Standard Friendzone / How come i've never the fun guy.

What ive got to do be this fun guy?

I'm really young for my age (M28), a real late bloomer. I'm a great guy, some people say I'm good looking. But i always end up in the damn freindzone.

So recently I've taken a more direct approach...

So i meet a great girl (F22) we spend the whole evening flirting. Kind of cuddling and just chatting all night. We where drunk so i left it at just a bit of fun that evening. We swapped numbers and in the week i called her up and asked her out for drinks.

So she said yes, seemed pretty keen. Come the day of date, she's texts me to tell me shes ill. Which is fine, i just tell her we will arrange it for another day and asked her to let me know whens she's free.

At this point i wasn't sure whether this was an indirect "no thanks", so i leave it to her to contact me.

A few days later she asks me out to lunch. At this point i just yes, even though i felt this was a one ticket to freindzone.

It was that way, kind of short and sweet. Nice, we have a lot in common. But she was chatting about her ex a lot and listened to her family woes. I talked a bit too much crap, but nothing too bad. To cap off the date, she paid for the bill when i had to take a call.

So i just feel totally useless, i did all the right things. Seems like she was looking for the politest way of letting me down.

She just seems to have been put off by something... I played it cool, said the right things. I just think the problem is she was part of my circle of Friends and she's quite young.

I just wanna be that fun guy, not the freind guy. I keep acting not like myself getting really down about it.