November 12, 2008

• My failed romantic mission

  I have to put this story in private because the girl that’s involved in this story has a xanga.
  
  So there’s this girl (let’s call her Diamond) that I’ve been pretty good friends for the past few years.  Well, I found myself starting to have feelings for her and decided to go for it and make my feelings known.  I was afraid she would worry about messing up the great friendship that we have so far, so I made a plan.
  
  Original plan:  I would pick her up from her house and take her out for dinner.  We would have a marvelous time and later on I would drop her off.  I will give her a present as well as a card that she can only read after I had “left”.  In the card, I pretty much confess my feelings and offer her two choices:  either a) if she really can’t see us being more than friends, she should ignore the card and we would just continue our friendship or b) if she can admit to having some feelings (not chemistry, since we obviously have a lot of that) for me, she should come outside and meet me so I can give her a rose and ask her out face to face.
  
  I thought it was a good plan when I initially came up with it.  Thought it would be romantic way to do it.  So, how did it went?
  
  Well everything that probably could go wrong did haha.  Drawback #1:  she wanted to meet up at the mall instead of me picking her up, since she was close by.  Damn, how am I going to be outside her house when she read the card if we meet up at the mall?, I thought.  I figured that I could just drive to her house after we had dinner and just wait for her outside.  However, that would waste a lot of time and gas, as well as be sorta creepy to be honest.  It would have made sense for me to be there if I had driven her.  So that was drawback #1.
  
  Drawback #2:  I wanted to get her a single rose because I thought more would be overdoing it.  Unfortunately, the place where I bought the roses only sold them in dozens, so I had to buy 12 roses.  Urgh okay, hopefully she won’t find that as too much.
  
  Drawback #3:  During our dinner chat, the topic of how her ex (and mutual friend of mine) had asked her out last time came up.  She told me that she felt sorta coerced into the relationship because he presented her a bouquet of flowers (!!!) and gave her a note that pretty much offered the ultimatum of either going out w/ him or not being friends with him (!!!).  Although my card didn’t give such a big ultimatum, it did seem way too similar.  I also realized that I would be kinda coercing her if I followed through my plan, which I didn’t want to do.  If we were to go out, she would have to want it as much as me.
  
  At this point, I decided I needed to abort the mission.  I decided to give her the gift w/o the card in it (in case you’re wondering, I got her Twilight and she’s hooked on it now haha).  Well, that WAS what I intended.  Unfortunately, I somehow LEFT the card in the gift bag (!!!).  When she took it out and asked “what’s this”, I attempted to look confused and took the card back, saying it was nothing. 
  
  Too bad she already saw “To Diamond” on the card (!!!).  For the next 10 minutes she tried to get me to give her the card, or at least say who it was from, but I manage to get her to stop by saying that it was a card I wrote but I totally messed up on.  I told her it was too late for me to change cards, so I decided to not give it to her and clumsy old me just left it in the bag.  She more or less bought it and went home, as I meanwhile banged my head a couple of times on my driving wheel .
  
  So yes, that was my awesomely failed romantic night.  Don’t worry, for some reason I’m just laughing at myself so much for what transpired.  It looks like if I do wanna ask her out I’m gonna have to try something else.  Any advice?
  
  p.s. Some of you may have saw my pulse about the flowers.  I ended up giving it to a random girl working at Starbucks, under the pretenses that I was delivering it to her from a secret admirer.  It would have been a waste to throw those roses away, so at least I made one person really happy.  I’m so sneaky
  
  

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