Scarlett went to the school to talk with them about her beginning a Drama program at Hazzard High. The school board told her that they would bring it up in the upcoming meeting and if not in the fall they might be able to start one in the spring if they approved it. Scarlett felt good about it except for the fact that half the parents on the school board were fathers to daughters who Bo had romanced. Of course she felt having been their school-mate for all but two years of school kind of made up for Bo's careless heartbreaking ways. She somehow found herself not worrying about that when it came to herself. She felt that they were too good together to ever have anything go wrong. They were best friends plus kissing.

Fall began and the drama program was approved for a trial period in the late fall and early spring. Scarlett drove out to the Duke's as soon as she got the news, jumping out of the Nova. She ran up to Bo in the chicken coup.

"What's up sunshine?" he asked seeing her broad smile.

"They said yes" she said grinning.

"Who?" he asked, a bit hazy and confused from their wild night out at the Boar's Nest the previous evening.

"The school board, come November Hazzard will have a trial drama class" she said smiling.

"That's great" he said throwing the feed bucket to the side "this calls for a celebration, let me get the keys" he said going inside and grabbing the General's keys. "Uncle Jesse" he shouted to the living room "I'll be back later, Scarlett got the go ahead for the drama program so we're gonna go celebrate" he said as he flew out the front door. They drove down the backroads and back around, he smiled listening to her talk about her plans. He was glad that her dreams were coming true, and also that it meant she'd be staying in town. He hardly noticed that he had been with her for going on three months now and not given a thought calling it off. Maybe it was because he was still waiting for her to let him take her all the way or maybe because it was real, if you had asked him he wouldn't have been able to tell you for all the money in Hazzard. He had never been in a relationship that was real, not that he could recollect after all the fast and careless love affairs that he'd raced through since his sophmore year of high school.

They went back and got dinner with her grandma.

"Wanna help me feed the chickens and Charlston?" she asked as she cleaned up the dishes, watching the sun lower toward the horizon. "It's cooling off so it will be bearable outside now" she said smiling. He dried the last of the dishes and went out to the barn to help her with the livestock. He found her in the hayloft, struggling to get a bail down for Charlston, her uncle's plowhorse.

"Sunshine" he said in a scolding voice "what are you doing?" he said scooting her to the side. "I was coming out here" he said, reaching for the bail.

"I know, it's not like I don't do it when you're not around" she said.

"Well then I hope I'm always around when you need me from now on" he said not realizing that despite the serious weight of those words they were still true. She smiled and stood on top of the bail wrapping her arms around him and kissing him softly. He wrapped his arms around her and gently laid her down on the bail kissing her. He looked down at her, brushing her hair out of her face "I love you" he said returning his lips to hers before she could say anything in return. Her lips said it all though. Her fingers tangling in his shaggy blond hair as she held her body close to his. She rolled them off the bail so she was on top, his back on the floor of the hayloft. He chuckled and ran his hand up the back of her shirt feeling her soft skin absorbing all the beauty of seeing her skin with his fingertips as they kissed.

A little while later in the inside of the house Uncle Jonah turned to grandma, "They've been out there for a while, you think they're okay?" he asked, concerned for his niece.

"Jonah, they're young and in love, of course they're fine."

"So I shouldn't go out and check on them?"

"I wouldn't recommend it, in fact I think staying here is the best thing we could do" she said smiling. She'd bet her bottom dollar and her secret stash of moonshine that they had been out rolling around in the hayloft the whole time and she may not approve but she remembered being young and having Cary Amthor take her out on moonlit drives in his family's truck and romancing her under the Georgia stars. She knew if Bo Duke was ever going to settle down and be serious about a girl, it was her grand-daughter.

The sun had slipped behind the hills when Bo and Scarlett came back in the house, hay stuck in both of theirs hair and their hair very messed up. Their faces were a bit red but they couldn't stop smiling at each other and Bo couldn't bring himself to let go of her hand.

"Bo, you gotta go home, I won't have you keepin' my grand-daughter up talkin' all night, she has had a long day" Mrs Amthor said shooing him out the door.

"Bye Bo" Scarlett said smiling standing just inside the door. Her soft and warm smile gave him chills. His feelings certainly hadn't gone away since they'd went all the way, if anything they were ten times stronger. It shocked him he could still feel like this. He knew that when not abused, as he had done, intimacy with another person was supposed to make the relationship stronger, and that's just what had happened for him and Scarlett. He could not stop thinking about her the whole drive home.

When he got out and came inside Uncle Jesse just looked at him and laughed.

"What?" he asked curiously.

"Nice shirt" Luke teased.

Bo looked down, he had Scarlett's red button-down work shirt buttoned by one button over his chest. Which meant that he had been wearing it that way in front of her family too, and that she had his shirt on. He put his forehead in his palm shaking his head. Luke and Daisy just kept on laughing.

The days turned chillier and the Hazzard football team started playing their games. Scarlett showed up at every single one, driving out of town for the Varsity's game and watching JV play whenever they were home. Bo went with her most of the time, surprised about how much she knew about a 'man's sport'. The people of Hazzard became quite accustomed to seeing Scarlett all bundled up for the cold and Bo holding her close. Some people grumbled because she was going to be a teacher, and Boss tried to stir up trouble, but Bo had been so distracted with his new found love that he had failed to notice some of Boss' underhanded schemes that he had been putting into effect.

Bo had also been coming to church more, his eyes glued to the strawberry blonde in the choir. He was beginning to scare himself with the fact there wasn't anything he wouldn't do for her, well anything short of letting her drive the General Lee, but that was for her safety.

One day in November Bo found Uncle Jesse on the back porch fixing a post that had some wood-rot.

"Uncle Jesse" he said, his hands stuffed into his pockets nervously. His uncle nodded. "I'm thinkin' about goin' to Atlanta soon, you got anything you need?"

Jesse thought "not that I can think of right now Bo" he said. "You takin' Luke with you?"

"No" he said.

"Scarlett then?"

"No" he said even more emphatically then he had responded to the question about Luke.

"Oh" Jesse said "oh!" he repeated his eyes widening. "You thinkin' about buyin' something for Scarlett?"

Bo mumbled a yes and looked away. Jesse just chuckled. "I'll be prayin' she says yes" Jesse said and walked away.

"Uncle Jesse! that wasn't... I'm not, I mean, no" but he was already back in the house "well maybe" he said to himself.