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my advice would be to tell her you wanted to make a move but were too shy to do so, she should be really flattered by the fact she comes off as intimidating to you, that or too dumb not to be..good luck
Firstly, this is really bad advice. Girls do NOT respond well to logic. By saying the above you are trying to logically explain why you didn't make a move on her and it won't interest her in the slightest.
Girls respond to EMOTIONS. Ever wondered why girls KEEP going back to the bad boys even though they know LOGICALLY what they are doing is wrong and they will just end up getting hurt? They do this because those exact same bad boys, stimulated their emotions and got them excited and wet.
Right now, you are going to be confused as hell and you WILL be tempted to explain to this girl logically what you did wrong. You will be tempted to ask her why she dropped you in the friend's zone and if she was ever attracted to you.
All you need to understand is that, she WAS attracted to you because she wouldn't have taken a whole month to drop you in the friend zone. All she was doing was waiting for you to step up to the FUCKING mantle and SWEEP her off her feet.
If you had done this in the first place you would be railing her right now. Anyway, that is all in the past.
Now, getting back to you. Young man, you need to decide what it is YOU want to do now. Girls are little puppy dogs. They need direction. And this girl is a little puppy dog who has probably dropped you in the friend's zone from the advice of her friends and your lack of action.
You're on the back foot now so if you act in a passive aggressive manner (what the PUAs call a freeze out) this will NOT work. She won't be missing you because you haven't demonstrated you are worth dating - hence she has nothing to miss out on.
When this bowling date comes around text her and sell it to her as a fun outing.
If she texts back, CALL her up and fluff, joke with her it doesn't matter. All you are doing is lessening the likely hood of her flaking.
Then when you get to go on a date with her. Flip all her emotions, don't talk about her putting you in the friend's zone and how emotionally traumatised you were.
Just escalate and show how unaffected you are and how you're having too much fun with your life to even care.
I'm not going to lie to you and say this is going to be easy because it won't be.
But you are on this forum because you a mother fucking PUA. You're the man. RUN the show.