Ok so just this past week, I (27M) had a first date (29F) that went really well in my eyes. She said she thought I was easy to talk to and even prompted the idea of going somewhere I mentioned together at the end of the date. Texted me when she got home, said she had a good time, all that jazz.
Now she's been a bit of a slow texter, I did double-text a couple of times early on (stupid, I know, but the date never would have happened if I didn't). I asked her the next night if I could see her again before I went out of town for a weekend trip (Sometime within the next week and a half-ish).
She took a couple of days to respond, but I played it cool this time and didn't double text. Eventually she asked when exactly I'd be leaving, and then when I responded ultimately said she was solidly booked the rest of the month and that maybe next month would be better.
Is this a bad sign? Should I interpret this as her having second thoughts? I mentioned two possibilities for a second date, option A being the thing she said we should do together and that would be more of an evening thing that could be done after work like our first date was. Option B is more of a during the day thing that would require no work and was what she said maybe for next month.
Should I clarify Option A is something that could slot into a work week evening like our first date was? Or would continuing to try to see her again sooner than next month after she said she was busy all month be stupid?
More than two weeks seems like a long time between first and second dates for me. Did I just get unlucky with the timing of things being busy for her or should I take this and the sometimes slower pace of messages as a sign that I'm cooked anyway and she's losing interest?
As you can probably tell when I like someone I have a habit of getting attached to them too quickly so tell me if I'm overthinking this, or if having such a big gap between the first and second date like this really is a bad sign.