The Low-Class Prince Charming

Chapter 18

Dean sighed in frustration. "How can you be finding this so difficult?"

Mason blushed. "My body just isn't used to this kind of stuff."

Dean rubbed his forehead in thought. "Sky!" he called, indicating she should make her way over when she turned her attention away from her punching bag. "I need you to teach him how to escape a standing rear choke and I figured maybe you have a different way of teaching it that he'll pick up easier. I need a break so I'm going to the toilet."

Sky chuckled as Dean left a very red-faced Mason behind. "Having trouble, so I hear. Show me how Dean has been positioning you."

Mason looked at her weirdly. "Dean hasn't been positioning me in any particular way..."

Sky nodded. "Good, you're learning. You're just going to be standing normally when someone comes up from behind you. Now show me what you're meant to do."

In a split second, Sky was behind him and had him in a chokehold; Mason's mind went blank.

When Mason didn't move after a few seconds, Sky sighed in agitation. "Why aren't you doing anything?"

Well—I—It's just—You're a girl," Mason stuttered.

"And you don't want to beat up a girl, is that it?" she asked accusingly.

"It's not that!" he denied quickly, his face red. "It's just that I can feel..." He trailed off as he thought about her body pressed up against his.

"Just show me or I'm really going to start choking you," Sky threatened as Mason felt her grip tighten.

"A—Alright, fine," he responded, and he proceeded to move behind her, where he then struggled to knock her over backwards.

Sky nodded as she released him. "I see your problem. You only attempt to pull me over your leg. You need to release an arm to help push me backwards over your leg. Here, like this."

Seeing as Sky was too tall for Mason to hold her in a rear choke, Sky instead just showed him how to position his legs and arms in his attempt to knock her over.

"Got that?" she asked.

"I think so. Let's try again," Mason responded, nodding his head in determination.

Upon trying the second time, Mason succeeded in pulling her down to the ground with him; Mason couldn't help but smile over proudly at Sky who was sitting beside him and she couldn't help but smile back.

"You did it," Sky said and Mason nodded.

"I did do it. Thanks to you," Mason grinned, and for a moment they just sat there in silence looking at each other as their smiles slowly faded off their faces.

"And? Did it work?" Dean asked as he re-entered the room and they quickly got up on their feet. Dean looked at them in amusement. "I'm going to assume yes unless you guys were just having a heated make-out session on the floor."

As Mason got flustered at his words, Sky responded very calmly. "Very funny, Dean. You don't fraternize with the enemy."

Dean spoke approvingly of her words as Mason simultaneously asked why he was the enemy; Sky turned to look at him and grinned. "Don't worry, you're only the enemy when we pretend to be to teach you moves.

Mason blinked in confusion. "Oh, ok."

"So, Sky, since it's the end of the lesson I guess I'd better tell you now," Dean said as he pulled a couple of tickets out of his nearby bag and handed them to her. "I know it was your birthday a few days ago so I bought two tickets for us to a movie I thought you'd enjoy, but it turns out I can't go anymore because something else came up. I was hoping maybe Mason could take my place instead," Dean explained, and then turned to look at Mason as he spoke the last bit.