Good evening everyone, I've been lurking on this subreddit for a few weeks as an alternate to Rsdnation and quite frankly I prefer the community over here by leaps and bounds. A little about me, I've been studying game and pick up stuff real lightly for last year or so. Up until about three months ago I was a kiss less virgin with a very narrow perspective on women and their...... Inner workings. That being said I was never really a hard case in the cemented definition, I have a ton of social skills, just absolutely no calibration and I have always lacked intent. But over the last few months I've k closed maybe 5 girls and f closed two (one from a cold approach in the day that culminated after maybe a week of texting and one date, the other from my social circle who I decided to make a move on while moderately plastered.)

Anyways, onto the FR. I go to the gym a wonderful Wednesday afternoon to go do some Olympic lifting. I'm warming up and getting in the zone. The lifting platform is attached to a squat rack, and I'm doing some light front square to loosen up. I see HB8 walk into the gym, and I think to myself "wow, she's really pretty. I wish I wasn't in the gym and could approach her without being weird." that was a limiting factor that I should have axed from my mentality right off the bat. To my surprise, HB8 is making a b line straight towards me. I have a small heart attack. She drops her things off by the squat rack and asks me if I could watch her stuff for a second. Meekly and with a little bitch voice I say "yeah absolutely." Already missed a good opportunity to prove I want a chump.

At that point I remember feeling I had already fucked it up, but I decided to grab my balls and make some kind of effort towards talking to her. She comes back while I'm mid set, and starts setting up her weights. By the time I finish, she's done loading her weight on the bar and she's got her headphones in. This is when I remembered all those fucking posts about eye contact, and I thought I'd give it a shot. Seriously. Eye contact guys. As soon as our eyes locked before her set I held it. Enraptured she gives me a slight smile and pulls out one of her ear buds. I point to the weight she has on the bar and ask her "how many reps?" she responds with "eight, why?" I mean at that point if I wasn't actively focusing on how much I wanted to procreate with her I would have just said just wondering and then proceed to slink off and continue in my workout. But instead I said "I just wanted to make sure you weren't squatting more than me" as I sarcastically pointed to my barbell. She laughs and does her set. After that she starts engaging me and we talk fitness and squat form and lifting shoes and crap while I casually thrown in subtle sexual comments regarding her body and what not. She goes off to do the rest of her work out and I finish up mine.

We both incidentally finish our workouts at the same time, and I tell her that I'm walking with her back to her place as it's on the way to mine. I settle for the # as the situation didn't allow me to pursue her any further. I text her "stop looking at my butt, Tara" she laughs and what not, asks me what I'm doing for thanksgiving, I tell her I'm stuck in town and find out that she's going out of town for thanksgiving. She texts me saying she's done packing and asks me what I'm up to. I'm in the military and there's a curfew for liberty so I told her I was stuck in my barracks enjoying all of this American freedom. Don't get a response. I waited two days and ask her what she bought me on Black Friday. No response. Now at this point I should have said fuck it and moved on, but I'm retarded and persisted and sent another text two days after that saying "now you got me curious, what happened?" this was meant as a both what happened to your sudden lack of interest, and also a lot a what happened to you during your weekend as a fall back. Ideally she'd respond and I could gauge her response based on which context she responded to. She texts back a few minutes later saying "What happened haha? To what?" finally, I get a god damn response. I poke fun using the fall back context and say "to your long weekend dork!" back to noresponse-ville, population me.

To be honest guys, I don't know where the sudden lack of interest stemmed from. Obviously I exasperated it when I needily texted her without getting responses, but that was after the fact. I'm not totally retarded, and I saw IOIs when we were interacting.

Tl;Dr get a girls number from the gym after we talked for a bit and walked her back from the gym. Texting Fizzled and I acted like a little needy bitch due to my 'confusion'