I guess it's one of the assistants. Coach Riley had went to bed at nine, as soon as we got to the hotel. I get out of bed and walk to the door. The li...ht in the halls are on. I step out of my room and look down one hallway and then the next. Nobody is there. I step back in to see someone is sitting on the chair across from where Jordan sleeps. I quickly flash on and off the light. "Coach Riley," I whisper. He chuckles, "Didn't you want me? I'm here now." I feel awkward in my own skin as I. I was so damn nervous for her my palms were damp.Amelia looked hesitant. But Ellen, in her inimitable way, soon had Amelia smiling. When I heard her bright laughter, I relaxed. She was a natural.Amelia, in her lemon yellow Capri pants, blue top, and yellow toenails in sandals, her hair dark brown with dark streaks, roughly shorn into feathers, and frameless glasses, reminded me of the first time I set eyes on her; just as cute, just as magnetic, but now taller, a budding young lady.“ ... and. She then told him to come on in and take a seat in her front room but before you do that you have to take your shoes off. she showed him to the front room where it was warm and dry as it was pouring it down outside she went upstairs and grabbed him a blanket and shouted down do you want a hot drink with which he replied yes please she then said would you like a hot chocolate and he said yes please. so she went to the kitchen and made him a drink and then slowly walked over to the front room. “Well, that’s your hands out of the way.” she said “There’s just one other thing I need to do.”She walked across the gym, opened the store room door and went in. She emerged a couple of minutes later with two of the concrete weights used to secure the badminton nets. She placed one on each side of me and then proceeded to tie my ankles to the weights. She pulled gently on a rope by the wall and the bar above me moved upwards slightly stretching my arms to their full length. I stood there.