Part *Four* of "Homeschoolers in Highschool"

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As Chilena drove Alipang to the picnic site (he was already wearing his loose, vee-necked Escrima shirt), he realized he didn't know whether Kim was going to be helping run the Pansit Paradise's food concession. But he wasn't _surprised_ not to know, since Kim didn't speak to him about _anything_ that often.

He _had_ taken his pain medication before leaving the house, and he was carrying an extra tablet with him for later.
 
Alipang _pretended_ to have been jolted out of a reverie. "What? What? Where's here? Where have you materialized your TARDIS?"
 
Alipang went first of all to report to Master Pitik, assuring him that he was ready for his emcee role in the demonstration. Then he went looking for the Pansit booth, to find out whether Kim was there.


OOC: And at the rate Kim-the-actual-person posts on this thread, that takes Weird Al out of the action for, oh, maybe the next real-world month or two.
 
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{ Assume a very reasonable price paid by Mr. Kramer. }

"Glad to do it, Jason. And here's something I brought for you and your sister." He handed Jason a folder, which contained recruitment and career information on the U.S. Border Patrol and other federal entities. "This isn't putting you off from talking with me in person about the job choices; it's just to get you started."
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"Thanks, Mr. Kramer." Jason said, taking the folder. He couldn't wait to go through it with his sister.
 
"Let me say just one thing now," said Mr. Kramer in a lower voice. "If you go into ANY military or law-enforcement career, you'll have cause to think about the old saying, 'Who will watch the watchers?' "
 
Erin was just going to go get Sky, her rosy boa for the demonstration. As she came up to the carrier, she noticed it was slightly open. "oh no!" she thought. A quick look in the carrier said that Sky wasn't in there. Erin quickly looked up as she heard a woman scream nearby. Erin thought to herself,"yup, I'm sure a loose 3 foot boa could make most people uncomfortable" Erin quickly went to the scene.
 
Just ahead of Erin was her new friend Alipang. The scream had caught his attention; and knowing what kind of snake Erin owned, he knew he didn't have poison fangs to deal with. In short order, he had Sky lifted up in (or around?) his arms, and was looking around. "Erin? Erin Conrad? Did you lose something?"
 
Erin hurried to where Alipang was holding her snake. "Thank you so much, Alipang!" Erin looked at Sky, who had twisted her way up his arm, now exploring his shoulder. She told Alipang,"Looks like Sky likes you!"
 
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Erin looked at Sky, who had twisted her way up his arm, now exploring his shoulder. She told Alipang, "Looks like Sky likes you!"
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Suddenly it crossed Alipang's mind that Erin, like his friend Summer, was a highly appealing girl in her own right. If he had not already been obsessed with Kim, it would now have been the easiest thing in the world to play off of Erin's last remark in a gently flirtatious way. This, then, could have been the start of using the whole day as girlfriend-cultivation...not that he had any experience in that, but it stood to reason. However, he WAS obsessed with the mysterious Kim Tisdale; and unlike the captain of the East High football team, he had no desire to be keeping multiple girls on a string. So he only said, "Well, it must be tedious for her to have people scared of her all the time"--and handed back the snake with a merely-friendly, not flirtatious, smile.
 
She looked at her dad " Papa do you think Al well be all right I mean he been day dreamer more then he use to," she told him with a sigh
 
Erin took Sky back gratefully. She caught Alipang giving her a weird look and she realized she must have seemed flirtatious. She had no interest in boys, yet most the time people took her mere friendliness as flirting, which she did not like. "Well, Alipang, thank you again for getting Sky right before our demonstration! I must be heading there right now, if I can find your two little sisters, Melody and Harmony, they've volunteered with their dad to help keep Sky calm"
 
Eric Havens gave his daughter a shoulder-pat and a kiss. "Don't worry about Al, honey; he snaps back into reality when he needs to. Don't you remember that he was the one who figured out that Mrs. Capshaw was keeping tabs on you for your birth parents? Mrs. Capshaw has admitted this to your Mom by now."

Alipang, meanwhile, was agitated by the thought that Erin was thinking that he was thinking that she was flirting. Really, he had only been thinking that HE might have tried flirting if he hadn't already been hooked on Kim; but if he tried to explain that distinction to Erin now, he thought that she would think that he WAS nonetheless thinking that she was flirting, so now he was flirting.

He sighed. This was the kind of point at which his sister would roll her eyes and say "Boys!" But what Alipang said to himself, rather than "Girls!", was, "Misperceptions!"
 
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Now Cecilia spoke--in Tagalog, which Melody and Harmony didn't understand. "Chilena, if you think Al's gone too far overboard in his fascination, put some of the blame on me. In fact, put MOST of the blame on me. All the time YOU were being allowed some dating with precautions, Al wasn't being allowed any. I held him back because I was afraid of his 'weirdness.' Or that's what I told myself. But what I was really afraid of was his male nature itself. It's something the Lord has had to deal with me about, and I still don't know how to ask your brother's forgiveness."

"Al doesn't think of you as having wronged him, sweetheart," Eric Havens insisted.

Cecilia clung to her husband for a moment, then turned toward Chilena again. "But I did wrong your brother. I had had you for years already before we adopted Al, and even Melody for awhile before him. I was comfortable raising girls...and something in me wanted Al to be a girl too. When he insisted on being a boy, that caused my mind to inflate all his problems--not that he didn't have real problems."

Eric put in a word again: "True, sweetheart; we really DIDN'T want Al breaking some other boy's arm or neck in a fight over a girl. After his years of slum survival, there WAS a certain hair-trigger temper in him."

"But I could have allowed him SOME kind of--well, I can't change the past." Chilena could see that her Mom was almost in tears. "But God may be giving me a chance to make it up to your brother, Chilena--by ENCOURAGING his feelings for Kim. I think I see God's hand in the way Mrs. Tisdale is encouraging him too. I'm hoping for good things from the Assateague Island excursion nest weekend."

Eric now touched his eldest daughter's cheek. "Honey, the way you looked when you said--are you feeling as if AL doesn't love YOU as much as he did? If so, I don't think you have anything to worry about. In all ways other than the specifically romantic, Alipang loves you more than he loves any other mortal creature on Earth."
 
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Erin looked around and then she realized that it was time for her snake demonstration. she heard the pastor start to introduce her so she quickly put Sky into her carrier and walked out there with a smile. "well," Erin started,"today I have with me one of my very best animal friends. ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to meet Sky, my rosy boa" amid the little ones gasps Erin gently took out Sky. Sky began to wind her way up Erin's arm as she talked about what kind of snake Sky was, how to safely keep a snake and some other random facts about Sky. Erin asked, "now which one of you kids are very brave around a snake? Because I think that Sky is a bit hungry and wants one of you to feed her a snake treat." Erin smiled at the many hands that shot up. "well, I'm glad not all of you are scared of her, how about you in the blue t-shirt?" Erin pointed at a little boy in the second row.
 
The boy sprang up to volunteer without waiting to ask parental permission.

OOC: We had been going to have the snake presentation after the Escrima exhibition, but there is no reason at all why there can't be more than one show. People come and go, after all.
 
Chilena put her little sister down to place her arms around her mother " Shhh Mum do do that to yourself it's not your fault," she told her " I think he just doing that so he won't get angry like I write songs," she told her.
 
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