So I met this HB10 on OKCupid a few weeks ago. She is a fulltime model and I'm sure probably gets 100's of messages a day so I was pretty surprised when she responded quite openly to a weakass opener I sent her. She was out of town for a week when I messaged her and then I went out of town so during that time we exchanged about 15-20 texts and talking on the phone for about 30 mins. The entire time I could sense her interest because she would send me pics from my Facebook and say "OMG I love this pic, you look so cute..." She even was the first to suggest we meet up which we did this Wednesday.

The original plan was to get drinks downtown at 8pm that night. She texts me at 7:10pm and says "can we maybe meet up for coffee instead? And just so you know I'm not feeling well so can't stay out too late." I was already on my way since she lives 45 min away with traffic but agreed to meet at a different place instead.

Once I got downtown it was pouring rain and the visibility was really bad. Parking was hard to find too but I was lucky to find one close to the coffee shop. So I walk in and meet her in the lobby and give her a hug and make little small chat, etc. We both order from the counter and I reach down to grab my wallet and realize it's not there! I turned to her and told her I left my wallet in my truck hoping it just fell out. I rush out to my truck and luckily its just sitting on the seat. So I go back in after being gone for no less than 2 mins and find that she already paid for our order. I tryed to pay her back but she refused.

So we find a table and take a seat and start talking about both of our recent vacations. No more than 5 mins later, I glance outside and see a cop putting a ticket on my windshield. Turns out in all of the rain I didn't see a 4inch by 4 inch handicapped sign and the "lucky" spot I got was handicapped spot! I excused myself as by this time she knew what was going on and went outside to talk to the cop. He gave me a ticket which took another 5 mins and then I went back in.

We I got back in she was on the phone but wrapped it up quickly after I sat down. I tried to make light of it by saying, "Well, at least I get to keep it parked there and get my money's worth!" I tried not to be embarrassed but I'm not sure I came across that way or not. I was able to quickly get a conversation going about something else so I'm really not too sure how much it really bugged her or not.

We ended up talking for about an hour and a half getting to know each other a little better. There was one point about halfway through when she was explaining some kind of excercise her doctor was having her do and she grabbed my hand to demonstrate which may or may not have been an IOI. I'm big on Kino and trying to evoke touch but I was kinda thrown off by her being sick. When I'm sick I don't want anyone touching me.

At about 9:15pm she says well I should get going so I can go home and get some rest. I get ready to get up and walk her to her car but we get caught in another conversation and stay for another 15 mins. As I'm walking to her car I suggest we hang out again when she's feeling better and she quickly says, "Sure, I'll come out closer to where you live next time so you don't have to drive so far." I give her a hug and say, let me know how you feel tommorrow.

She said she was gonna try some weird garlic tea drink that was supposed to work miracles or something, so the next day around 4pm I text her, "Hey, so did that magic garlic end up doing the trick?"

It's been 2 days since then and still no response from her. She still has me as a friend on Facebook but then again she has like 2,000 friends on there anyway lol.

How would you guys try to salvage this? I know at one point the interest was there but how can I try to get it back?

Seems to me that you never really escalated with her, it remained grounded in a "friendly" date and nothing more. If she went to see you even while being sick she clearly had extra interest in seeing you, she could had just cancel the whole thing because she was ill. Also, i would actually had called her instead of just texting, she would have found that more charming that you wanted to know, from her voice, how she feels.

She wanted your dick and you did not give it.
She couldn't care about your opener and whatnot because she liked you and you failed to recognize.

So what would you guys suggest I do now? Or is it a lost cause?

Call her, don't stay "friendly", try to actually escalate this time, and set a second date.

Not escalating and getting stuck in the "friend zone" is exactly why I came here to try to improve. Do you have any suggestions on threads/ways that I can improve. Thanks for your help

I'm planning on calling her later today to try and set a 2nd date.

Here's the approach I was thinking...I really like the Rob-A-Bank text thread on here and was gonna try to work it in because of the easy sexual escalation.

Me: "Now that we got all the boring first date bs outta the way, I'm thinking it's time we really had some fun! Wanna rob a bank with me?"

Her: (Answer) Hopefully a laugh too

Me:(Regardless of her answer) "Seriously, I need an accomplice. You driving or shooting? OK....how about you just ride and I'll do all the shooting?"

Thoughts??? Also, if she doesn't answer would leaving something like that on a VM be a smart move?

Whatever you did to hook her for the first date, just keep doing that, but be more agressive now. That's the only thing you were lacking.