Last week a girl from my high school (F20) sent me a follow request via instagram (currently in my 3rd year of university, M20) after a short catch up conversation on text I get her number and ask that we get lunch sometime and meet up in person as she recently transferred to the university I go to. She said she was down, blah blah blah, i get her availability for next week (this week) and she said she was free on Thursday, i told her I’ll set something up. I texted her on Tuesday of this week mentioning that i made a reservation at a restaurant for this Thursday around 3pm. She hits me with the “i’m kinda sick but i won’t flop on the plan” and her reasoning was that she went to the gym with her friends and they both got sick which i understand, it’s happen to me before as well. We talk throughout the day on Wednesday over text, fun conversation slight banter at the end of Wednesday she said that a friend of hers told her that i dated someone in high school, my relationship with that other person in high school was complicated and that we didn’t really date and that it was more like miscommunication/i got led on. All in all i told her that i have 1 ex and that i broke up with her 2 years ago. She mentioned that she had 1 ex aswell. Thursday morning (today) i wake up and get a text from her saying “mb i don’t think i can link 😭i’m not coming to uni today i’m super sick and my throat hurts”, “i know it was last minute”, “n i don’t have the car my brothers taking it”. I respond by saying “no worries, maybe we can find another time to get together then”, “ball is in ur court”, she said “yea dw i’ll txt you next week n lyk”. However, i go and check ig and she posts a selfie of herself on her story and she doesn’t look sick at all, she looks normal compared to all her other posts.

I want to give her the benefit of the doubt and say that what she posted was an older photo but i also don’t wanna get led on or look desperate if i check up on her for being supposedly “sick”. I also think that the whole “ex” situation got her double thinking about going out with me for lunch. I keep telling myself that if she requested me on instagram first then she thinks i’m cute and fancy’s me. But maybe i’m just overthinking it (if i am please lmk), did i get played or let off easy? What would u do if you were in my position? Do i try and continue as her being “sick” and checking up on her later on this weekend? or just leave it as is and see if she messages me later on next week? Tell me your thoughts. Thanks you for reading my post. Feel free to dm me as well regarding this, dms are open