"Cooter, let go of her!" Enos demanded, putting his hand on the mechanics arm and pulling him away from Daisy.

Daisy beamed in excitement as she separated from Cooter. Enos was jealous! She had done it at last.

"But I didn't...ow!" Cooter began, receiving a discreet jab of his toe with one of Daisy's heels.

"Oh good, Daisy. You're dress is okay. I was afraid Cooter had ruined it with all that oil on the front of his shirt." Enos continued.

"Oh." Daisy replied in disappointment, looking at Enos' smiling face. An unusual expression flashed across it. She couldn't be sure, but she thought, hoped, that maybe it was a bit of jealousy.

"Well…um…..I didn't mean to interrupt anything." Enos began, motioning to the young woman who stood beside him. "I just wanted you to meet….."

"I already know who she is." Daisy cut in. Confidently, she held out her hand to the blond haired woman. "Daisy Duke, Ms. Matthews."

The woman took her hand and shook it. "Oh I'm so glad I got to meet you, Daisy. Enos has told me so much about you, I feel as if I practically know you!"

"He has?" Daisy asked in amazement.

"Why he just went on and on about you! When he first got to Atlanta it was always 'Daisy this' and 'Daisy that'. It was so bad we couldn't even get any work done. I finally threatened to pull a gun on him if he didn't shut up, didn't I Straitshot?" She teased, ruffling his hair a bit. Enos simply nodded in return.

"So, Enos tells me that you and your family are helping us get set up with some tents for the picnic. I think that calls for an invitation. What do you think, Enos?"

Enos grinned. "Oh yes, definitely. You can come, can't you Daisy?"

Daisy batted her eyelashes. "Gosh, I'd love too Enos, but I just wouldn't feel right being at the picnic without a date. You……….you don't know anybody who could maybe ask me, do you?"

Enos thought for a minute before he put his hands on Daisy's shoulders and gazed into her eyes. "Daisy, I don't know why I didn't think of it before. You must think I'm blind, or careless."

"No Enos." Daisy gave the deputy a hug and shot a look of triumph to his confused companion. "I could never think that."

"Good." Enos smiled. "'Cause I wouldn't want Bo n' Luke to think I was ungrateful to them for getting' me that tent from Billy Kay. Tell 'em to come along, they can be your date."

"ENOS!" Daisy began, holding her hands up as if she could strangle him. Instead, she marched back to her jeep, got in, and sped away.

Enos looked after the departing jeep in confusion. "Wonder what was the matter with her?"

"Never mind. We need to get back in the square and decide where everything's going to be set up."

"You're right." Enos replied. He then put up his hand to wave. "See ya later, Cooter!" He threw out before walking back to the square.

Cooter just stood there for a few minutes, looking back and forth from Enos to the direction in which Daisy had just departed.

"What happened here today?" He asked himself before shaking his head and going back into the garage.

XXXXXX

Soon Daisy was back at the farm. She pulled up in enough time to watch Jesse's truck trudge off in the opposite direction with a big box of eggs for the local market. She stormed in through the kitchen door, slamming it behind her.

"Uh, hey Daisy." Bo offered, being a little afraid of her at the moment.

"That Goldie Matthews, I could just rip her hair out!"

"Now Daisy." Luke replied, getting up to rub her shoulders. "Just calm down. There ain't no need to rip anyone's hair out. I take it that you finally saw her today."

"Oh I saw her all right. Out there in the middle of Hazzard Square with her hands all over Enos."

Luke shook his head. "Daisy, I just don't know what to tell you, 'cept have a talk with Enos, tell him how you really feel about him."

"I don't know, Luke." Daisy shook her head. "She was so pretty, and Enos seems to like her a lot. I'm not sure it's right to break that up."

"Well don't worry about her." Bo began. "If she's anything like you said, I'll be more than happy to be there for her in her time of need."

"Always the funnyman." Luke accused him.

"Who was trying to be funny?" Bo grinned.

That brought a small laugh from Daisy. "I don't want to think about it anymore right now, fellas. I think I'm going to take a long hot bath." With that, she headed off to her bedroom in search of some clothes to change in to afterward.

Luke turned to his cousin. "Bo, this has gone on long enough. Enos needs to know how Daisy feels about her. Now if she's not going to say anything, we need to."

"Are you kidding, Luke? Daisy'd kill us if she knew we's even thinking about going over there."

"Which is why she's never gonna find out." Luke replied, patting Bo's back a couple of times. They then dashed out the door and into the General Lee, on their way to talk to Enos.

XXXXXXXXXX

"Hey fella's. What brings you out here?" Enos asked a little while later, at home for his lunch break.

"Well Enos, we sorta wanted to talk to you about Daisy." Luke confirmed.

"Oh." Enos replied, chewing on a bite of the peanut butter sandwich in his hand. "I thought somethin' might be goin' on, the way she tore away from Cooter's today. Ya'll come on in. You can meet Goldie while you're here."

"That sounds good to me!" Bo confirmed.

The boys spent a few minutes there before coming back outside. They closed the door behind them and took a deep breath before busting out in laughter.

"Luke…." Bo began, hardly able to talk between fits of laughter.

"I know….I know what you're thinking." Luke said, doubled over himself.

"Should we tell her?" Bo asked.

The boys looked at each other "Naaaaaaaah!"

If I didn't know them boys any better I'd swear they's on somethin', wouldn't you?