I guess I chose well? I can still feel your scent in my room. Or I'm simply going slowly crazy. Whatever. Thinking of it, now I understand how you are not the kind of girl on which to base my emotional stability. I don't know if it's just because we don't really know eachother so well, but you do really seem scared of something, or never really happy. This hurts me a little, but on the other hand actually requires me to be <<The Man>>, the one with self-esteem and apparently no fear to fail or be rejected. Which I should learn to do. On the other side, I'm still kind of confused on how I got it to work between us. You know, after your <<We don't really know eachother>> speech, I kind of failbacked to my "friend-mode", the one in which I think all is doomed, I just relax and try to have a less awkward conversation to end the date without such a bitter taste. Yep, already been there. Was it this that lightened you up? After that, my whole ego was hanging from your finger playing with my hand, only symptom of your attraction. If I've learned something is to act natural-ish like try to kiss you when I felt like it. Helped by the fact that you only rejected me with your words, not physically. Was it my (desperate) persistence? What was it? The fact that you're giving me no feedbacks is making this game even more playable and interesting. I am the lab rat and the mad scientist. Addendum: what also helps is to stop sometimes and think: when will it happen to me again to be switching back and forth from Italian and German with a cute girl on a boat, whilst conversing with a (probably) homeless old hippie about toxic nuclear waste and the cost of building new reactors? The answer is probably never, but I've learned that my life could be made of little comic situations like these, if I wanted.