TIFU i missed a girl chatting me up, or may be was fucked with i can't tell
not today but a few days ago I 17m attended a local show/fair with my brother. in this show, we have rides, games, and food stalls your typical stuff.
I'm a senior in HS and for context, we are graduating pretty soon, I attended all of the council-sponsored senior \*intermingling\* events between all the local schools in the region (relevant soon).
I was standing in line for a ride called the "Beast" when a girl turned around and said, "Do you go to XX school?". I said yes and probably looking very confused she quickly said "Oh yeah! I remember you from the grade 12's" I realise at this point and say "Oh yea the mocktails right?". at this point, I don't think I had fucked up yet, but this is when the kicker comes in! the line attendee waves us in and we take our seats there like some fucking weird rom-com scenario I end up with the choice of sitting next to her or against the side of the ride, I am not so stupid to not realise something was up so I did the obvious choice and sat next to her and her friend. she says "are you scared?" (i know this doesn't sound real) I respond "Not really, I've gone on this ride every year" and the ride ends. I saw her walk to her friends I didn't know if it would have been appropriate to walk up to her so I walked over to my brother and left.
later while I was getting a slushie from a stall they saw me called me over by name, I do not know how they knew my name, I don't know them so this puts me into a mindset of questioning if they are fucking with me. I stood there like a deer in headlights pointing at myself just to confirm that it was me that they were calling over. So when I get to them they start talking there were about five of them they say that one of them goes to my school in a younger grade (I've never seen them before, but I'm bad at remembering people so idk). I specifically say "Am I being gaslit?" in response, they say she joined 3 weeks prior (that would have been a week before exam block). earlier I had been talking to my mate through Snapchat and I had decided that she may be interested in me and she was cute so I should try to get her snap, name, etc. I say "This might be rude but what like is your names?" the main girl (the one from the beginning) lists off their names Milly (main girl), and Becca (girl at same school) not real names and the others don't necessarily need to be named.
one of the other girls says that they want to go to the raffle so they start to drift off/ walk away, Becca says "Do you want to come with?" I say Sure and we walk, and She tells the other girls that I'm coming with. maybe 10 meters and Milly says "oh the raffle is over" they walk up to the duck racing (maybe they meant the duck racing idk). I think the rest can be summarised pretty quickly Milly asked why I didn't join the school trip to Mt Kilimanjaro I just responded that my mum was sick she supposedly heard from Darcy (a kid at my school not in my grade though), they asked who i came with I said I was supposed to come with my family but my mother fractured her hip so since we already had the tickets I came with my brother. they asked where I was from I said an even more rural town, west they pulled one of the girls who had kind of splintered off closer and said she was from there and started to spout off names (none i recognised), I replied I had been in a boarding school for a while and had put the place behind me only when I said I was in XX's class when i attended the local school (very infamous person who got paralysed in a Macca's run where 4 died in an unregistered vehicle). after that I forgot to ask for the snap still trying to figure out if I was being gaslit they walked off going to do something else, I kept an eye out looking for them again but left presuming they had left already.
TLDR: i missed my opportunity to get the snap/ask out one out (or i was gaslit)