Homeschooler's in High School

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ooc: I agree Papa Joe, it's so funny! Now I wonder what's going on in the heads of most guys that are head over heels in love with girls... :rolleyes:
 
Thoughts can fly fast, though time crawls, when one is waiting for something. Still standing in the Pansit Paradise waiting for the Tisdales to answer his question...


Alipang was more than familiar with the trite, overused criticisms aimed at homeschooling: usually jabs and pokes to the effect that it left kids "unprepared for the REEEEEEEEAL world." But even without _being_ a public school student, Alipang had seen plenty of other kids whose only achievement in the "real world" had been to mess up their minds and their lives.

Among these had been unruly boys who--when not forcing Alipang in self-defense to beat them up--had given him a glimpse in America of the slum world he had thought he was leaving behind when adopted by the Havens. He had heard enough of the way these boys talked to know what _they_ would feel toward a girl who rejected them.

Alipang knew he would have been like them by now, if not for God's grace working through his adoptive parents. Uninvited, the feeling which ungodly boys would have toward an unresponsive girl began to seep into his thoughts. Not even waiting for Kim to DO any definite rejecting of him, this immoral feeling urged him to take it for his own. How _dare_ that girl be so high-and-mighty? How _dare_ she not fall for him instantly? How _dare_ she have a mind of her own, a will of her own? How _dare_ she consider herself a free human being, instead of the property of Alipang Havens? He ought to punish her for this insolence; he ought to put such fear into her that she would be on her knees before him, begging for mercy....

Yes, Alipang could see and feel the whole dark, salty, heated progression of selfish rage--could see what it would do, _had_ done countless times, to an unthinking soul. But it was not _his_ feeling; he refused to let it be.

In Tagalog he softly said, "Evil spirits, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus Christ."

And the foul thoughts fled from him.
 
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~ ~ Still a prisoner of the time vortex, Alipang's stream of consciousness does a little more streaming; note that this is based on the picture of herself which Kim-the-actual-person offered as the appearance of Kim-the-character.


She's using lipstick to enlarge her mouth, Alipang suddenly noticed. Her lower lip is perfectly attractive just the way God made it, but she has extended the lipstick a fraction of an inch outward onto the regular facial skin left and right of the actual lip-outline. Does she want her smile to seem bigger? Does she want to get boys thinking of kissing her? Mission accomplished in that case, Miss Tisdale. Or is she just one more of those girls who, far from being conceited about their looks, have an absurd idea that they _aren't_ beautiful? There are girls like that, of course; no matter how lovely they are by nature, they think they need to "fix" something about themselves.

Are you dissatisfied with yourself, Kim Tisdale? Did someone put you down in the past, _treating_ you as ugly until you thought you were? Would my outside observation make any difference to you, if I told you how beautifully beautiful a beauty you are? Would it count for _anything_ if you realized that the sight of you makes me want to be a knight in shining armor, for your particular benefit?
 
* * Also unavoidably detained in the time vortex are Alipang's parents. Here's the streaming audio currently playing in Eric Havens' stream of consciousness:


How old was I when I was first allowed to have a girlfriend? _Younger_ than Alipang is now--though of course, unlike Alipang, I was never into stealing and fighting. Also, my "dating" was under substantial restrictions. But in any case, I _was_ allowed to have some kind of distinct relationship with a girl _besides_ being two cows in the herd. Are we sheltering Alipang too much?

How can we find out more about this Tisdale family, without doing anything immoral or unethical? I have no cause to think badly of them; but _any_ girl who has such an effect on my boy as Kim Tisdale clearly has, is a legitimate object of curiosity. Carmen came by and mentioned finding out that Kim is older than Alipang--which doesn't make the girl a bad person, but which does tend to argue against any kind of pairing up between them. _Tends_ to--but that's the kind of rule which always finds exceptions.

Let's see, whom were the Tisdales sitting next to in church? Yes, Mrs. Jacobs. She seemed to know them, and seemed to think they were okay. But Kim Tisdale could be the nicest girl ever born, and still not be quite suitable AS A FIRST GIRLFRIEND for my son...

Of course, I may be worrying about nothing. If Kim _isn't_ interested in Alipang, not much can come of his infatuation; and how often is any teenage girl attracted to a _younger_ boy, at the very time of life when girls want to prove how _adult_ they are?
 
~ ~ Cecilia Havens is also thinking fast as the time drags on slowly. When reading her thoughts, please be charitable to her. Cecilia is NOT really a hateful, judgmental, quarrelsome witch; indeed, she is a woman of immense kindness and generosity. But...it's just that this is HER son, her only boy, gazing longingly at a girl, for his first time EVER. On top of already worrying generally about what awaits Alipang in a public school, this is bound to cause a little hysteria in a loving and protective mother....


What does that Kim Tisdale think she's doing? Does she make a habit of turning the heads of good, innocent younger boys? The nerve of her! I'm positive I actually saw her _looking_ at him, several times! And she even _spoke_ to him! What's happened to decency these days? I'm sure * I * never spoke to any barely-introduced boy in such casual, friendly tones when * I * was that age! Oh, all right, maybe I did--but I wasn't wearing such a stylish, attractive outfit! Oh, all right, maybe I was wearing a glamorous outfit--but I didn't shoot suggestive glances at the boys the way Kim is doing at Alipang! Oh, all right, maybe she _doesn't_ mean her glances any more suggestively than I meant mine back in the day--but I wasn't stalking younger boys! Oh, all right, maybe I did let a few younger boys feel a _little_ bit charmed by me--but I was in a family that had BOTH parents.....

God, forgive me. Forgive me for _wanting_ to think the worst of that girl Kim! How can I hold it against her that she seems to have no father in her home? I don't even know the reason yet! What if her father was a soldier or a fireman, who died heroically saving the lives of others? Even if her father was an absolute louse, how is that _her_ fault? God, although I still ask You to protect my boy from being hurt, please _also_ cause me to have and exercise Your merciful, patient love toward that girl!
 
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Rafael Imada is thinking, too; his intentions are good, if not so sophisticated....


So what if the girl's a little bit older than Alipang? He's smart enough and sharp enough to keep up with anybody! And my brother says Alipang's the toughest fighter he's ever trained--could be a lightweight boxer if he wanted to be. With all that, and parents as respected as Eric and Cecilia, who's gonna tell Alipang he _can't_ have any girl he honorably desires?

If those Tisdales are as hard up as I think they are, the mother should be falling all over herself in eagerness to _encourage_ a boy from a good family who takes a decent, gentlemanly interest in her daughter--which is the only kind of interest Alipang will take, bless him. In fact....Smoky Lake isn't that big a city. Mrs. Tisdale may have known about the Havens long before now. Or she might have brought her four lovelies to church as a fishing expedition, to see if ANY of her girls would catch the eye of ANY decent boy. Can't blame her if she did do that on purpose; it's really no worse than my trying to help Alipang at his end....
 
Still in the Sunday-lunch time vortex, Alipang has become aware that adults who care about him seem to be tracking him with both their eyes and their thoughts. He thinks this about that:


Thank God for Aunt Carmen, she takes things as they come! I already know that Uncle Rafael is trying to set me up with Kim; I'm almost equally certain that Mom is wracking her brain about how to _rescue_ me from being eaten alive by Kim. Dad will be somewhere in between those extremes; but even he probably misses the point. There's nothing for them to fuss about...because Kim _isn't_ interested in me, and she _won't_ be interested in me any time in the foreseeable future. Certainly not sooner than she graduates from East High and moves off to some college, end of story.
 
Copperfox said:
Alipang needed only moments to recommend a family combination meal which would include:

-- Two kinds of soup, one spicy and the other not.

-- Three flavors of pansit: with pork, with chicken, and vegetarian; spices on the side for optional use.

-- Beef lumpia and vegetarian lumpia.

-- Some very spicy broiled fish, on about a heat-level with Cajun cooking.

-- Vegetarian fried rice.

-- Ice cream to soothe spice-burned mouths.

What Mrs. Imada was having, meanwhile, was so scorchingly spicy that many Americans would find their eyes burning just by being near it. She was cast into a nostalgic mood by seeing the way Alipang looked at Kim; it was the way Filipino men had looked at Mrs. Imada when she was a girl. As a matter of fact, American soldiers had also looked at her that way, but she was not a loose woman. Not that all American soldiers were wicked in their desires; many had honorably married women who were known to Carmen. But Rafael had been the man for her.
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(ooc the long awaited reply :D)


"I'll have the broiled fish," said Kim wiping a bit of lipstick under her under lip before she took a sip of her root beer.

Elizabeth and Betsy both ordered beef lumpia, while Sharon and Susan, on their vegitarian diet, ordered vegitarian pansit.

"Thanks Alipang," Kim said as she handed himback the menu. Usually she started the "thankyous" to the waiters. Otherwise her mom and sisters would not acknowledge that it was a human being that was waiting on them, rather than a robot.
 
* All those reveries having happened in less time than it took to write them--


Alipang served other customers as needed, while never losing track of the Tisdales. [Catching up in time some] The lunch crowd thinned out while the Tisdales were savoring Filipino cuisine. [As already depicted by other players]

As time drew nearer to the dessert stage and the inevitable departure of the embodiment of exquisite femininity, Alipang (not forgetting the Scripture Mr. Imada had put up about the vanity of outward beauty), had more freedom to linger within sight and hearing of the Tisdales. He was grateful to Chilena and Jennifer for the ways they had helped out--helping other customers to be served and be GONE.
 
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