This is my first FR and I am by all means still a beginner although I've had some solid learning field experience from trial and error and like minded friends with varying degrees of expertise. I apologize in advance for the FR being so lengthy but I wanted to provide as much of the details that were important and led to the F-Close.

Over last week and a half or so I had 3 lays, and 1 almost F-close. Of the 3 lays, 1 was off of OKC, the other girl during a hang out with some friends but I had met her once or twice before (altho never tried anything with her) and my ex. I didn't give myself any credit for my ex of course (she had reached out to me, but coming into this weekend I had a strong level of confidence that helped "put me in state."

I'll skip the first F-close from Friday and just get to Saturday to avoid writing too much. I walked outside the bar to grab a smoke and I saw a cute girl and smiled and said "hey how are you?". She was friendly and smiled back like any normal person would but I proceeded to fuck with her for a bit and said casually "it's been a while, how've you been?"

"Sorry, we've met before?"

"Haha, funny. Seriously, it's been a couple of months, what's new with you?"

"Wait, do you know my name?"

"Common, we dated for about a week, did you really forget me?"

A couple of more back and forth until she seemed really mind fucked and I told her I was joking. She hit me and screamed "YOU LITTLE SHIT!" I was gold. She said that she's usually not that gullible and she's smart so I played with her the 5 lies game, betting loser buys winner a beer. Beat her at it, and again she hit me and shouted. I knew I had put her in the position to qualify herself and she enjoyed being challenged. All night I was pushing and pulling with her.

I took her to the bar to get me my beer and applied kino immediately. She seemed competitive so I challenged her at thumb war, best of five, to keep the natural kino flowing as subtly as possible. She was with some friends so I did my best to be friendly with them and my buddy (who is experienced in the field) was with me as well and he was making progress with her friend. I pulled away and talked to my friend from time to time so that I wouldn't make her the center of my night, at least not that early on.

Fast forward a couple of hours and this bar is closing soon. She's not from this neighborhood and her friends are from out of town so they entrust me and my friend (also my roommate) to show them somewhere they could still dance and grab a drink. It was almost 4am so places were closing. We suggested our patio but some of the group had resistance so that failed. My friend had to leave to take care of something so I had to juggle a bit too much. I took them to this bar but the music stopped and they stopped serving. 5 minutes later and I round up the troops and tell them it's getting late.

My target wanted to go to the subway. The train was close to my place and her friends were going in a separate direction. I desperately needed this isolation and since my friend had to leave me to shepherd this herd solo, this development was key. I suggested to her again while we were walking to come by for a drink on my patio. She was really into me but was against the idea and said her friends would kill her. We keep walking to the subway and when we are passing my stoop I grab her hand and tell her nicely, 'one drink won't kill you, the weather is wonderful' and we headed into my building.

On the patio I was trying to take kino to the next level but she had a strong guard up. I did the photo booth thing on my laptop where we take a series of consecutive flicks, 1 overly serious, 1 goofy, 1 pretending to make out and one normal. It brought down her guard a little bit but not the way I wanted. She kept saying how she has to leave after this beer. I play the cube on her, helps a bit. We're talking about all sorts of things while outside but I didn't want to keep my mind of the prize. I try this one exercise, cannot recall where I derived this from. It can be a little awkward, especially when completely sober, but it helps. I tell her you're still a little shy so I want to bring us a bit closer. The exercise, and I tell her it's going to be slightly awkward but it's worth it if we can get through it, is simple:

"Cover your left eye and I'll cover mine. Stare with your right eye into mine. We need to do this for 30 seconds. This is not a starting competition so you can blink, the point is to be silent and try to read each other's souls. We'll hold hands with our free hands while doing this to try to connect through body energy" If you say this confidently they'll comply right away and assume you know what you're doing. Really try to stare into their soul. It helped immensely.

I tell her it's getting a bit chilly, let's carry this conversation indoors. My roommate was sleeping on the living room couch. I give him our code for get the fuck out of here now because I have a chick with me and need us to be alone (if you have a roommate, I suggest you make your own secret word). He was way too out of it and didn't respond. I tell her I don't want to wake him up so let's just chat in my room. Although I could've tried to bring it to my room immediately, in certain cases, such as this when the girl doesn't seem so comfortable with the idea of coming home with you in the first place on the the first time you meet them, making yourself seem like you're not trying to rush things to your bedroom prevents them from putting up higher walls and builds a level of trust. In my room I try to kiss her but she doesn't let me make out with her right away so I kept talking to her for a bit. Lot's of chemistry. It's 5AM and I tell her it's way too late right now. "You're in luck. I'm out of condoms so I can't sleep with you, and I'm going to let you sleep here because it's way too late to take the subway." Again, that helped make her feel comfortable. She didn't say no, didn't say yes, trying to debate it while talking to me and I throw at her gently a pair of clean gym shorts and tell to put this on while I brush my teeth and pass out. She sarcastically says, wow I like how you've made the decisions for me, and complies.

I come back and go to bed. She was really tired so typical LMR wouldn't have been effective here because she would've just fallen asleep, so I tried a technique I had success with the night before - I gave her a slight neck rub with one hand while she was trying to spoon with me. She says "that's really good, can you massage me." I tell her "I usually don't spoil strangers like this but I'll give a quick 3 minutes, but you need to remove your shirt unless you want to get my lotion on it." Again, keeping it subtle. As I gave her a quick massage, I licked her ear and kissed her neck. She got really turned on and we finally started making out. I started fingering her after a while and it got heavy. SHE asked me, does your roommate have any condoms? It went down. Complete side note, the best thing was that I liked this girl and had a great time with her and we talked for hours after sex.

[TL;DR] Was on a mission. Overcame obstacles. Maintained confidence and mindset throughout. F-Close.