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Kindred Spirits
“What’s your favorite Star Wars movie?” Gabe asked. Uncharacteristically. Elena looked over at him. “You might as well ask me who my favorite child is,” Troy said. “Do you have children?” Elena asked him. “I meant hypothetically,” Troy said. He exhaled hard. “This is tough, this is really tough. I’m going to have to go with The Empire Strikes Back.” The next half-hour was taken up by Troy justifying his choice. At several points he considered changing his answer, but he kept landing back on Hoth.
“Well,” she said, “my friends do like Star Wars. They’re going to see it this weekend. But they don’t like it like I do. They don’t get a stomach ache about it.”
“How’d you think it was going to be?” Gabe asked. “I don’t know-fun.” “You’re camping on a sidewalk with strangers. Why would that be fun?”
But ever since she and Elena’s dad had separated four years ago, her mom had taken a stand against any and every man, especially where Elena was concerned. “Learn from my mistakes,” she said. Learn what? Elena wondered. Avoid men? Avoid love? Avoid radiologists who buy movie-replica lightsabers?
“You’ve got to sacrifice something for this experience,” Troy said, refusing to be sidetracked. “That’s why we’re here. You’ve got to leave some blood on the altar. I mean, you heard Mark. If you just want to see the new Star Wars movie, you can buy your ticket online and then forget about it until show time. But if you want to wait in line, you wait in line, you know?”
The manager, Mark, held the door for Troy, but he was still looking at Elena. “Do your parents know you’re here?” “I’m eighteen,” she said. He looked surprised. “Well, all right. Then I guess you’re old enough to waste your own time.”
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