Yet another, and once I've started reading GA fiction from the Just In list again, I've realized how many awesome stories have surfaced since last time I checked. There's too many to list here, but just go read them. All of them.
How?
How does he do it?
"Marry me, Addison." What the Hell? Where were the candles, the romantic view, the subtle sliding across of a velvet box, the going down on one knee?
She stands, stunned, an infuriating half inch shorter than him.
"This is unexpected," is the only thing she can say, like Billie Joe, real words dancing from her brain only to sit stupidly on her tongue.
"Would you like me to warn you the next time I propose?"
She takes the ring, held out in his hand like a pebble, inspects it in the dim light from the city. The ferryboat rocks, and she leans against him for stability.
"You don't need to propose again." And she still doesn't know how he does it.
Reference: Billie Joe...was the narrator of Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse. She writes the whole story through blank verse, almost never speaking to the people that she writes about. It's pretty phenomenal.