Homeschoolers in Highschool, Part Two

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The bell on the resturant's door handle jinggled as a mother and her three kids walked in. The younger of the children, both boys, who appeared to be in elemary shcool smiled gleefully as they waited for a table.
 
Mr. Imada, already alert to events in the dining area because of Summer's situation, saw (1) Kim's entrance, and (2) the hypnotic effect OF Kim's entrance on Alipang. Hurrying to the unfortunate boy's rescue, he bustled up--"Miss Tisdale! Here on business, I hope? Alipang has very high hopes for your work performance; we have that to discuss, and the weekly food for your family. Alipang, your trucker may need something, go check."

Alipang moved in a daze to attend to the indicated customer. The trucker's ugliness, foul odor and fouler mouth soon brought him back to Earth. "That's a real _______ hottie that just came in, kid--not that the ones already here weren't ________ babes, too. You ever ______ any of 'em?"

"No, sir, I haven't. But then, last time I looked, this was a family restaurant. What can I do for you?"

Alipang's Filipino knife was ready in his pocket. All in all, it was for the best for everyone concerned that the trucker calmed down and cleaned up his speech without further prompting.
 
Copperfox said:
Mr. Imada, already alert to events in the dining area because of Summer's situation, saw (1) Kim's entrance, and (2) the hypnotic effect OF Kim's entrance on Alipang. Hurrying to the unfortunate boy's rescue, he bustled up--"Miss Tisdale! Here on business, I hope? Alipang has very high hopes for your work performance; we have that to discuss, and the weekly food for your family. Alipang, your trucker may need something, go check."

Alipang moved in a daze to attend to the indicated customer. The trucker's ugliness, foul odor and fouler mouth soon brought him back to Earth. "That's a real _______ hottie that just came in, kid--not that the ones already here weren't ________ babes, too. You ever ______ any of 'em?"

"No, sir, I haven't. But then, last time I looked, this was a family restaurant. What can I do for you?"

Alipang's Filipino knife was ready in his pocket. All in all, it was for the best for everyone concerned that the trucker calmed down and cleaned up his speech without further prompting.
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(ooc oh dear!)

"You dont mind if we do that in private Mr. Imada?"
 
Alipang hastened to prevent the new family from leaving because of the cursing trucker. Because they knew Alipang and the Imadas, they consented to stay--but sitting as far from the trucker as possible.
 
ooc: im guessing dan already parted with chilena?

ic: Dan walked into his house, waiting for his father to come back from work to take him to the airport.
 
A private discussion with Mr. Imada was okay, because Mrs. Imada--who had sat with the Tisdales their first time here--was also present.

"You see we do a good volume of business, Miss Tisdale," said Mr. Imada. "So we can use you ANYTIME you're available. I'm going to tell you something Alipang wouldn't want me to tell you, because he doesn't 'blow the trumpet when he does deeds of charity,' as the Lord Jesus put it. When he pleaded for me to give you a paid job, he offered to give up some of HIS OWN hours to let you be able to work and make money. That won't be necessary; but I wanted you to realize the type of young man Alipang is. We think very highly of him here--almost like a son to us. But let's get to deciding when you think you could come in. With you here, that already gives us a way to make the food deliveries to your family..."
 
Copperfox said:
A private discussion with Mr. Imada was okay, because Mrs. Imada--who had sat with the Tisdales their first time here--was also present.

"You see we do a good volume of business, Miss Tisdale," said Mr. Imada. "So we can use you ANYTIME you're available. I'm going to tell you something Alipang wouldn't want me to tell you, because he doesn't 'blow the trumpet when he does deeds of charity,' as the Lord Jesus put it. When he pleaded for me to give you a paid job, he offered to give up some of HIS OWN hours to let you be able to work and make money. That won't be necessary; but I wanted you to realize the type of young man Alipang is. We think very highly of him here--almost like a son to us. But let's get to deciding when you think you could come in. With you here, that already gives us a way to make the food deliveries to your family..."
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(ooc note kim has no idea that Alipang has a crush on her. She's oblivious to that...lol which is true I am :D)

Wow he'd do that for me? Why though? Guess he's just really nice like that. God often does that to people's hearts.

"I can work Monday- Friday after school, on Saterdays, and then Sunday after church."
 
OOC: Ferny, cancel that last; Alipang is too good a waiter to have let that family go unprovided with menus. Dayhawk: if Kim-the-character hasn't figured out how Alipang feels after his (1) trying to be helpful in school, (2) staring at her in undisguised adoration, and (3) telling her she looks better than Tori Amos, she must not be accustomed to guys having a crush on her.
 
Copperfox said:
OOC: Ferny, cancel that last; Alipang is too good a waiter to have let that family go unprovided with menus. Dayhawk: if Kim-the-character hasn't figured out how Alipang feels after his (1) trying to be helpful in school, (2) staring at her in undisguised adoration, and (3) telling her she looks better than Tori Amos, she must not be accustomed to guys having a crush on her.
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(ooc its true:eek: lol)
 
OOC: N-Fan, since you logged off, and I have no way of knowing whether you intend to be back with us tonight, I'm going to assume that you finished eating and left. If you meant to say or do more, you can report it RETROACTIVELY. And if you as Summer are feeling really bad, we will also retroactively say that Maria Ramos drove you home.

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Alipang was tense as a bowstring, just from Kim _being_ here under the same roof. It took all his iron self-discipline to keep on working, rather than following Kim around like a puppy.
 
To the eldest daughter in the new family, Alipang said, "Excuse me, miss, aren't you the new student from Sweden? I don't have time to talk, but you caught my name; perhaps we'll chat sometime." His mannerisms made it plain that he was NOT hitting on Alina--that he barely even noticed her beauty. His mind was elsewhere.
 
Alina nodded and watched the boy disapeer from the table. She sipped some of her complimentary water, once again observing her surroundings. She watched the young boy and how taken he seemed to be by the other girl in the room. "Interesting...", she thought to herself. She then chastised one of her younger brothers for being to rowdy in public.
 
Chilena [assumed still to be here] asked Alipang at one point to help her open a shipping box of napkins held shut with strapping tape. This was in the dining area. Alipang, without consciously showing off but also without concealing his action, did something which for a Filipino was as natural as breathing: drawing the balisong knife out of his pocket, whirling the blade into position for use, cutting open the troublesome carton, then closing and pocketing the weapon once more. He gave it no thought; Mr. Imada owned two balisong knives, one larger than Alipang's.
 
* * OH-KAY, it has been half an hour since Ferny posted here, and a full hour since Dayhawk posted even out of character. All others have logged off. The stampede for further character interaction on Tuesday evening (game-time) has clearly declined to manageable intensity levels. Some players like Queenaravis707 have expressed the desire to move on to Wednesday; so...


Tonight's unused cooked food was going to a wheelchair-bound retired lady member of Redemption Church. The cook, Jagayu, was taking care of it himself tonight; he lived near the elderly widow, and was known to her. Tomorrow night's food donation was similarly spoken for; but Thursday night's food gift would be given to Kim to take home when she finished what would be her second night on the job. Mr. Imada had clarified to Kim that her working one weeknight a week unpaid in return for the food, applied only to her base wage; her tips were to be her own at all times.

Chilena having departed [I'm assuming Dan takes her home], Alipang went to work clearing and cleaning the dining area. This included washing down all the tables; he seemed especially vengeful in scrubbing the table where the dirty-minded trucker had sat.
 
"Ok thanks Mr. Imada!" She said as she walked out to the main area. She found Alipang, "Thanks for your help," she said, "Im really grateful for all you've done."
 
"You're, uh, you're, you're welcome, uh.....Kim." Alipang might have taken more notice of his trembling knees if his hands had not also been trembling; and he might have noticed the hands more if he had not been agonizingly wondering whether the smile he was attempting at Kim was merely goofy, or seriously dorky, or incurable distilled mega-doofus.
 
That left Alipang alone as the adults locked the place and departed. He had declined a ride with Dan and Chilena, and told Chilena to tell Mom he didn't need her to come.

The rollercoaster of emotions had been rough on him that night, in part because of worry for his ailing friend Summer. There had been one tantalizing moment when he had thought Kim was going to offer to drive him home herself. That had lasted for about the time it had taken her to heft her keys and whoosh out the door. She was grateful, he realized, but only abstractly; he was a useful infant, but still an infant in her eyes.

So, it wouldn't kill him to jog home. He took along one of the rattan Escrima sticks kept in a back room of the Pansit Paradise, to practice a few singlestick moves as he went. It would clear his head, and remind him that in some things he had manly accomplishments.

He was loping along Craddock Street in his usual silence, when his old slum instincts halted him with the inner cry of Ambush! So he detoured: over a well-known fence, up a tree, into an adjacent tree, down the other side of the fence, and so on around...until he arrived, still quiet as moonlight, behind the two boys, or young men, who were watching the way he would have passed.

"You sure the ________ comes this way when he's on foot?"

"Most of the time; sometimes he changes it, but this way most often."

Alipang eased out his balisong and opened it quietly, shifting the stick to his left hand and raising it to ready position above his left shoulder. The young thugs went on, their voices not any he recognized; nor did the view from behind in dim light identify them for him.

"Think he'll have much on him in tips?"

"Yeah, them rich ________ think he's cute, he gets plenty from them. But the big thing's to ________ HIM. He's gettin' too much street cred, but tonight we empty out his account."

"If he does come by here. And if he don't?"

That was a straight line too good to pass up--as if Alipang were holding a big cream pie and they said "Let me have it!" From a point as close to them as he judged safe, he suddenly shouted, "It's because he's BEHIND YOU!!" As he shouted this, he slammed the stick onto a shoulder of one enemy, and kicked the other one in the rear; the blade would be a last resort.

Whatever the two cheap hoodlums were carrying, it didn't make them brave. They came up running for their lives. He never did see their faces. But he should still tell the cops something. On his cellphone he dialled 911. Then while waiting for the squad car, he phoned home to let them know he had "eluded" an assault.

His Dad was there before the cops were, and then Alipang could wait in the locked car. He stashed his balisong under a seat; the cops wouldn't search the dentist's car, and it was none of their business what he carried. Let them arrest the Principal's pet Leopard Man, who threatens innocent people.

When the officers did arrive, Alipang gave them a 99 percent complete account of the incident, omitting only his possession of a folding-and-locking knife. It bugged him that this ate up the time he would have spent on schoolwork before sleeping.
 
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