Background:
Met this girl out at a bar ~2 weeks ago. We were vibing real well. I isolated her from her friends, she was under my arm whole night, kissed her, etc. I thought the SNL was a shoe-in but she rejected the offer to come back to my place due to an early morning commitment, and when I suggested her place (which was closer) she had some lame excuse. When the night ended she repeatedly told me to call her. I started texting her the following night.
Sunday
Me: Hey <name> its <my name> hows it going?
Her: Hey <my name> I'm good. <some attempt at humor I didn't get>
. How are you?
Me: pretty good. u wanna grab drinks tuesday at 830?
Her: Sure where do you want to go?
Me: <location here>
Her: Sounds good. Can you do 8?
Me: ya i think i can swing that. cya then!
Tuesday
Her: Hey I'm leaving work now to go home and sleep. Bad head cold, not pretty. Thought I could power through but am going to have to reschedule tonight, I'm sorry!
Me: hm ok. maybe we can try next week
Her: That sounds good I'm hoping this goes away soon.
Saturday
Me: hey hows it going
(I was gonna try to set up plans here, possibly for Sat night)
Her: Hey alright, still sick though. How are you?
Me: im pretty good...sucks about the sickness. you still want to grab a drink sometime?
(ya ya, I'm not assuming the sale here. I figured the sickness thing was likely BS so I wanted to just not play games and give her an easy out)
Her: Yes, I hope this goes away soon. Having a fun weekend?
(so she's still down...)
Me: pretty good pretty good. <mentioned something I did over the weekend>. I'm free tues and thurs next week so maybe we can figure something out
Monday
Me: drinks tmrw at 8?
Her: I've got a conference, Thursday?
Me: ya lets do it. same place as before
Her: Sounds good!
Wednesday
Her: So i just went to the docter. I've got bronchitis. I assume you do not also want bronchitis so I am going to cancel tomorrow again. I'm sorry.
I gotta be honest, I'm pretty confused as to what to do here. I've had girls drop the "I'm sick sorry!" excuse on me before, but they pretty much never respond to future texts. I believe there's a pretty good chance she's actually sick, and maybe a slight chance she's just using me for validation.
What do I do here? I'm thinking I have these options:
1. NEXT - Seems premature. I'd like to hang with this chick. Maybe if she was less attractive.
2. Proceed the same way I did first time she "flaked" - Comes off a little needy/boring
3. "ok why dont you just let me know when youre not sick" - I can avoid coming off as needy here, but putting the ball in the girl's court almost always means she won't get back to me.
4. Some joke to keep the energy up ("Are you kidding? I LOVE bronchitis") - Could backfire if she doesn't feel it, but the longer it takes to meet up, the less energy there is between us and the less likely my chances are.