Yes! I got her number
And had a long chat.
I sit next to her in class, and she actually says hi to me, and I turn around and say, "Oh...hi," in an uninterested way (it wasn't really a lack of interest...it was because I didn't know if she was talking to me or someone else with my name. Yes, I'm an idiot sometimes...)
Anyway, for some reason I continue to ignore her and actually offer to help the girls to the left of me, but not her. I actually think her feelings were hurt because I seemed to be deliberately brushing her off. About 5 minutes later I help her and make eye contact and show that I'm still interested.
Anyway, eventually we are talking about something and the guy behind me (who I'm pretty friendly with but never really talked to for a long time) mutters something under his breath about how lucky I am to have this particular talent I have). The teacher asks me, and I joke around with him and with some others in the classes. This is great "social proof".
Then she makes some kind of comment to me that didn't make any sense. I turned and smiled and asked what she meant. She smiled and didn't say anything.
So now I'm thinking, wow, I have pretty much a 100% chance of success right now. But still, I didn't know if I had the balls....
We're leaving class, and I give her a little smile, and then she says something. I can't even remember what it was. It was something about the teacher. Then I try to ask her something, but I'm stumbling over the words and she starts smiling and then I start smiling. Finally I get the words out. At this point her body language is screaming, "Take me." The tension and subcommunication the whole time was huge.
Oh yeah...then I asked her what she wanted to do with herself, and she went on and on and on. Then I remember she tied it back to thinking that writing music was a lot of fun. I made some kind of lame joke like "That's why I'm doing it." She laughed.
Then I told her I wanted to get into writing for bigger groups.
Then, she actually brought up that if I ever wrote anything for strings, then that's her thing.
At this point, I knew exactly what she was doing because I had had the idea myself. So I'm like
"Why don't I get your phone number...so I don't lose track of you." (yeah, could have been better worded...whatever)
After that point, things went very very well. She was really really happy. She wanted to give me her last name because she said she didn't know how many other HB's there were on my phone.
She made me call her cell phone to make sure it worked. She showed me the picture on her phone (from when she was overseas). She told me her last name, which was weird, so I asked her what country her background was. She told me the country, but said that when she got married, she wouldn't have to worry about it (how should I read into that comment? ha ha)
I am so damn happy right now that I had the balls to do this. Thank you guys for your support. It didn't go like I planned it, but what does? At least I was relaxed and funny in a lame way (or maybe she was just laughing for no reason)
