Yo GAF,
I need some opinions on whether I'm an idiot. Here is my tale:
I met this girl at a party over Labor Day. Technically it was a good friend of mine's person of interest. They had been seeing each other over the summer fairly casually. He'd been through a breakup in late spring so he wasn't really wanting anything serious. Anyway, it was during that labor day weekend that they basically decided not to pursue anything because there was no spark or what have you. It kind of took me by surprise because from the short time I saw them together I just figured it was an inevitability.
So at no point did I see her as like anything other than just a friend of a friend or whatever. When a gal is spoken for they generally kinda cease to exist when it comes to any kind of feelings outside of friendship. But then the next day or whatever I'm on Facebook at work, and suddenly she starts liking a dozen different comments, posts, etc. of my stuff. She had added me during that weekend, but we had never communicated prior to this. So I was like...uh...why are you doing this. And she responded that it was payback for harassing her all weekend.
To be fair I had been a little jokingly antagonistic toward her, but that's just how I sometimes approach meeting new people. It was all in jest though.
Anyway, after that we end up chatting. A good bit, actually. Conversations would range from like 30 minutes to an hour or more. They were always a lot of fun and snappy. And like 9/10 times she'd IM me first. This went on for like...a week or so? I can't remember exactly, but it was something like that. They were usually pretty fun, personal conversations; about stuff like movies, politics, etc. It got to a point where it felt like she really, really liked talking to me. And I liked talking to her. But it didn't immediately occur to me that she was interested, but just maybe something was kind of going on, you know?
So then last Thursday I make a post on FB about how I'm free after 8PM and want something to do. She messages me just a few minutes later that I should hang out / get drunk with her and her friend/roommate (a mutual friend). It turned out to be a pretty fun time and I ended up crashing there because I was fairly buzzed/drunkish by the end of the night. She made mention that she was glad I came over to hang out and I mentioned I was glad she was glad I came over. Or something like that, like I said before I was kinda drunk at that point.
So on Friday she texts me while I'm at work. She's nervous about performing at open mic night. Her and the friend are a two-person band. They play/sing folksy music stuff. It's really cute and they actually gave me like a private performance/practice the previous night. I couldn't actually see them perform because I had to work until ten but they had mentioned they would be playing on the main uptown street afterward so I could maybe see them then. So like right at 10PM I get a text saying "you're getting off work now, so come here and hear us play" or something like that.
So I see them and hang out with them for awhile, but they have to get going because they both have work on Saturday.
And then before I go to bed late Saturday night (I was out at a party until like 2AM) I post on Facebook about going to this local festival that I've never been to, seeing if anyone wants to go because my Sunday turned out to be free. She texts me the next day at like 9AM about going. Her and her friend/roommate joined me and it was a pretty fun afternoon.
It was pretty much at this point I was like, yeah she's digging this, or at least pretty darn confident that she was. I call her up that night and ask her about getting dinner and seeing a movie, and she responds that she's "not looking for anything right now," which is pretty much a nice way of saying she's not interested in me at all. But I am an "awesome friend."
I would have almost bet money that she was interested. So that kind of blew me away. Since then we've only had a small jokey text exchange on Monday. I've felt like a giant idiot ever since and I feel like at this point I should just leave her be and let her talk to me again if she wants to.
So what gives, GAF? Did I blow it along the way or was I just imagining things?