Thread: Yearning Steer (Penner and AR)

The children were on the bus as she was at the front of it with a few parent volunteers as they were taking a trip to a historical ranch that was just outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was almost the end of the year and so, this was a little field trip for the middle schoolers. It was to this old historical ranch that had tour guides and a bunch of other things. Of course, all field trips had to have an educational factor into it and this was the best option to get the kids engaged. After all, there were gruesome stories and that got them interested for the most part. It was the end of her first year of being a full time teacher after years of being a substitute or a teachers aide something that did not pay at all since she had also been waitressing at the local Chilis as well as working at the mall. Now, she only had to work the weekends to make ends meet. Kate Williams or Ms. Williams to her students was a good teacher who cared for her students, she stayed up late with lesson plan and marking assigns. Some of her students were not her favourite because they acted up but she honestly tried to do the best that she could for them. Matt sit down in your seat. She called towards the back of the bus as she was keeping an eye on the sixty students from two different seventh grade classes as she was talking to Mrs. Ferguson, the other teacher. There were eight adults including herself there to supervise all of the children. Well, sometimes it was only her who was in the classroom with half the students but with the entire seventh grade going, it could get rowdy on the bus. She was strict when she had to be but also fun at other times. Kate was trying to be creative and usually, the students were fine but the parents could be a nightmare. It was going to be a busy and stressful day but Kate was excited about it because she knew there was much to learn without them realizing that they were learning As soon as the bus came to a stop in the parking lot of the historical ranch, all the kids were getting antsy as Mrs. Ferguson stood and she did the same. When we exit the bus, you will line up and be divided into four groups. The groups have been made the previous days before and fifteen students would go do two activities before lunch and then would do the last two after lunch. There was a tour of the old ranch house with tour guides who were dressed in period clothing, horseback riding with safety equipment, demonstrations of blacksmithing and other things the cowboys and seeing the animals in the Barn. There was a lot more to do and it was going to be an exciting day for all the sixty students. --- She was with the second group of students who were getting to try their hand at blacksmithing as well as seeing the animals in the barn and outside, there was even a petting zoo. However, she noticed that two of the students were missing as she panicked. Of course, she knew exactly who it was as she sighed and said to the parent volunteer to keep an eye on the other children. How did they go missing? She heard laughing, it was Sam and Dean with their ridiculousness again as she marched after them as they were running towards some of the older building that were off limits due to restoration. She started running. Get back here! She yelled as she followed them into one of the building, she was livid and they were going to go back on the bus or sit out for the horseback riding. Her steps were heavier on the old wooden floorboard as she could hear creaking as she was inside. There was no door being that it was an old house with no windows or anything. The boys were running out the other side and into the field. You will get back her or so help me She was cut off as there was a breaking noise and she felt herself falling as the floor was giving way and she hit her head She did not remember what happened next because she blacked out. What had happened was that Ms. Williams had fallen through the floor board in the old house to a cellar except that when people came for her after she was not there no one had seen where she had gone. It was as if Kate Williams vanished into thin air. --- How much time had gone by? She didnt know but she could hear the odd sounds of cattle and bison Kate hurt all over and she was feeling faint and like she was going to be sick to her stomach. She was still dressed in her pair of dark washed skinny jeans, a pair of sensible walking boots since she knew that she was going to be on her feet and a black and red plaid shirt. She wore the same jewelry of a watch with a black leather strap, gold bracelets and a pair of stud earrings and a gold chain with a cross on it. Her hazel eyes opened as she looked around for a moment, she was in a ditch or a trench of some form? Her long brown hair was tied back with an elastic. Slowly lifting herself up, Kate groaned loudly. What happened?