Sorry for the repost! I mixed up some of the names I changed to protect anonymity.
This story takes place years ago. I was a sophomore in college(art student). I had always been shy, and was never very comfortable talking to women. Lucky for me, my senior year of high school, a very insistent girl asked to my girl friend and we dated until shortly before this story begins. I was newly single at that time, so on top of being shy, I had no recent practice flirting with women.