Let's start off with a positive:

Not flaking. I was invited out to trivia night by HB7, I knew she usually plays on Tuesdays with some dude friends so I'm slightly intimidated.

I try having my friends come out and wing for me but they end up flaking on me... so it's up to me whether to ride this night alone or not go.

I've previously flaked on this girl for trivia but tonight I was going to go balls to the wall..

I went out alone. I was a little nervous at first but sat myself down at the bar and ordered a beer. I texted her to find me at the bar when she gets there.. she does and I give her a hug and move my food over.

She's hanging with two dudes, not too intimidating actually and I introduce myself to them. All is well. Another one of their friends, HB6 comes and sits next to me as well.

Conversation is starting off slow between everyone and then I'm getting a little impatient so I turn towards the girl I'm interested in, look her dead in the eyes and said ”thumb war go". She was a little reluctant, asking why.. but I held my stare with a small smile and she then gave in, smiled back and ended up kicking my butt with her odd finger bending skills.

From that time on, I'm being energetic and talking to everyone. I'm talking to ”Hannah" and I see her gazing at my lips. I knew what this meant but was reluctant to do anything in front of her friends.

So the night keeps going on, she is mentioning that she wants someone to buy her a shot. I say ”I'll buy one for you if you buy one for me".. holding eye contact with her the whole time.. until she squints her eyes and gives me a look.

Trivia is coming close to and end and she asks what everyone is doing. I tell her I'm going to another bar to annoy a mutual friend of ours and she says cool, I'll tag along.

Here's where things start to get a bit AFC. I kind of have slowed kino down because the trivia night was going for a while and I couldn't escalate any more in front of her friends. We exit and are alone walking together. At this point I'm pretty happy with myself because I've taken my game to this point and was able to isolate (and she said she would tag along which is an IOI, I assumed).

The walk was a bit boring.. I tried striking up conversation but it wasn't going far (maybe I was forcing it at this point because I'm nervous as hell). I'm able to lightly kino but am afraid to take it any further. The eye contact really wasn't there either.

We get to the bar where our friend is working, he asks us what we're going to be doing and we both kind of say going home. We leave after a few minutes.

From here I'm walking her to her car.. trying to walk a little slower so we can talk for a little more. She ends up walking a little faster which gets a little awkward. By this point the conversation is just meh, I'm barely kino'ing, barely holding eye contact..

When we reach her car she asks me what time I have class tomorrow, I say two.. she says the same and that we'll probably see each other there. I'm totally outcome dependent by this point and think I've already friend zoned myself.. so I just go in for a hug and say see you later. AFCAFCAFC.

And now I'm here, just having written my first ever field report after 3 months of being single (after a six year relationship) and studying PUA. I wimped out.. but I feel like I've made progress nonetheless..

I'm not really sure what I could have done better at the end besides just going in for a kiss and risking rejection. A little disappointed that I didn't. Is there even salvaging this situation for a next time or did I just friend zone myself?

TL;DR: Stayed in a good state for most of the night, ended up going AFC towards the end and not going for a kiss.