FR Did you take a picture of me?

[Railer]

Looks-wise the bartender could well be a Victoria Secret Angel.

She's seems fun too. I never even consider talking to her, but I smile at her as I am enjoying myself and the music. She's smiling back.

I like the bar's decoration. As I want to take a picture, I notice her standing right there, so I decide to make her the center of it. Why not.

I notice she's looking my way a lot and return her looks. One moment, as I am close to the bar, she asks me: "Did you take a picture of me?"
"Yes, but it didn't work [in regards to lighting]", I respond honestly.
Sparkles in her eyes, she wants to know where I am from. "Oh that's so cool", is her comment to my response.
"Well, we should take a selfie ... or ask somebody to take a picture of us!". Wow.

My friend takes the picture.

"Doesn't look good", she states.
As I try to respond, she's already gone.

Quite some time later, lacking any better idea, I ask if she's from [capital].
"No, I'm from [town]."
"Oh? Where?" (as in: where exactly?)
"Google it."
For a second I believe she's about to tell me what zone she lives in, but as I reach for my phone, I stop:
"I know [town]. I live there."

She either doesn't seem to believe me or she doesn't care. Anyway as I stata "How strange that we never ran into each other before", she seems to actually not hear me, but looks at me *as if* she was listening, while serving a customer next to me.

I brush off her ignoring me. I am a little surprised it actually works ... only to feel a profound sadness the following day.

 

[Railer]

I am unable to find that girl by any means, so I accept having lost her without a trace.

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As I drive by, some guy hands me a flyer. I notice there are some girls too.

As I read that it is about some bar opening, I take another round on the block to ask him where it was.

The girl next to him looks at me excitedly:

"Hey! Do you know who I am?"
"Yes."
"I shouted, when you passed before, but you didn't hear me."

She also states "So it was true that you live here!"
I had already suspected that she didn't believe me.

As I take her number, I'm so nervous, I delete the contact the first time around. I have to ask again in order to actually manage to store it.

"OK - come over afterwards, so we'll see each other."

Later in the club she works at the bar. Some fluff, then she goes back to work. I happen to know a lot of girls tonight, so I dance with them. At the end of the night, I grab her elbow and pull her close: "I'm going home. Tomorrow I'll write to you, so we can do something together."

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[2pm]
hey baby

[4pm]
baby? haha
how are you?

[11pm]
(audio) heey. just came home from the movies. you?
(audio) tomorrow, if you want, we can do something.
Haha what did you watch?

[11am]
good morning!
[movie]

[2pm]
Which is it?
a guy who [...]
didn't like it too much, but well
those are always kind of the same ... but there are good ones too. like [othermovie], for example
Haha I don't like movies like that
I prefer animated ones
(audio) [laughing] really?
I wanted to see [animatedmovie]
but well, I ran out of money earlier than expected
haha
talk to me in english, if you like
"i understand perfectly"
(audio) okay. anyway while i'm here sometimes it's more effort than [locallanguage]
apart, you'd help me
because I haven't spoken it in quite a while
(audio) where did you learn it?
movies, magazines, ...
took lessons since i was a kid, but that didn't help a lot
nicely formed sentence though
Haha what?
I don't talk English since I left [country]
so be as if you were talking to a 5 yr old child haha

you're cute
(audio) so what are you doing in real life?
(audio) plus i'm curious about the [country] part. so ... why don't we go for a coffee later. Are you free?
Today I'm in recovery haha been working entire weekend, so I'll sleep all day
also b/c the day is so ugly
(audio) Ahhh, come on! Will be fun and you may always sleep afterwards. At night


[4pm]
look at the weather
horrible
haha
I'm gonna stay in bed all day
(audio) [laughing] don' worry: I *might* allow you to see me on another day too hehe

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I don't really know how to lead that into a D2.

In similar situations neither insisting nor "acting cool" nor texting for extended periods has worked.

Your ideas are very welcome!