Homeschoolers in Highschool, Part Two

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Somewhere in the course of the weary day, Alipang drifted into another daydream--one that he did not enjoy like the others, but which seemed inevitable.

He was on an old-time sailing ship. Suddenly, pirates--not of the Caribbean, but of Leyte Gulf--attacked and boarded from the starboard. They were carrying off Alipang's mother and sisters! Furiously, he waded into them with a Spanish rapier in one hand and a Filipino parang knife in the other, mowing down evildoers right and left.

Suddenly, Kim Tisdale came swinging on a rope to attack--not the pirates, but Alipang, knocking him down with a flying kick. "Shame on you!" she scolded. "What do your mother and sisters matter, next to the importance of keeping the Principal happy? All you have to do is wait for karma to happen; your family will all be dead by then, but your hands will be clean."

Alipang leaped right back up, pushed past Kim, and rescued his family in spite of her. The surviving boarders were fleeing to save their skins, and Alipang was hugging his mother and sisters--when a scream sounded behind him. Another crew of pirates, these from the South China Sea, had boarded from the port side, and they had seized Kim, not bothering to listen to her scolding. "Alipang! Help me!" Kim pleaded. "Help me! Save me!"

"Why should I?" he retorted. "After they kill you, karma will take care of them, so that makes it okay."

Emerging from this unsatisfying but compulsive reverie, he wondered if Kim ever would listen to the story of poor Esperanza.
 
Copperfox said:
Somewhere in the course of the weary day, Alipang drifted into another daydream--one that he did not enjoy like the others, but which seemed inevitable.

He was on an old-time sailing ship. Suddenly, pirates--not of the Caribbean, but of Leyte Gulf--attacked and boarded from the starboard. They were carrying off Alipang's mother and sisters! Furiously, he waded into them with a Spanish rapier in one hand and a Filipino parang knife in the other, mowing down evildoers right and left.

Suddenly, Kim Tisdale came swinging on a rope to attack--not the pirates, but Alipang, knocking him down with a flying kick. "Shame on you!" she scolded. "What do your mother and sisters matter, next to the importance of keeping the Principal happy? All you have to do is wait for karma to happen; your family will all be dead by then, but your hands will be clean."

Alipang leaped right back up, pushed past Kim, and rescued his family in spite of her. The surviving boarders were fleeing to save their skins, and Alipang was hugging his mother and sisters--when a scream sounded behind him. Another crew of pirates, these from the South China Sea, had boarded from the port side, and they had seized Kim, not bothering to listen to her scolding. "Alipang! Help me!" Kim pleaded. "Help me! Save me!"

"Why should I?" he retorted. "After they kill you, karma will take care of them, so that makes it okay."

Emerging from this unsatisfying but compulsive reverie, he wondered if Kim ever would listen to the story of poor Esperanza.
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ooc: Do these symbolize an emotional breakdown for Alipang?
 
Chilena and Dan was walking past him " Oh, great he in his la la land again," she told him, walking quietly up to him putting both of her hands in his " Al snap out of it," she told him, in a low tone so she wouldn't scare him.
 
OOC: Rather, given what he has suffered--and the rest of you don't know the worst of it yet--this regular psychological venting is what SAVES Alipang from breaking down.
 
Alipang to Chilena: "I'm alright, sweets; I'm just thinking what it's like to have a girl I befriended more interested in scolding ME than in scolding the jerk who shoved Dan."
 
She hugged him " Aw Al I'm sorry this happening," she told him, with a frown " I wish I knew what to do," she told him, tears rolled down her cheeks.
 
"But don't you know?" said Alipang in a sharply mocking tone extremely rare from her tenderly loving brother. "WE don't have to do anything--just let karma take care of things--like karma took care of my birth sister!" Then he pulled Chilena very close and kissed her hair, so she would understand that he wasn't angry at her.


OOC: Maybe we can move the day forward to lunch.
 
ooc; that works.

ic: Jen walked into the cafeteria, starved. She sat down at the table she sat at the day before.
 
BACKING UP TO WHEN CHILENA ASKED ABOUT KARMA:


"Karma is the Hindu and Buddhist idea that your good or bad deeds in one earthly life decide how happy or unhappy your _next_ earthly life will be. Only, in that next earthly life you've already _forgotten_ what you did in the previous life, so you can't learn any lessons. The resemblance between the karma doctrine and the Biblical truth of sowing and reaping is only superficial--and misleading."
 
(Is the fist later, at lunchtime?)

(As for Chilena's question of what karma has to do with us, Alipang tells her that Kim expected him to take some kind of comfort from her tossing the karma concept into her scolding Alipang instead of scolding "Rocknose"--as if the bully having to be a toad in a future life did anything to help the abused Dan.)


Alipang ate rapidly as usual. Then he began writing a letter, which he would show only to Chilena. His handwriting was at its worst, showing his agitated condition:


Deer Kim,

Befor I sey what I wannt to say, heare is what I fisrt MUST say: nothing Im tellig you needs to have any efect on you wokring at the retsaurunt, or you coming to Redmeption Church. But before you tel me to be pasive and let thigns just happn, you need to know about my brith sister Espranza. She died at age five, becuase NO ONE intrevened.

My birth mohter in the Phillipins named Yollanda died when I was seven and Espernza was four. Never mind for now how she died, I cant take telling you abuot her AND Mama at the same time. But once Mama was gone, the man who was my father in body olny began beeting us both up. He mostly beat me up becaus I wuld stay in betwen him and my sistr and I would beg him to stop. For monhts I did this and no one cared, we wer in a poor neigborhood. Finaly one niht he was having so much fun beating me up that I coulnt keep in between him and Esperaza anymor because he beat me unconsious. Then he wanted mor fun so he beat my sister to death. If someone with the stength to stop him had stoped him, Esperanza would be alve now, on Earth I mean I know shes in Heven with my first Mama but I miss her even though I love the sistrs God gave me insted.

My papa in body only was sentenced to death and he desreved it, but I wish somone had stoppd him sooner. Yuo may think this maks YOUR case because his being excuted didnt help Esperana, but if he had been shot betwen the eys BEFORE he killed her that would hav helpd her a LOT. You see it is not revenje I want but I do want some power to stop evil poeple BEFORE they kil the innosent. And I am not ashamed of that.

Jesus told us to lov our emenies but He did NOT say to giv our ennmies FIRST PLACE ahead of our own lovd ones. When I have to choose if people I care about get hurt or the bad gys get hurt, the bad guys lose that toss. Kim I like you more than any girl I ever saw wich isnt saying much becuse I have no social lif, but you cant make me ashamed of defending weaker people from bullies. It was part of the recrod of Job's rightousness in the Bible that he brok the fangs of the wicked and recsued the victims. And if I ever see YOU bieng attacked by punks their blood is on their own heads.

Regrads,
Alipang Havnes
 
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