There's nothing worse than a security line moving at a snail's pace when you have a plane to catch. Unless you're Leah Neubeck and Peter Elsham. Then there's nothing better.
Leah and Peter, both 18 and from Golden Valley, have known each other since sixth grade, when, Leah says, she was "a tomboy with a unibrow." They attended a dance as friends in ninth grade, then shifted to sweetheart status as sophomores at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka. When Peter got his driver's license, he drove Leah to school every day for two years.
When they're not driving or studying, they're usually text-messaging, e-mailing or talking on their cells.
"She's funny," Peter says of Leah. "I don't know. We have so much fun together. I just love her."
Leah says Peter is her boyfriend and best friend.
But can it last?
On a recent Saturday morning, the duo seemed oblivious to the airport hum around them, their hands locked in a vise-like grip, their eyes exhibiting the anxiety of young lovers about to be wrenched apart by that modern scourge: college.
Leah was heading to Northeastern University in Boston to play volleyball and study architecture. Peter heads to the University of Minnesota-Duluth on Sept. 2 to study physical education.
