"Kim (not her real name) and I bonded when our sons played on the same travel basketball team. For years, we spent weekend after weekend together in loud, testosterone-filled gyms, rife with the smell of boy sweat and breakfast sandwiches. We always sat in the same place on the unforgiving bleachers, midway up in the center, and picked up our conversation from where we left off at the previous practice or game."
"I saw Evan for the first time when he showed up at practice to bring her wallet. I grinned when she leaped up and shrieked at the sight of his 6-foot-something frame filling the gym's doorway. She was so tiny next to him that they reminded me of Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen, if they were both blond. To me, Kim was the only thing that made those practices bearable."
"So when she missed two in a row, I called her in a panic. "I'm Evan's plus one at a wedding in San Jose!" She was yelling over Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It." "Sorry, didn't I tell you? Anyway, I'll be back in time for tomorrow's practice. I can't wait to process everything with you." When Kim arrived the following day, I felt my shoulders relax as she sat next to me."
Two mothers bond because their sons play on the same travel basketball team and spend weekends together in loud gyms. They sit in the same bleacher spot, trade gossip about other parents and lightly critique coaches, and share details about their love lives. Kim becomes smitten with a new partner, a former college basketball player who is a single dad. The narrator first sees him when he returns Kim's wallet and notices their striking size difference. Kim misses practices to attend a wedding as his plus one, then returns excited and ready to process events with the narrator.
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