So I've been eyeing this girl at the gym this past week and finally broke into a long conversation with her last Friday (Incidentally, Valentine's Day). I'm an average dude with average skills in picking up/meeting women, so yeah honestly I still have some insecurities doing so. I do meet women on occassion and am able to go day 2 with HB6-8s. I just have to write about this gym girl because she's my first HB9 and at the back of my mind, I seriously do not want to blow my chance with her.
Despite my insecurity in my "average" skills, I can't help but feel that I've played a solid day 1 game with her. Before we met, I'd steal a glance at her (making sure she notices) then go back to gymming. The first couple of times I talked to her, it was just small talk on how to use equipment, etc etc. and I always played it cool as if I just wanted to go about my business and never really cared about her.
Friday was a breakthrough since we actually got to sit down and talk after being in the same workout class. Again, I played it cool acting like my natural reserved self and strangely, I found that she was the one becoming talkative and working to make the conversation last. Notable IOIs she dropped include the ff:
1. Asking me lots of questions like what my job was, if I had any date on Valentines (which I pretended to forget about), etc.
2. After our conversation, she waited for me to finish another round of workouts and then we went back to talking
After I finished, I sat down with her again and said I was going out to drink with some friends and she said that she was just going to wait for her family to swing by the gym and pick her up. I offered to wait with her for a while but in true PUA fashion, I said that "I could only wait for 10 minutes before my friends come looking for me." So anyway we had a nice chat and parted after she headed for the showers and I left for drinks.
A couple of hours later, I was having drinks when I decided to text her just to let her know what number I was using (I got her number but she didn't get mine). She dropped yet another IOI when she was sending texts that seemed to get the conversation going, like "How do you like the gym so far?" The most solid IOI I got over text was when I made the "Let me guess your sign based on your personality" play, to which she was saying stuff like "I'm glad you don't think I'm a ditzy party girl" and "Do I surprise you that I'm a nerd?"
So we ended up having a light conversation over text until 2AM when I went home and she finished watching the Winter Olympics on TV. In retrospect, this might be the only area in which I've come across as a little shaky (coz I was replying relatively fast and was sending longer texts than her). Despite that, I ended the conversation by saying I'm about to pass out and she nevertheless said good night to me (to which i did not reply).
My question is, how do I get a solid day 2 with her? Given that this all happened last week, is it absolutely necessary for me to ask her out on a date by this week? I have a couple of ideas revolving around the fact that it's my birthday this week and that we're both Piscean, do you think I should push through with it? And, how often should I stay in touch with her this week, especially knowing that we're not really sure of each other's gym schedule? Thanks for the help, guys. I also think that posting this question right now on the forum is a big help so that I don't text her prematurely out of being so needy, haha.
