Homeschoolers in Highschool, Part Two

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(Assume that Alina learned the coach's name before moving on: Tito Escobar.)


"What is it with you, Torinburg?" Mr. Escobar demanded. "Aren't there enough girls _willing_ to be your doormat, without you needing to pester one who _isn't_ interested?"

"I just thought she was playing hard to get, coach," replied Jack sullenly.

"You'd better learn something _now,_ estupido, before you get to where the penalties are worse. Current law and practice weigh heavily against you being able to get away with such a lame excuse. Let me put it in easy words for you: NO means NO! If a girl says she doesn't want you, it _means_ she doesn't want you!"
 
Nothing of special interest happened in Biology class. The day ended for Alipang with mixed reviews; it was good to have Brendan as a friend now, but he still had his same concerns about Grant and Jason, and he didn't like it that Mrs. Lewiston had said _nothing_ about Leopard Man being punished for having had a knife on school property. She certainly would have gotten on _Alipang's_ case if he had brought _his_ knife.

He walked home; from there his mother drove him to the Pansit Paradise. He spoke first thing to Mr. Imada about employing Kim Tisdale; and Mr. Imada was even more agreeable to it than Alipang had expected. Provided Kim took it seriously, she would have steady employment now. Alipang resolved not to say a word, NOT ONE word, to Kim about any matter of personal feelings when they were working together. Nor would he be the one to phone the Tisdale house with news of Kim's acceptance; even when Mr. Imada urged him to make the call, he respectfully refused.

Alipang knew in his bones that in Kim's eyes he was only "a little boy"--even if he _was_ a little boy capable of beating up almost everyone else in school, and even if he was a little boy who had proven useful to Kim. Nothing he could do would make him a figure of _emotional_ importance to that gorgeous creature; but what _was_ in his power was to avoid making a supreme dweeb of himself by ever letting out the tiniest hint of any feeling that Kim _owed_ him anything.

He was all business as he came on duty with Maria Ramos.
 
Chilena was at work doing her school work she is Homeshooled half the day. " I don't get this why am I not at school mum?," she asked, looking at her foster mum with her arms crossed.
 
Jen and Dan got onto the same bus as soon as school ended. Jen sat down where she usually sat, the same seat that she and Chilena had shared just the day before. She sprawled out over the seat and listened to her iPod as she looked out the window. Dan, realizing that Jen wasn't in the mood to talk, took a seat across the aisle from her.
 
Dan said, "Okay, works for me. I'll talk to you later, okay?"

Jen turned back to look out the window. They were passing by a familiar neighborhood.
 
" OK, see you soon," she told him, hanging up then jumped off her chair to go up stairs to get the rest of her home work done before everyone comes in.
 
Dan got off before Jen, which she didn't mind but at the same time was kind of frustrated with herself for not talking to him. She sighed and counted the blocks left to her stop.
 
When she was down she got dress for her date with Dan then ran down stairs. She went to the kitchen to get a snake " Dad I'm going out!," she told him, walking to the living room cleaning the coffee table were the twins made a mess " I do wish they clean up themself," she said, with a sigh walking in the front to put on her shoes.
 
Dan walked into his house and shut the door behind him. He sighed. Finishing his homework in under two hours was going to take some serious concentration. He left his jacket and shoes by the front door and went into the kitchen.

"Hi, Mom," he said, and took a water bottle from the fridge.

"Oh hello Dan," his mother replied, and kissed him on the forehead. "You look a little shaken. What's wrong?"

"Nothing, nothing," Dan smiled. "Rather, everything's going well."

"Hmm." his mother said thoughtfully. "Alright. Well your father's going to take you out somewhere in a few hours, he said."

"Wait. When?" Dan asked, concerned.

"Well you don't have any plans, do you? He wanted to take you with him to get your aunt, uncle and cousins. Remember Uncle Nick? He's coming."

Dan sighed. "Well, I actually did have plans..."

His mother folded her arms. "It can't be that important."

Dan shrugged and walked upstairs, stressed.
 
FITTING IN SOMEHOW WITH AN EARLIER POST OF GENTLE VOICE'S:


When Chilena had asked why she still continued some homeschooling, Cecilia Havens had decided it was time something direct was said about that, just as her husband had quite recently decided it was time to tell the girl about her narrow escapes from the clutches of uncaught criminals. Therefore [to be assumed to have been said at a point in time which makes sense] she told her just-barely-eldest daughter:

"Sweetheart, do you remember when we talked about Wolfgang Mozart? About the fact that he was at once amazingly talented, yet also disorderly and confused in his emotional life? Your Dad and I see something like that in you. There's awesome potential in you, but it needs to be trained or it won't achieve anything. Your brother--now don't worry about 'comparisons,' I have a special reason for saying this--your brother probably has _less_ overall intellectual talent than you do; but what he has, he _uses_ with great self-discipline. He has something extra going for him: the years he spent in a living H-ll in Luzon are like a whip, driving him on to make a good life, so any children he may have will never have to face anything like that. Also...having his role as a protective, watchful brother does HIM good, keeps his mind sober.

"If going to school on the outside were _nothing_ but a matter of scholastics, you _would_ be at East High full time right now. But there's _life_ to learn about, and _wisdom_ to be gained for living; and your Dad and I believe that, under God, we can still give you things you need, things that a secular government school can't. The matter of checking on your boyfriends is just part of the picture. We love you so much, dear, that we HAVE TO do the best we know how for you."
 
" I know mum I just wish I can be like my friends and stay there the whole time," she told her, with a sigh, still putting on her shoes " Mum is all right if I go to the cafe with Dan?," she asked, now putting her hair up in a pony tail.
 
Dan paced back and forth in his room, then finally walked downstairs and told his mother that he had plans with Chilena. His mother just sighed and looked up at him.

"Go do your homework. Or at least half of it. Then you can take her out to the cafe - BUT - you must be at home in three hours. Got it? I don't want to disappoint your father. And plus, your relatives really wanted to see you." his mother said. He nodded and rushed back upstairs, eager to finish his homework.

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Meanwhile, Jen was getting off her bus and walking up to her house, about to unlock the door.
 
"As for that," said Cecilia, "I ran into Dan's mother at Walgreen's today, and she said something about Dan possibly being made to go someplace with his father. I'm not against you seeing Dan; but in case it doesn't work out, don't be angry at him--it may just be something he couldn't help."
 
" I told him that we don't have to spend time all the time like we got chin up toghter so I won't be mad if he had to spend time with his family mum," she told her, skipping back to the kitchen to get a glass of water.
 
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