The night seemed to go by all too quickly. Bo and Luke were up long before anyone else. They had decided the night before to do their chores early in the morning before breakfast. By the time they were both done with their chores, the sun was about half way up in the sky, and the delicious smell of breakfast could be smelled coming from the little farm house.
"Boy, whatever Uncle Jesse is fixin' for breakfast sure smells good. I'm starvin'." Bo said. Almost as if to prove his point, his stomach started growling. Luke couldn't help but laugh.
"Sounds like yer stomach agrees with you. C'mon let's go get washed up and then we can eat." Luke said as he patted Bo on the back as he passed by him.
"Yeah okay." Bo said walking quickly to catch up to Luke who was already half way to the house. Luke was the first to go get washed up. After he was done, Bo went in and washed up. After he was done, all four of the Dukes sat down at the table. Jesse sat at the head of the table, with Luke on his right and Bo on Luke's left, and Daisy on Jesse's left. And like usual, Bo tried to swipe a biscuit, but Jesse once again caught him and smacked the back of Bo's hand with a spatula.
"Ow!" Bo yelped out as his pulled his hand away, the stinging slowly going away.
"One would think you'd learn by now cousin." Luke said jokenly.
"Cute, Luke." Bo said.
"Enough you two." Jesse said getting onto his bickering nephews.
"Yes sir." Both of them said in unison. When Jesse saw that Bo and Luke were done, he bowed his head, Bo, Luke, and Daisy taking that as their cue, did the same thing. Jesse said grace and they all said Amen in unison. Bo was quick to fill his plate, but making sure to leave plenty for everyone else.
"Bo, if you don't' stop eating so much, yer gonna get fat." Luke said.
"I don't gotta worry about that none. We get plenty of exercise running from the so-called-law." Bo said with a grin.
"Yeah, true, but what if the "so-called-law" decides to go straight? What'll you do then?" Luke asked.
"Oh that's about as likely of a chance as the chance of a meteor falling and hitting you in the head." Bo said.
"Boys, that's quite enough, from the both of ya." Jesse said pointing a finger at both boys.
"Yes sir." Luke said.
"Yeah, sorry Uncle Jesse." Bo said. Luke glanced at the clock in the living room and noticed it was a quarter to ten.
"We had best get goin' if we hope to get to Ohio in time for those auditions." Luke said to Bo.
"Hmm? Oh yeah. Gonna be on the road awhile. We best get going." Bo said as he and Luke stood up. They walked over to Daisy and Jesse, who had stood up. After giving Jesse and Daisy a goodbye hug, they headed out to the General. Jesse and daisy walked out with Bo and Luke.
"Bye Uncle Jesse, bye Daisy." Bo said waving over his shoulder at his uncle and cousin.
"See ya when we get back." Luke said also waving to his uncle and cousin.
"I want you boys to check in every once in awhile. That way I won't be needing to worry 'bout ya. Getting into trouble, at least not a lot of trouble." Jesse said.
"Yes sir!" Bo and Luke said together.
"Ya'll be careful now, ya hear?" Daisy said.
"You betcha we will. As careful as we can be." Luke said in response as he climbed in the passenger's side.
"See ya later!" Bo called peeking his head out of the driver's side window, just enough to see over the roof of the General Lee. Bo started the orange stockcar's powerful 440 engine. Bo put the General in reverse and backed up enough to turn the General around so that they could get on the road faster. When Bo finally had the General facing the right direction, he and Luke stuck their arms out their windows and waved goodbye. Bo then put the General in gear and started down the road, honking the horn. The first twelve notes of Dixie rang out across the farm as the General, and the Duke boys took off down the road, and quickly vanished from sight.
Meanwhile back in town, Boss was calling different construction companies that would destroy all the farms Boss got so far, and the ones he would be getting soon, and then start construction on his mall. But much to Boss' disliking, he hadn't found a single company to start on the date he wanted. Boss had been trying all morning and was plumb worn out and frustrated by the time twelve o'clock noon came rolling by.
Bo and Luke had been on the road for two hours straight now, and were already more then half way to the Georgia border. They had decided to stop for a bit to stretch their legs and to grab a snack for the road.
"Man I can't believe how close to the state border we are already. We've only been on the road for about two hours." Bo said.
"Well when you drive like the grim reaper is on yer tail, sure we're gonna make it to the border in record time. Although I would love to get to Ohio real soon, I would love to get there in one piece." Luke said as he got the donuts that they had ordered for on the road.
"Don't worry yourself Luke, I'll get us there in one piece. You can count on it." Bo said as he grabbed his drink off the counter. Luke just rolled his eyes at his young cousin, and walked out of the small mini-mart. Bo followed Luke out. Luke sat the bag down on the front seat and got in the General and waited for Bo to get in as well. Bo reached into the bag of donuts and pulled out a cream filled caramel icing donut and popped it in his mouth. Bo pulled out of the parking lot and back onto the road, and then took the donut out of his mouth, but not without taking a bite first.
"Not only do you eat like a pig, but your also messy like one." Luke said sarcastically.
"Huh? What is that supposed to mean?"
"What I mean is you're a messy eater."
"Well you ain't exactly Mr. Clean either. I've seen you throwing food before like a two year old."
"Oh when have I ever done that?"
"When we was in school."
"Well I was young then. How about we just drop the subject? Oh and by the way, you got a glob of cream filling on yer shirt." Luke said pointing to the big white glob of cream on Bo's shirt.
"Huh? How do ya suppose that got there?" Bo said as he cleaned his shirt off with his finger.
"Well when you stuff a donut in your mouth, and then take a bite out of it and the filling comes out the other side, it's gonna land on something. And your shirt just happened to be where it landed." Luke said pointing out the obvious.
"Boy, what a way to point out the obvious, Mr. Obvious."
"Oh, what, now I'm Mr. Obvious? Thought I was Mr. Clean."
"Whatever Luke." Bo said as he licked the filling and icing from the donut off his fingers.
"Hey, wait a minute that was my donut! I got the cream filled one with caramel icing." Luke said.
"Oh well, to late now. Should've said somethin' sooner. It was pretty good though." Bo said.
"Bo, I outta…"
"You outta what?"
"Never mind, just keep your eyes on the road."
"Okay, if you say so Luke."
"Yeah, I do say so." Luke said as he reached in the bag and pulled out a jelly filled donut that was supposed to be Bo's. They drove the rest of the day bickering on and off with each other about things as dumb as the donut thing again. They had finally reached Nashville about five o'clock and decided to find a place to stay for the night and finish the drive to Ohio tomorrow. After having searched for a cheap place to stay for a good few hours, they finally gave up looking, having decided that sleeping in the General would be cheaper anyway.
"I got backseat." Luke said as Bo found a spot to park the General for the night.
"Hey, no fair, what gives?"
"What? It's not my fault you didn't call it first."
"Fine I'll sleep on the hood then. Probably more comfortable anyway."
"You'll get awfully cold out there. 'Cause I'm gonna put the windows up to keep it warm in here. I over heard that it's gonna be pretty cold tonight."
"If I wanna sleep on the hood, I'm gonna sleep on the hood." Bo said as he got out of the car and layed down on the hood. Luke just shrugged and put the windows up and turned the heater on. Luke was asleep within minutes being perfectly comfortable, while Bo on the other hand, being as stubborn as a mule at the moment, was sitting on the hood shivering and trying to get warmed up. The heat that was radiating from the General's engine helped some, but the hood was starting to cool off in the chilly air. Forgetting that it was early December, it was colder then in Hazzard, where people were still wearing short sleeved shirts and on an occasional day or two sweatshirts.
"Man it's cold here." Bo said to himself. After about an hour or so of trying to fight sleep, Bo finally lost the fight, but he didn't sleep very well due to the cold air and the fact he was sleeping on the hood of a car.
well, that's the end of chapter 3. there will be more action later on in the story, but i gottaput in the less actiony partsfirst. so please bear with me. please review, i'll update sooner if you do. thank you!