The following is a true story except names have been changed or given nicknames for anonymity.
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PROLOGUE
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"Brenda..." I nervously mumbled out as I walked behind her. She stopped walking and spun around.
"Uhh, could I grab your number just in case I need help for study or something?"
She was startled. "Oh, yeah, sure."
She started to reach for her pocket to grab her phone, then stopped herself. "Oh, I should be able to remember my number by now."
She told me her number, I entered it in my phone, and I went back home in the happiest mood in my life.
I was ecstatic, I had so much happy energy inside me that as soon as I got home I pumped my fists in the air and screamed "YES!". That was the first number I ever got from a girl.
But of course it didn't go anywhere. She ended up deleting my number.
I've always been terrible with women. I never went to the senior proms (there were two of them), was bullied for being terrible with women, and had no friends in highschool. The first girl I ever dated abandoned me after a few hours and twenty minutes later FUCKED A RANDOM STRANGER IN AN ALLEYWAY because I was so boring. At the start of my first year at university I became determined to change this, and eventually I became THE ETERNAL BACHELOR.
I started by walking around the campus and my city, spending hours trying to muster the courage to talk to girls. When I did start a conversation with one of them, my nervousness made everything awkward and I always left within the first minute because I couldn't handle the pressure. I was equally as nervous when going out at night to bars/nightclubs. I was an immensely shy, acne-ridden skinny guy. To make things worse, I got diagnosed with Laryngopharyngeal Reflux which means I couldn't drink even a drop of alcohol to ease my nerves.
I saw an advert for a local seminar on how to pickup women, so of course I attended. Through this event I met some wingmen, and some eventually became good friends and I was no longer lonely all the time.
Gradually meeting women and having a nice conversation with them became easier, but I was still making mistakes. One time a girl asked me to add her on Facebook and I refused her like an idiot. Another time, a really hot girl called me good looking and blatantly asked me what my favourite sex position was after 10 minutes into a conversation, to which I froze and told her to ask a less awkward question (to this day I still don't forgive myself for this). One day when I was walking down the street there was a group of european girls who waved at me and giggled but I didn't do anything.