St. Patrick's Day, Friday, March 17th
School week is over and it's time to turn up. Due to financial reasons, and the fact 2/4 of my roommates have girlfriends we opt to not go downtown and go to a fellow student's party. There's lots of familiar faces, and socializing is easy. I mostly spend the early part of this party just chilling with other dudes and drinking beer. While standing with my roommates, I notice a HB8 alone in the hallway upstairs. Approach instantaneously.
Me: "WOW! You like you're having an awesome time."
HB8: Response I don't remember.
*I spend this first bit laughing and smiling as much as possible and teasing trying to create the illusion I'm having the time of my and do not give a sh*t about anything.*
GAME CHANGER
This girl had tons of friends at this party, but so did I. I introduced her to everyone I knew, DHV. Popular guy. When people talked to her I would use Mystery's "So how do you know each other?" And proceed to run game on the friend, ultimately befriending her friends. Now I had created this persona of the happy-go-lucky guy who knows everyone and befriends everyone. This my first time really trying to be a social butterfly to say, but it helped my game by raising my social value significantly in this girls eyes as I became the centre of her friend group and my own. From now on I always open any newcomers to any interaction to establish that social leader aspect.
My favourite song comes on and I just grab this HB8 and spin her in circles and dip her. Bust out all my dance moves and she loves it. We're the only people two-stepping at this party. She loves it. Make out in corner. Talk more, build comfort. IOI's. I try to pull, but it's logistically difficult and she seemed set on being with her girlfriends for the night. I number close. Party gets shut down. We get separated. I go home.
Sunday, March 19th
I'm going to try to organize a date with the HB8 I met on St. Patricks day. I go for the text.
Me: "Knock knock"
*Interesting text opener, guarantees response*
HB8: "Who's there?

"
Me: "[Real first name]"
HB8: "Had a feeling"
*Indicates she remembered and was anticipating my text, good IOI*
Me: "Figured you would"
*Little cocky*
HB8: "How are you!?"
Me: "I'm awesome! How about you?"
HB8: "I'm pretty good! How was the rest of your St. Patrick's Day?"
*I hate text small talk, avoid and get straight to business*
Me: "Pretty wild to say the least. When are you free to get together sometime?"
HB8: "Sometime this week possibly?"
*9:37PM I fall asleep, f**k*
*Next day*
Me: "Yeah! When works for you?"
*Later that night*
HB8: "Hey sorry today was a crazy day for me, my phone broke so I was running around [city] dealing with that. I'm free Sunday [26th]"
Me: "I'll pick you up at 6:30PM"
HB8: "That's specific, should I trust you?"
Me: "Yes, I'm a man of my word"
HB8: "Okay, can I have a clue to where we are going?"
Me: "It's supposed to be a mystery"
HB8: "Okay! See ya then"
Date sealed. I think it was important I didn't react to her not responding for such a long time which would have made me look needy. As students, we have pretty busy schedules. It's also a good way to practice letting go of the outcome and not getting attached to any dreams or high hopes. The ideology of "yeah I'd like to create a date and opportunity to f-close, but if not I'll always score someone else soon."