Background to this whole deal (of course with details slightly altered/omitted just in case, but it's all here more or less).

Since buying into TRP, life rules. My confidence with girls is just escalating more and more, my inhibitions are practically zero and I've just never had so much fun in my life.

I was at a sales convention from Thursday to this weekend. I was the lone ranger sent by my company and had only a vague grasp of what it was I was meant to do there.

I arrived on the Thursday on my lonesome and I managed to meet up with a group of people. They were all good fun, easy going, more or less there on the same fools' errands their respective companies had sent them on. Really, there was zero point to us being there at all, it was to just show face. Read: we were all out on a jolly. And apart from two people in our group, we hadn't met each other before at all. But alcohol was flowing and all the rest of it. The vibe was good.

In our group, there was one single fit lass. I mean, she was pretty nice looking, definitely worth a fuck. But certainly more of a one night type deal. A good one to nab for a conference given the lack of competition so to speak.

Naturally I'd made up my mind that I'd like to fuck her but I determined over the day that another guy in the group was definitely after her as well.

Now here's where we both beta'd. We did this whole one-upmanship thing. You know, engineering who sits next to her, talks to her. It even crept into our interactions when she wasn't there. Analyzing after, she must have detected this whole thing and exploited it.

We did this pussy act, until at some point half way through the evening on Thursday when we were all basically getting wrecked, I mentally slapped myself and said, "What the fuck am I doing... we're not the only group here, we're not the only ones drinking, there are other girls here and even if there isn't, actually what do I care? This one is clearly taking advantage of the dual oneitis going on!"

So, I had my epiphany and snapped out of it, I started to mingle through the crowd. It's amazing how tunnel-visioned you get when you limit your options that way. We were both chasing the same target which, let's face it, neither one of us would have reached. She was loving the attention. It's not when you break the tunnel vision, you discover that more ladies have arrived and they're all getting drunk!

Anyway, I met up with several other ladies, put in some ground work. As it happens, by about 2am, most of the crowd had gone to bed. That's when, through actually talking to the other Alpha who actually asked me straight up if I was after the girl in our group, I just said, "I'd have fucked her, but she's way too much effort. The bitch wall is just up and frankly, she had both of us snapping at her ass all day? Frankly, I'm passing on it!"

We spent the next couple of hours just chatting, getting on and we both pretty much realized that we were being a bunch of little bitches. Alcohol reveals a great many truths. Sadly, this guy still seemed to oneitis her a little, I think suspecting it was part of my "game". It really wasn't, I'd crossed her off my list, simply in light of other girls being more available and cuter.

About 3:30, one of the girls from our group had come out to see if anyone was left. I was scarcely surprised that after I had quit bothering with her, I'm all she wanted to ask about. She took it to mean that she was "into me", when all she was doing was asking where was I now, what was I up to, or "We haven't seen raceAround126 in a while..."

Roll forward to Friday. We're continuing to all get on really well as a group. It's a laugh, really never clicked with so many people my complete opposite before ever.

Friday is also disco night. Out of my groundwork, I had kind of picked out one other girl that I quite liked. It was mainly because we clicked pretty quickly and she responded pretty well to the kino. I also got to know her (married) friend and she gave me the lo-down. She was currently "seeing" someone who was 15 years her elder and seemed to constantly rant at her over texts. She even said she was a "not her boyfriend" boyfriend in that she wants a boyfriend and this seems to be the best she could find given her lack of time to get out there and meet people and the fact she lives in buttfuck nowhere.

She even assured me to go for it. "She really needs someone to show her this arsehole isn't worth the bother." Of course, that to me said baggage. But she was cute enough to warrant a little bother...

So at the disco. The music is pumping, the alcohol is ever-flowing. I was dancing with my group. I just seemed to feed off the energy that our group girl was now coming towards me a little more. I'd been ignoring her. She had thrown a few shit tests out earlier (passed in my book) and I maintained the fact that I wasn't interested in her anymore. I got a little cheeky with some of her moves, but moved out of her personal space pretty quick.

So we're dancing, and I see married girl and my other girl drinking off in the distance. They're having a laugh and I know they see me. I wait for the track to finish and let the next one start. Then I left the floor, walked round and (OK it's corny) said, "You two are too pretty to be stood like a pair of statues, let's see what you've got!".

I dragged this near hysterical lady onto the floor, got her moving and she started having fun with me. We go for a smoke break, I'm outside with this cute brunette. I don't smoke but I don't care, we're getting amorous. Our group girl appears a little later, alpha in tow looking a little beta'd.

My girl breaks out her phone again. She throws in an explanation about how he's not a boyfriend. She finishes her explanation with, "Sorry, he's being a bit of a tosser at the moment" I immediately sense this as a shit test. Time to be an emotional tampon? Nope. I say, "yea sounds like a right wanker. Anyway, let's go grab each others arses again!".

More laughing, I leave my other alpha out there with group girl, more dancing more fun.

Intermission: I needed the bathroom. Other alpha followed me in. I just went at him straight and said, "you need to man the fuck up. Stop following us around, take groupy girl to the other bar and take the piss out of her!"

"Take the piss out of her?!" came his rather shy response.

"Sure man. She's not got many options bar you and me. She's owning the situation, start getting her below you. What, where's she going to run to. Me? Nah, I'm good, I'm pretty much done with her shit. If you really want to fuck her, stop being a pussy, stop being led around. Go dance with another chick, really get her pissed off!"

Back on the dance floor, me and my girl break off for our smooches. One thing led to another, we're back at her room. Another text. She immediately looks annoyed, well, more sad than annoyed. She brings out her phone, which I immediately remove from her hands. Before she could protest, I put the phone down on her bed and went straight in for the kiss and touching.

We emerged two hours and several positions later in search of food. Alpha was sat on the sofas near the back bar. At first, I thought he'd completely beta-fied and allowed himself to be pussy whipped by our group girl. My girl goes to the bathroom so I stop to chat. I immediately demand a progress update. He basically says he got bored of her constant shit testing and the fact that her top-doggedness she held when we were both chasing her rather quickly gave way to entitledness when I stopped paying her any (romantic) attention and so did he.

I was kinda pleased he figured it out. Though what happened next surprised me. Enter stage left, some random girl who sits down next to him and gets all touchy feely. I'd later find out they'd met her on the dance floor following my bathroom prep talk and he'd been progressing nicely.

In the morning, Alpha and I had a good long report about our respective wins, earning ourselves a solid high-five. Saturday evening was met with similar success. I danced with a bunch of girls, but me and brunette really hit it off.