Me and my buddy drove up to this girl's house where she was having a little get together (10 people). As we're pulling in to her house, another person is pulling in. Turns out its a cute red head. I walk over and kindly introduce myself, shake her hand, and start making some jokes, asking if she's pumped for the party, etc.

I found out she goes to a huge party school so I'm teasing her saying I have high expectations for her drinking abilities. I'm getting smiles and laughs back. Anyway, this is all on the way to the front door of the party. We go in, head to the basement and quickly setup a game of beer pong. I tell the girl I want her on my team and ask her to pour me a drink.

At this point, I'm using lots of kino. I made sure to use kino early, so it's understood that I am a touchy kinda person--that if I poke you or put my arm on you, it's not weird, it's what I do and how I am. I'm teasing her a bunch because I'm making all the shots and she's barely made any. Getting more laughs in return and positive feedback from my kino. When she finally makes one, we do some high fives. She's super pumped, really enjoying the game and the teamwork we have going on. When we she nails the winning shot of the game, we both go nuts in excitement and turn to each other for a hug.

We play another game and things are going well, lots of kino wherever I can. I continue teasing her about not making shots among other things. She's laughing a lot.

At this point, I was pretty set on getting with her. She was giving me all the signs and she was taking all my kino well and laughing a ton. But here's where I ran into an issue--we were only about 25-30 minutes into the party. No one is drunk, I'm tipsy at most. I doubt she was feeling much.

Just as a matter of habit, I have it engrained in my head that the pursuit of this girl had to be an all night thing. I only recently started reading Seddit and most (if not all) of my hookups prior happened when I was feeling, at a minimum, drunk. I also assumed that whatever attraction she had for me would continue to rise as the night went on.

Anyway, we lose the second game and both go mingle. I chat with some other folks, opening up a set with dudes just to pass the time. We play some drinking games as a group and I feel the magic we had in the beginning slowly start to wear away. I end up getting sufficiently drunk and not making a move. The next morning, I'm thinking back and analyzing what I did wrong. I wanted to make a lesson out of this (more or less) failure.

I had a great girl by my side--we were totally getting along, had a lot to talk about, lots of kino--yet I didn't close.

Looking back, I had made a great first impression on her and we really hit it off. What I should have done after that second pong game is grabbed her hand and said "lets go on a walk". We'd go on a walk and I would throw my arm around her waist or take her by the hand, maybe even pull a neck kiss and then (assuming she's into it), begin escalating. Her attraction to me had peaked very early on and sometimes that's just the way it is. Other nights, you'll need to work at it the whole night but sometimes, it's just there immediately. Would you guys agree with that assessment?