Victoria Burress, a senior kicker on a Virginia high school football team, accepted a classmate's invitation to a homecoming dance after it was delivered via a stuffed animal dropped from a helicopter.

The Washington Post has the complex tale of the dance request at Prince William County's Patriot High School. It's your typical sort of boy meets girl, boy uses father's government connections to get a helicopter to hover over his high school's football field in order to ask a girl to the year's second-biggest dance.

"He knew it was my senior year, and I've been asked some pretty creative ways before this," Burress, 17, told the newspaper. "Everyone thinks that we like each other, but it's not like that at all. It's just unusual to be that close with a guy and to have him still do something nice for you."

The three best things about that quote, in descending order:

3. Those other creative ways Victoria has been asked to dances: Over a public address system and via cups in a fence. I'd say this one upped the ante.

2. Her unintentional jadedness in the last line is terrific. Just wait until you're in a long-term relationship. I bought my fiancee flowers this weekend and acted like I deserved the Congressional Medal of Honor.

1. The boy, who was unidentified by The Post, went to all that trouble to ask Victoria to the dance and she still doesn't think he likes her! What else can a brother do to send a signal? He's probably going back over the plan in his head wondering whether he should have had One Direction jump out of the helicopter.

The inclusion of this paragraph was another article highlight:

News of the flying-puppy-gram quickly spread through the student body. Burress received a text message at 3:12 p.m. that read: "Who asked someone to homecoming with a helicopter?" That message was quickly followed by these: "OMG IT WAS YOU!?" "AWHHHHHHHH," and "IM SO JEALOUS." Burress responded at 5:28 p.m. â?? "Hahahahahahahah I know!" â?? and then posted a photo of the exchange on her public Twitter account.

There were three writers on the story's byline. I wonder which one had to fact check the number of "ha"s.

Burress is the school's backup kicker. The team is 1-3 this season.