Black Oak Falls

by EmilyA198527

Annalise Wood, a school teacher, travels to the untamed city of Black Oak Falls to take on the role of the teacher for the young children of the town and to live with some of her relatives. However, she wasn't counting on drawing the attention of the leader of a notorious gang who ran the town who was known simply as The Undertaker.

1. Chapter 1

Note: I do not have anything to do with the character of the Undertaker in this story, but this is a story that I am working on. I am only using him as a muse for my writing.

Chapter One

Nestled in a private booth on a long, black train coming from the eastern part of the united states, Annalise Wood, the daughter of a pastor and a housewife, was traveling across the country to stay with her mother's sister, Martha Coyle, and her daughter, Jasmine, while she is working as a school teacher for the little children of Black Oak Falls, Arizona.

She had been offered the position by the mayor of the town when he had traveled to her hometown of Pulaski, Tennessee with the intent being to visit with her father and find someone who could help tutor the children of the town. It was during the visit that he had noticed her with several little girls in her family's front room, teaching them how to read simple words with the use of a small chalk board, and asked her father if he could offer the position to her.

It did take some time in persuading her father to allow him to offer the position to her, but it didn't take too much time for her to agree to it since she was looking forward to taking the task on, and it would allow her to be able to visit with her cousin that she hadn't been able to spend time with since her family moved away from Pulaski.

However, it would mean that she would have to leave her parents, friends, and community behind for an unknown future in a town in the untamed part of the country where it was dangerous to be there on your own. She was aware that being a single woman traveling across the united states would be a perilous and scary experience. But, there was no way that she was going to turn away from the opportunity presented to her.

Her gentle eyes moved away from the window pane of the private booth she was nestled in down to where an envelope that the conductor had given to her was nestled in the lap of her royal blue gown. Annalise took time in making sure to not rip the envelop to where it would damage the letter inside of it. She eased the folded piece of paper out into the opening and started to read the words of her cousin to herself, silently.

Annalise, I can't wait to see you when you come out here. Mom has you a room already prepared for you. I hope that you like it. When you arrive to the train station, you will be able to see the hotel and walk right over towards it. We can't leave the hotel to meet you since both of us have to be at the hotel due to we not having enough people to work for us. I can't wait to see you, and I know that you will love it here. Sincerely, Jasmine.

Finding out that her cousin and aunt wouldn't be able to meet her at the train station's platform did upset her a bit. She had hoped to meet them there for a warm embrace before walking over with them to her new home. Nevertheless, she knew that her aunt and cousin had priorities and duties to attend to regardless of her being there, and it would do her a bit of good for her to be upset with them just because they couldn't do something that she would have wanted them to do.

The sound of the train letting out a long whistle caught her attention, and alerted her that the train was going to be pulling into the station soon and everyone needed to get their things together. Moved by the sound, Annalise put the letter away in the envelop, and started to prepare herself to exit the train and venture out into the place that was to be her new home: Black Oak Falls.