I [23M] shot my shot with a waitress [22F] and got a positive response only to get ghosted later.
Okay so, I was a restaurant eating dinner and noticed a cute waitress. I hesitated a lot at first but then walked up to her when I noticed she was free, introduced myself, and asked if I could get her number. She refused, so I apologized, and turned around to go back to my table.
But then I heard her say something but couldn’t make out what it was, so I turned back and asked her, she said “-Her instagram tag here-, this is my Instagram account.” I was surprised so I asked her “do I DM you there?” And she said yes.
We were stealing glances at each other for the rest of the time I was at the restaurant so I thought I was going good.
Later on that night I give her a follow and tried to DM her, but it turns out she doesn’t allow people she doesn’t follow to send her DMs.
So I give it time thinking she’ll just follow me back and we’ll be able to talk then. She doesn’t, and ends up uploading a new story.
I thought maybe she just didn’t recognize me. I check her story and notice I can actually reply to the story even though I can’t outright DM her so I do that introducing myself and asking her how her day went as a reply to the story.
It’s been two days and she has not replied to me.
I honestly have no idea what to make of the situation; on one hand it seemed like it was really smooth sailing and everything was going well, but then this happens.
Did I mess up somehow? Am I missing something? Should I be doing something about it?