Head to the gym.

You enter the gym where the boys seem to be separated into two groups. Coach Donovan says, "Okay, we're going to do things a little differently today. I have to leave for an important appointment in about ten minutes and won't be back for the rest of the class. The members of the wrestling team are going to be giving personal instruction to the less experienced wrestlers in the class. We happen to have ten members of the team here and sixteen non-team members, so each member of the team will pick one or two boys to instruct. Behave yourselves while I'm gone. Miss Beaumont will be here to keep an eye on you." He gives a meaningful glance over at Sean.

"Okay, the wrestlers will select who they will instruct," he says and turns to walk out of the gym.

You wait to see which of the wrestlers selects you. The ten members of the team confer together in a huddle and then break out and start heading over to the other boys. Manny breaks out of the huddle and comes toward you. "Parker, you're with me," he says.

"All right, Parker," Manny says, "you missed our first few wrestling lessons, so I'm going to give you some remedial instruction. We'll start on our feet and I'll show you the basic stance and we'll drill on a couple of basic moves. It's really boring, but the key to good wrestling is drilling over and over until the moves become instinctive."

Manny shows you the basic stance and occasionally corrects your posture physically with his hands. He then walks you through a few basic moves from the stance like the penetration step and has you drill on them repeatedly.

"You know, Parker," he says at one point, "you're actually really lucky. I know the Andersons have a full gym where you can practice this sort of stuff. Mr. Anderson was a pretty good wrestler himself back in the day and I've been in his wrestling room. I don't know how useful it will be, since, you know, you're a Processee, but you do have that going for you. I'd be happy to help you along if you're serious about the wrestling. I would recommend doing a bunch of reps of each of these drills every day, as many as you can physically handle."

The two of you go on like this for the rest of the class until it ends. Throughout, you notice Manny is rather obviously hard, but, like yesterday, doesn't do any more than the standard amount of groping one would expect in a wrestling match, for which you are grateful though he does seem to enjoy pushing your ass down to correct your stance more than is appropriate.