Homeschooler's in High School

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Kim giggled and blushed a little, "Why thankyou, I have to disagree with you, Tori is insanly gorgeous. She's half Irish half Cherokee, and that is just an awesome combo in human genetics. But dont feel bad about the lyrice," she laughed, "usually women and gay men understand her. I dont think I know a straight guy who does!"
 
The Biology scene I already wrote, is still to happen AFTER this

Alipang could not help himself; he could not leave well enough alone. He had, after all, been going on the assumption all along that he had no chance with Kim, so what did he have to lose?

He seemed to stammer less now.

"Kim...the day your family came to Redemption Church the first time...any one of your sisters, and likewise your mother, would have been enough to grab my attention the way Tori Amos can...your whole family's terribly attractive...but God be the witness, I'm serious as a heart attack AND a stroke AND a plane crash...YOU are better looking than your sisters, your mother, AND Tori Amos all put together. I can't see any feature of you that I could even imagine improving. You're--"

"She's too much for YOU, nerd!" interrupted the senior boy sitting directly behind Alipang: a defensive player on Jack Torinburg's varsity football team. He extended a beefy hand to muss Alipang's hair--in contempt, not friendliness--

Big, big mistake.

An instant later, his elbow bending the wrong way in Alipang's grasp, the 230-pound jock was yanked out of his seat, to fall sprawling to the floor face-first. It happened so fast that Mr. Burrell didn't see it; the teacher only knew that Gary Sunderland had fallen out of his chair, and the homeschooler was hanging over him as if in solicitude.

"Are you okay? Here, let me HELP you up!"--with a grip that hurt more than the arm-bar. The football player's eyes were wide with awe; this wasn't supposed to happen to the gods of the athletic field.
 
Kim blinked rapidly, then let out a small chuckle followed by a loud snicker, than a hand-over-mouth peep.

"Are you ok there Kim?" Mr. Burrel asked, "it isnt funny when people fall you know."

"I know," she said still snicking, "but it was just so funny! If it had been anyone else I'd not laugh."

Mr. Burrel rolled his eyes and continued with his papers.

"See? That's what you get for being so mean Gary." She said then looked at Alipang, "nice!" She high fived him, "and thank you...for in so many words, calling me beautiful. I dont hear that alot, its good to hear, though I'll never agree on the Tori Amos thing."
 
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She had TOUCHED him! She had given him words of approval, AND she had touched him! If Alipang hadn't already known there was a God, this would have convinced him!

The Ode To Joy was playing in his mind.
 
Okay, by a little cutting and pasting, I move the biology-class scene up to be AFTER the trigonometry-class scene...with a bit more text added, as appropriate when coming after THAT scene of thrills for Alipang.

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"Can someone tell me," asked Mr. Narahito, "what the difference is between social animals and gregarious animals?" Not seeing any hands raised by students familiar to him, the biology teacher--a dogmatic believer in absolute governmental control of all education--grudgingly called on the upstart homeschooler who was raising his hand. "Mr. Havens."

Alipang stood up. "Sir, the term 'social' is most suitably applied to the 'social insects'--ants, termites, and bees. What distinguishes these types is the complete absence of individuality: a single specimen _cannot_ survive alone, they _need_ the combined contributions of the whole hive or nest. The only way they could be any more interdependent would be if they were compound organisms like sponges. Gregarious animals are creatures which have _some_ ability to fend for themselves independently, but which prefer and benefit by the close proximity of others of their kind. Many kinds of birds, like seagulls, crows and geese, are gregarious; and of course there are herbivorous mammals like deer and bison, or carnivores like lions and wolves. You could say that there is a gradual shading of meaning from social to gregarious; thus, penguins are not so bound in collective behaviors as ants are, but in the Antarctic winter they need each other for--"

"Thank you, Mr. Havens," Narahito interrupted. "I saw 'Happy Feet' too."

From a seated position, Alipang replied, "Sir, I saw 'March of the Penguins' first."

The boy might not have had the self-assurance to utter even so inoffensive a comeback to the patronizing teacher, were it not that the incomparable Kim Tisdale was watching him now, and had high-fived him in trigonometry. By that simple gesture of affirmation, Kim had made Alipang feel as bold as twenty tigers. For this moment--though he still had NO illusions about actually asking her out--he was on top of the world.
 
Notice to all players:

During the night, regardless of her forum name, DAY-hawk joined me in adding to the action of the first schoolday. Football players continued being made to look bad--AAWWWWW, pooooooor babies!--and Alipang experienced more bridge-building to the unattainable Kim Tisdale than he had even dreamed was possible. This, in part, because he gave Kim his notes from trigonometry to study.

For those who missed seeing this, we have a second international student! Played by Fernshirehobbit, Alina is from Sweden--and has committed the "sin" of NOT bowing in worship to the senior football captain.

Since we jumped back to the START of a school year for this roleplay, I think a time will soon come when we need to jump FORWARD in time. I suggest that we stay at real-time speed until the characters have had Labor Day weekend as we had New Year's weekend. After that, I suggest that each player post an outline of what she or he expects his or her character to be doing during the time until Thanksgiving weekend. Certain scenes can still be played out "onstage" if they are crucial to happen sooner.
 
Chilena was walking to her next class she was in a really good mood she had a new boyfriend who was really sweet to her. He brother was happy that she found someone who would take care of her. She been wanting to have a real friend or a boyfriend for awhile now. She was looking around hearing something about her foster- brother started a fight " That can't be true he well never do that," she said, making a fist. She walked to her locker to get her books for her next and last class " Dan met me out side of the call OK," she told him,kissing him on the cheek then bump into her brother " Oops sorry Al," she told him, with a frown.
 
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Chilena was walking to her next class she was in a really good mood she had a new boyfriend who was really sweet to her. He brother was happy that she found someone who would take care of her. She been wanting to have a real friend or a boyfriend for awhile now. She was looking around hearing something about her foster- brother started a fight " That can't be true he well never do that," she said, making a fist. She walked to her locker to get her books for her next and last class " Dan met me out side of the call OK," she told him,kissing him on the cheek then bump into her brother " Oops sorry Al," she told him, with a frown.
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Dan nodded and said hello to Alipang. Meanwhile Jen was scrambling to get to French on-time.
 
Dan rushed to his next class and made it with another two minutes left. The only seat left was the one in the way back of the class. He sighed and trodded over to sit down.
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Jen got to her French class and smiled when she saw her friend Samantha sitting at one of the desks. She went to go sit with her.
 
THIS NEXT BIT CAN BE ASSUMED TO FIT IN WHEREVER AL'S PHYS-ED CLASS ENDS UP BEING IN THE DAILY SCHEDULE....


Alipang was disappointed with himself: he had only done 107 pushups nonstop in gym class. But other things were going well enough today that he wouldn't let this get him down.

Lance, a boy he knew from church, slipped up to speak to him quietly when they showered. "I heard from someone who saw it: you opened a real can of kick-butt on Leopard Man today. I hope you know he's going to want a piece of you, and NOT in any FAIR fight."

Alipang shrugged. "The words 'fair' and 'fight' never went in the same sentence in my old slum back in Luzon." As he said this, he was rinsing soap off himself...and his friend could see, for the first time, a wide landscape of scars covering much of the Filipino boy's body.

"Al! Where did you GET all those medals?"

Alipang looked down at himself as if only now noticing his own scars. "Oh, those? I wish I could say I did something heroic; but most of those came all in one day, from my doing something STUPID--wanting to be in a gang. I was eleven years old--this was only a couple of months before Mom and Dad got custody of me, (thank You, Jesus, for them!!)--and gang membership looked like the only way for an orphan like me NOT to be a loser. They had an 'initiation': beating me, cutting me and burning me, and I had to take it without crying at all. I passed the test, but only to end up being a mule for their thefts. God was merciful to me, though: He caused me to get caught in a village where the police and the judge had a friendly relationship with World Vision missionaries. Instead of jail, I got a family!"

Lance already knew his friend for a tender-hearted Christian; so it was no surprise to see that Alipang was weeping with gratitude at the very thought of the adoptive parents who had saved him from that wide road that only goes downhill.
 
OOC: WOWOWOW!!! Two day's late, and Alipang's got into a fight, Chilena has a boyfriend, and I never even finished the phone call!!! :eek: What am I going to do??? I'm extremely thankful to Copperfox for giving the round-up of the story, but I need to know what Chilena said over the phone. Also, what's the next class? Thanks... :)
 
I can't answer you about the next class, BUT--


In the halls before the last period, a junior girl named Ivy, who lived in the Katons' neighborhood, whispered to Kaitlyn: "Your brother's Asian pal is either headed for jail, headed for a hospital, or headed for some kind of hero's parade. This morning, all by himself, he saved three freshmen from being robbed by TEN gang members! And now I hear he's challenging the whole varsity football team to fight him after school!"
 
Kaitlyn jerked away from Ivy, "well, knowing my brother, he's probably headed down right with him." She smoothed back her black hair behind her ear. "Even so, I think you're exaggerating."
 
Before the day was out, friends of Ivy were passing the word that Alipang had beaten up TWENTY gangbangers, and that he was going to fight the entire football team AND the wrestling team.

Some kids actually believed this, and wasted an hour after school waiting to see a fight that never happened. But Alipang, after seeing Sammy safely off, turned his attention to his homework.


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(This post runs forward in time a bit, but does not prevent others from posting things that happen BEFORE the school day ends.)
 
When the bell rang Suri was really happy that the day had finish already... For her wasn't that bad she made a new friend, When she got out of her English class she saw that everyone was going to watch some kind of fight she went to see but she saw nothing, nothing was happening after five minutes she left and went to her bus...
 
On Suri's bus, there were kids talking about the Virginia State Police having been called in to stop a riot with a gang of Hispanic and Asian kids fighting a gang of white and black kids.
 
Callie was extremely tired by the end of the day. Her first day of high school wasn't what she expected, but it wasn't that bad either. Her new friend, Suri, had gone on the bus, and Callie was walking home since the school wasn't too far from the house. She decided not to stick around for the fight that was said to be happening at the school, since she thought fights were just stupid since nothing ever got resolved because of it. She grabbed her backpack full of homework and headed towards her house.
 
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