DixieDavenport

Luke did a double take seeing Dixie get out of Midnight. For the first time Luke noticed now much Dixie was growing up. He was over to her in an instant. "Does Lori know you have Midnight?" Dixie smiled weakly. Any other time she would be beaming. She held up Lori's key ring, "Yeah, she had me take her to the bus stop so I could bring Midnight home." Luke sighed, "So she's gone?" Dixie replied, "Yeah, she's gone." Luke sighed. Then, he thought about earlier, "Did BL call Robin?" Dixie looked at him and replied, "I don't know. I take Robin knows you kissed Lori." Luke huffed, "Well, she knows something. She's not talking to me right now." Dixie asked, "Luke where is your car?" "At Robin's. I was going to go over there last night but I sorta got drug out of he Boar's Nest by Jesse. That probably didn't go over real well with her either." Luke said with a sigh.

Luke replied, "Robin. If she doesn't kill me or worse." Jesse nodded his understanding. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At the farm Luke figured he'd just as soon get it over with. If Robin hadn't heard that he kissed Lori she would soon so he figured he shoudl be the one to tell her and since he couldn't go over there he'd have to call her. He walked in the house to change clothes before starting his chores. But stopped long enough to pick up the phone and make a call. Mark had just gotten in from Court and picked up the phone, "Hello." Luke said, "Hey, how long you been home?" Mark was confused, "Just walked in why?" Luke sighed, "Never mind. Is Robin there?" Mark said, "Yeah, she's here, hang on." He turned to his sister and said, "Phone." Robin looked him in the eye and said, "Tell Luke I don't want to talk to him." Mark looked at her strangely and said into the phone, "Ah, Luke, she said." Luke replied sternly, "I heard what she said." He laughed and said, "Da-- if good news doesn't travel fast. I was calling to explain to her what I figure she is pissed about." Mark replied, "I don't have a clue. I just walked into this." Luke said, "Well, I'll tell you. Maybe you can get her to listen to you since I CAN'T come over. Jesse swung by the Davenports on the way home. I was with him. I talked to Lori for a couple minutes about her leaving. She said as I was leaving that if I wasn't dating Robin she'd give me a kiss for old times sake. I kissed her goodbye. I just got here myself so I figure BL has had to have called Robin. I was also calling to tell her about Court but I don't guess that matters." Mark whistled. If BL told Robin half of what Luke just said, it was no wonder she was pissed. "I'll do what I can." Luke said, "Thanks."

Luke brushed her hair back from her face. He brushed her tears away and leaned down kissing her very passionately. BL couldn't hear what was being said, but she had seen the WHOLE kiss thing! That was too good not to tell! She'd have to wait to the right moment though. Jesse called from the house, "Luke we best be getting you home before Rosco gets the idea to see where you are."

They all looked a little shocked that she had been planning this for so long but hadn't said anything to any of them. Luke walked over to her and said, "Ah, can we talk before you leave?" Lori replied,"The only reason someone would want to talk to me now is to kill me!!!! whats it bout?" Luke said, "I just like to talk to you before you leave. I can't believe you are really going to walk out on us all after the large majority of all this was your fault." Lori replied, "I'll come over before I leave." Luke replied, "You KNOW I'll be there!"

Judge Hardcastle glared at BL. "Miss Davenport you will conduct yourself as a lady in my courtroom! Or I will charge you with Contempt!" BL wisely set down and hushed. Judge Hardcastle had took a break and then said, "OK, now I need Lucas Duke and Mark McCormick." Luke and Mark looked at each other as they approached the judge. They had heard the others sentence and knew there's could be a lot worse. Judge Hardcastle began after taking a drink of water and began, "Let me see. You two were originally charged with Racing and Reckless Driving. Then, you also went BACK the next night and were charged with Contributing to the Deliquency of a Minor. For first offense racing I can only fine you up to a hundred dollars. Reckless Driving carries a mandatory sentence of five to ninety days and as I told your friends Contributing could be up to twelve months. That could be a total of fifteen months. How do you want to plead?" Luke and Mark both said, "Guilty as charged." Hardcastle began, "As I said to the others, I understand that you both are still in school and I know you both help at home. But as I said before, I can NOT and WILL NOT let you have such disregard for the laws of this County without being punished for your actions. I am sentencing you both to home arrest as I described to the Sheriff earlier. You are not to leave the property where your home is from today until your release on the last weekend. I am sentencing you to five weekends in jail from 6pm Fridays to 6pm Sunday. And again, I will let you bring your homework which I am certain you will be having. I am also fining each of you Fifty Dollars for the first offense racing charge." Luke said, "Thank you Sir." He knew he could have been in jail for up to 15 months so though he wasn't happy with having to stay home for the next five weeks and report to jail on his weekends he knew he'd gotten a heck of a break. He figured he may as well clear his social calendar for the next five weeks or so. Lori was setting where Rosco had told her to when he had handcuffed her and brought her upstairs for court. She had heard Luke and Marks' sentence and figured she was next.

The next morning the Dukes and Mark all met the Davenports at the garage before heading over to the courhouse. As the rather large group walked over to the courthouse Andy joined them. He looked at BL and saw she was a bit nervous, but BL just looked away from him. Judge Hardcastle looked at the group of young people before him. he had read all of the complaints against them several times over. What had really bothered him was the report he'd read about the fight last night. As he looked at them he could tell the report was likely pretty accurate. He began by saying, "OK to make this as simple as I can since most of you are being charged with the same offenses. Let me see I need Cooter Davenport, Brandy Lou Davenport, Vance Duke, Jeb Duke, Andy Jefferson and Ernie Ledbetter up front." Judge Hardcastle looked he had six folders and five people had moved up front. "Who am I missing?" Everyone looked around. Ernie wasn't there. Luke and Mark were looking at each other. They were not certain whether being first would be a good thing or not btu they knew being late like Ernie was surely wasn't good at all. Hardcastle layed Ernie's file to the side and began, "I understand from the way I read these files that some racing had been going on up at the lake Thanksgiving night. I also understand there were some arrests made that night. But, you five were in the lucky group who was warned and released. Am I correct thus far?" The group answered, "Yes, Sir." Hardcastle then continued, "So, after being that lucky it seems on the VERY NEXT NIGHT you were arrested for Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor because you were back up at the SAME place again with drinking and racing and what ever going on and there were minors up there also drinking. Is that right?" The group hung their heads and lowered their eyes a bit before replying, "Yes, Sir." Hardcastle asked, "So how do you all want to plead?" They had talked to Jesse and Luther and all had figured it was in their best interest to admit guilt and hope for the best. They all replied, "Guilty." Hardcastle said, "Well, I want you each to understand that you could have been charged with alot more than you were and I want you to know that I COULD sentence each of YOU to 12 months in jail." He paused hoping to let that sink in to their minds before he continued, "I understand that you are all still in school and I know you all help either at home or at the garage. But, I can NOT and WILL NOT let you all have such disregard for the laws of this County without being punished for your actions." Hardcastle again paused, "I am sentencing each of you to jail for two complete weekends. You will report to the jail no later than 6pm Friday and will be released at 6pm on Sunday. That's 96 hours to be exact. I will allow you to bring in your school work and I intend to call your teachers and make sure that you have enough homework to keep you busy. I don't like doing this but I think if I don't get your alls attention now then we'll be seeing a lot more of each other in the future. I will have your all's paperwork waiting on you Friday evening. Sheriff you are to inform me if anyone doesn't show up. I will issue a Capias and have them picked back up and I won't be so nice when I see them back here. Oh, yes, You all are to remain completely sober until you final release on the last weekend and are to also be sentenced to house arrest from now until 6pm on the last Sunday. Sheriff I mean 'house' as the immediate area around their farms. Should you catch them off their property other than during school hours and immediately before or immediately after then haul them in. I think I have been as easy as I can on you all so I EXPECT NOT to hear from the Sheriff you have broken the terms of the sentencing."

At the jail, Rosco wrote up his reports for the Judge on Lori's confession about the fight and her arrest. Of course Rosco put in everyones name that he knew was involved in the fight. He thought it would be a nice touch since most of them would be in his court room for court tomorrow morning. Lori was beginning to sober up and now she ................. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back at the Boar's Nest Luke went back over to Robin and said, "Ah, sorry about that." She replied, "You all were really lucky I thought Rosco was going to run you all in." Luke took the beer Daisy had brought him, and replied, "Yeah, well he did worse." He said taking a large drink of the cold water down beer. Robin asked, "Worse?" Luke nodded, "He called Jesse and Luther!" She looked at him and said, "Should we head out?" Luke nodded 'no' and said with a loud sigh, "I figure I've got about enough time to finish this beer before Jesse gets here." Robin asked, "Are you still staying at the house?" Luke really had been looking forward to staying at her house tonight. He had managed to catch a glimspe of a very frilly bra under he low cut top. "I plan to, yes, but I'm not sure I'll live that long." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jesse pulled into the Boar's Nest. He saw all the kids cars and the wrecker but he didn't see Luke's car. He was sure Rosco said he had been right in the middle of the fight. Then, he spotted Robin's car. At least Luke had enough since if he planned to drink he had apparently planned for her to be driving home. He got out of the truck and walked in. Luke had indeed just finished that beer and had just taken a drink out of the next one when he saw Jesse walk in.....

Lori rolled her eyes and said, "Like you would care!" She stood up and looked to Cooter and B.L. rolling up her sleeves,"you wanna make something outta this, I WILL TEACH YA'LL ONCE AND FER ALL TO BACK OFF!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At the table in the back Luke had seen Cooter and BL come in. He was about to motion them over to join him and Robin when he saw Lori, Ernie and his whole crew walk in. He looked at Robin and said, "Ah, sh--!" "Um, Luke you wouldn't want to leave anytime soon would ya?" Robin asked. Luke seen Lori and Cooter had already squared off. "I don't think that's an option right now. Cooter's a lot out numbered. I'm going over to get a beer I'll be back." Luke stood up easy and headed toward the bar hoping to get closer to Cooter in case Ernie and friends wanted to take Lori's part. Luke was met by Jeb, Vance, Mark and Andy who had just came in hoping to drink a couple beers themselves before having to go to court in the morning. Luke nodded to where Lori and Cooter were standing toe to toe, then to the bunch standing behind Lori. Robin said to Daisy when she saw Mark and the others walk in, "Oh this is not going to be good!" Daisy agreed, "No, it doesn't look that way." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cooter .........

As the line of vehicles got closer to the Ledbetter place, Luke remembered he had made plans for the evening which hadn't included Lori. She obviously didn't want to talk to him. Luke grabbed the CB mic and said. "Crazy C I think you things under control so I'm gonna ease on out. Holler if you need me." Cooter radioed back, "Hey, thanks for trying." Luke replied, "No problem." He and Cooter both knew if Lori was intending on being with Ernie tonight and Luke showed up at his place it would only end up in a fight. All he needed right now would be to get into a fight with Ernie on his property and have Rosco show up. Luke didn't like to see Lori with Ernie but he figured she didn't much like seeing him with Robin either. He headed for the farm and a shower. When Luke came out of his room after supper he was dressed to go out. Jesse looked at him. Then decided a few words of caution may be wise, "Luke, I don't know what you have planned tonight but you need to be in court on time in the morning and it would be wise not to be hung over." Luke shook his head 'yes', and replied, "I'll be on time. I may spend the night with Mark but if I do I'll he home in the morning to do the chores before we leave." Jesse replied, "Ok, let me know for sure if your staying with Mark so I won't be up all night wondering where you are." Luke said, "OK, I will." He knew he didn't have to ask permission to stay out over night but Jesse did like to be told. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luke pulled in at Robin's. He noticed her giving him a strange look. He walked over to her and asked, "What?" Robin said, "Where did you take off too in such a hurry earlier?" Luke wondered how she knew but replied, "I went out to help Cooter and BL try to get Lori out from behind Midnight. Seems Luther said something to her which made her think he blamed her Mother's death on her." Robin nodded and explained, "I was on the phone with Daisy when I heard you pull out." Luke knew if she was on the phone with Daisy she had also heard the radio transmissions between him and Cooter. "The last I seen her she was following Ernie Ledbetter towards his house. Cooter and BL were still behind her. She wouldn't talk to me so there was no point in my being there so I headed home. At least she had slowed down. We aren't going to fight about this are we?" Robin smiled and said, "No." She wanted to talk to Luke but she didn't want to fight about Lori. Luke was relieved. He really didn't need to fight right now. He was worried and couldn't even lie to himself. As much as he disliked going to school, he didn't want to have to finish with a different class later than next year. They planned to let Robin be the driver as Luke planned to drink his share at the Boar's Nest before heading back to her house. Robin started towards the passenger side of her car and tossed Luke the keys. They were taking her car because it had an automatic transmission and Luke's was a four speed. She could drive a four speed but wasn't really comfortable in it. They were getting close to the Boar's Nest when Robin asked, "Do you really think it's such a good idea for you to go to the Boar's Nest tonight?" Luke laughed, "Probably not but it's the only show in town." "It's your life." Robin reminded him. Luke shook his head as he pulled into the Boar's Nest, "Thanks! I needed reminding of that!"

Luke nodded 'yes', but wasn't so sure he was OK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luke saw Lori pass him behind Ernie. He radioed Cooter, "Did you see that?? What is she up too???" Cooter, ...

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Luke smiled. He was glad he took her distributor before he went to talk to her. From what Cooter said and what Luke saw he knew she didn't need to be driving anything. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cooter was settuing by Midnight when Lori jumped in and went to fire it up. It refused to start! Lori continued to crank the engine. Cooter saw Luke walking slowly towards Midnight holding the distributor. Cooter fell over laughing. Lori.................

Cooter watched Luke pull out. He wondered what Robin would think if she knew he was out chasing Lori down. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ He spotted Lori in the tree. She was crying. He walked over to the base of the tree and called up, "Lori don't make me come up there after you. Come on down here and talk to me." He hoped she'd do it soon. He was suposed to be at Robin's in a bit. They were planning to spend the evening together (maybe the night too -- if Luke had his way about it) before going to court tomorrow morning. He pretty much expected to be seeing quiet a bit of Rosco in his future so he planned to spend tonight in the company of a soft female and releive as much 'tension' as he could before tomorrow. Lori ..................

Getting such a late start and with the speed Lori was going it was hard to catch her so he picked up the CB and said, "Whiskey Bent this is Lost Sheep 1." Luke got no answer. He jumped into his car and spun out slinging dirty and gravel in his wake. He called again on the CB, "Whiskey Bent slow it down!" He still got not answer. Lori was still driving way too fast and could barely see through her tears. She ignored Luke's calls on the CB. Luke was closing in on her back bumper hoping to be able to get around her and at least slow her down. Cooter had heard Luke's calls to Lori and radioed, "Lost Sheep 1 this is Crazy C. Where is she at?" Luke replied, "She just flew past the farm heading toward the County line as hard and fast as she can go." Cooter replied, "I'm behind ya'll." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At the farm Daisy was still on the phone with Robin when she saw Luke brake into a run. She heard him pull out of the yard in a big hurry. On the other end of the line, the sound of Luke's car pulling out fast was not missed by Robin. "Where IS he going like THAT?" Daisy replied, "I have NO idea, but he better hope Jesse didn't see him leave like that!" "He doesn't need anymore trouble." Robin stated the obvious. "I know, Sugar." Daisy replied. Robin said, "I'm just worried that those last two stunts are going to get him locked up and he won't be able to finish school with us next year." Daisy said, "I know the first time he did opened his mouth to keep everyone else out of trouble. He's lucky that Rosco didn't know they were fighting when he pulled up or it could have even been worse." Robin said, "I know I was one of the ones who would have been in hot water if he hadn't have went to jail the other night, but ya know some of the people at school just don't understand that." Daisy replied, ................

BL decided to quickly head to her room and watch from a safe distance. Maybe she could see the action without getting into more trouble. Luther watched as Cooter got out of the drivers seat and Lori the passenger side. He asked, "Why are you driving? And where have you two been?" Cooter looked at Lori. She still looked pretty tipsy. He said, "Ah, ............. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With only one more day until Luke and Mark had to be in Court, Robin was concerned about what would happen. She decided to call Daisy and talk to her. Daisy happened to answer the ringing phone. She had been watching Luke watch Vance who was watching Lori leave with Cooter. "Duke Farm." "Daisy" Robin said. "Yeah, hold on I'll get Luke." Daisy said automatically. Robin stopped her, "Wait. Don't tell him it's me, yet. Can we talk? I'm worried about what could hapen tomorrow." Daisy had been doing her own fair share of worrying and...............

Luke looked at Jesse and said, "I listen. Sometimes I even know before I do something I shoudn't but I just ......" Jesse shook his head letting him know what he was trying to say, but said, "Luke I was your age once. That's how I know some of the things I try to tell you." He paused for a minute and then said, "And sometimes I know when I tell you that you'll never listen to me until you've lived it yourself." Luke smiled at his very wise uncle as he saw Midnight come up the drive, "Wonder who....." He didn't get to finsh his sentence before he saw Cooter getting out. Luke walked over to Cooter. Cooter said, "She with Vance?" Luke replied, "Now. I went after her when Vance told me she was pretty far gone." Cooter looked at him strangely, "You went after her? Luke what is going on with you two?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luther didn't want to see any of them in any serious trouble but somewhere deep he hoped the judge sent them a message to calm down a bit. He knew they were getting out of hand a bit but wasn't sure how much more he could take. maybe he'd talk to Jesse soon to see if he had any advice.

Luke sat on the banister of the porch while Lori ate the sandwich he'd made her. He heard the phone ring...... ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dixie decided that if Lori wasn't with Midnight that there was only one place she could be, she called the Dukes, "Luke? Is Lori there? with Vance?" she added quickly. Luke said quietly, "She's here." Dixie said, "Cooter went looking for her and found Midnight. He and BL are looking for her." Luke said, "Tell them not to worry she's here. I didn't think she needed to drive right now." Dixie said, "OK. Thanks. I'll let Cooter and BL know." She went to radio Cooter and BL to let them know that Lori was OK. She wasn't sure what was up and wasn't sure that she wanted to know either as long as Lori was OK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jesse pulled up in the yard after talking to the judge. He saw Lori setting on the porch and could tell that she had been drinking. Luke was coming back out of the house. Vance was no where to been seen. He just looked at Luke. Luke gave him an 'I'll explain soon' look. Jesse nodded, letting him know that 'yes he would be doing some explaining real soon'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Judge looked to Jesse and said, "Well, I've been thinking on it. I think taking them out of school would be more of a vacation. Football season is over. So, I've been looking to keep their weekends filled." Jesse smiled and nodded. He was following the Judges idea. Judge Hardcastle and Jesse both had a good laugh. Jesse explained, "They are all good kids. But, I guess they are just trying to spread their wings." Judge Hardcastle smiled and assured Jesse. "I'll do what I can but, I've got to do my job." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luke shook his head and softly replied, "Look I'm nothing special and I sure ain't worth all this." He paused. He knew she couldn't or shouldn't be driving like this and he knew he should make it clear that he and Robin were trying to work things out. But, Luke also knew that voicing any of that right now may not be such a good idea. So, he said, "Why don't you leave Midnight here and come out to the farm for awhile. We can get you something to eat and we'll talk?" Lori .... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cooter walked off thinking.

Cooter looked at B.L and snorted when she said she had 'innocently' been minding her own business. He then went outside without a word wasn't nothin' to do in the house and he was bored sitting down with a car magazine wasn't an option his rear still smarted from that whipping so he popped the hood on the wrecker and began working on it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thought Luke was on the phone with Robin, he was also listening to Vance and Lori on the CB and knew Vance went to meet her at Dry Creek. When Vance walked in, Luke just gave him a questioning look. Vance knew Luke would find him after he got off the phone. On the phone Robin asked, "But, what about school, ....... if, ........" Luke heard her unfinished question without her asking it and replied, "I don't know. I guess we'll just have to wait and see day after tomorrow." They had been notified to be in Court at 800 the day after tomorrow. He continued, "Look, I've got to get off here. I'll try to call you back later." Robin knew he didn't like to talk on the phone much and especially since she had started a subject he obviously didn't want to talk about. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luke walked outside to go find Vance. Vance was leaning against the barn yard fence waiting for him. Luke said, "Vance?" Vance turned to him, "She's at Dry Creek. She's drinking and she still loves you." Luke shook his head and said, "And, you're here?" Vance replied, "Might as well be. It's not me she wants." Luke ................... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the meantime, Jesse went over to see his old fishin' buddy, Judge Hardcastle. He hoped by letting him know that the 'kids' were still in school that what ever punishment he could come up with wouldnt' hurt their school work. He knew they had messed up but he didn't want to see their graduations pushed back because of their poor judgement. Jesse knew Judge Hardcastel was tough, but could be very inventive in his punishments.

Luke at the farm though was doing some hard thinking. 'How could he have been stupid enough to walk right back into the one place he knew he shouldn't have?' It was bad enough that he'd been orignally in the situation to take the blame to every single on of the ones who the very next night went right back to get into more trouble and against his better judgement he DID NOT just let them do so on their own but went after them only to get himself in more trouble. He heard Daisy calling him and answered back. "Phone!" she said. Luke took a deep breath. He figured he knew who it was. "Hello." He was right. Robin asked, "So are you still alive?" "For now." Luke replied. Robin said, "Mark said you all could go back to jail?" Luke replied, "Oh yeah, Jesse's made that real clear."

The next morning fortunately was Saturday. Luke was glad not to have to deal with school and everyone talking about him being arrested again, besides he was sure seating at a desk all day would be rather uncomfortable. Jesse hadn't cut him any slack. As he walked to the kitchen he was pretty stiff from his trip to the woodshed. Jesse was already up and at the table with his coffee. Luke spoke as normal, "Morning." Jesse replied, "Morning. Coffee's ready." Luke poured his coffee and instead of going outside to start his chores he very easily took a seat beside Jesse. "Uncle Jesse, about last night." Jesse held up a hand and cut him off. "You....." Only to be cut off himself by a determined Luke. "I KNEW better! I was the one who tried to talk the entire bunch into NOT going. Cooter, Mark and I found out they went anyway and went after them to try to keep them out of trouble. You know I haven't talked to Robin since then, if you don't believe me call and ask her. She was going to go with us but I knew what happened was possible and didn't want her in the middle of it." Jesse would allow Luke's outburst this time but he added, "You know you were pretty lucky still. There were three minors up there. YOU were ONLY charged with one count of contributing along of course with the Speeding, reckless Driving and Racing from the other night." That made Luke feel A LOT better. Yeah! He thought. But, opted to just listen. Jesse continued, "Ya know the way I figure it you could be looking at about 15 months in jail?" Luke knew Jesse was a pretty fair back porch lawyer and knew a bit about the law. Jesse had just put his stomach in his shoes! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lori found out the next day from a still angry and loud Cooter in no uncertain terms through a pounding headache what she had been arrested for. Cooter told her loudly, "You KNOW they charged with Racing, Reckless Driving, Contributing and RESISTING ARREST! " Well, actually she didn't until now. She was about to ask him to talk softer when he got louder. "That COULD BE up to TWENTY-ONE MONTHS in jail!" He informed her. Cooter knew she had a headache and he was glad! Very glad as he had also been charged with contributing which could be up to 12 months in jail. Just because he went with Luke and Mark after them all! Which they knew they could have each been charged with three counts of contributing because there were three monors there and all had been drinking something. Cooter sure hoped she was happy now.

Luke never said a word about why he was there. He'd wait until Jesse calmed down a lot. He hadn't whipped them in several years. Once in their room Bo said, "Ah, I'm sorry about that Luke. I know you came after us." Vance, Jeb and Coy muttered much of the same sentiments. Luke shook his head and said, "It's OK. I'm the one who knew better. I knew not to go back up there, but I chose to!" Vance replied, "To keep us out of trouble like you did last night." Luke huffed, "Yeah. Lot of good I did. Just bought myself a bunch of trouble and a trip to the woodshed." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back at the Davenports, Cooter was trying to keep Lori and BL from fighting and to get Lori sobered up. It seemed liek everything she had drank hit her all at once when the law showed up.

B.L. was snapping at Lori, "This is ALL your FAULT!" Lori lunged away from the Trooper and towards BL as the Trooper attempted to place the handcuffs on her. The Trooper who had already cuffed BL saw it coming and moved her out of the way. Another Trooper moved to help contain Lori. Luke shot Cooter 'a look' as he shook his head. They both knew that as the oldest of the families they were in really DEEP! Luke, Cooter, and Mark had already been cuffed and put in Rosco's car. Robin had been the only one with any since. Mark had went after their little brother who had went with Bo. Lori was finally placed in one car and BL in another. Vance, Jeb, Andy, and Ernie were placed in other cars. Bo, Dixie, David, and Coy were all put into car to be taken to the jail to call someone to come get them. Once they finally got the group back to the jail, the Troopers were glad they hadn't arrested many more. Luke, Cooter and Mark were put in one cell, with Vance, Jeb, Andy adn Ernie in teh one beside them. Lori and BL were put in the cell upstairs. The younger group were made to set down and wait on someone to come get them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jesse was just about to get him a piece of pie when the phone rang.

Luke caught word of it and walked over to Lori pulling her to the side asking, "Are ya'll CRAZY or plain STUPID?" He paused. He had taken Lori a bit by surprise by the way he'd taken her arm. It wasn't ruff but it certainly was firm. "After all the DA-- trouble I went to and got into to keep every DA-- one of you out of trouble and ya'll are going ot be FOOL enough to go right back TONIGHT of all times! I'm telling you, they are going to be watching up there heavy since they have all the names of those who was there last night!" Luke said in total amazement. "I'd think at least ya'll would appreciate what I did for you a little!" Lori asked, "You're not coming? Chicken?" Luke

Luke and Robin were busy discussing Luke's incident at lunch. Well, Robin thought it was more of a 'stunt' than an incident. She could hardly force herself to face her friends, a lot of which hadn't been to the lake for last nights events. In Hazzard due to the needed farm work in the fall and Spring they returned to school the day after Thanksgiving. Luke and Mark's absence was noted and commented on at the beginning of school. 'Talk' only continued to spread like wild fire after the boys eventually made it to school after being released from jail and grabbing a shower before spending the day in school. Hazzard was small but news of classmates being arrested by the State Police was still big news, no matter what the reason was. Luke thought Robin blushed everytime someone said something to him about it. He wasn't really proud of spending the night in jail, but she was down right embarrassed. When Cooter, Bo, Dixie, and Beth walked up and Cooter asked Luke, "Hey, what kinda birds don't fly?". He saw his timing was bad, very bad. He hadn't had the chance to rub it in yet! Robin had turned three shades of purple before turning red with anger. "Dead ones!" Luke said as he shook his head and Cooter and the rest made a quick escape. he then looked at Robin an said, "Would you have liked to have or had me explain to your father where his 17 year old ONLY daughter got the Jack Daniels she was drinking had I let them do breathalizers on you ALL?" She lower her head and replied, "No. But, do they have to keep bringing it up?" Luke smiled, "Yeah. For awhile anyway. You know how kind our classmates are. It's probably the biggest news going since Joel got caught running moonshine. It'll die down in a year or so!" He exaggerated and then added, "Besides, it was me who spent the night next to your brother in jail and I haven't had a he-- of a lot of sleep either."