Chapter 1

Karen had married her boyfriend Nathanial when she was sixteen years old. They had been having sex in her Daddy’s barn loft for three months. She became pregnant, and they were quickly married and she and Nate started a farm with both parents’ help. They were all close together and shared property that backed up to a forest.

Sadly, Karen had a miscarriage just a month after their wedding. They were both very sad but vowed to get her pregnant again. They certainly tried hard enough! Nate would come home from the field at lunch and they would try for an hour, sometimes two, before he would return to his farm work. Sometimes she would take their lunch to him in the field and they would walk into the woods to a clearing Nate had made, and she would give him a blowjob, and he would eat her pussy. Then they would fuck, sometimes spending three hours enjoying each other and each other’s bodies.

After six months of trying they were resigned to having a childless marriage, but they continued to try as often as possible because it was a lot of fun! They had been married for two years and their love for one another continued to grow. They had celebrated the New Year in bed doing what they enjoyed most. They orgasmed together at what was at least close to midnight as they left eighteen ninety six and entered eighteen nineteen ninety seven. They both saw fireworks in their minds, it was a moment they would never forget.

The first week of March three years later, all the fields had been prepared and they began planting with their horse pulling a two row planter. As soon as they finished planting they had started walking the rows with hoes and would chop and pull weeds. They stayed just one row apart and would always have lunch together in their clearing. After enjoying a nice meal, they would make love in the grass, both having oral sex and different positions of penetrative sex. One of Karen’s favorites was for Nate to lay down and Karen would squat over his cock and she would lower herself down on him, then bounce up and down as he played with her sensitive nipples, or sometimes she would face away from him and he would play with her sensitive asshole.

They were having sex just like that, she was facing away from him and was just about to have her orgasm, when two black bear cubs walked into the clearing directly in front of her. She had time to think how cute they were before the mother bear came into the clearing and saw a threat to her cubs! She didn’t hesitate and charged the couple, she raised up on her hind legs and swiped her clawed paw across Karen’s face. Two claws cut deep into her cheek on her left side making two parallel cuts from just above her ear to about an inch from her mouth. The force of the blow knocked her off of Nate and ten feet away! Nate yelled at her to run, as the angry bear began attacking him as he lay pinned to the ground and helpless.

Karen ran as she had never run in her life, naked and with blood streaming from her terrible wounds and cascading down her body! She ran toward her parents farm just a half mile away, screaming for help! Her father heard her and yelled for his wife! They ran toward the sound of their daughter’s voice. Her father found her first, she yelled “Bear!” And pointed back the way she had come! Her mother found her and took off her own dress and applied pressure to the left side of her head to try and stop the bleeding.

Karen’s father ran in the direction she had pointed, unnecessary because of her own blood trail on the ground. As he got closer he could hear the grunting of the bear, and as he stepped into the clearing he saw the bear standing over Nate still failing at his tattered now lifeless body! Raymond picked up a hoe and began yelling and started hitting the bear on its head with the back of the hoe, he hit her six or seven times before the bear stood up and roared! Then no longer seeing her cubs she went back onto all four paws and walked toward the sound of her cubs. Even though Nate was obviously dead, Raymond felt for a pulse and as he expected couldn’t find one.

He walked back in the direction of his farmhouse knowing that his wife would have taken his daughter there. He checked on her, then turned and went to the barn and saddled his horse and took off at a gallop to get the doctor from the town of Montgomery fifteen miles away.

An hour later, his horse tied to the back of the doctor’s buggy, they headed back to his farm. The undertaker had been sent for, as well as the sheriff. Neighbors, seeing and recognizing the Doctor’s buggy, dropped what they were doing and saddled horses or harnessed buggies or wagons and followed, having recognized their neighbors horse, they knew where to go. They weren’t going to gawk, they were going to see if their help was needed!

The Doctor took charge and cleared the front room of the helpful neighbors and ordered hot water, Elizabeth was way ahead of him and already had it heating on her stove. She brought the water and a clean sheet and helped the doctor clean Karen’s naked body. He concentrated on her head. Both wounds had to be cleaned thoroughly and he thought it best to put her to sleep because it would be painful. The stitches, and there were going to be a lot of them, were going to be painful too!

He used chloroform to put her to sleep and poured alcohol into the wounds, flushing dirt out of both wounds, when he couldn’t get anymore dirt, he carefully inspected the wounds only finding a couple of specks of dirt in one of them. He started putting stitches very close together as he carefully matched the two sides of the cuts together. He was using his finest silk thread and was placing the stitches very close together. When he got to her hair line he stopped and went back to begin at the bottom of the second cut. When he reached her hair again he stopped to cut her hair then he shaved the stubble. Then making sure that the wounds were clean he rinsed them with more alcohol. He stitched them up, spacing the stitches farther apart due to being hidden in her hair. Three and a half hours and two hundred and seventy five stitches later he was finished and was waiting for her to wake up. He had wrapped her head in gauze and was hoping she didn’t have a concussion.

She woke up and was immediately concerned about Nate. Her father took her hand and told her the bad news. Inconsolable, Karen cried herself to sleep, no longer would she ever feel his kisses, his caresses, his tongue on her pussy, his cock in her mouth, and his cock pounding into her body! And more importantly she would never again be able to share in the love they had for one another.

She woke up screaming from a nightmare, the bear was back and was eating her body while she was still alive. Both of her parents came into her room to check on her. She continued having that same nightmare for over a year, and then off and on for the rest of her life.

Karen healed, the stitches were removed, as good a job as the doctor had done, there was still a pair of visible parallel scars running diagonally across her left cheek.

She had no desire to go back to the farm and relive the bad memories associated with it. The good memories she would hold in her heart forever. But she knew she had to do something with her life, but she also knew she didn’t have any skills that would land her a good job. And though she loved sex, she didn’t want a job on her back in plying the world’s oldest profession. She decided that she would become a teacher. She evidently was unable to have children of her own, so she could satisfy her mothering instinct by being around kids and teaching them.

That fall, she moved to Huntsville and had enrolled in the Sam Houston Normal Institute and trained to become a teacher. Three years later, having gone to two summer schools, she was looking for a job, having graduated in the top five percent of her class of 1903. Offers of employment poured in and she looked at each one, she had made a list of requirements that she wanted met. She wanted to teach in a one room schoolhouse that provided living accommodations on site. She wanted the school to be isolated and be close to a small town. She wanted her supplies to be brought to her so that she didn’t have to interact with people. And she wanted a horse and a barn to keep it in.

She had learned at the Sam Houston Normal Institute that people would go out of their way to ask her about the scars on her face. She would have become rich if she had charged a quarter for answering that question over the course of the three years she had been there. Then even more people had asked about them at the large school where she had done her student teaching. Students were nice about it, but shopping and being out on the town had been a nightmare.

Then there were the men, they would see her from her right side and see her beautiful face and blonde hair, but when they came to ask her out they would see the scars on her left side and move away. It was a crushing blow to her self esteem.

She found the perfect school, it was deep in the Big Thicket in East Texas. The nearest town had a population of five hundred people. The school was ten miles from town, it had living quarters at the back of the classroom, a full kitchen, indoor plumbing including a toilet and a bathtub. There was a barn and it came stocked with hay. The playground was just over an acre and had two goats to keep the grass short. She had to supply her own horse, which wasn’t a problem.

She spent the first half of the summer at home with her parents. She turned twenty four in June, she had been without Nate for almost four years and without sex for the same amount of time. School would start September 5, 1903, but she moved into her room the first week of August.

Karen moved into her room August third, her Daddy and her mom transported her and her furniture and keepsakes the one hundred and ten miles. They took their time, spending three days to get there. It was hot, being August in Texas, but the night’s cooled off nicely and they found two good places to camp each night. They arrived at the one room schoolhouse just after noon on the third day. It didn’t take long to move her furniture and other belongings into the rooms in the back. They all pitched in to clean up the classroom and her living quarters.

They had bought her a horse and brought it with them along with a saddle and tack. They were put in the barn tack room and the horse in the paddock where there was plenty of grass and water. Karen loved to ride and was looking forward to riding the trails through the forest and she would go to the town of San Augustine to set up regular deliveries of food for her and the kids once school started.

Karen spent a couple of days setting up her apartment and making a list of things she needed and others that she wanted. The list was also divided into things she had to have and those that she could live without.

On the third day she fixed breakfast and saddled up her horse and rode into San Augustine, where she introduced herself to the owner of the General Store, Ezra Brooks. She gave him her list and explained that she only for sure wanted those things on the must have list but would decide on the others on a cost by cost basis.