I grimaced at her. "You do know who she is, right?"

Coach chuckled. "Yeah, I've been informed a few times. As in, a few times more than I needed to be. But I do this for fun, and because I love it. I don't play politics. If they fire me tomorrow, well, it's not like I quit my day job."

I laughed, and she smiled at me, and my heart fluttered inside my chest. God she was, um, pretty wasn't the word, striking, maybe. Whatever the case, I had a hard time looking away from her face.

The girls started to filter out of the locker room, which brought me...