I'm new here and thusly, don't expect too much:

I recently broke up with my girlfriend and almost immediately after, her friend got in touch with me on facebook. I've always been a pretty AFC so the idea that a chick was interested in me was cool. Being totally hapless, I didn't really know what to expect going into it.

I made totally clear that I wasn't interested in a relationship to which she replied "good" and was coming on pretty strong (mentioned a time where she jokingly propositioned me at a party, mentioned she and her boyfriend broke up [twice], acknowledged that she was coming on to me) so we decided to go to bars with some of her friends on friday.

We meet at a bar around 12:15 with her female roommate and male friend. Have a few drinks in which I address the whole group, male friend is really outgoing and over-the-top (dancing etc) while female roommate is kind of wing-manning for me as we've met before, knows why I'm there. I come to realize male friend is kind of trying to steal the spotlight from me, but HB is having none of it. I try to get some side conversation with HB and build some low level kino, negging a little, my whole routine... sorry the details are a bit hazy, the music was obscenely loud and I got a bit drunk.

her male friend goes off to talk to someone nearby and the roommate goes to the bathroom. I notice nothing is really developing here so I try to bounce her to another bar. Great idea. Once the group reconvenes we go to another bar nearby and find that it's ridiculously packed. We all get drinks, fight our way to the middle of a room (all while I'm leading/applying some class 2 kino. We immediately realize the packed room is no place to be. I rescue roommate who got pulled away in the scuffle and lead the group to a side room thats quiet and has some couches, all alphamanly. We get more drinks and just start to talk. I'm sitting next to HB and her male friend. Turns out they used to fool around and he's obviously still interest (everyone kind of ignores it).

I'm able to break off some side conversation as nobody else really cares or knows about baseball. I'm able to build a bit more rapport and comfortability that way and get some even more obvious IOIs (she seems into the kino though its still mid class 2) and this is all where it kind of falls apart...

lights come on, last call. We leave and go to male friend's house because at this point everybody's a little drunk and needs to sober up before driving. I imply that we can go back to HB's to have a few beers (I bought a case) later and roommate and HB seem interested.

We settle in at male friend(MF)'s a little and roommate expresses a desire to learn Magic: The Gathering from MF as we found some of his cards. They start to play and I lost focus. I didn't continue to engage the HB and lost all the momentum. As we all sober up more she seems kind of bored and I'm putting out all the wrong vibes, not realizing.

MF is still wasted and tries to get us to stay. I realize the longer we stay, the worse off my chances are. We escape and get to her house. Roommate, HB, and I watch a movie, but nobody's really paying attention. I try to reestablish some comfort and interest, but it's not really working. Movie ends, roommate goes to sleep, HB and me still awake. We play with her pet pug a little bit and she says she's going to sleep. I mention something about staying in her bed, and she accepts, but kind of implies that's all: just sleeping in her bed.

We end up sleeping next to each other, that's it. I didn't close, really at all.

We text later and through whatever means I reestablish my intent and she seems just as receptive/she mixed up my signs that night. We're going to go out again, but this time I've got..

Takeaways! I didn't close because I got so wrapped up in my loss of momentum and ended up sabotaging myself. Rereading this FR I'm kind of kicking myself. I know she's interested now so I just have to do more of the same, but actually close. Keep frame and be a bit more transparant to avoid sending mixed signals. I luckily got this easy mode training run before I even get into the real game. It was a great way to ease into it

Not too worried because I've got another at-bat. As I'm not too privy to FWB relationships that's where some more troubled waters are, but at the moment I know which direction I need to run!