Chapter 2

Uncle Jessie woke at around six o'clock. He stretched out and started getting ready to get at today's work. After getting dressed, Uncle Jessie went and woke the rest of the family. First he woke Daisy so she could start breakfast while the he and the boys got started on the chores. He went to the boys' room and poked his head in.

"Bo, Luke, time to get up" Uncle Jessie said.

Both boys dragged themselves out of the warmth of their beds. Luke stood up and stretched out his arms, simultaneously yawning. Bo heaved his legs over the side of his bed facing the window. Sitting there for a minute he rubbed his hands through his hair and scratched his head. The events of last night ran through his head. Tomorrow Linda-Ann was leaving for Atlanta City and he was going with her. Telling his family this was going to be very hard but it had to be done. Bo got up and started getting dressed. Oh how his life was going to come crashing down around him... just for one little mistake…well not really little.

Both Bo and Luke went on out into the garden and started at their early morning chores. Luke took notice that Bo was very quiet. Not like Bo at all. When Daisy called them in to breakfast both boys went on in with a rumble of hunger in their stomachs. That's when Luke notice that Bo was only picking at his food. Knowing that Bo was really a bottomless pit when it came to food, Luke started to worry that something was really wrong. He remembered that Daisy had told him that Bo and Linda-Ann went off somewhere to talk last night. Maybe she had broken it off with him. If that was the case Bo might be upset now, but much better off in the long run because for sure that girl was nothing but trouble… Luke knew she was only using Bo to get under her uncle JD's skin. Though Bo would never ammit to it. Plue, the fact that she was a Hogg. Luke didn't know what Bo was thinking.

After breakfast the boys headed back out in the garden. They worked their way through all the chores. When it was getting close to lunchtime Luke pulled Uncle Jessie to one side.

"Uncle Jessie, I don't know what it is but I got this funny feeling that there is something wrong with Bo." Said Luke

"What do ya' mean?" Asked Jessie

"Well, he's been really quiet all morning and today at breakfast he barely ate a thing. And we both know Bo…he's normally a bottomless pit."

Jessie nodded his head in agreement with Luke. Something was bothering Bo, and it was bothering him real bad for Bo to be acting like this. He though for a minute and then said:

"We'll wait till after lunch. He was out pretty late last night and it might just have been a little too much fun… if you know what I mean. We'll see how much he eats and how he gets on and if he's still grumpy then we'll ask him about it. "

Luke agreed to Jessie's plan and when Daisy called out for lunch all the Duke men made their ways into the house. Jessie and Luke watched Bo, again, he only picked at his food. Luke looked to Jessie and seen that Jessie was looking back at him… Jessie nodded his head and turned to Bo.

"Bo…is there something wrong, son?" asked Jessie

Bo looked up from is lunch. It was now or never.

"Um…yeah." Said Bo, "Ah…last night I was talking with Linny-Ann, and…and…" No matter how hard Bo tried he couldn't get the words out of his mouth.

"Well," said Jessie. "Come on boy. Don't leave us hanging."

Bo covered his face with his hands and said "She's pregnant."

"What was that boy? I didn't' quite hear ya."

"She told me she was pregnant."

For a minute there Bo thought time at stopped…that was until Jessie exploded.

"SHE'S WHAT?!" He yelled. "Bo, how could you have let this happen? Do you know what J.D. will do to ya? And to think, a Hogg in the Duke family."

"It'll be half Duke too Uncle Jessie." Bo cut in, using a small quiet voice.

"I'm talking about Linda-Ann. Not the baby. You are going to marry her right?"

"Not exactly…" but Bo didn't get to finish what he was about to say. Jessie had gone off the top about that. Jessie kept fighting with Bo and never let Bo finish what he was saying. Finally Jessie ended with:

"Now you got 'till lunch tomorrow morning to figure out what you're going to be doing." And with that Jessie walked out the door.

Bo just sat down at the table. Luke was just about to open his mouth when Bo got up from the table and left. He jumped aboard the General Lee and took off down the road.

The rest of the day at the Duke farm went so fast. Bo had come back a couple hours later and got to work on his chores, keeping away from his family the whole time. Dinner was quiet and everyone went to bed early. But what the rest of the Duke family didn't know was that in the early hours of the morning, Bo slowly crawled out of bed and took a packed suitcase out from in under it. He got dressed and made his bed. He took his suitcase and slowly and quietly made his way out into the kitchen. He stopped only long enough to write a note to explain why he was taking off. It took him about ten minutes and then he was out through the door. Bo made his up the drive way and onto the main road. After so long walking on the main road a car came driving by. It was Linda-Ann. She stopped the car and Bo got in. She looked at him.

"So do you think they will understand?"

"I don't know. But I got to do what I got to do."

Linda-Ann smiled, leaned over and kissed Bo on the cheek.

Around 7 O'clock Uncle Jessie got out of bed. It was the first time in a long time that he had slept in. He made is way down to Daisy's room.

"Daisy, honey, time to get up. I slept in today."

Daisy nodded her head and started to get up. Jessie left her room and made his way down to Bo and Luke's rooms. Before he even got to the door he was calling out their names.

"Bo. Luke. It's time to get up."

Jessie opened the door and looked in. Luke was sat up in bed rubbing the sleep from his eyes. Bo's bed on the other hand was empty and the bed was made.

"Where is Bo too?" Asked Jessie

"I…don't know." Replied Luke.

"UNCLE JESSIE!" Daisy screamed form the kitchen.

Both Jessie and Luke ran for the kitchen. Daisy met them in the doorway. She was holding a note in her hand. She gave it to Jessie and his face went white as he read it.

Uncle Jessie, Luke, and Daisy:

I know waking up this morning and finding me gone will come to a shock to you. But it is just something I just had to do. I know I let you all down, and I am truly sorry of that.

Leaving the farm is something I don't want to do, but I do believe that it is the best for all of us. I just want y' all to know that I love you all, and I will truly miss ya's.

Love Bo

Sorry

Jessie gave the letter to Luke and sat down in the closest chair.

"I don't believe this!" Luke said as he finished reading Bo's note.

But Jessie didn't hear him. He was to lost in though. What had he done. He had driven his baby boy away from home. He didn't mean to get made at him. He just wanted what he though was right for him. He never dreamed for a minute it would drive him away.