneeling in front of me.
"Good, you're awake now. It's time to get up. You've been asleep for 6 hours now."
"Really?" I yawn and sit up.
"Yah. If you're up to it, we can go over to the farm for dinner."
"That would be nice." I look down and see that I had my blanket over me. Grandma stands up and helps me out of bed.
"Let's get ya cleaned up before we go." She gives me her famous loving and caring smile.
"Okay." She leads me into the bathroom. She wets a wash cloth and starts wiping off my face. I feel like I'm a toddler again. I reach for her hand and stop her. "I'm fine Grandma. I'm a grown woman. I can do this by myself."
She lays the wash cloth in my hand. "Sorry sweetie. It just seems like long ago."
"I guess it does." I give her a smile and she walk out. I finish what she was doing and walk back to my room. I grab my brush off my dresser and brush out my tangled hair. Once I'm done, I fix my clothes and put my boots on. I walk out to the living room to find Grandma with my bag in her lap. She sees me and stands up.
"Cooter brought it with the truck. Everything is still in there. Even your Polaroid."
I give her a big smile. "Great."
"Let's head out." She says. She grabs the keys to the truck and we head outside. We climb on in and cruse through the country side. It's beautiful this time of year. It's the end of March and that means that spring had come. And that my birthday is almost here. We get to the farm and Bo and Luke are outside finishing chopping some wood. Grandma turns the truck off and we both get out.
"Ya made it." Bo says as he puts his shirt back on.
"Yep. One piece." I smile. I lay my bag on the porch.
"Well come on in. Food will be done soon." Luke says. He and Grandma walk to the door. Bo follows them.
"Bo." He stops and turns to me. "Can I talk to ya alone?"
"Yah." He walks off the porch and stands in front of me. I make sure that Luke and Grandma were inside. "What's up?"
"I wanted to thank ya for saving me. And taking the risk of dying in a fire."
"It was nothing."
I quickly get on my tippy toes and kiss him on the cheek. "I thought ya deserved it for what ya did."
"That's so sweet." We turn our heads and see that Luke was on the porch with my camera in his hand and a picture. "I think everyone would like to know that the great Clarabelle gave in to the Bo Duke."
"Give me that Luke." I start to walk to him.
"I just can't do that." He steps off the porch and gives me my camera but keeps the picture out of my reach.
"Give it Luke." Bo says. He starts to attack Luke. I quickly move out of their way. They suddenly fall to the ground into a mud puddle. I quickly take a few pictures. I look at them as they fight and realize one of them looks like they are asleep while hugging each other. I start laughing and they stop to look at me.
"What is it?" Bo asks.
"This picture." I wave it at them. "Looks like ya two are huggin' each other while sleeping in the mud. Now this will be shown to everyone." I give them a big smile.
"I'll trade ya." Luke says holding up the picture of me and Bo. It was covered in mud.
"I would but the picture you have is unusable. Sorry." I start walking to the porch and pick up my bag as I put my camera in it.
"Come back here." They both say getting up.
"Now don't try and follow me into the house. I don't think Uncle Jesse and Daisy would enjoy having mud all over the house." I give them a little smirk and walked into the house putting the pictures in my back pocket. Jesse, daisy and Grandma look at me as I take a seat at the table by the door.
"Is everything okay out there?" Jesse asks.
"Oh just great. Bo and Luke are having a bit of play time in the mud." I smile knowing what they were really doing even though it's close.
The door opens and the guys are soaking wet with a little bit of mud still on them. Everyone gasps when they see them but I just smile.
"You boys need to change out of those clothes and get the rest of that mud off." Grandma orders them.
"Yes ma'am." They say as they give me grim looks. I keep smiling at them. They walk out of the kitchen and I wait till I hear the shower turn on.
"I'll be right back." I say as I get up. I run outside and to the truck. I open the passenger door and pull out the pictures. I slip them between the cushion and the foundation to the seat. I pull my hand out and look at the spot. It looks like it is all together but I'm the only one that knows it's not. So that makes it the perfect spot to hide it. I close the door and run back inside. I take my seat and the shower is still running. That means that they won't know.
A few minutes later they come out in fresh clothes and their hairs still wet. They both look at me.
"Give it." Bo says walking over to him.
"Give ya what?" I ask trying not to smile.
"The picture." Luke says.
"What picture?"
"Stand up." I comply and stand up. I pull out my front pockets to show that there is nothing in them and then I pull at my back ones so they can see that they're empty.
"I can't believe it." Bo says.
"I bet it's in her bag."
I grab it and lay it on the table. "Go ahead and look. You'll find nothing."
Bo gives me a look and looks through it. I hands it to me when he's done and sits down at the table on the opposite side that I'm sitting at. He shakes his head at Luke and he sits beside Bo. I shake my head at them and lay my bag on the ground beside my chair. Daisy sits beside me as Grandma bring the food to the table.
The guys say nothing the whole way through dinner. They are so mad at me. They'll be better tomorrow. Once dinners done we all just sit around in the living room.
"Remember the biggest jump the guys ever did?" Daisy says.
"Oh yah. The 32 cars." Grandma says.
That was a pretty interesting day. I can remember it so clearly.
I stand by Cooter as we watch Bo drive to where he was going to start his drive to the ramp to jump the 32 cars. I don't want Bo to do this but - he wants to. It's all because of Diana who runs the Carnival of Thrills. She has Bo wrapped around her finger. None of us want Bo to do the jump but we all know that he is old enough to make his own decisions. We're just really worried because the last few jumpers have crashed. Suddenly a car stops in front of Bo and Luke jumps out. I look up at Cooter and he has a confused face also. He looks at me.
"Should we go and see?" He asks.
"I think so." He nods and we both run to join Bo, Luke, Jesse, Daisy, Diana, and some man in a suit.
We make it as Jesse stops the guys from fighting. "Bo, let Luke have a minute to explain everything."
"Fine." He huffs. Diana wraps an arm around him and he does the same to her.
"Bo ya know that the other drivers that have done this haven't made it. Ya want to know how they all decided to do this? Just ask her." He nods to Diana. "She wooed them like she has you."
"Luke that is not true!" He yells. "Diana tell him."
Her face goes grim. "Your cousin's right Bo." She says softly.
He looks down at her. "What?"
Her eyes are watery. She looks up at Bo. "I had to. I need to get the money so that I could pay off Boss or he would take over." Boss and Rosco come running up to us, joining in the whole thing that was probably confusing everyone. "But I started to actually like you. Now I don't feel like I did. I actually feel something."
Bo started to get teary eyed. "Ya just used me."
Diana opens her mouth to tell Bo something but Luke starts talking again. "We also figured out why they didn't complete the jump. Someone cut the fuel line." Cooter and I look at him is shock. "Coot, Clara, go ahead and look."
We nod and turn toward the General. Cooter pops the hood and I go straight to the fuel line. I grab it and unhook it. I stay leaned over the engine as I bend the line. Sure enough there is a clean cut in it. I straighten up and turn to Cooter. "Luke's right."
I hand it to him. He checks it out and turn toward everyone to show them. "It's true."
"Who would do that?" Bo asks.
"Someone who was the first star, but now has to watch as other guys do what he should have done." Luke says.
"Who would that be?" I ask.
"Carl."
"Carl?" Diana asks. She looked like she didn't want to believe him.
"Yes." Luke says sounding a little sorry for her.
"Wow." I say. I suddenly remember something. "He did it about half an hour ago. I saw the General's hood up and I thought it was you Cooter." I look at him.
"There he is." Daisy says as she points. We look and see him. He looked horrified. He had to have heard us 'cause he started to run.
Luke runs after him. Bo starts to follow but Jesse stops him. I look back at him and see Luke tackle him. Yes. I say to myself. Luke stands up and pulls Carl up with him. He brings him over to Rosco. "There ya go Rosco. Ya can cuff him n' stuff him."
"Jit jit. What fun." Rosco straps the cuffs on him and starts to walk him to the cruiser.
"I'll come with you." The man in the suit says. "It was great working with you Dukes. And I enjoyed the jump."
"Bye." Luke, Daisy and Jesse say.
"What am I going to do now without the main attraction?" Diana says. She must think that Bo's not going to do the jump.
"Cooter, Clara. Ya think you guys can change that line?"
"Sure. In no time at all." Cooter says.
"Well fix it. The jump is still on." Luke says. I think something is wrong with him.
"Luke?" Bo gets out.
"I'm goin' to be sitting right next to you cousin." He says as he points to Bo. He looks over at Uncle Jesse and Daisy. "If I'm there, he can concentrate on the ramp."
Daisy looks at him like he's crazy. "Luke, I don't know whether to kill ya or kiss ya." She gets a smile on her face. "So I guess I'll kiss ya."
She jumps at him and kisses him on the cheek. He looks back at Cooter who had just finished fixing the line. "Let's get this car out of the way."
We both nod to him and run to the car. Luke had left the keys in, so we jumped in and drove it out of the way. Cooter turns it off and we get out and join Jesse and Daisy in front of the stands. I watch the General as Diana announces the guys.
They suddenly drive forward and pick up speed as they get closer and closer to the ramp. I look at Cooter and see him look at the cut fuel line. I wrap my arm around him to make him feel better. He does the same to me. Suddenly the General Lee hits the ramp and is soaring in the air above the cars. It seemed like they were in slow-mo as they were making it past all the cars. They touch down and keep driving. The crowd roars with cheer because they made it. Daisy, Cooter, Jesse, and I join them. I can't believe they made it.
I let go of Cooter and run the where the guys have stopped. They were surrounded by tons of people. I try to see and opening to get to them. I notice that no one was at the front of the General. I run there and jump on the hood. The guys look at me and their smiles get bigger. I walk closer to them and hug each of them. No one would have ever thought that they would have made it. But they did. They're Dukes. They get into trouble but can also do some of the coolest thing ever.
"Clara? Ya okay?" I hear Jesse ask.
I look at him. I was looking at the ground as I was thinking of the memory. I get a smile on my face. "Yah. I'm perfect."
Hope ya like. I'm sorry if the scene from "Carnival of Thrills" is not like in the show. I didn't want to wait for it to be shown on TV. I tried to keep some parts the same and I have the same character names. Had a little help from my friends at HazzardNet. I love ya all. And I really hope ya do like this because I had to rewrite part of it. All because of the slip of a finger. I had so much done. So know I'm just going with what I remember because I'm in computer class and I don't want to watch the video I found on YouTube and I don't want to wait a few hours till I get home. So I just hope ya'll enjoyed what I had.