Smeckledorfed by the Bait and Switch

Back in the day when I was even younger and more naive than I am now, there was a girl that I was romantically interested in. Lo and behold, one evening the aforementioned girl invited me to an outing at the movie theater. This invitation set my heart aflutter with the fury of 10 thousand butterflies. Before that fateful event, I had been at wit's end on how to approach her and now this opportunity happened to just fall on my lap. So I dropped my initial plans to peruse my local comic book shop and instead set out to movie cinema center. Upon arrival at the theater, I then bide my time at the lobby. While awaiting the movie showtime, I received notice from the girl that she had invited friends as well. This flew quickly over my head. Quite frankly I did not care if she brought a barrel of monkeys with her, I was just going to concentrate on her regardless. So with my blinders firmly in place, I barely acknowledged the friend that did arrive. I muttered a greeting to the other girl and went back to killing time. The feature presentation would soon be playing, yet there was no sign of the girl that invited me who will now be known as Bait. The other girl, let's call her Switch, and myself made our way into the theater and our seats. I made sure to leave in between the two of us for Bait. As the previews rolled by, in my mind I was at the movies by myself. My solitary reverie was broken by Switch whispering to me. She informed me that Bait unfortunately could not make it tonight due to last minute happenings. My heart fell faster than Krillin in any meaningful battle in Dragonball Z. Switch then closed the gap between us physically by occupying the seat next to mine. I on the other hand lengthened the gap between us figuratively and for the rest of the evening my dialogue consisted of one word sentences and grunts. At the show's end, Switch and I parted ways, briefly before that though she invited me to go bowling at a later date. Honestly I would rather hammer myself in the groin before going bowling. I murmured "Maybe" before I went off into the night very disappointed.
After a week of putting that failed outing well out of my mind, I got an invitation from Bait to go bowling. Like a moth flying straight into flame, I responded that I would love to go bowling. I had been looking forward to watching a marathon of Gundam Wing episodes but dropped those plans. Once again, Bait did not show up and my only companion for the night was Switch.

Once again not the desired result that I wanted. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. So I set out to talk to Bait one-on-one. I invited her to the park and we messed around with a soccer ball. While we were kicking it, I told Bait straight up that I liked her. In an M. Night Shyamalan twist, Bait revealed that Switch liked me so she had been attempting to play matchmaker. I was shell shocked. After our talk, my psyche was shattered. I then proceeded to be a mature person by proceeding to never communicate with either Bait or Switch again. Moral of the story from my opinion is that I should have been honest from the start about my intentions.