Coach Mulligan wasn't your usual balding, middle aged man with a pot belly. He was about 30, tall, muscular without being a brick shithouse, and above all, handsome. He had a perfectly trimmed beard, and near symmetrical features - but it was his eyes that drew me in, seduced me with their blue-sea depth and made me lust...
'ANNA! PASS THE BALL!'
I heard the bellow and was snapped out of my daydream, right back smack in the middle of our college basketball playoff game against Arizona State. Fuck. What was I thinking, lusting after Coach at such an important moment. No time to dwell on it now though, PASS!
At the half, Coach pulled me to one side and put his hands on my shoulders. God...his hands, so close to my throat. It made it hard to focus on what he was saying.
"You're lost out there! What's got into you. Anna you're my best player, I need you!"
But all I heard was 'Anna' and 'I need you'.
'I need you too Coach!' I blurted out before I realised what I was saying.
He started, his mouth slightly open, visibly shocked at what I'd uttered - and something else. Did I detect a glimmer of something in his eye...something devilish?
But it was gone so quick I may have imagined it.
He rubbed his hands down my arms and shook me. 'Get your head in the game Anna, or I'll have to sideline you. Now go and get a pack of ice round your neck!'
Coach twisted me round, and as he did his hand brushed ever so lightly on my breast. It was probably an accident, but my heart leapt at the contact, and I could feel my nipple hardening against my cotton shirt.