OK. I was never explicitly told that she has a b/f, but I inadvertently heard her talking to another girl about it, so there was no "boyfriend defense" that was triggered due to showing too much interest too soon.

She owed me a favor and I asked her out on a lunch thing which she agreed to without much hesitation. In the mean time, I've been hitting clubs downtown with friends and number closed a 1-set tonight. In the past two days, I've opened roughly 10 sets which isn't the greatest start, but a start nonetheless. Let me say- dance clubs can be really difficult to even convey what you want to say.

I have noticed on several separate occasions, she'll be looking at me or even saying hi, etc. Anyways, I get to be around her occasionally and I've done things that were pretty inconsistent to switch things up, sometimes I'll ignore her/talk to people around her while giving her minimal attention and other times i'll smile and talk directly to her while still keeping attention to her to an absolute minimum.

I'm thinking of going through with the lunch thing to practice things like compliance testing, negging, kino escalation. But, right now, I'm not thinking much of it and juggling either going through with it or blowing it off.

Other conclusions I've come to are: I might be(or am) in the friend zone, she feels OK w/ it b/c the returning favor is the excuse, there are plenty of single girls to game and she might not be having the best times with her current b/f.

TLDR; girl has a b/f, agrees to lunch - go through with it or ditch?

I think you should go through with it as she may be second guessing her current situation. Maybe call her out on her boyfriend and tell her she's an amazing girl you'd like to get to know better. Just rememeber that you have to stay in control.

i agree to a certain extent as mentioned in my original post, but i don't think there's a point in calling her out on her b/f. It seems unnecessary and might put her on the defensive.

And, for sure, i'll be trying my best to dominate the frame. I just would like a 'devil's advocate' pov b/c in the back of my mind i don't want to be justifying seeing her with the 'facade' of getting practice, which however, is a very valid reason.

As of right now, i'm leaning towards fuck it and just do it, see what happens, while in the mean time, sarging as usual up until the date.