FYI: I'm not that long out of a 5 year relationship.

It was a last minute decision to go out. I was with a gay guy, 6, 7 and an 8. I knew the 7, when I saw her I did the kiss hello and when I saw HB8 and 6 I immediately smiled, introduced myself and shook their hands. I was feeling good about myself in general and was looking forward to a night of interacting with new girls.

The club is huge, very loud music (about 40% my taste) but the women are hot. The general age is about 4 years younger than me. I didn't feel awkward but I definitely didn't feel as confident as I used to when I hit this club up 5 years ago.

I met a HB8.5 I used to work with, the gay guy still works with her and brought her into our group. After about 30 mins of being in the same group, I said "hey, come here. Are you having a good night?" and after some small talk I played the 5 questions game with her.

When I said "if I win I get a kiss" she was like "no, no!" and surprisingly 5 seconds later "okay, I'll do it". So I was very happy, knowing that I'd win. I won on question #5 and she was like "oh my God!" and I was like "a deal's a deal!". So she came in for a kiss, and very disappointingly she did not want tongues! "Hey, that wasn't a proper kiss!" "yes it was! and I'm gonna use your game" -- well that was a complete failure.

15 minutes later I did the exact same thing with HB8. She had given clear IOIs earlier in the night, loads of kino, smiling etc. When someone spilt their drink on me she got a load of napkins from the bar and wiped me down (arm/back), quite thoroughly! Someone made a joke at the time "get your coat, you've pulled!" and she laughed. Anyway, I say "if I win I get a kiss" and she said "I can't, I have a boyfriend" which sucked. "Okay, then you have to buy me a drink", "I have no money!". Well again, this was going to be a failure. "Okay, you owe me a dance" which she agreed to. I won on #5, but it didn't feel like a victory as no kiss or drink.

Long story short, I had to put the gay guy into a taxi as he was too drunk. The three girls pulled men. I was on my own and the place wasn't closing for 2 hours. I walked around, stood about a lot, danced for a bit but no interest towards me. I was getting bored. Hot girls everywhere, but I could not approach them. I had major AA. I got frustrated and went to get my coat. Fucking frustrated, a night of complete failure.

On my way out, a very beautiful HB9 was in my eyeline. As I walked towards here near the door, she fell onto the floor. I picked her up. She was so nice to me, I give her one compliment (something like "what is a beautiful girl like you doing standing alone in a shitty club like this?" with a smile) and we talked for a bit. She said "my boyfriend is in the toilet", and that was like a kick in the nuts! We chatted for a while, and her boyfriend appeared next to me. I just said "hey, your girlfriend fell and I picked her up, have a good night" shook his hand and left.

Outside, I saw two girls standing. One walked towards a taxi, so I approached the HB8 who stayed where she was.

Me: Is your mate away over to flirt her way into getting a taxi?

Her: Haha, yeah.

Me: What's your name? I'm AFC handshake

Her: I'm HB8.

She went over to her friend who sucessfully blagged herself a taxi, but HB8 said "I'm gonna go back in". HB8 came back over to me, took my hand and said "I work in [the club we were both just in] I can get us back in" and walked me back into the club. "I know some people in here so I have to say hello to them okay" I was like "okay" so we went in and she, of course, stopped and chatted to loads of staff as we walked around.

Then she was talking to some tall, handsome guy (1-1.5 better than me). I was at the bar pretending not to care. A few minutes went by and I went over and introduced myself and said "hey, did you used to work here?" and he was like "no I didn't" so I was like, uh is this just some dude she wants to hook up with? I said to her "are we gonna go somewhere to chat or what?" and she was like "yeah, in a minute". I waited a minute at the bar and then I left. Fuck that.

I ended up walking home to clear my head. It's about 5 miles away from my house, but fuck it. As a punishment for being such a fucking AA infested AFC I decided to pay an extortionist amount for a Dominos meal (normally I'd go home and get some tea/toast etc). I will pay for my failures through my wallet, while I try to get my inner game together.

The night was a failure.

tl;dr 5Q game failed twice, most I got was a smooch on the lips. No girls showed interest. I had AA. No approaches. Possibly did more harm than good. Need to work on inner game.