What’s up guys, long time lurker. Maybe 7 months, not yet swallowed the pill, but it’s making its way... a little bit of a long read, but hang in for me.

BACKGROUND: So I am in a work program for my school called DECA, an average class that requires you to have a job and it gets you out of school early. It’s my senior year, so you bet your man is going to take that class.

I already had a job going into senior year, at my job I have a very social aspect to my job where I am encouraged to be extremely friendly with my customers. I am also expected to up-sale (get them to buy something without them knowing it’s extra).

So in my DECA class I took principles of marketing, I just know it has to get with people to buy stuff. I had this regional event last month and I failed the two tests before what is called a role play.

For the role play, you basically have a paper of your situation and things to cover in your position you are given. I have a very easy time doing it, i bullshit people everyday at my job...

This girl, we’ll call her F. Finds me and tells me how much my teacher loves me, and we chat for a bit. We talk about books and how we both seem to be very similar.

F, is a grade younger than me, but has been doing DECA her whole high school career and takes it serious. She knows the guys who made the speeches before our tests and everyone else very well.

This schmuck, who is a beta to the bone, walks up and starts talking to her and a few other girls of his speech and other professional bullshit. I excuse myself politely, but I wanted to vomit at this nerdy crap.

Fast forward to school, a couple weeks later. I see F in the halls on my way to class and say “Hey! Guess who got first place?” F laughs and says “Yeah I heard! Do you want help for your presentation at state?” I agree to it, and she asks for my number. I give it to her. I say text me.

F messages me a day later and says that we can meet for coffee this Saturday and she’ll help me organize. Sounds great. Why not with my talent get that first place spot, id like to just walk in and get that, make a statement.

WHAT HAPPENED: Yesterday, we met for coffee at this Starbucks near me around the afternoon. I show up a little later than her, walk in with smile because it helps trick my brain into feeling good. I drop off my bag, smile, say hey, and then say I’m going to grab coffee, be right back.

I grabbed my coffee, came back and we got right to it. She showed me what she did last year, graphs I can use, and I was really at first just trying to get some help. I asked her to email them, and we came up with what I would do.

Then the conversation led to what state was like, what we dressed like, what the hotel was like, and what people did after state. F told me people hook up all the time, and my ears perked, I was taken back. I thought it was much more serious, so naive I was.

F insinuated her and I could share a room but I detested, I wanted to focus (complete bullshit). She continued to profess her love for lifting, meditating, and our similar interests.

The topic eventually landed on girls. We both talked of our exes, I tried to be subjective as possible. I talked of girls I talked to in the past, and eventually she picked up that I liked to flirt a little bit. She would say that I’m just flirting her up and that I do this to everyone.

I say “Not everyone. I pick special people.” She continues to push my buttons, but I continue to let her know I make the decisions and refuse to get pushed around.

Eventually, F begins making all these assumptions of things I’m saying as if she will be soon in the picture as a girlfriend. I can literally see her molding herself into the perfect fit of a girlfriend for me, in front of my eyes.

I stop her and say “You’re a great girl no doubt, but you need you to slow down. I want to get to know you first.” In her mind, she wants to be my girlfriend. In my mind, I just want to fuck. She said she never hooked up with anyone, her last bf was the only one she had sex with and made him wait 8 months. Well... AWALT. They all say that.

We talk more and more and it continues to be flirting exchanged, she tells me I’m fit and lean and sexy. I say thank you, I worked for this from my past at 220 22% fat, now 170 11% fat.

She then says she has to go, and her father pulled up right by the doors and saw me. She said her father would be mad, but he wasn’t. Just curious who I was. I mean it was just a study session at first.

THE QUESTION: State is in about 2 weeks, how do I keep the momentum of this flirty train we started. I want to hook up with her at state and make it crazy good. With someone who doesn’t hook up, supposedly, how do I make that happen? And how do I keep it non-serious?

Any help is appreciated, thanks guys.