...Has ultimately been to no avail. I'm 18 years old and just finished my senior year of high school. I've never had a girlfriend, but this year I did my best to pursue someone -- at least without looking like a creep or anything (I hope). Anyway, I think I'm too timid to come off as desperate.
The young lady has just finished her junior year. We were on the academic team and a few other teams as well, and I was already attracted to her. Getting to know her has been rather difficult. She is from China, so it was a bit of a language barrier on top of her being a little reclusive and unresponsive. Throughout the year, we chit chatted and I regularly went to see her tennis matches after school. When I realized that the end of the year was approaching and I'd yet to find out if she liked me to any degree, I asked her if she'd like to play tennis or run (I was on track) with me at the park over the weekend.
She agreed, which really excited me. I'd never done anything with a girl I liked before. We decided I should call her the night before because there was a park she had in mind that I wasn't sure how to find. So I called her... and she told me she was tired and didn't want to wake up early... So she canceled.
Phooey.
Since then I've learned she is a Governor's Scholar. This means over the summer before her senior year she will go to a university for five weeks. I'm confused if I should try to continue this. In the fall, I'll start as a freshman at a university that's an hour's drive away from here. If I am to contact her again before she leaves for the Governor's Scholar program, I think it'll come off the wrong way. I'm not sure if she was even aware that I liked her, but I want to see her again. Should I try to keep in touch with her?
I'm sort of glad I stayed away from these situations for 18 years -- they're confusing.
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