I finally got over my fear of approaching, approached a girl, got her number, set up a date.

I met her (gave her a hug, to establish some kino, was receptive) at one coffee place , which I don't like, and the only reason I went there was because that's the only place she knew. Told her that this wasn't the place we were gonna stay at, took her to my favorite coffee place which has two seat comfortable leather couch. On the way there, we walked close to each other as we talked, shoulders were touching (more kino). I used conversation threading to have a continuous two hour talk at the coffee place (60% her, 40% me). There was no awkward break or silence the whole two hours, good eye contact on my part, barely broke it off, she was 50/50, sometimes looking at me and sometimes looking away. We had good chemistry, I tried to kino her a lot on the couch (legs touching, shoulder brushing, put arm on her shoulder as I told a story, etc. etc.), and at this point she was meh-receptive, she didn't seem to mind the arm on the shoulders thing, but she moved her legs away after having them touch for like 3-4 minutes (this happened like 4 times). Conversation was great until owner came over and asked us if we were going to leave anytime soon (kinda irritated me), broke the flow BADLY.

So we decided to leave, told her we were going to the park for a walk, she said ok. At this point I decided to try out a trick I learned from a sedditor. I told her to stop, asked her to hold something and pulled out my hand for her to hold.. her reaction was just very bad. She asked me "what.." and I held her hand, at which she got it. I told her that went a lot better in my head, she giggled and said yah that wasn't very smooth. We walked for 10-15 minutes holding hands until we reached the park. As we were walking down the park she tried to lead several times, and I pulled her to where I wanted to go and sat at the bench and talked for a bit. At this point I started getting horrible body language, arms and legs crossed, sat away from me not touching at all. I called her out on it, and pulled her in and put my arm around her, she didn't seem to mind (or that's what I thought, dunno if she did). Talked for another 20 minutes, but at this point we had MINIMAL eye contact, I held it but she was looking away 90% of the time. She looked at me for 3 seconds, I held it, and I said I'm going for a kiss and tried to go in at which point she said No and pulled her head away and said I don't do that (very very cringe worthy, even now as I look back at it I'm still cringing).

At this point she started taking her cell phone out and texting friends over and over again, 5 minutes of that and I said ok let's go (didn't want to have any of that shit). I walked her to where she was heading as we talked, with very little kino. When we got to where we were going to split and I stopped her, turned her body towards me and asked her if she wanted to go out again. At this point she says "No, I don't date (obviously BS as she was just on one with me, but I guess she's putting me down kindly) and we'd go out as friends." I said ok, and we parted ways. Obviously I will not be calling her again, as I don't want to be friendzoned.

All and all I thought the date started off great at the cafe, but started going utterly horrible as we walked to the park. My problems as I reflect on this date:

*Did not tease her enough, maybe 3-4 times in 3 hours.

*Went for the kiss at 2.5 hours, too late maybe, or maybe I shouldn't have gone for a kiss on a coffee date?

*My kinoing was not progressive, not done well? Maybe shitty confidence when kinoing made it awkward for her (not really sure..)

*The way I went for the kiss was utterly horrible and very cringe worthy.

*I might have reacted too well to her stories and jokes, making me seem easy, and she lost interest.

As you can see this was a pretty crappy date, and to say I don't feel like shit is a bit of a lie (got rejected AFTER she got to know me), so I'd like some advice on how I could improve my meh dating skills as I have another date with another girl in 2 days. My approaching + acquiring numbers has been a lot better than before, but my skill during the date is very sub-par obviously.