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Hobbe's wife will call you a snake in the grass but she is wrong. Because girls who will torment nice guys while they date the jerks should not complain about this tactic, at least as far as I'm concerned.

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Assumes facts not in evidence.

How, exactly, is this girl tormenting our hero? To the best of my knowledge, she doesn't even know she's been asked on a date because Snowball keeps muddying the waters by inviting her to group activities like Halloween parties.

Now, maybe she is using him. I speculated about that at the beginning. But because Snowball has not been straightforward, it is impossible to know for sure.

Someone else above just nailed it when he said that what this boils down to is courage. Stop overthinking this. Stop with the games, and just ask her out. If she says yes, great. If not, it's nothing more than a character building exercise. Ever seen a winning no limit player who wasn't willing to push all his chips into the pot? Yeah, me neither.