This FR isn't about getting an f-close after opening up with a ridiculous line or the 14 number closes I got while wearing a pink fedora. There are plenty of mistakes in it. Mistakes I'm learning from and hope someone else will read this and not make the same ones. Note: Title slightly unrelated. But amusing

So last night my friend (HB 8.5) who I've had a bit of oneitis for invites me out. Whenever she drinks with me she loves to mess with me and tell me she wants to hook up and then find an excuse not to. But hey that was before I started reading here so what better way to test out my newly acquired skills right? Or so I thought

So she comes over to my place and I have a few people over. We play beer pong and drinking games for a bit. For a small girl she can definitely hold her liquor so alcohol starts flowing. Whenever we are near I use some light kino and find excuses to mess with her. She returns the touching in by punching my stomach and complimenting my "nice abs". Strange. But things seem to be going well. I'm good at making her laugh.

Around 11 we decide to take the group to a club/bar. I know a bouncer there and we get in free. Awesome social proof I'm thinking. We grab a drink, walk around a bit and go to the dance floor. I'm not at all a good dancer but instead of being the awkward bad dancer I was the outgoing bad dancer. So I had a good time anyway. We touched a lot on the dancefloor but I'm not big into grinding so after a while we get bored and walk around. She sees some people she knows at the bar and says she's going to talk to them. Unfortunately besides the bouncer and the people I brought I haven't recognized anyone else so we part ways for a bit.

She takes a long time talking to whatever friends she has there. My first mistake was not going with her. I should have walked up to the group and introduced myself. It doesn't help that the group consists only of guys. So here my frame shifts. I lost my fun, outgoing mood and suddenly I was putting her back on her pedestal. I decide to walk around and feel myself sliding into AFC-ville.

Just as I was beginning to feel sorry for myself I make eye contact with a familiar face. Standing against the wall chatting with some dude is a HB9 from class. We've only spoken a few times. But I need something to go well. I put on a huge grin, walk straight up to her and give her a hug mid conversation. She looks genuinely surprised and happy to see me and talks with a really excited tone. She tells me she just quit her job and she's out celebrating. I slowly turn my back to the dude hitting on her and we talk. She smiles a lot. Things are going well. At one point the guy tries to say something and she completely ignores him. I tell her I should get going but before I do I take out my phone and hand it to her with the new contact screen open. She enters her number and tells me I better text her. I say of course and walk away. Should have hugged her again or something but I was pretty proud of getting a number close right in front of another guy and I hadn't been thinking about gaming at all. Next time

So my oneitis girl eventually comes back. I have no clue if she saw me talking to HB9. But in the meantime my buddy who was supposed to be winging me had been talking to oneitis. He was pretty drunk and let it slip I had forwarded him a confusing text from her asking what he thought it meant. She was not thrilled about this. Her unhappiness kills the good mood I was in. It's late so I say we should head out.

Here's where things get confusing

I drive her back to my place not too happy. My buddy gets out of the car and after she gets out I grab her hand and ask her whats wrong. I lean against the car next to me and she in turn leans against me. I wrap my arms around her and she starts talking about bad relationships with guys and how stable I am and blah blah friendzone stuff. But the whole time our faces are right next to each other. We graze each other's lips as we talk. Her words are the exact opposite of how she's acting towards me. I had no clue what to do. Failed that shit test. Now it's pretty obvious. I needed to stop talking, look at her and kiss her. I wasn't confident enough in my choices and since she wasn't sure what I wanted, I got nothing. She calls her DD friend and we part ways.

TLDR went out with a previously oneitis girl to try and break the friendzone. Things aren't going well but get back into a good frame and #-closed another girl. Later in the night, wasn't confident in what I wanted so failed with oneitis. Learned a lot