Forewarning: apologies for the long drawn-out text, I'm not the best gifted writer, just writing as it comes to mind.

I(M24) almost landed myself a hookup last night w this girl I work with in a small kitchen job. She doesn't come around often & she's not that hot, but fairly decent looking, so I didn't think any of it when I saw her come into work yesterday, just asked some general questions abt life & she was pretty responsive which I liked. Also that's big points for me, bc being a cook in a small busy kitchen, where you can run out of things to talk about with the same ppl, putting you midway between introvert & extrovert, it helps to wanna talk to a new face. Anyway, just general banter me & her had, nothing crazy. Then later, my other coworker's gf came by the kitchen. She's the bubbly type of girl who'll make u smile bc.. well, she's extroverted & doesn't work in a soul sucking kitchen lol. I've seen her come around occasionally & she's known the girl co-worker for years already. She's naturally flirtatious & ended up teasing my guy co-worker (who's honestly a giant depressed guy but somehow landed her, don't ask me how), which made us giggle, and we caught glances at each other a few feet away, so now attraction tension is building a little and I'm sensing some fk me eyes. it seems we're both the awkward shy type bc we both try to look at our phones bc we didn't know much to say, and then I make some more banter like "you stay in the area? How long you in town for?", questions to lead up to wyd tonight type shit. Then I ask her to help dry dishes during clean up naturally it takes me a few moments to say anything & I say "you have a curfew you gotta be home by?" She's like "no, not really, my parents are pretty loose with me" I say "You wanna hang for a bit after work?" She's like ".. What do you wanna do?" I'm like "Whatever you wanna do 😏" she's like "Um, yeah, I think I'm cool with that" SCORE! I should've had it in the bag then, but then my mind turned into the plankton meme like idk, I never thought I'd get this far. So I'm just like yeah I can give you my #, we could meet up somewhere, she's like I think i already have it on the work app thing. Spoiler alert: she didn't have it for my side of the restaurant's team 💀 didn't find out till later. 1. I should've stuck to the invisible rule & given her my # anyway, I'm such a fool lol. A little later, the next thing I failed on, which is the main Title piece, is I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO FLIRT!: I froze up when she coming back and forth taking dishes, there was a few moments when. It was just us in the room, and I didn't think to ask her any flirty questions like "so what do you feel like doing when we hang?😏" etc etc. I just kept washing dishes while she dried for a bit.. what is wrong with me? Lmao. Like I want to be more confident in knowing what to say, in knowing how to make to the right moves, HOW TO FLIRT, bc I don't naturally. Like I was getting pretty horny thinking about it, but I was so nervous bc I didn't know what to say after. She ended up leaving before me, but just like moments after. I should've walked out with her and said something, but my mind just froze up on what to do next.. anyway.