Nice!

Obvious good signs - she's been thinking about you, and she saw you and you didn't notice! (or you didn't let on)

The balance is shifting...BUT

I would have no idea where to go from here, think this needs input from more experienced text-gamers.

OR she could just be being a bitch and seeing if she can string you along.

If you reply, don't make mention of the fact she's been thinking about you, just keep it casual/conversational.
Remember: " I will accept nothing less than total surrender."

Man up, move on, keep rumbling & keep moving.

You should never accept shite behaviour for the sake of getting your dick wet.

I just sent her a very plain text in return. "Fine thanks, staying here for xmas." After which she sent me another 2 messages one after the other. The last one said, "Ps: i'm getting more and more intrigued by a certain joe kelly "

Joe Kelly is the protagonist of a novel I wrote. I sent her an ebook version a while back. She said before, she just imagines the protagonist as me. For the compliment, I just sent her a smiley face text with no words. I'm not interested in chasing or making any effort now. I don't really care that much, but if she wants to chase after me, I'm fine with that.

Text Game:
Phil would just send this ;
"8===O I'm gonna fuck you, come to my house"

cocky funny

Yeah, I know he would, and I love him for it. It just would not work for me in this situation.

Hi man,
I am just thinking aloud here, if there is no sex, why not go for the "Lewinsky"?

Anyway, I had similar problem, and than one night that girl slept at my place. In the early morning I was in position to penetrate, but did not have a condom on, so did not do it. However, played many sex games with her. It was not as good as proper sex, but it was good enough and a new experience.

and do what?

I had a chance encounter with the Austrian girl last night when I was out. She was out with her flat mate.

As soon as he was out of earshot she was giving it, "I want to see you. I have a lot of questions I want to ask you." She is reading a novel I wrote.

I say, "You can ask me now." So we spend the next 10/15 minutes blathering on about the central character in my book. She is psycho-analysing every aspect of the protagonist and trying to understand how much of it is autobiographical.

Then she says, "I want to talk to you more in private about this. Can I see you before I leave? I owe you dinner."

"You owe me more than dinner," I say, not answering her question. Then we walk out of the bar where her flatmate is waiting outside.

He's actually a nice guy. In different circumstances he might be someone I could hang out with. There is no bad vibe between us, as such. He did tell me that he was jealous though, the first time we met and she left with me, and obviously I wish that he didn't exist.

Then along comes a random AMOG who starts trying to intimidate me and get in my personal space. I'm in an extremely calm and controlled mood and we end up going nose to nose. I refuse to back down or break eye contact. Then he just fucks off.

The Austrian chick and her flat mate look pretty impressed. I shrug it off and quickly change the subject. Then they leave together. He shares a flat with her, there's nothing I can do about that, although if she were my gf I would insist that she move out.

I get a text message when I arrive home:

Was nice meeting u tonight. good night (and don't get into any troubles)

I get the feeling that birds tend to send text messages in the middle of the night to try and show you that they are not busy being fucked. Whether they are or not is a different question. God knows.

Just had a bit of a mad telephone convo with her. She invited me to a concert tonight. I told her that I am sticking to my guns. If she wants to hang with me she has to know why.

She turned it around to, "So, you want me to tell you on the telephone that I will fuck you, if you come out with me?" I said, "I don't want it to sound like that and I do enjoy hanging out with you, but it's frustrating for me that it keeps ending the same way. I like you, but I'm not going to tolerate being messed around. I'm not going to be number 2, I'm number 1 or nothing."

She responded, "Well, I really want to go to this concert tonight and I wanted you to come too, but if you're not coming I will go anyway. I will call you tomorrow and we can 'have dinner' at your house or mine. I have the house to myself. And then we can see what happens, but I just don't want to tell you over the phone if I am going to have sex with you or not."

How have I played it guys? Am I being too obstinate? It sounds like I am giving her an ultimatum, but I am sick of being LMRed and I refuse to keep putting myself in a sexually frustrating position. Any advice welcome, please.