tl;dr: Practiced my abundance mentality and push-pull on a HB7 and pulled a number after she asked for my facebook.

Tonight was "Prom Night" for our engineering school. I didn't plan on going, but thought I should show my face at least because I'm a part of the school's senate that organized the damn thing. So I pregame at the bar with fellow senators and head to the Prom. Now, remember, this is the Engineering school's Prom, which only means one thing: major sausage fest. Practically everyone save for us and two "not-a-fuck-given" PhD dudes were on the dance floor. As the organizers, I thought it was our duty to get our guests dancing and having a good time. So I approach tables and egg them on to dance. Some do, some don't, but as the night progressed (and the alcohol was consumed) more and more people were on the dance floor.

My friend and I aren't too shy to dance. With the utmost modesty, I am a dancing machine. So we start dancing with two HB6's; EE and Materials Science, apparently. That lasts for a couple minutes with some grinding, but I'm just wanting to have a good time at this point so it's all about making them having a good time too.

Later on in the night, a large set of Chinese students, that I approached earlier at their table, finally gets onto the dance floor and I greet them cheerfully and just start dancing in their circle. I stand out for sure since no one's really a confident dancer, except for this one HB7. I pull her into the middle of the circle and give a show, but I'm not showing any signs of latching on immediately. I give everyone my attention and cheer on those who are dancing; guys or girls.

I'm starting to get really hot so I just announce to whomever is listening, "It's hot, I'm gonna get some water", and just take off, not really caring if anyone follows or not. This is where I wanted to keep in mind to push-pull. Hopefully make HB7 wonder where I went. And it totally worked. After a drink of water and going back to the group, a couple more minutes of dancing with HB7 and her friends, I see her fanning herself with her hand so I say, "I can't take this anymore. Wanna get some water?". She says Yeah and I just head towards the table without looking back. I get there and pour myself some water and wait nonchalantly. It took maybe 2 minutes and there she was, trying to get some punch.

"No, no, punch is going to get you more thirsty. You gotta drink water."

"Oh! Thank you!"

We talk and turns out she was from the Communications school and came out just to let off some steam before final papers, etc. I continue the kino from the dance floor with my hand on her back as I talk close to her ear. I decide to push.

"I'm gonna go outside to get some fresh air."

I walk away and make a quick glance to see if she'll follow and head out the doors. She didn't follow but I seriously needed some fresh air anyway. I knew she was sending IOI's (leaving her group to meet me, dancing close) but I needed to amp up the attraction some more.

So I head back in and start dancing with the group again. After a couple of more songs and isolating her to dance and talking about ourselves, I decide I wanna get going and should ask for her number. Coincidentally, she asks me what my name was again.

"It's [cptn]!"

"Oh, that's right!"

"What the hell?? I remembered your name!"

"Are you on facebook?"

"Yeah, of course."

"I don't remember your last name."

"Tell you what; how about you give me your number."

I take my phone out and put in her name. "No, no, you misspelled it! It's with a 'L' not an 'M'!" OH well. She puts in her number, I text her my full name with a smiley face (cheesy, I know, but fuck you, that's how I roll) and I say I gotta go. But she says she requested Poker Face from the DJ and says I gotta stay for it. I tell her I really gotta go, but my friend keeps saying out loud how messed up I am when she clearly wants me to stay. I say Fine and tell her that Poker Face better come out next or else I'm walking. It doesn't play for 2 songs so I playfully give her a hard time about it and really commit to an exit. She tells me her goodbye and congratulates me on finishing school. I tell her I had fun and that she needs to give me a kiss on the cheek before I go (I wasn't even planning or expecting it and just wanted to try it out). She laughs and shyly says, "No, no, no!", as an international student would. I don't really care if she does or not, but at this point I just want to see if she would. I say, "If you kiss me I'll wait for Gaga to come on." The lady doth protest too much even still. So I cut short and sarcastically give her a polite handshake, say I had a wonderful time, and head out.

I'm happy with what I was able to accomplish, especially by working on things I had trouble with: abundance mentality (not getting hung up on just one girl and keeping my options open as I do the work), push-pull (directly related to abundance mentality; making her work to show interest, which I gotta say is the best feeling ever), and not being afraid to just try shit.

Bonus: On my way home, Weezer's Perfect Situation was playing on the radio. I laughed to myself as I couldn't connect with the lyrics anymore and just thought what an AFC anthem it is. I'm so happy right now; I finally made the effort to move on.

p.s. Shoutout to my LA sedditors. I've totally been MIA, but I'm ready to sarge as soon as I'm done with school this May!