TLDR: Past experiences confirm Red Pill

This was years before I swallowed the Red Pill; I was 22 at the time. A girl (17F, HB9) started working where I worked. I always thought she was way out of my league becuase she was into athletes and I was 5'8", thin, and unathletic. Plus we both were in LTRs, so I very much had an IDGAF attitude becuase I thought nothing would ever happen. I teased her constantly and also made her laugh a lot.

Then she turned 18. Both of our LTRs ended badly, and one day I was telling her about how things ended with my ex. She started cutting up on her hard. I also told her about how a female friend of mine (a plate) cancelled going to the symphony with me and I had an extra ticket. She immediately offered to go and pay for her ticket. She also came to one of my band's shows and we went to the zoo a couple months later.

I never a move on her becuase I wasn't sure if she'd found another boyfriend, and I was too nervous to "fuck up the friendship" if I was wrong about her feelings for me. I was also under the blue pill delusion that she was too high quality of a woman to be spun as a plate, and I didn't want to LTR her. I also didn't want to be an "asshole" and plate her for only a few months before she went off to college, because I was a white knight.

This was despite the fact that she was clearly giving IOI's that I missed, because I was an autistic blue pill fuck: dressing way sexier than necessary around me, coming to see my band play, paying to go out with me, cutting up on my ex, and even shit tests after I didn't make a move on her the second time we went out ("I don't like your [new] beard, it makes you look like you're 30! We don't even like the same music! Why don't you have Facebook?!") When I met her parents, they seemed like they'd heard a lot about me.

Looking back on it, I got a girl way out of my league interested in me because I sufficiently demonstrated high SMV: not being fat like 3/4 American men, playing in a band, STEM degree, IDGAF, preselection, abundance mentality, teasing her, etc. She would't have gone out with me one-on-one if she had a boyfriend she was remotely serious about, or if she viewed me as just a beta orbiter.

The irony about worrying about fucking up our friendship is that we never hung out one-on-one again after that, because it wasn't a real friendship to begin with. You can't be friends with girls unless neither of you are interested in each other. She went off to college across the state and I haven't spoken to her in years. I saw pictures of her recently and at age 22 she's already hit the wall and is currently dating a 7 foot tall college basketball player named "Thundercock, C."

I just wish I had found TRP 10 years sooner.

Lessons Learned: Rejection is far better than missing an opportunity. Don't worry about making things socially awkward with women you want to sleep with, because they're not really your friends anyway. Get your SMV up and pay attention to her IOIs. Don't be a beta white knight, go for it because if you don't, you'll blow your chance.