I’m a terrible date

Date: 11/19/2025

I’m in college. There’s a girl I like. She looks like a slightly older version of Sadie Sink, but her hair is more curly. She’s kind of quiet and sweet. Anyways we end up going to a couple places. I’m nervous and seemed to have planned things rather poorly, although it seems like we are going out like the same day I asked her out for some reason. In fact it seems like we are going out the same night I asked her. I remember thinking it was good that we started the date early in the evening so that we might seated fairly easily without a reservation. It seems like we met up at the first place we went to (to get drinks or something?) and then we decided to go somewhere else to eat. I suggest a nice Italian place without thinking too much about it and she agrees, but I can tell she’s a little surprised by how nice the place is I’ve suggested, and i realize I hadn’t thought to much about that, and that it is, in fact, a super fancy and expensive restaurant, maybe a bit too fancy for a first date. So now im anxious that I look like I’m putting too much pressure her or that I look a bit too eager. BTW, this isn’t a person I’ve known for a long time. In fact, it seems like we may have just met either that day or not long before. Since she doesn’t really know me I’m very conscious of the need to make a good first impression. Anyways, we have to drive to the restaurant so we take my car. It’s dark outside by this point. As we’re driving I remember that my car is a complete mess and that I had a bunch of stuff piled in the passenger seat (lawnmower parts?) that she must have had to shove aside to sit down, so now I feel like an idiot. We go to the restaurant and have a pretty good meal. Afterwards we leave the restaurant and for some reason, I have no idea why, we split up to go do some things, but we agree to meet up somewhere on Mass Street shortly. Anyways, I can’t remember where im trying to go, but eventually I realize I’ve been walking for a while and I have no idea when I am. This is ridiculous because i should be in an area of Lawrence that I know like the back of my hand, so for me to be lost means I must have wandered pretty far. I check my phone and I see that I have a missed message from the girl and that she had called quite a while ago. Now I’m kind of freaking out because I have no idea where I am and this girl must think I’ve ignored her phone call. I try to call her and get voicemail. I try calling again (OMG) and get voicemail again. Now I’m running trying to find something that looks familiar. Eventually I come across a building that I recognize because it’s on the college campus, which is REALLY far from where I need to be, and I realize I’ve been going in the exact opposite direction that I needed to be going. At this point I realize I’ve fucked up big time. I’ve left this girl by herself downtown after dark. She has no idea where I’ve gone to and I’m her ride. She’s not answering my phone calls which means she is no longer concerned about needing me for transportation, which means she probably had to call a friend or something to come get her (this dream is occurring when I’m college age, so pre-Uber) which is absolutely mortifying. I start running back to where I’m supposed to be and praying that somehow this doesn’t turn out as bad it seems, but I woke up at about this point.