Went a dance party at a bar near my house. At first I was feeling really awkward. I talked to two friends who would be there before I went, but I went by myself. Walked in and went upstairs to try and find one of my friends, ended up seeing the same set I fucked up with last time I went to this party. Just pretended I didn't see them, but I definitely let it affect my mood negatively...even though they prob didn't remember me.

Saw some acquaintances and talked with them, until my Natural friend came upstairs. I talked with him up there for a little and we went downstairs. Sat at a booth with him and his friends but I wasn't talking at all, partly because I had nothing in common with them and partly because the music was so loud. So was feeling kind of awkward there. While I'm sitting there I see my other friend walk in, with his pseudo-GF (HB7, fwiw) and my female old room mate (HB6). Me and natural friend go to talk to them. End up going upstairs with them. My state is still so out-of-whack. Not sure exactly why but yeah...conversation is just kind of lulling, forced, etc.

Go outside for a smoke with other friend, we'll call just call him A. Tell him I'm fucking up because I'm not talking to chicks..."Why the fuck am I asking you for a light? I was supposed to ask a cute girl for a light." Blah...making excuses, still. I'm so bad early in the night. Too dependent on an alcohol buzz. We go back in and I convince the group upstairs (A, HB7, and HB6...plus an acquaintance HB8) to go downstairs where the dance party is..."I'm trying to dance and you need a circle, dancing by yourself sucks." This ends up being a turning point in the night, sort of. The place is fucking packed but it's fun...we're just dancing in a circle. Some dude starts grinding on HB6 and she goes along with it for a couple minutes before breaking away from him, grabbing my hand and grinding up against me, kind of a WTF moment but I just said "Trying to get away from that dude?", and she says yeah.

After a little dancing I go back out to try to bum a cig from a cute girl. Shit was so not working. Right after I walk out I see a HB7 brunette leaning up against a bike rack smoking, looking at her phone. I walk up to her and ask "I want your opinion on something...what do you think of bumming cigs to strangers?" She says, "This is actually my last one...seriously." She's smiling, goes on to try and convince me further it really is her last one...she's still immersed in her phone though. I just go from there, "Do you think it's a dick move to bum cigs outside of bars though? Like if you had a cig would I be breaking your balls right now?" or something like that...she says something kinda non committal, I forget exactly...I say, "Who do you think out here is a good candidate for me to bum from?" She points to some dude sitting on a ledge, saying "That guy cause he's by himself." I say, "Alright let's see how good you are at this." Go over and try to bum one from him, planning on going back to her, either saying "You're good at this" or something if he gives me one, or teasing her if he doesn't. He tells me he bummed his, I bullshit with him for a couple minutes...by the time I turn around, HB7 is back inside. Damn...didn't see her again after that, whatev. This was interesting though cause I basically just improvised all of this, I feel like I handled it decently?

Tried to bum one from a two-set of chicks but they didn't want to, "It's not worth it...cigs are too expensive", something like that. Then they started freaking out cause they saw someone they knew, I could tell I was just annoying them so I bailed and went back inside. Night is winding down at this point...talk with my natural friend, who knows the DJs. He's hanging at the booth, talking to a girl he's pursuing and her friend...both HB7 range. He introduces me, tells them I look like Joaquin Phoenix (I've heard that shit like 5 times before)...I banter with them a little about it. I don't keep it going though, blah. Alternate between down and upstairs for a while.

Eventually it's last call, I'm waiting for my friend cause he knows about an after party. he sits at the bar, I sit next to him and an Asian HB7 on my other side. She's sitting by herself and drinking water. I say, "Where are all your friends?" She tells me she's waiting for a bartender she knows. I ask her what she's drinking and she says water...I just start teasing hard. I've been doing this a lot lately and it seems to work okay...it's easier than running actual game. I'm just like "You're weird...sitting at a bar by yourself and drinking water." Her - "I'm just drunk that's why I'm drinking water, and I'm waiting for my friend." She's not being bitchy...smiling and shit, but you know being defiant cause I'm teasing. I keep making fun of her, calling her a weirdo, and referring to the bartender she's waiting for as her boyfriend, she keeps saying "He is not my boyfriend!" Ask her what her name is and realize it's the same Asian HB7 from two weeks ago. Haha. I kinda fucked up here cause I tell her we met before (prob a mistake), she has a really unique name so I mention that makes it easy to remember. She doesn't remember me (no surprise there).

I realize my friend isn't there anymore so I call him, he's outside. I say "Well it was cool talking to you...I'm sure I'll see you here again" cause going for a number or anything would make no sense. I shake her hand and punch her on the arm lightly, saying "you're seriously a fucking weirdo" she says, "YOU'RE the weirdo" I walk away and turn around and just point at her and shake my head, saying "so fucking weird" and leave.

There's an after party near my house, in a studio-like house. Go there with Natural and some of his friends. Here is where shit gets hilarious, and I get "results"...even though I didn't do anything to earn them. I walk around the house, just to check it out. There's music and a few people dancing downstairs...I go down there. Sit on a couch next to Natural's one friend (HB6...but a super-hipster. Not my type). Not right next to her, just on the other end of the couch. Almost immediately after this, some chick on the dance floor holds her hand out for me...I can't really tell how cute she is at this point cause it's dark...she appeared to be HB6. I give her my hand and she just pulls me in and starts making out with me. WTF? And then starts unbuttoning my shirt. I'm bewildered at this point but just go with it and make out with her. Take her hand and pull her to another couch. We make out some more...she touches my junk, I feel her up a little. She tells me "You're really cute"....I say "you are too" or something. After a few minutes she gets up and walks upstairs. I just sit there and drink my beer. Eventually go upstairs and see the same girl making out with another dude in the stairwell. Haha oh man. Then see her on the second floor...she's like HB5. And way too drunk. At this point I kinda regret it...well not regret but yeah, I'm not pursuing this any further. I see her start talking to yet another dude, he's putting his hand on her back and shit. I'm laughing to myself cause I know where this is going. I see HB6 hipster and motion with my hand for her to come over, start telling her about everything that's just happened/I've seen. She's cracking up. As I'm telling her I see HB5 start kissing dude, tell HB6 "Quick! Turn around, look! Another one!" She's geeking out at this point.

Eventually end up going outside to the roof, where people are sitting/smoking cigs. Sit next to a HB6.5ish. Talk with her and some dudes out there. I end up staying out there for the rest of the night. At some point I went in though and when I came back out another dude (who stuck out like a sore thumb...like in his 30's and looked like a real rugged dude...later find out he was in state prison for ten years for drug possession/selling) was sitting next to her, I just sat in another spot near her. Was talking with everyone out there but flirting with her a lot, found out she was a photo major at my University's art school, but now she works in a bakery. Was teasing her a whole lot...she was giggling and laughing, occasionally throwing in "why are you so mean!" and stuff like that. I tried to adjust by starting to touch her when I'd tease, just light touches on the arm. When she was talking about the bakery she said something about $3 cupcakes, and how she always has cupcakes she takes home and throws them out, says something about "if you ever need cupcakes I got em"...at this point I pull out my phone and just say "I'm putting you in here as Sarah Cupcakes and I'm totally hitting you up whenever I feel like eating a cupcake"...she giggles, I ask her number...she starts telling me and we have the same area code. Her - "###" Me - ..."###! Where are you from? I'm a ### kid too"...she tells me, it's a town like 15 minutes away from my hometown. I'm like "I love ### kids...well, the ones who leave there and come to Philly, anyway." Things started to pick up steam here. It's like past 4 in the morning. At some point she was talking about her ex boyfriend and how he never wanted to have sex, and that they only did it once a month. I say "Are you sure he wasn't gay?" This hits and she says she and her friends have wondered that. Tells me a story about him falling asleep during a BJ. I'm like "What, was it 4 AM and he had like 15 beers or something? How is that possible?" I joke about this periodically through the night. When I call her phone so she has my number, she asks me name, I'm going to say my name is Bobby here for simplicity's sake (it's not actually, but I don't want to put my name), She's like "Bob?! Oh noooo, that's my old boyfriend's name!" I'm like "Yeah but I'm Bob-by, and I actually like sex." I leave a half hour or so after getting the number.