That next day Jesse and Daisy were in the kitchen most of the day preparing a special dinner. Bo and Luke had teased Daisy about making such a fuss about it, for all it was only Enos who was coming over and he had been coming over since they were kids, just as long 'till she couldn't handle it anymore and threatened her cousins out of the kitchen with a frying pan hold up high in her hand.
When Nick had took of to the tree house around 4 p.m., Bo and Luke went in to town to find Rosco and ask about the reward money again. They didn't had much luck and as soon as they even opened their mouths in the sheriffs station, they got blown off bye an angry Rosco telling them they could get there windows fixed on costs of the sheriffs department , but then not to come back anymore.
"That guy is unbelievable." Bo moaned.
"Like we didn't know that already." Luke sad from behind the wheel of the General. "Well at least the window's get paid for, that's something."
"They wouldn't have been broken if we hadn't have to do his job."
Luke decided not to argue. He agreed with Bo for the full 100 but he just knew complaining about it wouldn't help them.
"While drumming with his thumbs on the stirring wheel, he drove up to Cooter's Garage and parked it in front of it. Bo and Luke got out of the car and went in to the garage where they found a pare of fresh polished shoes stinking out from under a patrol car."
"Hey Luke look at that beautiful pare shoes coming from under that car." Bo joked. "To whom would they belong, wouldn't be our best friend Cooter Davenport now would they."
"Neh." Luke said grinning. "Can't be. Cooter works way too hard to pay any attention to his shoes."
At the sound of his friends voices Cooter rolled from under the car.
"If it ain't our local comedians" He said sarcastic, while he got up. "Ain't ya'll Uncle Jesse never told ya, ya can't make fun of a fellows shoes."
The boys grinned.
"Sure he did, but he also told us we could always make an exception if it concerns you." Bo said cheery.
"Cute." Cooter said while he put his cap back on. "Where can I help ya two with?"
"New windshields." Luke said
"And Rosco is paying for them." Bo followed.
"Must be an expensive week for the sheriff then, this is the second car I got from him this week." And he pointed at the patrol car."
"But that is Enos's car right?" Bo asked. "What did he do, drove it in to the pond again?"
"No." Cooter sad while he walked up to the street where the General was parked. "Bumped it in to a tree, I swear that boy is more 'out there' lately then he already is usually. And he didn't even seem to mind, he just walks around with that smile on his face you don't wanna know."
Bo and Luke looked at each other and laughed. The wanted to spill there guts more than anything, but remembered they promised Daisy not to tell anything.
"You boys know something I don't?" Cooter asked curious.
Luke wanted to make a bad joke about that one, but decided he wouldn't figuring he still needed Cooter to fix there car.
"No not really." He just said and handed Cooter the keys from the general.
"Man that is one sad looking car." Cooter said, well scraching under his cap.
"Well ya saw here worse." Bo said. "When you think ya can have her running again?"
"Well I could have her done tomorrow morning, if I drop al my other doings for ya."
"So you'll have her ready in the morning" Bo grinned knowing Cooter would always help them first.
Cooter smiled. "And how's that carburetor coming?" He asked.
"Not that good, he's holding on, but no way we'll be racing it." Luke explained.
"Want me to replace that to?" He said while opening the hood, to take a look.
"No leave it. We just ain't got the money to pay ya know." Luke mumbled.
"But what about the race than?" Cooter said surprised. Normally this guys would beg him to give them the parts on credit.
"We'll be looking for some temporary jobs or something and otherwise I'll guess we just won't enter."
Cooter couldn't believe his ears. "Ya guys know ya can pay me later right? I mean, not that you're going to win or anything, but I still would like to have ya as opponents and beat ya."
"Thanks Cooter." Luke said sincere. "But we can't ask ya that. We still owe ya for a taillight and those brake lines."
"Well Lukas Dukas, ya'll won't be asking I'd be offering." Cooter sad with almost an upset look on his face. He had really hoped on beating his best two friends in that race.
Bo had already opened his mouth to thank Cooter from the bottom of his heart, but Luke interrupted him.
"Sorry Cooter but we can't do that. Let us find a way to raise the money ourselves first and if that ain't working we can't always come back to ya. We still have about a week and a half to prepare ourselves.
Bo glared at his cousin and Cooter shrugged his shoulders in a defeated way but both accepted the older Duke Cousin's decision.
"Alright then, wanna see that engine I was telling ya about?" Cooter asked
"Sure thing!" Bo reacted. Both cousins followed Cooter to his racecar an when he opened the hood they looked at a professional racecar engine. "Hot da n.." Luke reacted impressed by the shining silver colored metal.
"Ya can say that cousin." Bo seconded him. 'Ya can say that."
After staring at the engine for a while, and asking Cooter to keep them informed about anything he heard that included work or making money, they left in a borrowed car and headed for home. Bo wanted to ask Luke why he didn't accepted Cooter's offer, but decided not to, knowing Luke would have his reasons and if they couldn't raise the money in time for the race he would give in eventually.
"So how is Becky-Lee?" Luke asked. "I heard ya talking on the phone for over half an hour yesterday evening."
Bo blushed, Luke was right, normally he never talked long over the phone, but this girl made him laugh so much he forgot the time.
"She's fine, she's starting as a waitress at the Boars Nest tomorrow night. Saving money for college."
"She'll be working a lot then, with the salary Boss is paying, it will take her years."
Bo shook his head. "She said her parents paid most of it, but she wanted to tip in herself." "Than she'll probably be seeing a lot of Daisy." Luke noted.
Bo frowned for a moment. "Hmm didn't think about that." He said like it was actually a surprise to him. "Guess I better won't be teasing Daisy then about Enos to night. Or I'll be getting it back as soon as she finds out."
"Ya sure will cus." Luke said stretching himself on the passenger's seat of the car.
'You think Enos and Daisy are getting married soon?" Bo asked.
Luke shrugged, "Don't know, if it depends on Enos I think they'd be in church tomorrow, but if I were Daisy I would try the guy out before I'd got married."
"Yeah you wouldn't even marry a girl before ya tried her out right!" Bo said laughing out loud.
"Ha-ha Bo!" Luke said annoyed. "I wasn't talking 'bout that. Man I don't even wanna think about that if it's concerning Daisy! I meant that if I were Daisy I would just start dating for a while, see how things work out. After all Enos is a nice guy but would you wanted to be married to him?"
Bo took a right turn "No I won't but than of course I ain't a girl and if I could choose a guy for Daisy to date it would be Enos. At least ya know he'll be good to her."
"Yep you're right about that!" Luke agreed.
"Would you do it though?" Bo asked curious.
"Would I do what?"
"Would you marry a girl before ya..ya know 'explored the hayloft' together?" Bo explained a bit hold back.
Luke looked astonished at his cousin. He wasn't used to Bo asking him this kind of questions. Although they could talk about everything, this subject hadn't come up anymore since Bo was 15, having his first serious girlfriend, and decided he could use his older cousin's advice. After that the only time the subject came to mention was during bragging or teasing each other.
"Well I don't know Bo." Luke said seriously thinking. "Never thought about that, never had to that is, never met a girl who didn't wanted to."
It became quiet for a while.
"But if ya did met one?" Bo continued after all.
"Would ya stick around or would ya just leave it?"
"I really don't know Bo. Maybe if I really felt in love or something, but don't think that's gonna happen soon. I'm not ready yet to stay around the same girl for long, not even talking 'bout settling down so….I guess I wouldn't."
Bo nodded to show is cousin he'd understand.
"But why you asking me this?" Luke asked while he frowned. "Something wrong with you and Becky Lee?" .
"Well I wouldn't say something is wrong with her." Bo said a bit ashamed. "But she doesn't wants to."
Luke had to put al his efforts in not to laugh, but he didn't do a good job and ended up making a snorting sound.
"It ain't funny Luke!" Bo reacted upset. "I really don't know what to do about it."
"I'm sorry Bo." Luke said sincere feeling a bit sorry for his younger cousin. "But what would you want to do about it? Not like ya can force her or something."
"I know that and I would never do such a thing but….well I don't know. …If I could just change her mind or something."
Luke gave his cousin a worried look. "If she doesn't wants to, she doesn't want to, better not try to change that, cause before ya know it you do something stupid and hurt her."
"I would never hurt her, I like her very much." Bo defended himself.
"Well did she tell ya why she didn't want to?"
Bo shrugged his shoulder. "Saving herself for marriage I believe." He muttered. "Not like we don't do nothing at all, but she doesn't wanna go all the way."
Luke couldn't help laughing again. "Well cus, I think your done there, guess those liberal parents did a good job after all."
Bo sighed. "Well I like being around her a lot, and I don't wanna loose her, so I guess I can pull through for a while, but if this thing lasts I'm not so sure whether I can."
"Sorry Bo, but I can't help ya there. That's something that you have to find out for ya self. Or ya have to propose to her of course, than all ya problems will disappear."
Bo didn't felt like reacting on that joke and just muttered "Get real." in a low voice while flooring the gas pedal.
At the farm, Nick had returned around 6 p.m. already, because his friends had to be home early. With Bo and Luke not being there yet he had to find himself something to do. He already had read the comic Bo gave him twice and he decided to look the cousin's room or there where some more. Walking in to Bo's and Luke's bedroom he immediately noticed the difference between the two sides of the room. At the left where Luke's bed was standing everything looked pretty alright but the right side of the bedroom was one big mesh. Clothes and comics were spread on the floor and used towels hang over the bed.
Nick kneeled down at the end of Bo's bed where the comics were scattered. As he went through them he was amazed about how many comics one person could have. Having the time of his live checking the title's and different volumes he shot him self of from the world completely not noticing the bedroom door opening. Suddenly he felt a hand resting on his shoulder, which made him almost jump to the sealing.
"Can I help ya with something?" Uncle Jesse asked him gentle.
"O sorry sir, I didn't hear you come in." Nick said still regaining his nerves.
"Were ya looking for something?" Jesse asked again in a soothing voice, ignoring the apology.
"I was just looking for comics." Nick defended himself panicking. The thought occurred to him, Uncle Jesse might think he was stealing something now he saw him sit like this.
"I finished the one Bo gave me and I just wanted to borrow another one. I was going to return it really!"
Jesse smiled and helped the boy of the floor, and ruffled his hair. "I know you were." He said to calm the boy down. "But ya better wait until Bo gets home, so you can ask him whether he is alright with it. That's more polite ya see."
"Ok, but what I'm going to do until he comes back then?" Nick asked while following Jesse in to the living room.
"Well did ya ever consider reading a book?" Jesse asked while he walked up to the bookcase.
Nick pulled an ugly face. "Well I don't know. Never used to have much of them around at home." He said doubting "We had to read one at school but I remember it hadn't a lot op pictures in it. Not like a comic."
"Well why don't ya give it a try?" Jesse said while handing him a book from the bookcase. "Try it for about 15 minutes and if ya don't like it, I'll get ya one of Bo's comics myself. Deal?"
Nick looked at the book fore a moment like it was really dirty, but than accepted it.
"Alright deal" He said with a bit more enthusiasm and sat himself down on the couch.
The book was really thick and had a brown jacket. 'Winnetou' the title said. 'by Karl May'.
As Nick opened the book he saw luckily it had some pictures in it, but it weren't a lot. The drawings of the Indians intrigued him though and slowly he started to read.
During the first couple of pages Nick kept looking at the clock. As he pulled through for just 8 more minutes he would get his comic. But slowly the story got his attention. He had to chuckle as 'The greenhorn' lifted mister Henry like he was made of feathers and he'd got curious what this grumpy old men wanted with the young men from Germany.
While reading Nick forgot all about the time and didn't even notice, first Bo and Luke and after that Enos walk in.
When Bo saw Nick
sitting on the couch he frowned en gave Luke an amazed look.
"Is
the kid reading now?" He whispered like it was a holy happening.
"Looks like it?" Luke whispered back. "He must be bored out of his mind wanting to read a book."
"Yeah, only time we ever read something was when we had to for school and Jesse made us."
"Well I read Tom Sawyer for fun once." Luke said after thinking a moment.
"Yeah but that was when you were ill with the flu and ya have to stay in bed for over a week." Bo reminded him.
"Guess ya right there cus." Luke admitted. "Come on, better leave the boy alone and see whether Jesse needs help setting the table."
Bo nodded but looked over his shoulder one more time before entering the kitchen. "Tseee..reading!?" he said shaking his head, but Nick was in a whole other world, not hearing a thing the boys had said.
In the kitchen Bo and Luke only found Daisy, cause Enos had asked whether he could talk to Jesse in private and the two of them had settled down on the front porch.
'I really wanted to thank you for having me over tonight Mr. Duke." Enos said formal. 'Really appreciate it."
"That's nothing special Enos; you have come ever since you and Luke went to school together. You're always welcome ya know that."
"I know that Mr. Duke, but wanted to say thanks anyway, cause I haven't been around lately as I'd use to do."
"Well, you're very busy being a deputy so no need for feeling sorry about that. But some how I think that's not the reason ya wanted to talk to me is it Enos?" Jesse said with a soft smile.
"No sir, it ain't but I'm not sure where to begin 'cause what I want to talk to you about is something very serious."
Jesse shook his head. "Just say what ya mean and mean what ya say, there's no need for stalling." He said a bit stern, 'cause he knew Enos would be capable of stuttering on for half an hour.
Enos took a deep breathe. "Sir you know I like Daisy a lot. Really a lot."
Jesse nodded. "That has been a common known secret for years."
"Yes it has, hasn't it?" Enos smiled, a bit blushing. "Now Daisy said she likes me to, so I would really wanted to ask your permission to she her and take her out sometimes. I would be really looking out for her and take good care of her. I promise that."
Jesse couldn't help thinking it would be Daisy who had to look out for Enos, but he know Enos would treat her right.
"Daisy is a grown woman Enos, and she allowed and capable of making her own choices. If she wants to go out with ya, she doesn't need my permission."
"I know that Mr. Duke, but it would mean a real lot to me if we had your consent."
Jesse laid a hand on Enos shoulder in a fatherly way. "Enos you have had my consent ever since you escorted Daisy to her first prom. Now I trust you to treat her right and to maker her happy."
"I will Mr. Duke I swear it."
"Well if that's settled than, we'd better go see in the kitchen 'cause dinner should be ready."
"Yes sir." Enos replied and stood up from the porch.
Before they walked in
to the kitchen Jesse turned around ones more and looked at Enos with
a gentle smile.
"And Enos." The old man said. "Since you
might be becoming part of the family, why don't ya just call me
Uncle Jesse."
Hearing that Enos face just beamed with pride as he replied "Yes sir, Uncle Jesse I will!"
When finally everybody was assembled in the kitchen, Jesse said grace and everybody could enjoy there dinner. Daisy and Jesse had worked very hard on making an excellent gumbo following the family recipe and it had worked out great.
"This tastes really great." Enos said sincere. "Haven't been eating as good in ages"
Daisy smiled. "That means I have to be cooking a lot more for ya then." She said in a sweet voice.
"Hasn't been always like that." Luke said. "Remember that time Daisy baked her first cookies Enos?"
"I sure do." Enos grinned. "They were totally black, but we had to eat them anyway, 'cause otherwise she would get mad."
"Well you ate them." Luke said laughing. "I only pretended to and threw them away later. Man those things were hard."
"Luke Duke that ain't a nice thing to say." Daisy said insulted.
"Well you're a great cook now." Luke defended himself. "Wouldn't now what to do with out ya, but when you just came from the city to the farm, you didn't new nothing."
'I was only six!" Daisy reacted.
"You where so funny, when we just came here." Bo said with his mouth stuffed. "Always afraid of getting your clothes dirty and you were terrified of the goats. Didn't dear to com near them."
"Well I now some stories about you to Mr." Daisy fought back in the friendly quarrel. "You were afraid of almost everything as soon as the light went of. Monsters, wild dogs, the boogieman you name it and you were afraid they would come in to your bedroom. I think there even lived a mean dwarf in your closet. And then Luke had to scare them a way for ya otherwise you wouldn't go to sleep."
Nick laughed out loud. He couldn't picture Bo being scared for the boogieman, but the idea was very funny.
"And you didn't used to like that at all in the beginning." Bo said to Luke with a grin. He was so used to people teasing him about his childhood fears he didn't even get worked up about it anymore."
"As I recall right, you didn't like us coming to the farm at all." Daisy added.
"Well I didn't like a lot of things at the time." Luke almost said apologizing. "But can you blame me. I used to have the farm all bye myself, and then all of a sudden this city girl and a overexcited kid who's running al the time and nocks everything over, come to disturb the peace."
"I wasn't a real city girl." Daisy argued.
"Yes you were, you were from Atlanta and a definite city girl."
"The story I like most of all, is how the three of you became friends after all." Jesse said
"Well that's Luke's story to tell." Bo grinned.
"Oh would you please?" Nick asked 'cause he saw Luke didn't really felt like it.
Luke sighed. "Al right then, one more time, but after that this story is dead, buried and not coming up anymore."
Luke shoved his chair a bit back and started to tell.
"Well Nick, like I told ya already, during
this time I wasn't the easiest person to hang around."
"Make that, almost impossible to stand." Jesse corrected him
Luke rolled his eyes. "Alright, Alright, I was trouble. The point is, at that time being in 4th grade I met some friends who were trouble too and Uncle Jesse here didn't want me to hang out with them. Of course I didn't listen and one day these boys asked me to come to their secret hiding place after school. I knew Uncle Jesse would never agree to that, and because he'd come and pick us up every day after school I needed an alibi. "
"So of course he came
to me." Bo said grinning.
"Yes I did, Bo and me weren't
friends yet, but I knew he wouldn't rat me out, so I told him what
I was about to do, but told him he had to tell Uncle Jesse I was gone
home with some other kid making homework."
"I was pretty worried at that time cause I knew those kids were pests and I tried to stop Luke by telling him Jesse would never buy it."
"I didn't listen though, just told Bo not to be such a drag and went anyway."
"He was such a nice guy." Bo said sarcastically laughing.
Luke sighed. The reason he didn't liked telling this story was it confronted him every time what a jerk he had been and he didn't liked that.
"So after school me and the three other boys went to a little deserted shed somewhere in an alley." Luke's face started to become al little pale. "We had some fun for a while, but then all of a sudden one of the guys told me that if I wanted to belong to there group I had to take a test."
"What kind of test?" Nick asked curious.
"Well they would lock me up in the shed and I had to stay inside for about 10 minutes. That was it." Luke explained. "Of course I thought did would be easy. The worst thing that could happen to me was a boring 10 minutes, and of course I wanted to belong to there group desperately so I would have done anything."
Nick looked doubtful at Luke's face. He found it hard to imagine, that this fully grown man, who jumped his car over a creek, and to whom he looked up to had wanted to belong with a group so bad, he let himself be locked up.
"So they locked the door and I stayed in waiting until the 10 minutes would have past. Now of course these guys wouldn't just do nothing. They wanted to test me and tried different all kinds of different things to get me out. Now one of these boys had a pet snake he carried around with him everywhere he'd go. They let the snake slide through under the door, hoping it would make me burst in to the door and get out. Now I've never been very fond of snakes, but having lived on a farm all my live, my parents also used to own a farm, I knew if ya would just let them be, they wouldn't do ya no harm. So there first attempted failed."
Nick listened with big eyes totally forgetting about his food. He couldn't believe Uncle Jesse liked this story , 'cause it scared the he out of him.
"Secondly they tried to throw firecrackers at the shed, which except for making a lot of noise couldn't do much harm and maid me glad I was inside instead of outside, but with a jumpy snake in there still not very pleasant." Luke stopped for a while to take a bite from his food and then continued.
"Well finally, the most bright one of them all decided they could make a fire at the side of the shed." He said in a sarcastic tone. "So the smoke would come through the cracks of the shed and I would get out. The thing they didn't realize though was the leaking cans of gasoline that were standing against the shed."
Enos who had never heard this story before looked at him with his mouth hanging open. "You mean Luke they…."
Luke nodded. "The cans caught on fire and so did the wall of the shed."
"So they got you out right?" Nick asked.
Luke shook his head. "Nope guess the fire scared them so much they just run away, with out even thinking of me in there."
"No kiddin'" Nick said shocked, he could not imagine anyone do such a thing.
"No kiddin, now luckily Bo here was still as nosy as he is today." Luke said grinning. "He had followed us to the shed and as he saw the boys running away he came out of his hiding place and got me out."
"Ain't I a hero?" Bo said mockingly about himself.
"Yes ya were." Luke replied in a bit of a bored voice. Not that he wasn't grateful his cousin had saved him, but the fact he already had to hear this most of his live made it a bit old."
"That's quite a story Luke." Enos said impressed. "How old were ya 9 or something?"
"Yep something like that, Bo was only 6 that's for sure just out of kindergarten."
"So what happened then?" Nick asked feeling there was more to this story.
"Well first we run to a telephone box to make an anonymous call to the fire department and then we sat down in the park to regain from our shock."
Bo grinned. "I remember me being even more upset than you were at that time."
"Yeah that's true. Strange thing was I never really got scared being in the shed. I saw the smoke and heard the fire, but not being able to see much of the flames I didn't panic. You on the other hand had saw the whole thing happen and were scared out of ya mind. In the park you were crying and I had to calm ya down saying everything was alright. And after I explained to you why I was in the shed you got raving mad at me. 'Why would you let yaself get locked up to be friends with some morons if ya can be Daisy's and mine friend for free." " Luke smiled at Bo. "Guess after you saving my life and telling me that I had to like ya whether I wanted to or not." He grinned. "True thing cus, but I think us facing Uncle Jesse together did the most of the bonding work."
Luke looked at Nick again. "While we were sitting there in the park all of a sudden we heard a very, very angry voice calling our names from the other site of the street." He went on. "Because Bo had followed me and Daisy didn't new anything about my plans, there was nobody to explain our absence when he came to pick us up."
"First I thought those boys had worked themselves in to detention, but when I went in and nobody could tell me where they were, I got worried sick." Jesse told them.
"Well there we were, Bo still in tears from the shock, me still coughing from the smoke and Jesse coming towards us ready to kill us. 'Where have you boys been.' He asked us. 'I've searched half of this forsaken town and now I find ya here. What happened and why is he crying?'. I was about to tell what happened when Bo suddenly opened his mouth."
"This wasn't the first time Luke got in to trouble ya know." Bo said "I realized that If Jesse at that time heard what had happened Luke would be a goner."
"You better be sure about that." Jesse muttered.
"So I told Uncle Jesse I had been bullied by some older kids and they had chased me from the playground. Luke had come after me to help me and freed me from my attackers"
"And you believed that, Uncle Jesse?" Enos asked.
"Well at first yes, until I wanted to give them boys a hug and I smelled the smoke on them."
"But still ya didn't say anything at that time." Luke said. "You pretended to believe our story."
"Yes I did, 'cause although I didn't take kind of being lied to I could see whatever had happened, it changed something between the both of you and it definitely had changed something in you. Whole the way home, you had your arm wrapped around Bo comforting him and whipping away his tears. It was the first time I saw you really care about somebody. Besides you told me the truth all by your self later that day, so I didn't had to ask ya about it no more."
Luke gave a shy grin. "Guess my conscious had reached their limit and I needed to tell somebody what happened, if it meant getting disciplined for it."
"But it didn't." Bo said. "Uncle Jesse thought of being looked up in a burning shed was punishment enough and he got away with it."
"After a very long lecture about obeying your elders, choosing the people you hang out with and always telling the truth." Luke added
Everybody had to laugh.
"Why haven't I never heard this story Luke?" Enos asked. "I remember hearing about that shed burning down at the time, but I never knew you had something to do with it."
"Well it wasn't exactly the most happiest day of my live ya know. I didn't go blabbering about it to everyone , and we weren't really friends yet at that time."
"How did you become friends?" Nick asked, wanting to hear more stories. "Well that's a whole lot shorter story." Luke said "When we were in 6th grade Enos got bullied by some 10th graders. Me and Cooter saw him almost being lifted in to a trashcan so we stepped in."
"I was glad you did 'cause just a couple of seconds later and I would have been in there. And it had been 'Tuna-day'"
"You and Cooter were strong enough to take them older kids?" Nick asked
"Seemed like we were, but don't you underestimate Cooter. He was then just as crazy as he is today. He might even have calmed down a bit by now. If he came at ya you better hide."
Many stories were told during dinner and desert and Nick couldn't get enough of them. Most of them were about them all as kids, but Bo also told a story about the first time they've got chased by Enos. "I couldn't believe ya wanted to become a deputy." Bo said "But I guess we're all glad ya did now, being the only honest lawman in town."
"Guess it will be strange though, you chasing us while you're dating Daisy." Luke commented.
"Yes is will, won't it." Enos said a little disappointed. He already had been afraid about that being an issue for the Dukes to accept him seeing Daisy.
"Well we figure something out." Daisy said smiling, while she wrapped her arm around him and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek, not wanting the mood to be spoiled.
"Alright who's doing the dishes?" Jesse asked while he was clearing the table.
Luke looked at Nick who had almost slid under the table to make himself invisible.
"Wanna help me sport?" Luke asked with a smile.
Nick knew this wasn't really a request and slowly got up from his chair answering "Yes sir."
