He hears someone calling out his name. He is shooting three-pointers, it just happens to be his turn at this activity at the end of the basketball season party. It's M who calls him, cheerful and smiling as usual. When his turn is over - yielding a score too poor to disclose - he approaches to where she sits and starts some small talk. They got acquainted last year, when they both started to attend the weekly basketball training session for adults at their children's school. She does not take part in this year's end-of-season activities. She hasn't been attending the basketball training on thursdays either, as he knows. The reason is the pain she's been suffering on her back for many months now. She says her back pain is so severe she can't practice any sport these days. The only physical activity she indulges in is sex, but even at that she has to pay attention not to be too brisk with the motions of her body. They both laugh at the blunt remark with made up complicity.
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