Ok to start off with calling me a cutie is trying to downplay saying beautiful or pretty all for the sake of sounding younger. The guys who want to seem mature always say beautiful and the guys who are flirty say pretty. Such has been my experience. I messaged Pete saying it was true thinking that was the nice way to put it rather than saying "Yeah, I hear that a lot" or something along those lines. It took him a while to respond back to that, which I imagine is because he wasn't used to reading such a response.
The best he could come up with was changing his spelling to that of chat speak, which was quite disappointing, only to say that I was a little cocky. Honestly it's always nice when someone messages me using proper spelling and grammar. It makes me think that there are others who still remember how to spell but Pete decided to ruin that because I told him I all ready knew that I looked good. So the best thing he could say that I was a little cocky. Sorry for being confident in my looks Pete. I thought my response was appropriate in calling him out for expecting something more like some sort of conversation would happen because he called me a cutie.
Do conversations actually happen because someone calls another person attractive? I mean an actual conversation that the person receiving the compliment would start just to make things clear. If someone is going to give a compliment they should be ready to say something more, in my opinion. The person receiving the compliment merely would say thank and possibly return a compliment at best. Then that would be the end of things unless the person giving the compliment has something else to say. It's like a segue in the sense of, "Hey I like your boots." "Thank you." "Can I ask where you got them?" and thus a conversation is born but again, the person giving the compliment is the one leading the conversation.
So since I have responded asking if I was supposed to swoon Pete has not messaged me back at all, which I'm not losing any sleep over. It's not my fault he wasn't ready to have someone who didn't turn into a puddle of emotions over a compliment. I was ready for an actual conversation but it just never came. What do you all think? Have you had guys try to give a compliment and then leave the rest of the conversation up to you? Or was I being a bit too extra? Let me know what you think in the comments below. (: