A few weeks ago I was out for a friend's birthday; there was quite a low turn-out, with 7 girls to 2 guys (me being one of them of course). This was a nice easy advantage to any sort of pick up I was tempted to try (though I didn't go there with the intention of PU) as the other guy I was with is a natural introvert who dresses boring and really can't speak to girls to save his life.

I thought as there were so many girls there I'd try a couple of different styles out to all of them, such as being cocky-funny, being downright arrogant, being friendly and comfort-building, ignoring and negging, etc. At about midnight, I got a text from a guy friend who wasn't there saying that the girl I'd been ignoring and negging (as well as just generally being higher status than) had asked him for my number. Upon this I focussed my attention on her a bit more (not obviously), and we ended up dancing and talking for a bit (and there was a LOT of kino which she initiated).

After that night, she started talking to me quite a bit on facebook, and I played it very cool with lots of cocky and confident DHVs and just tried generally to give off the impression that I had no need of her whatsoever. Then about a week afterwards she started a chat with me saying something along the lines of "I'm on the phone right now, but I really want to talk to you, are you sticking around for much longer or not?" So I told her I wasn't (to avoid DLVing myself), to which she replied "Okay, well I'm gonna be straight, I think you're really fucking interesting, so text me sometime?" and she gave me her number.

We flirted a bit over texting and then we went out a bit later that week. We drove around and talked for a while, while I cubed her and just generally tried to build more comfort. We eventually stopped overlooking a lake with the sunset behind it, and we stayed there chatting for about two hours. I could NOT pull the trigger, and since then I've made two attempts to talk to her, both of which have been met with silence. However, she's also started another brief chat since then (with no mention of ignoring the texts), and very recently complimented my looks to one of my friends.

I'm really stuck, and would love any advice?

My guess is that since you didn't pull the trigger especially given such a 'romantic' setting, she got the impression you weren't interested. Don't take that as concrete though, I'm just a rookie, but that's what seems plausible.

Learn from your mistakes and pull the trigger next time!

Man, when you feel like it's time, you should go in for the kiss. Most of the time that sexual tension is mutual!

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This is 100% it.

Thanks guys.

If it is that she just doesn't think I am/was interested, how could I got about recovering it? (Or should I even bother?)

Also, how do you know what to go in for the kiss? Like even with all the IOIs I was getting and with the romantic backdrop, I didn't know when?