A Great Pickup Line
Title: A Great Pickup Line
Author: i'll find my way.
Type: Original Fiction
Genre: Teen l Romance
Rating: PG - 13
Whenever I read a story termed under the romance genre, I find that to be impressive. These stories have to be one of either two things: particularly funny or incredibly smutty. I'm not allowed to speak of the latter in print, though, so yeah. Moving on.
A Great Pickup Line by i'll find my way. is a great example of the former.
One thousand, nine hundred and fifty six words long - the semantics of the one shot seem pretty basic. Girl falls out of tree, lands on boy, breaks his arm, and they're both way too shy to acknowledge the glowing attraction - the usual. And the thing is, it would have been a complete hit and miss if it hadn't been for the obnoxious best friends. Nick, who likes corny pick up lines (and has a wicked sense of humor), and Victoria, who seems like the more grounded of the two.
If there's anything that you'd take away from this story, it'd be that best friends sometimes know you much more than you might know yourself. There are other, smaller things too. Like, how insanely cute it would be to fall out of trees onto good looking boys called Ace, eventually marry him and have his fifty children. Of course, though, things like this don't happen in real life. They may happen in Mibba (and how wonderful it would be to be a character in a cute, fluffy story on here) but not in real life. Which sucks because my university has some tall trees and just so amazing boys that I'd love to pull a Nina on. Hm.
On a more serious note, A Great Pickup Line is a wonderful mix of fluffy romance, cute description and oh-so-relateable 'that boy is fine' moments. The humor, you'll find if you read more of her stories, is a quality characteristic of i'll find my way.'s writing. Her characters are never cut of the stock routine and the incidences with which she puts them through as unique as teen romances can go without seeming hyperbolic. In all honesty, after I read this story, I could never quite look at trees the same way again. Or hear that pickup line - you know which one I mean - without thinking of Nina and her insane quest to risk neck and limb for a kite.
This story makes for great light reading. Good with the humour, cute with the romance.
