Monday night dance party again. Went early by myself cause there was an open bar. As soon as I walk in I see HB8.5 and Asian HB7 I sorta got blown out of a few weeks ago (not really though...just forced an attempt for a #-close on HB8.5 when she left and got denied). I avoid them and go to the upstairs bar. See a few dudes I know, plus some girls that are with them. Get my beer and sit with them. Some people go downstairs, I sit at another booth with a male acquaintance and some girls I'd seen around before. Not really being that social though. HB6 from other reports at this place shows up, walks past my booth...I point at her. She just says "how are you?" I say pretty good you...she says fine, blah blah. Keeps walking. Whatever. I let this cool off kind of...haven't seen her in 3 weeks cause I haven't been out to this bar, and I was visiting home for a couple weeks.

A little later I go downstairs, sit at the bar with the two dudes I saw upstairs...we'll call them S and C for simplicity's sake. S goes to bathroom...C goes and sits on the wall couches with some girls he knows, I go with him. Soon after S comes back. Then, HB7 and HB8.5 come in...apparently we took their table. They just get their drinks and sit at the one next to ours. HB8.5 is looking for her phone. I look and see it sitting on the ground by my foot. Pick it up and hand it to her, pretending like I don't recognize her. She says "thanks" then her face lights up and she goes "Hey how are you!"...this kinda surprised. I bluffed and acted like I didn't remember her..."Wait, have we met?" then I pretended like I remembered on the spot..."Oh yeah, we smoked cigs outside here that one night."

She starts introducing herself to our group...she's really bubbly/friendly. Soon I start talking about how no one's dancing yet, cause nobody wants to be the first. Then I go up to her and touch her on the arm and say "let's start the dance party...get up." She gets up...says "I'm up". The rest of our group follows...prob like 8-10 people. We dance for a while but eventually people start going off on their own, and the place is kinda empty at this point so it doesn't really start. I was just dancing next to her most of the time though. She was wearing a shirt with some cartoonish face on it, talked about that. Talked about her watch cause it was also cartoonish and hard to read. She told me about a show her friends have at the same place in like 3 weeks, said she's been helping promote it, tells me it's going to be a good time. I don't get that enthusiastic about it though...since she's just promoting it/trying to help her friends.

I go to the bathroom, come back and when I'm walking trip over one of these square black chairs, cause they're impossible to see, and eat shit. Drop my beer and fall hard on my tail bone. I just laughed it off, got up said "I'm not even that drunk either"...then just start dancing next to HB8.5 again and say "no one noticed anyway" she's like "exactly".

I eventually go back upstairs, since my friends leave and it's just me and a group of like 6 girls, and I feel like I'm in danger being "that guy" and lingering around HB8.5. Soon 3 more of my friends show up. We drink upstairs for a while, just talking...lots of people I know here...the mostly acquaintances. My Natural friend shows up too but I don't talk with him that much...he seems to be going hard at one specific chick. I eventually convince everyone to come downstairs and dance. We do that for a while. Nothing really noteworthy here.

HB6 is wasted. I go up to her at one point and elbow her and she doesn't notice/turn around...so I leave. Lame. But then later on I see her and convince her to come downstairs with me. Start laying on the kino right away. Take her hand, pull her through the crowd. Then she says she doesn't want to dance cause she's too drunk. Starts leaning on the bar. I talk to her and keep putting my hand on her back or waist. pulling her in. Faces really close. At one point she's talking and her lips are grazing my cheek. I grab her hand and hold it for a little too. Here is where I'm a retard...I don't even go for the k-close. WTF? I think it was me being a moralist pussy and thinking she was too wasted, like I'd be taking advantage. But I was drunk too. She breaks off soon after the hand holding though and goes to the bathroom...feel like that was an excuse. I go off and mingle with everyone else. Nothing that noteworthy the rest of the time there. Talk to the Asian HB7 outside for a little, she's bitching cause she's calling her FB and it goes straight to voicemail. Find out she and HB8.5 are professional hoop dancers? Interesting. HB8.5 goes up to some dude outside, presses up to him, and they leave soon after. No surprises here...chicks that hot always have some kind of dude in their life. I'm thinking I should just delegate her to a pivot, cause she would be lethal...I'm sure she has ridiculously hot friends too. HB7 tells me that she dances in Atlantic City on the weekends.

At the end of the night some girl who'd been in our group but I hadn't talked to came up to me at the bar. Asked my name, did some small talk and then asked me to buy her a drink. It was obvious she was just trying to use me. I just said "No, I don't buy girls drinks." She said "I can respect that."...then her friend came and took her away, and apologized to me? Whatev.

I went to an afterparty after this, but I'm going to make that into a Part II, since this is already TL;DR.

TL;DR: Went to same dance party, saw set I fucked up like a month ago and got friendly with them, tried to escalate with HB6 I've been trying to get with for a couple weeks, didn't really work.