Love not Blood Chapter 11: The Cook Out, a dukes of hazzard fanfic

My third chapter. Crazy. I guess it'll be nice to have these done and just update when I really want to. Won't be long between updates. That's a good thing. Something that's funny is that what's happening in this chapter, I'm doing tonight at my cousin's house. So great timing.

Dukes of Hazzard is not real, just a show, and I don't own it.

"Grandma, why don't I get everything set up outside and you get the stuff in here ready?" I ask her. We were getting everything set to have a cook out with the Dukes.

"No. I can do it all. I'm just putting up the table and chairs. Nothin' an old lady can handle. Besides the fire pit is already ready," she says determined.

"Okay," I say putting my hands in the air and turning to the fridge. I hear her laugh and open the door.

I pull out the hot dogs and lay them on the counter. I pull a dish out of one of the cabinets and place all the hot dogs in it. I then go to the hall closet and look around to find the roasting rods we'll use for the hot dogs and marshmallows. Once I find them, I walk back to the kitchen and lay them on the table. I search around the cabinets for the couple bags of chips we bought. Then once I find them, I go back to the fridge and pull out the ketchup, mustard, and chip dip. Out of the silence in the house, a roar slowly gets louder and stops outside of the house. I hear the beginning of Dixie and smile to myself. I look at the clock and see that it was 5:30.

"Right on time," I say aloud. I grab the plates and silver wear as the front door opens. I turn and see Daisy step in with a few containers in her hands. "Hey Dais."

"Hey Clara. Got the potato salad and watermelon."

"Great. I think Grandma has the table set up outside. So you can go ahead and take it out."

"Great." She starts to head to the back door but I stop her.

"Can ya take the plates and silver wear outside too?"

"Sure." She takes them and steps outside. A few minutes later I can hear Jesse and the guys walk in and close the door.

"I mean it fellas, I'm goin' to cut them doors open and I'll get Catherine to help me since she agrees with me," Jesse rants to the guys. I chuckle as I hear it.

"Hey Uncle Jesse," I say as go back into the fridge to get the chocolate out.

"Hello darlin'. Where's Catherine?"

"She's outside settin' stuff up."

"She better not be gettin' that fire ready. The boys could do that," he rambles as he walks out the back door.

"Hey guys," I say as I break the chocolate and put it on a tray with gram crackers and marshmallows.

"Hi," Luke says.

"Hey," Bo says as he and Luke reach for a marshmallow. I swat at their hands but they still get one each.

"We brought the guitar," Luke says and Bo holds it up in his hand. I smile. It was going to be a great time.

"Great. Can ya guys help me bring the stuff for dinner out?" I ask as I grab the hot dogs, roasting sticks and chip bags.

"Sure." I give them a grateful smile and head outside.

Grandma and Jesse were already sitting and talking away while Daisy was getting the fire wood put in the pit. I lay the things I am holding on the table and see the guys walk out of the house. They bring out the hot dog buns, ketchup, mustard, chip dip, and napkins. The only thing left was the drinks. I head back inside and pull the liters of pop out of the fridge. I then grab the plastic cups and head back outside. I notice as I step back out that the guys are starting the fire. I close the door and place the drinks on the table. Daisy helps me get everything set up on the table.

"Everything's ready!" I call out. Everyone comes over to the table and surrounds it, even Chester came running over.

We say grace, grab a roaster, a hot dog, and head over to the fire to cook them. I grabbed two hot dogs, one for me and one for Chester. He seemed to love any kind of meat we eat. I'm done first since I was taking off the hot dog for Chester. He liked his a little bloody and raw. I toss his on the ground beside my chair and continue to cook mine. I'm the last one to finish cooking whereas everyone was already eating theirs. I take my hot dog over to the table; put it in a bun and put ketchup and mustard on it. I then put some chips, watermelon and potato salad on my plate. I grab my silver wear and drink and head back to the circle around the fire.

"We've missed ya around here Bo," Grandma says. Bo had been back only a few days after being in Florida for a week. This cook out was kind of a welcome back for him. "It's been quiet."

"I've missed bein' here. I'm always glad to come back after bein' gone. But I loved hearin' 'bout Chester," Bo says. We all laugh and know exactly what he was talking about.

"Yeah, it's goin' to be fun havin' a few puppies running around here," I say aloud. And what I said was true; it was going to be fun.

"I can't wait either," Daisy adds. "Puppies are always fun and cute."

"Until they start chewin' everything up," Grandma says with a little bit of anger in her voice. She wasn't happy to hear about the puppies and that I wanted to keep a few. She's heard many stories of what puppies can do, so it took quite a bit of convincing to get her to allow the puppies.

We then chat the whole time we are eating. We talk about many different things and it would soon lead to random things. We all soon finish and are ready for s'mores. We clean everything up and I head inside. I take the tray with the ingredients for s'mores outside to the table. We all grab marshmallows and start roasting them. Luke and Bo like theirs charred but the rest of us like them golden.

"How come my first marshmallow always falls into the fire?" I ask as I get up to get another one.

"You never turn it around, so it just melts some and falls," Grandma tells me.

"Thanks Grandma," I say as I sit down. She can state the obvious sometimes. After the first one falls, I always keep a good eye on the marshmallows.

"Well I think that they would rather be burned than eaten by you," Bo says.

I knew what he meant by saying they didn't want to be eaten by me, so I punch him in the arm and he just smiles and chuckles. "Not funny Bo."

"I thought it was." I roll my eyes and try to ignore what he said.

Once we get finished with the s'mores, we get everything cleaned up and put away, even the table. We then just sit around the fire and wait for it to get dark.

"How 'bout we sing some?" Bo asks.

"Sure," we all say.

Bo grabs the guitar and tunes it for a minute. He then starts to play. I get a smile on my face once I recognize the song. It was "Real Love" by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. I loved this song, but it's weird that Bo would choose it.

"You first Daisy." Bo says.

Daisy nods and starts singing, "They say that it's a matter of trusting
Before love has a chance to begin'
And it's never simple
Faithless hearts can cripple
And only a strong love survives."

"I know they say that it's such a fine line
Between giving up and giving in
Ahh, but once your heart's been in it
You just can't forget it
It's like nothing that you've felt in your life," Bo sang.

"Luke, Clara." Bo says nodding towards us.

I give him a look but I go ahead and sing, "You are such a part of my life
That I can't remember me without you
And we've had our nights, we've had our share of fights
But we never thought of givin' it up."

"Woh, you and I we must be dreamers
'Cause we're makin' all our dreams come true
I could spend my life just holding you so tight
And never ever get enough," Luke sings.

"We got real love, not infatuation
Real love, our heart's celebration
I love you, You know I love you too
We got real love, not an imitation
Real love, you're my destination
Baby, you and me, we got everything we need
We got real love," Luke and I sing together. Oddly we sounded good as just the two of us.

"We got real love, not infatuation
Real love, our heart's celebration
I love you, You know I love you too
Real love, not an imitation
Real love, you're my destination
Baby, you and me, we got everything we need
We got real love, not infatuation
Real love, our heart's celebration
I love you, You know I love you too
We got real love, not an imitation," we all end singing together.

Jesse and Grandma clap and stand up giving us a standing ovation. We all chuckle and bow in our chairs.

"Ya guys always sound great together," Jesse says.

"And I've never heard Luke and Clara sing together by themselves before. Y'all actually sound good," Grandma says.

"Amazing," Daisy says.

I blush but don't try and hide it since the sun was almost set and the fire couldn't show it. It was weird to hear it but I know that it's true. I even thought we sounded good together. I don't get how it took till now for us to figure this out.

"I guess we did sound good," Luke says.

"Yeah, who would have thought?" I also ask.

I feel something hit my hands and look around at everyone else. They seemed to have something hit them too. I then realize that it's gotten darker. More stuff then hits me and I realize its rain. Everyone's realized it. We all run into the house with the chairs and I call Chester in. We put the chairs in a pile in the kitchen and sit in the living room. I get up to go to the bathroom after a little bit of talking and singing. Once I walk back everybody was laughing and having fun. I walk into the kitchen to not disrupt them and decide look out the window to find out the rain was done. It seemed to be just a small pop-up shower. I look up to the sky and see the stars shining bright. They always seemed to after a rain shower. I look back to the living room and see that they hadn't noticed me so I quietly open the back door. I step through the screen door and walk to the center of the yard. I feel around the ground I want to lie on and make sure there was no dog poop. Once I make sure it's clear, I sit down and lay back to look at the stars.

"Got bored with us?" I look and see Luke standing over me.

"Nah, after it rains the stars seem to be brighter. So I like to lay out here and look at them."

Luke sits on the ground and lies beside me. "Really?"

"Yeah. I've always loved to watch the rain and one night the stars seemed different afterward. So I went outside and looked up to realize that the stars seemed to be brighter."

"Huh. I never noticed, but you're right."

I chuckle a little. "It gives me something to look forward to."

"You don't look forward to the craziness of everyday?"

I chuckle more. "That's normal and comes every day. You never can really know when rain will come and these stars will come out."

"I guess you're right."

We say nothing and just look at the sky. I look over at Luke and he looked really intrigued with the stars. He looks at me and I quickly turn back to the sky. I blush as I hear him chuckle. We were a lot alike but there was something big between us.

I just wish I knew what it was.

Well this has been hard to finish. Laziness, school, work. But I've now got it finished. The ending isn't the best but I did what I could. Our little cook out ended with rain like in this chapter but it rained for a while. Review and enjoy. Don't know when the next chapter will be up. And sorry for this taking so long, been distracted by all the crazy stuff happening around here.