"It" being asking someone to the dance, of course... it took a while (about a week this time... which means I broke my previous "taking a very long time to ask a girl out" record from last semester, which was just 3 days), but today ended up being the day where I realized "hey, just giving up is going to feel even worse so I should at least try the next chance I get" and just went up and asked her. Which is, oddly enough, pretty similar to what happened the first time last semester (...though I think I actually freaked out about it more that time, despite taking much less time to actually get around to it... probably because it was the first time I'd really asked a girl to anything ever.)
But yeah... after a week of being unable to find her (or get her away from crowds of other people, or get a chance to talk to her for more than a few minutes) I finally asked her, and... I guess she said "maybe." XD
It turns out she wasn't entirely sure whether she's going to go to the dance or not, but she said that if she does go, she might go with me (and she said she'd at least dance with me a couple of times before she leaves, since she was planning on leaving early if she did go.) And she also said she'd try to get me a tie, since the dance is more formal-ish than usual (tuxedos are "recommended," but if you don't have one a regular suit and tie works) and of course, I don't actually have a tie of my own.
So I guess I'm not undecided on going to the dance anymore, heh. That probably wouldn't go over well, asking a girl to a dance and then not even showing up myself... which also means I should probably keep going to those ballroom dance classes they're having the rest of this week. Today's went better than Monday's, but probably not quite as well as Tuesday's... I got a little nervous at first and freaked out a bit (probably because of the combination of how crowded the room was, the fact that the girl I wanted to ask out was actually there, and just my general nervousness about dancing), but once I actually managed to find people to dance with I did okay. I'm at least getting the basic steps down, so I won't be completely lost at the dance... and heck, I might actually be able to do at least some of the more complicated stuff, like stopping after one step and spinning the girl during the waltz and that weird turning-to-the-side thing from the cha-cha. So I figure I should at least be able to dance enough to not go into "freeze up and not move at all" mode during the dance, especially if I can find people to dance with (...well, other people to dance with besides the one that I know will be there, anyway. XD Especially since she's leaving early.) And apparently not every dance will involve the dance cards that you have to sign ahead of time--only every other dance. So there will be some times where I won't have to plan out ahead of time who I'll be dancing with... never thought I'd actually be glad to have to actually go up and ask girls to dance, heh.
EDIT: Turns out she can't go with me because she's planning on going with a group of friends. Oh well. Not really a problem for me, since she did only say she might go with me in the first place... still slightly disappointing though, since I was kind of hoping to have someone to go to the dance with.
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