So years and years ago (more than 10, less than 15) I was friends with this girl, I didn't know her very well but she was a neighbor and I used to sneak over to her place and we would hang out all night and talk and watch TV and shit while everyone else was asleep. She was really awesome and had a major influence on who I am today, I was thinking about this the other day and thought, hey I wonder what the hell happened to her. I checked out teh googles and all the social networking sites, couldn't find any trace of her at all. I did find her dad's info though, and I did know him a bit back then. Well enough that I figured, hey what the fuck - I will just email him and see if he can get her to contact me. So I did that, he wrote me back saying he forwarded my email along to her and then we emailed back and forth for a few days catching up and whatnot, all very friendly and nice. It's now been almost a week and I still haven't heard from her though. So here's what I am thinking:

1) She doesn't want to get back in touch with me. Like I said, we didn't know each other that well, and I was a fucked up creepy weird kid so I may have misinterpreted our relationship and maybe she thinks I'm some kind of freak and doesn't have as fond of memories of me as I do of her. I wasn't the smoothest operator back in the day unfortunately. I'm completely different now, partially thanks to her, but I used to go to her place so I would say I was imposing on her and maybe she didn't actually want me there. It's possible.

2) She is lazy and just hasn't gotten around to it, or checks her email extremely infrequently. This doesn't really fit with how I remember her, but memory isn't that reliable and/or people do change.

3) Her dad didn't actually forward my email along to her. Either by accident or design. I would lean towards accident since I'm fairly certain he has a good opinion of me, definitely now and I believe back in the day as well. He seemed genuinely happy to hear from me and we spent several days emailing back and forth before the conversation naturally wound down.

I'm actually leaning towards option #1 as being the most likely, but I suck at optimism. There could be other possibilities as well, I can't think of any at the moment though so feel free to chime in.

My question:

What should I do? Contact her dad again and see if he can tell me whats up? Let this go and just accept that I'm not going to hear from her? Wait longer to hear from her? Something else?

you could always try contacting her dad again, ask him if saw the email or not, maybe it was accidentally deleted? it never hurts to ask, and its not like you have asked him 400 times if she wants to talk to you or not. what is there to lose?

sorry, i meant ask him if she saw the email.

I think if you contact again it will make you look... desperate or creepy.

I think if she didn't see the email and wants to stay in contact with you she'll msg you asking you what happened.

Give her a another week just in case she is busy like alot of people are. Then after that e-mail her dad asking how she is doing. Then if he trys to blow you off then you'd know

I had completely forgotten about this (I'm like that) until I was cleaning my email. It's been about 1.5 weeks now, think that's long enough to wait before bugging her dad again?

We lost touch because I moved and then went away to college. The dad seems cool, I'm married and mentioned my wife to him so I doubt he is trying to cock block or anything.  No alternate route, it's been way too long and I did check facebook and myspace. I didn't spend a lot of time on it, but I don't care enough to waste more than 10 minutes of my life digging through a shithole like myspace.

cut and run